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Democrats may win even more if Cochise County refuses to certify election
Opinion: County supervisors need to stop with its refusal to canvass the Nov. 8 election results. It could end up hurting Republican candidates in close races. Helen Purcell and Tammy Patrick Opinion contributors Voters — not elected politicians — decide the outcome of elections in this country. But in Cochise County, the Board of Supervisors is ignoring this bedrock principle of American democracy by threatening to refuse to canvass and certify the results of the 2022 election.
Fact check: Arizona poll watcher falsely claims there was election fraud in Maricopa County
The claim: Arizona had fraudulent ballot counts and drop box activity On Election Day, roughly 60 voting sites in Maricopa County, Arizona, experienced a ballot printing glitch that spawned allegations of voter fraud. It's far from the only such claim out of Arizona, however. An Instagram post shared Nov. 10 includes a screenshot of a post on Gettr, a social media network run by an aide to former President Donald Trump.
Fact check: False claim that mail-in voting is connected to bad actors, fraudulent ballots
The claim: Mail-in ballots show bad actors 'how many fraudulent ballots they need to produce' The 2020 presidential election saw more voters than ever before electing to mail in their ballots, according to FiveThirtyEight. The trend is expected to continue in the 2022 midterm elections. An Oct. 23 Instagram post, however, claims the use of mail-in ballots is linked to election fraud.
In Nevada, Trump Republicans Attack Veteran GOP Election Clerks
Yerrington, Nevada – For the past 24 years, Nikki Bryan -- a patient, professional, plain-spoken woman -- has overseen elections, the courthouse, and other municipal duties as the elected clerk in Lyons County, a ranching, retail, and manufacturing region of 60,000 people in northern Nevada east of Lake Tahoe.
Debunking Trump’s latest Arizona election claims
Posted Jul 20, 2021, 10:17 pm After a contractor hired by state Senate Republicans to look into the results of the 2020 Arizona election provided an update on its findings at a legislative hearing on July 15, former President Donald Trump issued a series of false and misleading statements about what it has uncovered.
Republicans want to expand the Arizona audit - but DOJ may shut it down
Arizona's Republican-led Senate is looking to expand its post-election audit of 2.1 million ballots in the state's most populous county, while Arizona's Democratic secretary of state and the U.S. Department of Justice appeared headed to federal court to shut down the post-election exercise.
Arizona Republicans chase Rudy Giuliani's election fever dream - wining control over millions of ballots
After winning a lawsuit to take possession of all of the 2020 presidential ballots and election equipment in Arizona's most populous county, Arizona's Republican-led Senate is poised to take 2020's post-election brawls into new territory where investigating unproven claims of electronically stolen votes, not widespread illegal voting, will be center stage.
VERIFY: What is the MAGA Patriot Party, and is it affiliated with the Trump campaign?
The Trump campaign says it's not affiliated with the party. Organizers told us they're sending a message of support to the former president. WASHINGTON — Over the past week, former President Donald Trump has reportedly been floating the idea of forming a new political party called the "Patriot Party," according to the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post.
VERIFY: What is the MAGA Patriot Party, and is it affiliated with the Trump campaign?
The Trump campaign says it's not affiliated with the party. Organizers told us they're sending a message of support to the former president. WASHINGTON — Over the past week, former President Donald Trump has reportedly been floating the idea of forming a new political party called the "Patriot Party," according to the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post.
VERIFY: What is the MAGA Patriot Party, and is it affiliated with the Trump campaign?
The Trump campaign says it's not affiliated with the party. Organizers told us they're sending a message of support to the former president. WASHINGTON — Over the past week, former President Donald Trump has reportedly been floating the idea of forming a new political party called the "Patriot Party," according to the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post.
Reformers Seek Sweeping Changes To Bolster Democracy
This article was produced by Voting Booth, a project of the Independent Media Institute. The Trump presidency is over and the Biden presidency has begun. The 2020 election's legacy will now turn to examining how the institutions and laws that govern voting can be fortified, after a bruising season where Trump attacked the process as illegitimate and enlarged the GOP myth of massive voter fraud.
Democracy in crisis: Here's how experts want to save our elections
The Trump presidency is over and the Biden presidency has begun. The 2020 election's legacy will now turn to examining how the institutions and laws that govern voting can be fortified, after a bruising season where Trump attacked the process as illegitimate and enlarged the GOP myth of massive voter fraud. Normally, after every presidential election, every sector involved in elections issues post-election reports and prescriptions.
The 2020 Voting Experience and Goals for Reform
Elections Governance When December 15, 2020 from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm EST This event has passed. Share Following an unprecedented year of uncertainty, adaptation, and innovation in voting 2020, the Bipartisan Policy Center will host its fourth post-presidential election cycle event bringing together election administrators, policymakers, academics, advocates, and campaigns to examine the voting experience.
