Online Voting is a Really, Really Bad Idea
Miguel Candela/SOPA Images via ZUMA Wire Casting votes over the internet—at least for anything more important than a Twitter poll—is not secure. “This level of secrecy hardly inspires confidence.”This is not a controversial position. In September 2018, the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, alongside some of the foremost election and information security experts…
Voting Can Be Hard. If You’re Homeless, It’s Nearly Impossible.
A polling station is shown at Nottingham Elementary School in Arlington, Virginia.Win McNamee/Getty Arlington Street People’s Assistance Network or A-Span is a one-stop shop, offering shelter, meals, and medical services to people who are homeless in Arlington, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, DC. The center is unobtrusive, located on the second floor of an office…
The Right to Vote Won Big on Tuesday
Activists encourage passing motorists to vote in Owensboro, Kentucky, on Tuesday,.Greg Eans/The Messenger-Inquirer via AP Tuesday night was a big night for Democrats, but it may prove to be an even bigger night for voting rights. Voters in three states chose candidates and policies that could result in expanded access to the ballot, an undoing…
Mississippi Governor’s Race Could Be Decided by Jim Crow-Era Provision
Democratic State Attorney General Jim Hood, left, and Republican Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves during a gubernatorial debate on October 10. Rogelio V. Solis/AP A tight governor’s race in Mississippi next Tuesday could come down to an obscure 19th-century state provision designed to keep power in the hands of white voters. But now a federal court…
Judges Throw Out North Carolina Congressional Maps Ahead of 2020 Elections
Carolyn Kaster / AP North Carolina’s congressional maps were likely designed as “extreme partisan gerrymanders” and must be redrawn before the 2020 election, a panel of three state judges ruled Monday. The ruling comes in response to a lawsuit brought by Eric Holder’s group seeking to end gerrymandering. The group challenged maps the Republican state legislature had drawn…
Donald Trump Compared Impeachment to a Lynching. Eric Holder Explains Why It’s “Reprehensible.”
Nate Palmer The day after President Donald Trump ignited backlash by comparing his impeachment inquiry to a lynching, former Attorney General Eric Holder called the comment “reprehensible.” “You think about thousands of people who were lynched in this nation. To compare that to a constitutionally mandated, or constitutionally authorized, process that’s underway in our Congress…