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The Daily Yonder A poll worker and journalist says we need to inoculate our electoral system against mistrust. Share this: Northern Nevadans wait to vote in-person at Reed High School in Sparks, Nevada on November 3, 2020, prior to polls closing. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner, File) As 2020’s Covid-19 pandemic ravaged Americans’ health and economy, distrust of our election system infested the bloodstream of U.S. democracy. The result is a nation with voter flu, even leading to a feverish mob ...

‍ At a time when democracy feels most fragile, in the wake of a divisive election fueled by disinformation and an insurrection at the Capitol, two good-government groups have a new proposal for restoring trust in democracy. The Alliance for Securing Democracy and the Center for Democracy and Technology released a report Tuesday urging President Biden to establish a bipartisan commission dedicated to restoring the publics trust in elections and democracy. It would build off work done by a simi...

Democrats Abroad International Chair, Julia Bryan, says that she has not yet seen a tally of total votes from abroad. She notes the numbers will likely be released by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission in their Election Administration and Voting Survey (EAVS) Comprehensive Report later this year. The Vote From Abroad website nearly tripled its traffic from 2016, receiving more than 766,680 unique visitors to the site more than one million times. Democrats Abroad estimates that approximatel...

Democrats Abroad International Chair, Julia Bryan, says that she has not yet seen a tally of total votes from abroad. She notes the numbers will likely be released by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission in their Election Administration and Voting Survey (EAVS) Comprehensive Report later this year. The Vote From Abroad website nearly tripled its traffic from 2016, receiving more than 766,680 unique visitors to the site more than one million times. Democrats Abroad estimates that approximatel...

Common Cause Meet Tyler… Tyler St. Clair is the Outreach Manager for Common Cause Illinois. His primary responsibilities include community outreach and engagement, volunteer recruitment, and the creation of programming to pursue campaign objectives. Prior to joining Common Cause Illinois, Tyler worked on multiple campaigns advocating for the environment and public health, taking him from Indiana to Iowa and finally to Maine, where he coordinated a statewide campaign to protect the air we bre...

Improving election efficiency takes bipartisan cooperation, not partisan grandstanding Robin Carnahan and Trey Grayson © Provided by Washington Examiner Partisan politics today too frequently rewards symbolic gestures and grandstanding, rather than the hard work necessary for governing. We are likely to see another example of this in early January, when a handful of members of Congress reportedly plan to raise symbolic protests over the votes of the Electoral College. Yet what...

Biden should appoint a presidential commission on election security David Levine, opinion contributor © Getty Images Biden should appoint a presidential commission on election security While the legitimacy and outcome of the 2020 presidential election have long been beyond reproach, some could be forgiven for thinking otherwise. A few weeks ago, the Republican U.S. Senators from Georgia requested that the states Republican Secretary of State resign despite overwhelming eviden...

Others receiving the award are Chris Krebs, Shauna Dozier, Nancy Boren and Chris Hollins. Author: Jason Braverman (11Alive) Updated: 7:10 PM EST December 22, 2020 ATLANTA — Georgia’s secretary of state has received death threats over his handling of last month’s election, but hes found a fan in Arnold Schwarzenegger.  The actor and former governor of California presented Brad Raffensperger with the Democracy Action Hero Award on Tuesday. The award is given...

Others receiving the award are Chris Krebs, Shauna Dozier, Nancy Boren and Chris Hollins. Author: Jason Braverman (11Alive) Updated: 7:10 PM EST December 22, 2020 ATLANTA — Georgia’s secretary of state has received death threats over his handling of last month’s election, but hes found a fan in Arnold Schwarzenegger.  The actor and former governor of California presented Brad Raffensperger with the Democracy Action Hero Award on Tuesday. The award is given...

Scott Baker, Aniket Baksy, Nicholas Bloom, Steven Davis, Jonathan Rodden 22 December 2020 Elections can cause economic uncertainty, especially when elections take place in a politically polarised context. This column studies how national election cycles in 23 countries influence economic policy uncertainty, as measured by the share of newspaper articles that discusses uncertainty and economic policy. Economic policy uncertainty clearly rises in the months leading up to national electi...