Dems Will Welcome One Of The Most Diverse Groups Of Elected Officials To Public Office In 2021. GOPers Will Get A Little More Diverse Too
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. We are running a series of articles on progressive victories that came out of the 2020 election at the state and local level. From county sheriff to Congress, in blue, red, and purple parts of the country, American voters elected one of the most diverse groups of elected officials in the nation’s history, including a Black-Indian woman as vice president.
Bipartisan Cooperation After Trump: The Ball Is In The Republicans’ Court
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. How can elected leaders govern and address problems in a two-party system when one party has become completely unmoored? This is one of the central difficulties of the current moment, and we’ve barely begun to reckon with it. The natural desire after an election is for a political armistice in which the parties suspend hostilities and share responsibility for governing.
A More Diverse And Inclusive Gov’t Could Be Biden’s Most Significant Policy Legacy. But It Must Extend Beyond Admin Leadership.
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. After what seemed like a never ending campaign, Joe Biden has won the presidency. He did so with a campaign team that was one of the most diverse in history, including a staff that was more than one-third people of color and more than half women. His transition team is shaping up similarly. But winning and setting a vision is only the beginning of the work of governing.
Trump Is Still Raging Against Democracy. But It’s Time To Applaud The Tenacity Of Voters, Poll And USPS Workers
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” This is part of the common oath that the thousands of election administrators and close to a million pollworkers take each election.
Here's why the U.S. can handle voter intimidation
There's been growing concern about voter intimidation in the presidential election. Last month, Philadelphia officials turned away a group of Trump campaign poll watchers who were breaking Pennsylvania law. In Virginia, supporters of the president temporarily blocked an early voting site, forcing officials to escort voters to cast ballots. And in Minnesota, a private security company recruited former soldiers to guard polling sites, alarming election officials.
Registration deadlines balance ease, administration
"If you have to register on a paper form, mail it in as soon as you can," writes Tammy Patrick. Arizona just extended its voter registration deadline from Oct. 5 to Oct. 23. This should give voters more time to sign up, but it also raises a host of issues for election administrators. And there may be complications on Election Day if too many voters register at the new deadline. Why do some states have voter registration deadlines weeks before Election Day?
10 tips + 4 story ideas for journalists covering the 2020 presidential election
Covering a presidential election is challenging even without the problems both journalists and election officials must prepare for this year: a worldwide infectious disease pandemic, extreme political polarization and an avalanche of misinformation that political scholars worry could shake the public’s trust in the nation’s electoral process.
Conservatives want to block $300m in election funds from states - but they'll fail
After local election officials from more than 1,100 jurisdictions in 40-plus states applied for private grants to better run the presidential elections, a conservative public interest law firm has sued three swing states to block officials from using those funds, stating in their briefs that "they do not want progressive candidates to win." In addition to alleging that county and local governments in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Minnesota lacked the authority to take the money from the...
Huge swing state hurdle: returning your absentee ballot Original
Across the country, the Democratic Party and voting rights groups have been to make it easier to vote in the presidential election. But no ruling addresses an issue that some experienced election officials foresee as likely to delay voting at Election Day polling places on November 3. What may trigger voter confusion and traffic jams are rules that do not allow voters to simply drop off an absentee ballot at an Election Day poll.
So You Moved During the Pandemic. Now How Do You Vote?
Whether you’re staying at a second home, a college dorm, your parents’ house or just moving around, here’s where and how you can vote. Even if you won’t be living at the address where you’re registered to vote in the days leading up to the election, you can still vote at your permanent address.Credit...Kristopher Radder/The Brattleboro Reformer, via Associated Press Sept. 16, 2020 “Where do you live?” might have been an easy question to answer before the pandemic.
Knowing It’s Right: Limiting the Risk of Certifying Elections
Every election we ask ourselves, what motivates voters to participate? Could it be the love of a charismatic candidate? The dislike of a less-than-desirable one? Passion for a specific ballot initiative? Do voters show up to the polls out of habit? The answer is as varied as the voting population, as is the reason voters do not participate.
Trump on Alternet.org's site
Lorie Ladd gazes into the camera with glossy eyes, a look that mimics the long stare one gets after meditating. She's about to give one one of her sermons, one of "most challenging" ones she's ever had to make, she explains.
An Opportunity to Make Every Vote Count
Last year a Virginia House of Delegates race drew headlines across the country -- and it had little to do with the candidates and their campaigns. When the votes were tallied, there was a tie. The race ended with a judicial panel drawing a name out of a hat, thereby determining party control of the House. But that wasn't the end of the story of the District 94 race. Earlier this year, the Washington Post reported that 26 voters in that pivotal district had been misassigned.
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