Election Day is less than two months away—but one key race won’t be on most ballots. They’re school board elections, and that’s a big problem for families nationwide. In 37 states, school board elections aren’t held in conjunction with statewide or national elections.Source: School board elections should be on Election Day....
Last week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Merrill v. Milligan. The Court will determine whether Alabama’s 2021 redistricting plan for its seven seats in the U.S.Source: Redistricting in Alabama and the Voting Rights Act—Part 2....
Thanks to a generous grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Integrity Institute will be running a program supporting the integrity of elections on social media platforms through 2024.Source: Integrity Institute Receives $520 Thousand from Knight Foundation for Elections Integrity Program....
The COVID-19 pandemic turned absentee voting into an essential part of the 2020 elections, with more than 39 million Americans choosing to cast their ballots by mail. States have been reckoning with the consequences ever since. Former President Trump’s unfounded claims of fraud in his loss to President Biden included suggestions that absentee voting was…Source: Mail-in voting changes could play...
Proponents of the recall against Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon, which missed the ballot by 46,000 signatures, are now suing the registrar claiming that the signatures were thrown out under improper invalidation methods.Source: California: Recall Supporters file suit against Registrar seeking to put Los Angeles District Attorney recall on the ballot....
The executive of a small Michigan elections software company was charged with grand theft by embezzlement and conspiracy to commit a crime.Source: Election Firm Knew Data Had Been Sent to China, Prosecutors Say....
It was a sunny June afternoon in Washington, DC, and even though Tara McGowan professes to hate this city, she was having fun. A political operative turned publisher, she sat in a conference room in a WeWork office downtown, her fingertips loudly drumming away on the bright orange table.Source: The Election-Swinging, Facebook-Fueled, Get-Out-the-Vote Machine....
The financial services company, which has repeatedly deplatformed organizations and individual commentators for their political views, will expand its “existing list of prohibited activities” on November 3.Source: New PayPal Policy Lets Company Pull $2,500 From Users’ Accounts If They Promote ‘Misinformation’....
Meta, Facebook’s parent company, intentionally violated Washington’s longstanding campaign finance law 822 times, a King County Superior Court judge wrote Thursday, opening the social media giant up to millions of dollars in potential fines.Source: Judge: Facebook intentionally violated WA campaign finance law 822 times....
The first political campaigns to utilize the internet were President Bill Clinton’s and Republican nominee Bob Dole’s in 1996. In the 26 years since, technology has had a huge impact on elections around the world – for better and for worse.Source: A Brief History of Tech and Elections: A 26-Year Journey....
