Back in the days of blogging, there was something called “fisking” – the practice of painstakingly, paragraph by paragraph, examining, critiquing, fact-checking and (since blogs were like that) ridiculing someone’s bad argument. It is possible to fisk a tweet? Because Dan Crenshaw, a Republican member of the House from Texas, […] Read more »
Russians tried to hack our elections. Voters overwhelmingly support stronger security measures.
The Senate Intelligence Committee recently released the first volume in what will be a series of reports on Russian interference in the 2016 election. Here’s the most startling thing we learned: Russian hackers targeted election infrastructure not just in 21 or 39 states, as previously reported — but in 50 […] Read more »
The 19th Amendment — A Woman’s Right to Vote
Voting is the most basic right of a citizen and the most important right in a democracy. When you vote, you are choosing the people who will make the laws. For almost a century and a half of our nation’s history, women were barred from exercising this fundamental right. This […] Read more »
States and localities are on the front lines of fighting cyber-crimes in elections
When it comes to fighting illegal intrusions into American elections, the states and localities are where the rubber meets the road—that is where American elections are administered. This authority is grounded in more than tradition; it derives from Article I, Section 4 of the Constitution. That section notes that while […] Read more »
Voting Machine Security: Where We Stand Six Months Before the New Hampshire Primary
In late July, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released its report on the Russian government’s attacks on America’s election infrastructure. While the report offered dozens of recommendations related to vast and varied election systems in the United States (from voter registration databases to election night reporting), it pointedly noted […] Read more »
For the first time, majority of Republicans express confidence in the fairness of Mueller’s investigation
As former Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller prepares to testify before Congress, nearly two-thirds of Americans – including, for the first time, a majority of Republicans – say they are confident he conducted a fair investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. CONT. Hannah Gilberstadt, Pew Read more »