Election Offices Operate in Limbo as Congress Debates More Funds
Reading Time: 4 minutes Local election offices are preparing for a contentious November election but may not have enough staff or money to handle an expected surge of mail ballots.
Young Children Risk Being Undercounted in 2020 Census
Reading Time: 3 minutes Trump’s executive order directing states to exclude noncitizens from the census may effectively erase children under five whose parents are undocumented from the count.
America Decides 2020: Voting by Mail, Explained
Reading Time: 5 minutes As the coronavirus spreads across the United States, vote-by-mail is growing in importance as a protection for both voters and election workers.
Less Than 100 Days to Go
Reading Time: 4 minutes WhoWhatWhy’s Election Integrity Weekly is written by Gabriella Novello, and edited by William Dowell and Sue Rushford. Have a tip or want to suggest a story? Send us an email at ei@whowhatwhy.org.Less than 100 Days to Go: We’re rounding the final corner of the 2020 election cycle, so have you made a plan to vote? Read More
US Postal Service’s Ability to Deliver in November Questioned
Reading Time: 4 minutes The USPS needs money, and it needs it now. Whether it will receive funding in time to deliver millions of ballots in the next election is open to question.
Honoring a Civil Rights Icon
Reading Time: 3 minutes WhoWhatWhy’s Election Integrity Weekly is written by Gabriella Novello, and edited by William Dowell and Chris Carley. Have a tip or want to suggest a story? Send us an email at ei@whowhatwhy.org. Honoring a Civil Rights Icon: We lost a giant on Friday. Rep. John Lewis, known as the “Conscience of the Congress,” spent his entire life fighting to protect Read More
America Decides 2020: Early Voting, Explained
Reading Time: 4 minutes COVID-19 has created new interest in voting by mail, but there is another way to protect yourself and avoid long lines on Election Day. That is: in-person early voting.
What Would Donald Do?
Reading Time: 4 minutes WhoWhatWhy’s Election Integrity Weekly is written by Gabriella Novello, and edited by William Dowell and Chris Carley. Have a tip or want to suggest a story? Send us an email at ei@whowhatwhy.org.What Would Donald Do? We’ve heard PresidentTrump say it before, even if only jokingly. “Under the normal rules, I’ll be out in 2024. So, we may have Read More
Preventing a Catastrophe
Reading Time: 2 minutes The presidential primaries are nearly over — Delaware, New Jersey, Louisiana, Puerto Rico, and Connecticut’s elections will take place over the next two weeks — and it would be nice to say in the end that all of the issues we saw have been corrected in time for November. Unfortunately, and not surprisingly, that is Read More
The FEC Regains Its Quorum. But Will It Do Its Job?
Reading Time: 5 minutes FEC nominee Allen Dickerson has a record of fighting anti-corruption measures, and campaign finance reform advocates warn his confirmation could halt any efforts to get the agency back on track.