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…
Originally published in The Washington Post | July 10, 2020 Across the country, election officials are living with a palpable sense of dread. Their worry is less about who will win or lose on Election Day than about how our vast, diverse system of voting will function amid a pandemic. Evidence from some primaries this…
Originally published in the National Endowment for Democracy’s Democracy Digest | May 1, 2020 “Overall, the dangers are much greater than the opportunities” in terms of the pandemic’s impact on liberty and democracy, says Stanford University’s Francis Fukuyama. “I do think there are opportunities for improving policies and institutions, but right now the dangers are much more…
Originally published in The Fulcrum | May 1, 2020 Fifty former foreign policy officials, politicians and experts at promoting democracy abroad have united behind a diplomatically worded but blunt warning: The coronavirus could rapidly incubate autocratic behavior that threatens the integrity of the presidential election. In an open letter on Thursday, the bipartisan group urged President Trump,…
