500 Voting Bills Await State Legislators; 100 Would Make Voting Much Harder Pro-voter bills would put into law measures taken in response to the pandemic. But Republicans want to reel in voting… January 29, 2021 ShareTwitterFacebookPinterest
Karl Rove Signals GOP Donors Should Support Roll Back of Absentee and Early Voting Republicans talk about the rule of law. But they want to change the laws to rule. January 22, 2021 ShareTwitterFacebookPinterest
Reformers Seek Sweeping Changes to Fortify American Democracy As President Biden and a Democratic Congress take office, what to do first with fortifying the institutions and laws undergirding… January 21, 2021 ShareTwitterFacebookPinterest
2020’s Easier Access to a Ballot Sullied by Trump’s Stolen Election Claims Access to a ballot, more than the right to vote, determines voter participation. As Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. said… January 13, 2021 ShareTwitterFacebookPinterest
Trump Pressures Georgia GOP to Void Votes Until He’s The 2020 Winner An extortion-filled phone call on Saturday with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger sparks a new crisis in American elections. January 3, 2021 ShareTwitterFacebookPinterest
January 6 Preview: A Republican Senator Rebuts Trump’s Stolen Election Claims The December 30 letter to his Senate colleagues by Nebraska’s Ben Sasse explains why Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential… January 2, 2021 ShareTwitterFacebookPinterest
Agitated Trump Supporters Coalescing into Distrustful New Election Integrity Movement For years, Republicans perpetuated the myth of widespread voter fraud. But Trump’s supporters have discovered the world voting systems and… November 25, 2020 ShareTwitterFacebookPinterest
Looking Back at the Democrats’ Political Strategies in Florida and Georgia There’s a lot to learn from the approach of the Biden campaign and its allies. November 10, 2020 ShareTwitterFacebookPinterest
Why Trump’s Lawsuits Are Having Little Impact on the Vote Counts Trump’s suits have been filed late, target small issues and are error-ridden. November 5, 2020 ShareTwitterFacebookPinterest
Election Day Mostly Smooth, But Some Voter Intimidation in Battleground States “We will see if today proves to be the calm before the storm.” November 3, 2020 ShareTwitterFacebookPinterest
Guardedly Optimist Thoughts As 2020’s Voting Ends and the Counting Continues In Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, “perhaps even more than half — of mailed ballots will be counted in time (by… November 3, 2020 ShareTwitterFacebookPinterest
Will 2020’s Purple State Voters Reverse Extreme Republican Gerrymanders? “If that defeat is to come, down-ballot races in 2020 are going to play an outsized role.” October 22, 2020 ShareTwitterFacebookPinterest