The Lone Ballot Box State
Reading Time: < 1 minute Everything’s bigger in Texas, including the distance to the drop-off ballot box.
Digital Organizing Takes Center Stage Amid Coronavirus Limits
Reading Time: 10 minutes Getting out the vote has never been more important, and now that face-to-face methods have flagged, the campaigns must move online. Can they still be effective?
Will California Voters Abolish Bail for Jailed Suspects?
Reading Time: 7 minutes Referendum would replace ability to pay with “risk assessments.”
Biden, Trump Display Stark Differences on Election Integrity
Reading Time: 3 minutes The first presidential debate had no shortage of punchy one-liners, but when it came time to debate the election itself, the candidates could not be further apart.
Pennsylvania — Swing State of All Swing States
Reading Time: 7 minutes They don’t call it the Keystone State for nothing.
Is This Any Way to Vote?
Reading Time: 2 minutes Americans are growing more wary of voting as the election looms. What do we really know about voting machines and the people in charge of them?
Court Now Allows Extension for Wisconsin Mail Ballots
Reading Time: 3 minutes Case may herald US Supreme Court’s election role.
Controversy Rages Over Nine Discarded Absentee Ballots
Reading Time: 3 minutes Luzerne County election officials alluded to inadequate training after a “seasonal contractor” threw away absentee ballots.
America Decides, 2020: The Electoral College, Explained
Reading Time: 5 minutes In two of the last five presidential elections the winner lost the popular vote but won in the Electoral College; so why does the Electoral College still exist?
The Voting Machine Monopoly — Is This Any Way to Vote?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Excerpt from “Is This Any Way to Vote?: Vulnerable Voting Machines and the Mysterious Industry Behind Them” by Celeste Katz Marston and Gabriella Novello.