The Unholy Trinity of Illegal Campaign Coordination
Reading Time: 4 minutes Each election cycle, dark money groups and Super PACs are finding new ways to circumvent laws meant to keep them from coordinating with candidates.
Bloomberg Unveils Voter Protection Policy Proposal
Reading Time: 3 minutes Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is the latest presidential candidate to unveil an election reform proposal to end the racial disparity in voting rights and expand access to the ballot box.
Lawmakers Grill Voting Machine Vendors on Paperless Machines
Reading Time: 4 minutes Congress on Thursday heard contradicting testimony from voting machine vendors and election security experts about the safety of paperless voting machines.
Revealed: Trump’s FEC Nominee Linked to GOP Gerrymandering
Reading Time: 4 minutes FEC nominee James “Trey” Trainor appears to have extensive ties to gerrymandering efforts that took place just weeks after Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act was struck down.
Ignoring Warning Signs: Officials Approve Vulnerable Voting Machines
Reading Time: 8 minutes While more states move toward hand-marked paper ballots, others will keep using outdated voting machines that are hackable and known to have serious security flaws.
Witnessing the Erosion of US Democracy
Reading Time: 4 minutes With everything that is at stake in next year’s election, anti-democratic forces will once again do everything they can to make sure that their candidates win. Here is what we did in 2019 to expose them and their machinations.
Voter Suppression: Texas Targets College Students
Reading Time: 4 minutes More college students are voting now than ever. Many of them prefer Democratic candidates, so GOP-controlled states are making it harder for them to cast ballots.
NAACP Takes On ‘Prison Gerrymandering’
Reading Time: 4 minutes By counting inmates as residents of districts with prisons — rather than where they lived prior to their incarceration — rural communities often get federal funds they do not deserve. The NAACP now wants to put a stop to this practice.
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.