Picture this Thanksgiving: turkey, football (maybe), tenser-than-usual interactions with relatives. And perhaps a new tradition: finding out who actually won the presidential election. The coronavirus crisis means that states like Pennsylvania may be counting mail-in ballots for weeks, while President Trump tweets false allegations about fraud. And the last barriers […] Read more »
‘Nobody wants a replay of Bush v. Gore’
FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver discusses mail-in voting and the possibility that election results could be delayed. This Week, ABC News Read more »
The Path to November
This week, President Trump renewed his commitment to questioning the integrity of our election system and the Senate left town on Thursday without reaching an agreement on a new stimulus bill, leaving millions of unemployed Americans in economic limbo. At the same time, the U.S. surpassed 150,000 deaths caused by […] Read more »
What to Make of President Trump’s Tweets?
President Trump is apparently exercised that some states, especially battleground states, might be mailing absentee ballot applications to all their voters, so that they can request a mail ballot be sent to them. … For some reason, President Trump (and many national Republican leaders generally) have gotten it in their […] Read more »
More Than Half Of Young People Lack Resources To Vote By Mail
As the coronavirus pandemic has upended normal balloting, more than half of voters under the age of 35 say they don’t have the resources or knowledge they need to vote by mail in November, according to a new poll. The poll was conducted by Global Strategy Group for NextGen America, […] Read more »
Democrats are strongly pushing mail voting. But its pitfalls could boost Trump.
Trailing Joe Biden in polls, President Donald Trump is attacking mail-in voting as a potential source of illegal Democratic votes on a near-daily basis. But the biggest risk of a pandemic-induced crush of mail-in votes isn’t fraud, an extraordinarily rare occurrence in American elections. The real danger is a perfect […] Read more »