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Despite the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Voter Registration Act of 1993, there are still issues with voter registration. This, and a seemingly complacent electorate, mean that American elections are left up to a powerful (and wealthy) few. Here’s your chance to make a difference.
Days before the 2018 election, WhoWhatWhy exclusively reported that there were serious security vulnerabilities in a voter database in Georgia. Then-Secretary of State Brian Kemp (R), who was running for governor, accused Georgia Democrats of a failed hacking attempt just hours later. Nearly a year and a half later, investigators have found no evidence backing up […]
Donald Trump spent months challenging the validity of voting by mail. Now that he has lost the 2020 election, he finds it impossible to admit defeat.
Restoring government of the people — or not — will define the nation’s future, activists say.
With everything that is at stake in 2022, anti-Democratic forces will once again do everything they can to make sure that their candidates win. Here is what we did in 2021 to expose them and their machinations.
Given the extent to which election transparency is in the public interest, we are all stakeholders with a constructive role to play in finding the right way to achieve it.
How could the polls be so wrong days before the 2016 US general election? It’s a question we still don’t have answers for. It’s up to the American people to acknowledge a threat that remains in place for 2020.
Early voters are the new Lords of Flatbush.
Unwilling to accept defeat, Trump — and all those conditioned to the same denial — could ask one very simple question: How do we know?
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Despite ample warning of the feeble condition of the state’s election infrastructure, officials failed to address vulnerabilities before the 2016 election.
Former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has won a legal settlement with the state of Pennsylvania that will put in place paper ballots and auditable, voter-verifiable elections by 2020.