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Steven Sahiounie: Syrians abroad vote for a return to stability
This article talks about the latest Syrian election in the Syrian embassies 3  |
 Steve Schneider: "Most Secure Election in American History." Government officials insist 2020 produced the most secure election in our history. Okay. What does that mean? What should we do now? |
 Nearly Half of All Republicans Support Attack on US Capitol One in five voters - including 45% of Republicans - approve of the storming of the Capitol building. The partisan difference in support could be down to differing perceptions of the nature of the protests. While 59% of voters who are aware of the events at the Capitol perceive them as being more violent than more peaceful (28%), the opposite is true of Republicans. By 58% to 22%, Republicans see the goings on as more pe... |
 Steve Schneider: Actual Vote App Offers a Way to Protect Vote Count in Georgia Two election watchdog apps are being deployed in Georgia for the Senate runoff races that can decide the legislative agenda in the new Congress. Actual Vote documents the vote count that is made public at polling stations when voting ends. Wanna Vote lets registered voters document their experience with voter suppression. |
 Steve Schneider: Atlanta Mail Specialist Exposed Problems with Voter Roll Purge List Last December, 22,000 purged voters were returned to the rolls a month after an Atlanta business owner researched the purge list and raised questions. Robert Gates told authorities about faulty practices by the Georgia Secretary of State's office. During an emergency federal court proceeding, the state announced it would reinstate the purged voters, but for reasons other than the ones Gates discovered. |
 SCOTUS Declines to Hear Texas Claims of Election Irregularities In a one-sentence order, the court refused to overturn election results that had already been certified and submitted. I'm saying good-bye today to 15 years of work I have done as an election integrity activist. This season has been the chance we were waiting for. It was the 1st time that EITHER PARTY had called for investigation of election irregularities. There were specific claims by top lawyers--one of whom admitt... 2 |
 Armed Men Arrested in Philadelphia May Have Believed Fake Ballots Were Being Counted Two armed Virginia men who were arrested Thursday outside the Philadelphia Convention Center may have believed fake ballots were being counted there, Philadelphia District Attorney's Office spokeswoman Jane Roh told CNN. "According to our information at this very early stage of investigation, it appears these individuals were operating under the belief that 'fake ballots' are being counted at the ... 3 |
 More than 1 Million Mail-in Ballots May be Rejected, Say Experts Sixty percent of voters — nearly 70 million people — are projected to vote by mail nationwide during the coronavirus pandemic. Those who study absentee rejection rates estimate that 1 percent to 2 percent of those votes — potentially more than 1 million — won't count, which could make a difference in battleground states. "The vote-by-mail ballot rejections are going to be the hanging chads... |
 More Than Two Thirds of US Voters Plan on Casting Their Ballots Before Nov. 3 Less than a third of U.S. voters say they will cast their ballots in person on Election Day, the lowest percentage in American history, a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows. Nearly two-thirds plan to vote early — or have already voted. According to the survey of 1,583 registered voters conducted Oct. 16-18, just 31 percent of respondents said they plan to vote in person on Nov. 3 — about half the number who... 1 |
 Dr. Deane Waldman, MD MBA: An Evidence-Based Nonpartisan Pre-Election Decision Aid This article compares and contrasts Candidate Joe Biden with President Trump, as well as the Democrat and Republican platforms. The sections "Candidates" and "Party platforms and philosophies" may be easier for the reader to compare and contrast if they are placed side-by-side, two-column format with subsections placed next to each other. 3 |
Steve Schneider: A Young Man Knows How to Make Voting Great Again
Chris Hollins is running the Nov. 3 election in Harris County, TX.
He appeared Oct. 13, just hours ago, for an interview on the Rachel Maddow Show. He really cares about making voting convenient and POSSIBLE for people.
Unfortunately, I could not find a link to the Maddow interview. But a link to a local television interview gives you an idea about Hollins, what he is doing, and what is possible. |
 Trump: "Get Rid of the Ballots and...There Won't be a Transfer Frankly, There'll be a Continuation" Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren accused President Donald Trump with 'flirting with treason' following the president's refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power earlier this week. Trump set off a political storm with his comments Wednesday when he was asked at the White House: 'Win lose or draw in this election will you commit here today for a peaceful transferal of power after the election?' 'We... 1 |
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Steve Schneider: Postcard Outreach to Vote-by-Mail Voters Underway in Broward County
The Voter Participation Project is sending postcards to voters to give them information that can help them complete vote-by-mail ballots properly, thus ensuring their vote is counted. |
 Democrats Amassing Enormous Lead in Early Voting Democrats are amassing an enormous lead in early voting, alarming Republicans who worry they’ll need to orchestrate a huge Election Day turnout during a deadly coronavirus outbreak to answer the surge. The Democratic dominance spreads across an array of battleground states, according to absentee ballot request data compiled by state election authorities and analyzed by Democratic and Republican data experts. In North... 20 |
 USPS Sending Out Inaccurate Mail Ballot Info The U.S. Postal Service is sending out inaccurate mail ballot information to residents of several states, which could further snarl a system already facing overwhelming demand amid the COVID-19 crisis, Colorado’s secretary of state said Friday. The USPS is sending postcard notices to addresses and post office boxes of registered voters, urging them to request mail-in ballots early. But several states ... |
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Steve Schneider: Is Georgia "Double Voting" Charge a Form of Voter Suppression?
