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Good news from Alabama: Voters concerned about the COVID-19 outbreak will be able to vote absentee in the August 25 municipal elections and the November general election. The move does not affect any other of Alabama’s strict absentee voting requirements, but could significantly expand the number of people eligible to vote before Election Day. It comes after … Continue reading “Want to vote absentee in Alabama? COVID-19 will be reason enough for general, municipal elections” Continue Reading
SF Chronicle: Californians’ handwriting is getting worse and it’s causing increasing problems for election officials. More than 14,000 mail ballots were rejected in the March 3 primary because the signature on the vote-by-mail envelope didn’t match the one on the voter registration card. Thousands more were counted only after voters were required to provide a … Continue reading “Sloppy handwriting could get your mail ballot tossed in California” Continue Reading
CNN: After President Donald Trump posted an unfounded claim to Facebook (FB) on Tuesday that mail-in voting could lead to a “corrupt election,” the social network slapped a label on it. But the label did not attempt to fact-check the post as true or false. Instead, it directed users to a government website to learn more about how … Continue reading Facebook begins labeling, but not fact-checking, posts from Trump and Biden Continue Reading
Hansi Lo Wang for NPR: President Trump releaseda memorandum Tuesday that calls for an unprecedented change to the constitutionally mandated count of every person living in the country — the exclusion of unauthorized immigrants from the numbers used to divide up seats in Congress among the states. The memo instructs Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who oversees the … Continue reading “With No Final Say, Trump Wants To Change Who Counts For Dividing Up Congress’ Seats” Continue Reading
WaPo: President Trump’s campaign, the Republican Party and two affiliated committees have spent more than $983 million since 2017, a record-breaking sum toward a reelection effort at this point in the presidential campaign, new filings show. The Trump campaign alone has spent $240 million, and presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s campaign has spent $165 million, … Continue reading “Trump’s reelection effort has spent more than $983 million, a record sum at this point in the campaign” Continue Reading
NYT: Twitter said Tuesday evening that it had removed thousands of accounts that spread messages about the conspiracy theories known as QAnon, saying their messages could lead to harm and violated Twitter policy. Twitter said it would also block trends related to the loose network of QAnon conspiracy theories from appearing in its trending topics … Continue reading “Twitter Takedown Targets QAnon Accounts” Continue Reading
Announcement: The Election Law Program at William & Mary Law School seeks a full-time Program Manager. The Program Manager will be responsible for implementing a grant ELP has received to expand the resources it provides judges on state election codes, including its pilot eBenchbook website. The Program Manager will be primarily responsible for recruiting state election experts to create … Continue reading William and Mary Election Law Program Seeks Program Manager Continue Reading
Marty Lederman deep dive begins here: Contrary to what you might have read, President Trump’s “Memorandum on Excluding Illegal Aliens From the Apportionment Base Following the 2020 Census,” which he issued yesterday, doesn’t change the way the Department of Commerce will conduct the 2020 census. It is, instead, an announcement of the way that Trump himself plans to report the results of … Continue reading “Trump’s Memorandum on Not Counting Undocumented Immigrants for Purposes of House Reapportionment Calculations” Continue Reading
New Fairvote report: Five state Democratic parties used ranked choice voting (RCV) in presidential primary elections and caucuses in 2020 with great success. Despite a global pandemic, all five states had high rates of success with RCV and, especially in the four states where all voters used RCV, secured accurate and comprehensive election results. This … Continue reading Ranked Choice Voting in 2020 Presidential Primary Elections Continue Reading