How science finally caught up with Trump's playbook - with millions of lives at stake

The president’s failure to heed the warnings about coronavirus and act quickly has set in train a domino effect that now imperils large swathes of the US


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Kimberly Ellis says her request for an independent audit of the vote for California Democratic Party leader was rejected


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Remember good old boy Pat McCrory and his desperate attempts to get the results of the election he lost thrown out? Well, here's an update.

North Carolina’s State Board of Elections ordered local election boards Monday night to dismiss any election protest from Gov. Pat McCrory (R) that “merely disputes the eligibility of a voterThe dismissal ( Read more... )

Without putting forth any evidence, the president-elect says he actually won the popular vote ( Read more... )

She was afraid her first ballot for would be changed to a vote for Hillary Clinton.Police in Des Moines, Iowa, arrested a woman on suspicion of voting twice in the general election ( Read more... )

 In 1981, during a New Jersey gubernatorial election, the Republican National Committee launched a “Ballot Security Task Force” that sent sample ballots to voters in predominantly African-American and Hispanic precincts. When 45,000 letters were returned as undeliverable, the RNC tried to remove the voters from the rolls and hired off-duty cops to ( Read more... )

How to Hack an Election in 7 Minutes
With Russia already meddling in 2016, a ragtag group of obsessive tech experts is warning that stealing the ultimate prize-victory on Nov. 8-would be child’s play.When Princeton professor Andrew Appel decided to hack into a voting machine, he didn’t try to mimic the Russian attackers who hacked into the ( Read more... )

Kris Kobach's efforts to make voters prove that they're citizens aren't going so well


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The 'decision to cut out ID services to almost all counties with a majority black population is discriminatory and wrong,' says ACLU of Alabama

Some observers say that Alabama's move to close dozens of drivers license offices is a discriminatory move that could trigger a civil rights probe.

Here's why: in 2011 lawmakers approved a voter ID law ( Read more... )

Election officials in 27 states, most of them Republicans, have launched a program that threatens a massive purge of voters from the rolls. Millions, especially black, Hispanic and Asian-American voters, are at risk. Already, tens of thousands have been removed in at least one battleground state, and the numbers are expected to climb, according to ( Read more... )