Originally published on the AP News website. “[F]ederal courts have gained more legal authority to examine evidence and question witnesses, and to address claims related to state-level elections, said Kevin Johnson, executive director of the Election Reformers Network. The nonpartisan group advocates for ranked choice voting and independent redistricting among other election reforms. ‘Mutual policing…
Originally published on the Democracy Journal website by Spenser Mestel. “Of the 137 elected secretaries of state serving since 2000, one-third have endorsed a candidate running in a race under their supervision. Twelve have served as co-chair (or equivalent) of a presidential election campaign, according to Election Reformers Network, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization working to…
Originally published on The Economist website. A mostly bureaucratic endeavour is becoming a partisan battleground. Otero County, in New Mexico, is home to fewer than 70,000 people. Yet the rural municipality found unfortunate fame recently when local officials refused to certify the results of their primary elections, held on June 7th. New Mexico’s secretary of state,…
Originally published in Business Insider, by Grace Panetta Former President Donald Trump took his train of grievances down to Georgia, but the voters wanted no part in it. Trump tried to exact revenge on incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp for certifying President Joe Biden’s election victory by endorsing his challenger, former Sen. David Perdue, who said…
Originally published on The Dispatch, by Harvest Prude MANSFIELD, Ohio—A crowd of around 200 mingled in a spacious ballroom for Richland County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner earlier this month. Guests sporting red dresses or red ties chatted about the contentious GOP Senate primary in the state and local party politics at tables draped in…
Originally published by Voting Booth, a project of the Independent Media Institute | April 11, 2022 By Steven Rosenfeld As 2022’s primaries approach, an unprecedented wave of public and private efforts are underway to foster trust in election operations and election officials in response to ongoing claims by Donald Trump and his supporters, including many officeholders and candidates, that…
Originally published on The 19th News website. By Barbara Rodriguez Tina Peters says she was just looking into potential election fraud. Prosecutors say the county election official in western Colorado was involved in an illegal election security breach. Even as she faces criminal charges, Peters is continuing to spread falsehoods about the integrity of the 2020 election,…
Originally published in INSIDER | December 17, 2021 By Grace Panetta Julie Anderson, who is vying for the role of Washington State’s secretary of state, says she likes “a challenge.” But even in a state that’s elected independent-minded secretaries of state in the past, Anderson said, trying to get elected as a nonpartisan candidate within…
Originally published in Forbes | January 18, 2021 By Sebastien Roblin Since the 1980s, promoting democracy has remained a basic tenet of U.S. foreign policy, one supported by a network of partner non-governmental organizations and firms. And that stance, despite the persistence of certain infamous exceptions, has generally been maintained for decades with bipartisan support….
Originally published in The New York Times Opinion | December 15, 2020 By Susan D. Hyde and Elizabeth N. Saunders After the Electoral College vote on Monday affirming his election, Joe Biden declared that “nothing, not even a pandemic or an abuse of power, can extinguish” the “flame of democracy.” Mr. Biden’s speech and the…
