After three weeks of waiting, we thought every U.S. House race in the country was finally decided. No such luck. FiveThirtyEight has uncalled the North Carolina 9th District — an extremely close race that we thought the Republican had won — in light of allegations of voter fraud that, it […] Read more »
A Quick Look at North Carolina’s Absentee Ballots
News comes that North Carolina’s State Board of Elections and Ethic Enforcement has chosen not to certify the results of the 9th congressional district race, which was (provisionally) won by the Republican Mark Harris over Democrat Dan McCready by 905 only votes. News accounts provide speculation that this is related […] Read more »
Cries of fraud and suppression haven’t impacted faith in the electoral system
… The aftermath of the 2018 elections has been tumultuous. Democrats have leveled charges (some potentially more valid than others) of voter suppression. Republicans have, in turn, have lobbied charges of voter fraud (with no proof so far). You might expect such accusations would hurt Americans’ faith in the electoral […] Read more »
2018 Election Recap: It Ain’t Over Yet!
… Whether they land on the pro or con side, Americans are thinking, talking, and doing politics much more since Donald Trump was elected president of the United States. Trump’s ubiquity is, in general, a massive liability for his party—given the state of the economy, the Republican House majority would […] Read more »
How Did Latinxs Vote in the Mid-Terms?
In the weeks leading up to the 2018 election, President Donald Trump ignored the pleas of his advisers to focus on the economy and instead chose to center immigration in his campaign messaging. … With many calling Trump’s messaging overtly anti-Latinx, all eyes were on Latinx voters as Americans cast […] Read more »
The other 2018 midterm wave: A historic 10-point jump in turnout among young people
Nine months after Parkland, students like David Hogg have joined the youth voter wave. AP Photo/John Raoux Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, Tufts University Voter turnout among 18 to 29-year-olds in the 2018 midterm elections was 31 percent, according to a preliminary estimate by The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning […] Read more »