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Carmen Brown, Katherine Fernandez Rundle, Amendment 4
Election Integrity, US Politics
May 27, 2020 | Gabriella Novello
Tags: felon voting rights, Lawsuit, Poll tax

Federal Court Strikes Down ‘Poll Tax’ for Former Felons

Reading Time: 3 minutes A landmark federal ruling makes clear that states cannot impose undue taxes on individuals with past felony convictions as a condition for voting.

Donald Trump, Ford Rawsonville, Michigan
Coronavirus, Election Integrity, Presidential Election, Threats to Democracy, US Politics
May 26, 2020 | Gabriella Novello
Tags: absentee voting, coronavirus, Michigan, Trump, Vote by mail

Trump Doesn’t Let Pandemic Curb His War on Absentee Ballots

Reading Time: 3 minutes As states struggle to keep voters safe this November, Trump blusters, threatens, and lies.

The 100 Million Project
Election Integrity
May 21, 2020 | Gabriella Novello
Tags: democracy, electoral college, non-voters, US voter turnout

America Abstains: Millions of Voters Have Lost Faith in US Democracy

Reading Time: 4 minutes Nearly 100 million eligible Americans do not cast a ballot in an average presidential election. Many of them are disillusioned. Can anything be done to restore their faith in democracy?

pop-up voting center, Santa Clarita, CA
Election Integrity, Podcast
May 19, 2020 | Peter B. Collins
Tags: democracy, Journalism, voting rights

From the Front Lines of the Fight for Fair Elections

Reading Time: 19 minutes Gabriella Novello, WhoWhatWhy’s election integrity reporter, discusses what it’s like to cover efforts to protect the right to vote during a pandemic.

mail, ballots, LA County
Election Integrity
May 13, 2020 | Gabriella Novello
Tags: coronavirus, Lawsuit, voting rights

Activists Vow to Protect USPS as States Expand Mail-in Voting

Reading Time: 4 minutes Voting-rights groups are beefing up their legal efforts to protect access to absentee voting, which now also means protecting the postal service.

Donald Trump wins, Times Square
Election Integrity
May 11, 2020 | Gabriella Novello
Tags: 2020 Election, Journalism, mail-in voting

The Media’s Most Important Job in 2020: Countering Postelection Chaos

Reading Time: 7 minutes Newsrooms need to prepare themselves and the public for what will be a contentious couple of weeks following the delay in election night results.

HHS, Chad Wolf, voting machines
Election Integrity
May 5, 2020 | Gabriella Novello
Tags: coronavirus, mail-in voting, public health, voting machines

States Grapple With Germ-Ridden Voting Machines Amid Coronavirus

Reading Time: 4 minutes Scientists say the coronavirus could survive for days on voting machines, so election officials are seeking strategies to protect both public health and the right to vote.

Election workers, mail-in ballots
Election Integrity
April 29, 2020 | Gabriella Novello and Erika Smithson
Tags: absentee voting, Vote by mail, voter fraud

No, Voting by Mail Is Not ‘Ripe for Voter Fraud’

Reading Time: 5 minutes Critics of vote-by-mail warn the 2020 election could be ripe for fraud. But hundreds of millions of votes have been cast absentee in the US, and just a tiny fraction were fraudulent.

North Carolina, COVID-19, voting info
Election Integrity
April 23, 2020 | Gabriella Novello
Tags: North Carolina, voter roll purge, voter rolls

GOP’s Response to Vote-by-Mail: More Voter Roll Purges

Reading Time: 3 minutes COVID-19 is forcing more states to make voting easier, but the GOP seems to be trying to counteract their efforts with a massive voter roll purge in Democratic strongholds.

poll worker, Milwaukee
Election Integrity
April 20, 2020 | Gabriella Novello
Tags: COVID-19, Vote by mail, wisconsin

How Vote-by-Mail Became Another Partisan Fight

Reading Time: 4 minutes Voting rights groups are gearing up for the battle of a lifetime as President Donald Trump and his allies push back against making voting easier amid a global pandemic.

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