It started with Donald Trump telling supporters to vote twice in the November election. Then the Republican secretary of state in Georgia alleged 1,000 people voted twice in the June primary. He promised an investigation, which voting rights advocates basically call a "witch hunt" and a "hoax." |
 House Minority Leader Tells Trump: "We Could Lose If Republicans Don't Vote By Mail" House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) says he warned President Donald Trump that his repeated attacks on voting by mail could backfire, hurting both his reelection efforts and Republicans in other races. “We could lose based on that,” McCarthy admitted to Axios, saying the result could be that Democrats vote by mail while Republicans don’t ― and because of the coronavirus ... |
Rob Palmer: Vote Safe
Vote Safe is a cross-partisan coalition of election administrators and organizations that endorse the simple principle that every American has the right to vote safely during the pandemic. |
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Trump Already Claiming 2020 Election is "Rigged"
President Donald Trump on Monday baselessly claimed that the general election in November will be “RIGGED” because of mail-in ballots, a method for voting that the president himself has used multiple times.
“This will be the Election disaster of our time,” Trump tweeted, citing an article from right-wing website Breitbart that featured comments Attorney General William Barr made Sunday du... |
Vendor for Election Chief Denies Agency Access to its Data
Perry Busby pens an election-related column for The Westside Gazette in Fort Lauderdale. He also works with Citizens Audit of Broward, which used a free "Actual Vote" app created by Democracy Counts to audit the March 17 presidential primary in Broward County.
Initial data turned up possible discrepancies when the "Actual Vote" results captured from poll tapes at polling stations sometimes differed with results elec... 1 |
Growing Up Learning Importance of Registering People to Vote
Broward County, in Florida, has been making national news for election-related problems for at least two decades now.
Fortunately, this Democratic bastion can elect a new Supervisor of Elections soon. This is an important decision because Florida has more than its share of razor-thin election results. The Sunshine State is also considered a battleground state in presidential elections.
So, registering vot... 1 |
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Federal Judge Guts Florida Law that Linked Former Felon Voting Rights to Criminal Justice Debt
A federal judge Sunday ruled that a Florida law pegging former felon voting rights to criminal justice debt violates the 24th Amendment, which prohibits poll taxes.
The law -- SB 7066 -- was written by the Republican-controlled state legislature and signed by the GOP governor about six months after voters overwhelmingly voted to change the state constitution to let returning citizens register to vote after they complete a... |
 Trump Will Lose in a Landslide, New Election Model Predicts The economy has gone from President Donald Trump's greatest political asset to perhaps his biggest weakness. Unemployment is spiking at an unprecedented rate. Consumer spending is vanishing. And GDP is collapsing. History shows that dreadful economic trends like these spell doom for sitting presidents seeking reelection. The coronavirus recession will cause Trump to suffer a "historic defeat" in November... 1 |
Steve Schneider: Florida Democrats Urge Governor to Adopt Universal Vote-by-Mail to Prevent Covid-19 from Suppressing the Vote
Florida Democrats fear Covid-19 can become another form of voter suppression if Sunshine State Republicans force voters to stand in long lines to vote in the presidential election this fall. Their solution? Mail every registered voter a vote at home mail-in ballot. 2 |
 Ted Millar: Republicans Are Using Wisconsin as a Testing Ground for November Once again, Wisconsin is in the electoral crosshairs thanks to this week's two-pronged GOP assault from the state supreme court and the SCOTUS. |
Stephen Fox: How to Hack Voting Machines and Flip Votes In Less Than 2 Minutes in 18 States
Tobac explains that accessing the voting machine's administrative functions is as easy as removing the hood with a release button, unplugging the card reader, picking the lock to turn on the machine which she says can be done with a ballpoint pen and pressing the bright red "on" button. After the machine boots up, a "secure voting terminal" loads on the screen. An error message pops up, but Tobac presses "cancel" and "okay." 10 |
Steve Schneider: Will Apple Publish "Same Day" Election Audit App in Time for March 17 Florida Vote?
Is Apple thwarting the work of a nonpartisan group of Florida citizens who want to audit an election on March 17? I called their media line for information. I was told to leave a voicemail. I also sent an email to their media department. I've gotten no responses to my requests for information. |
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Judge allows Dallas County recount of missed ballots to move forward
Judge Emily Tobolowsky approved the county’s request to redo the tally of votes cast in the primary after discovering an unknown number of ballots from 44 tab machines missed in the count (not clear if the missing ballots might affect outcomes). Elections administrator Toni Pippins-Poole made the recount request after finding discrepancies in vote count. The county will not recount all ballots cast in t... |
 Dallas Morning News: Dallas County election recount court date set for Tuesday Election chief Toni Pippins-Poole filed a request to reopen the election late Friday after ballots from 44 vote tabulating machines were not included in the final tally. Ballots must be counted continuously after polls close. Once tallying votes stops, the election is complete; a judge must order any additional counting. Judge Emily G. Tobolowsky will consider the request. Between the parties... |
 "It's Worth It": The Last Person In Line At Texas Southern University Waited 6 Hours To Vote On Super Tuesday Hervis Rogers works two jobs, arrived at the polls just before 7, waited 6 hours,gain ed national attention through his tenacity, refusing to leave, the last person to cast a ballot in the Texas when he did so around 1 a.m. “It is insane, but it’s worth it,” Rogers said while waiting in line. “I wouldn’t feel right if I didn’t vote. So I said, ‘I’m going to ta... |
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