How to *NOT* Safeguard Fair Elections
Reading Time: 7 minutes If you want to warn Georgia officials about election security problems, you better brace for retaliation.
Klobuchar Grabs the Election Integrity Lane
Reading Time: 6 minutes The Minnesota senator has made election security a key part of her presidential campaign. As she is unlikely to win the nomination, it may be her most lasting and important contribution to the 2020 race.
Watchdog Group Sues to Reveal Dark Money Donor List After Feds Won’t
Reading Time: 4 minutes With the FEC in disarray, watchdog groups are working the courts to test the limits of Citizens United and reveal the donors of so-called “dark money” super PACs.
Voter Suppression in Indian Country: ‘A Little Bit Insulting’
Reading Time: 5 minutes Native Americans could significantly sway the outcome of the 2020 election in several states — if they’re allowed to vote.
Toss-up State to Use Vulnerable Tech in 2020
Reading Time: 4 minutes Is North Carolina about to replace its decades-old voting technology with another vulnerable system? It certainly looks that way.
Trump’s Ukraine Call: Threat of FEC Probe Adds Pressure
Reading Time: 4 minutes An FEC complaint that President Donald Trump violated a federal law that prohibits soliciting information from a foreign national could produce long-awaited answers.
Voter Registration Could Tip the Scales in 2020
Reading Time: 4 minutes Once-discounted voters could sway the 2020 election, as voting-rights groups registered hundreds of thousands of voters on National Voter Registration Day.
Information Warfare Has Evolved, Democracy’s Defenses Have Not
Reading Time: 5 minutes As lawmakers scramble to curb information warfare, the FEC held an unusual symposium with big tech and experts to discuss the threats to democracy online.
Facebook Is Now the Only Cop in Town to Protect Elections
Reading Time: 7 minutes Without a quorum of four commissioners at the FEC, Facebook announced updates to its ad policy. Experts warn self-regulation could bring more problems than solutions ahead of the 2020 election.
New Report Sets ‘Gold Standard’ for Election Audits
Reading Time: 3 minutes Election integrity experts have laid out a blueprint for states to implement risk-limiting audits after conducting three successful pilot tests in Rhode Island.
BREAKING NEWS: NC Court Orders State’s Legislative Districts to Be Redrawn
Reading Time: 3 minutes Saying that North Carolina’s legislative map unconstitutionally favors Republicans, a panel of three judges ruled that it must be redrawn within two weeks.
What Recent Court Rulings Mean for ‘Antiquated’ Electoral College
Reading Time: 6 minutes Five of the 45 US presidents won their election without winning the popular vote. A movement to institute a national popular vote aims to prevent that from happening again.
Georgia Demands Fee to Re-Examine Hinky Voting Equipment
Reading Time: 2 minutes The ally of a GOP Governor elected in a close, contested race is throwing up new hurdles to transparency.
Georgians Demand Secretary of State Re-Examine Voting System
Reading Time: 4 minutes Using a little-known law, Georgia voters, activists, and even candidates teamed up to demand that Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) re-examine the state’s voting systems.
FEC Blocks Investigation Into Russia-NRA Ties
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Republican members of the Federal Election Commission have blocked a thorough investigation into whether Russia illegally supported Donald Trump’s presidential campaign with tens of millions of dollars funneled through the NRA.
Hackers Expose Vulnerabilities in Popular E-Poll Books
Reading Time: 4 minutes Hackers at the annual DEF CON Voting Village discovered a sobering vulnerability in electronic poll books made by the leading manufacturer ES&S.
Why Aren’t 2020 Hopefuls Talking About Election Security?
Reading Time: 5 minutes No candidate in the Democratic presidential primary race has been asked about election integrity during the debate, leaving activists concerned that the lack of national attention could impact the outcome of the 2020 election.
Activists to Congress: Secure Elections or Risk a Repeat of 2016
Reading Time: 4 minutes Democrats and election integrity activists are sounding the alarms for election security measures before 2020 after a bombshell report on Russian interference in 2016.
Why Mueller Hearings Were Not Duds
Reading Time: 8 minutes Robert Mueller may not have lived up to the media hype, but his testimony before Congress offered the public a day-long tutorial on his investigation.
Unconstitutional Poll Taxes Disenfranchise Millions, Report Finds
Reading Time: 4 minutes Voting rights for millions of individuals with past convictions depend on their ability to pay restitution or complete parole, according to a new report.