“It’s Awful:” A Signature Expert Weighs In On How Florida Is Handling Ballots
Florida Canvassing Board members examine signatures on absentee ballots in Miami-Dade County.Lynne Sladky/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Patricia Fisher sees news stories about Florida election workers comparing the signatures on mail-in ballots with signatures in the state registration database, she can hardly believe her eyes. “I’ve been horrified,”…
Brian Kemp’s Win In Georgia Is Tainted by Voter Suppression
Brian Kemp gestures as he steps onstage to speak to supporters on November 7 in Athens, Georgia.John Bazemore/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. India Owens, a 22-year-old African American woman, voted in the 2016 presidential election at Union Grove Baptist Church in Auburn, Georgia, an exurb of Atlanta. Two years…
Stacey Abrams Effectively Ended Her Campaign But Refused to “Concede.” Watch Her Rousing Speech.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday afternoon, Stacey Abrams appeared to end her campaign to become Georgia’s next governor, but she refused to say that she conceded. “I will not concede because the erosion of our democracy is not right,” she said in an impassioned speech before supporters. Instead,…
Donald Trump Doesn’t Want All the Votes in Florida to Be Counted
President Donald Trump is now supporting former Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s claims of fraud in the 2018 election.Don Montague/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Three days after votes were cast, the results of elections in Georgia and Florida are still uncertain. But that hasn’t prevented the president from spreading…
Here’s What It’s Like When You Can’t Vote in an Election
People gather around the Ben & Jerry’s “Yes on 4” truck to learn about Amendment 4 in Miami, Florida. Wilfredo Lee/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On election day, Susanne Manning plans to wake up early and head to the polls—but not to vote. Manning, 57, can’t cast a ballot because…
Trial Over Census Citizenship Question Kicks Off Amid Revelation of Trump Administration Deception
Civil rights supporters demonstrate outside the federal courthouse in New York City before a trial challenging the citizenship question on the 2020 census.Ari Berman/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A federal trial over a controversial question about US citizenship on the 2020 census began Monday under the cloud of a…