Tag: Elections
The Postal Service is steadily getting worse — Can it handle a national mail-in election?
Postal delays and mistakes have marred primary voting, and after years of budget cuts and plant closures, mail delivery has slowed so much that ballot deadlines in many states are no longer realistic. by Ryan McCarthy…
Saying Quiet Part Very Loud, Trump admits limiting voter access necessary to maintain Republican control
“This morning on live television, the president of the United States admitted he is opposed to laws that would make it easier for Americans to vote because that would hurt Republicans.” by Jon Queally, staff writer…
Why so few young Americans vote
By John Holbein, University of Virginia The United States has one of the lowest rates of youth voter turnout in the world. The gap between 18- to 29-year-olds and those over 60, a common measuring stick,…
Super Tuesday results show how Latino voters, moderate Democrats and Trump supporters are shaping the election
Katie A. Cahill, University of Tennessee; Andrea Kent, West Virginia University, and Rey Junco, Tufts University Mar 4, 11:00 AM MST Editor’s note: From tiny Vermont villages to the tornado-damaged city of Nashville to California’s sprawling…
Democrat establishment and centrist pundits go on offensive in “misguided” verbal attack on Sanders Campaign
By Mac England, Feb 23, 2020 Flagstaff. UCLA’s Latino Policy and Politics Initiative estimated Sunday morning, with around 60% of precincts officially reporting, that Sanders won over 70% of the Latino vote in the Nevada caucus….
The irony of the centrist-progressive debate
Moderates consistently warn that progressive ideas can’t win “the middle.” But just look at the polls. By Jim Hightower | February 12, 2020 With dozens of Democratic candidates, scores of televised debates, and swarms of reporters…
Sanders takes Nevada Democrat’s Caucus, 3 wins in a row
This is a breaking story and will continue to be updated. updated 9 AM By Mac England For the first time in memory a contender in a Democrat Presidential Nominating race has won the first three…
Nevada Entrance Poll shows 62% of Democratic Caucus-goers support Medicare for All
“It’s fair to say Democratic leadership fails to understand how much everyday Americans hate their private healthcare coverage.” by Jake Johnson, staff writer More than 60% of Nevada caucus-goers support eliminating private insurance and moving to…
Something Democrats and Republicans have in common: Exaggerated stereotypes about both parties
Misconceptions abound on both sides of the aisle. Victor Moussa/Shutterstock.com Douglas J. Ahler, Florida State University With animosity between party supporters already at an all-time high, buckle up for what promises to be one of the…
Field testing voter purges and “drops”
Columbus As the Voter Purge Project moves forward, we are now analyzing the voter files on more than a dozen states on our way to double that number in coming weeks, many of them include the…
Ohio battles to protect the vote
Columbus Twenty-five people made their way into the Vanderelli Room in Columbus. The art, performance, and all-around community space in the Franklinton neighborhood of the city near downtown had been offered to TrustVote and the Columbus…
Georgia Governor Kemp loses vote purge suit brought by reporter Palast
Nicole Powers for The Palast Investigative Fund February 9 Atlanta In an extraordinary and unexpected move, Federal Judge Eleanor Ross has declared Gov. Brian Kemp the loser in a lawsuit brought by investigative journalist Greg Palast…
Don’t mourn, hit the doors!
New Orleans What a week! It was pretty much a full-on-Trump-arade! Rarely have we read or heard so many pundits wringing their hands and tearing their hair since they were forced to walk-back the headlines…
Reporting Recipe: How to identify suspicious campaign finance records
This week’s episode of “Trump, Inc.” reveals how watchdogs discovered contributions eventually traced to key figures in the Ukraine scandal. Here’s how regular people can do the same on their own. by Ilya Marritz and Matt…
Iowa caucuses did one thing right: Require paper ballots
“…Amid everything they did wrong, the Iowa Democratic Party did one thing right: It required that votes be counted on paper, and then tallied electronically. To those of us who study cybersecurity carefully, that’s crucial.” …
Donald and Ivanka Trump were involved in inauguration’s inflated payments to family business, new suit says
“Members of the Trump family were aware of and involved in the negotiation of this unconscionable contract,” the District of Columbia’s attorney general wrote in the suit. by Ilya Marritz, WNYC, and Justin Elliott, ProPublica January…
“It’s always been Republicans suppressing votes,” Trump advisor says party will get even more aggressive in 2020
“It’s clear there’s no law Donald Trump and his right-wing machine won’t bend, break, or ignore to try to win the presidency.” by Eoin Higgins, staff writer Common Dreams Reporting on Friday shows a top advisor…
Don’t let your vote get stolen – 5 essential reads about disinformation in 2020
Who’s manipulating what you know before you vote? AntonSokolov/Shutterstock.com Jeff Inglis, The Conversation As the 2020 election season heats up, there will be a massive number of people competing for your vote. Only some of them…
More and more on pernicious voter suppression
Culebra This is a warning on the eve of a new year: I’m obsessed with stopping voter suppression as we countdown the months and days to the election in November. Besides my general obsession, I’m especially…
