1. Surprised? Florida’s recount is a dumpster fire of flawed election laws, right-wing conspiracy theories, baseless “fraud” charges, and inept ballot design Florida’s Senate and governor races are all too close to call and undergoing a...
The Supreme Court is not coming to the rescue on voting rights It’s been three bad weeks in a row if you care about protecting the right to vote. In three straight weeks, the Supreme Court has ruled against efforts to defend the vote against efforts to suppress...
Make it easier for everyone to vote? 39% say no. A recent Pew Reseach Center survey showed that while 59% of Americans polled support the idea that “everything possible should be done to make it easy for every citizen to vote,” 39%...
On Wisconsin? For the better part of the past decade, Wisconsin has been a case study in how many ways determined and shameless legislators can undermine democracy at the state level. After the 2010 election brought in Republican Governor Scott Walker and GOP control...
What we learned in Pennsylvania on Tuesday Democrat Conor Lamb defeated Republican Rick Saccone in Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District election by 627 votes on Tuesday. That’s 627 out of 228,378 total votes cast. Aside from edging out Saccone by...