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Officials with extensive power over election administration in at least seven counties of crucial swing state found to have promoted falsehood that 2020 election was stolen by Biden ....
April 23, 2021 U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn called Georgia’s sweeping new voter suppression law “the new Jim Crow.” Voting rights advocate Stacey Abrams called it “Jim Crow 2.0” It’s all that. But in some ways – though certainly not including the prevalent racial terror and violence of the era – it’s much like old Jim Crow, wrapped up in a new package, one that’s only slightly less transparent than the laws enacted across the South in the late 1800s and early 1900s to deny Black people access to the ballot, along with many other rights. And so the scene of the March 25 bill signing couldn’t have been more appropriate: Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp surrounded by six other white men standing in front of a painting of a Georgia plantation where hundreds of people had been enslaved prior to the Civil War. ....
April 9, 2021 in Columns, Opinion Since Bill Clinton unseated George H. W. Bush in the 1992 presidential election, the GOP has only won the presidency with a majority of the popular vote once. This was in 2004, when, in the wake of 9/11, George W. Bush (50.7%) had a decisive victory over John Kerry (48.3%). However, Republicans have won the White House in three elections since 1992. Besides 2004, they won in 2000 George W. Bush (47.9%) over Al Gore (48.4%) and 2016 Donald Trump (46%) over Hillary Clinton (48.1%). These two wins were only possible because of the Electoral College, which puts more weight on votes from less populous states relative to the weight it puts on votes from more populous ones. For instance, in 2016 the ....
In addition to limiting mail-in voting to individuals who cannot physically vote at a polling place, proposals in Arizona require that ballots be notarized and returned in person and curtail voter registration drives. One bill gives the state legislature the power to revoke the voters’ choice of presidential electors by a simple majority vote, override certification of electors by the Secretary of State, and substitute another slate! Another allows the legislature to choose electors for 2 of the state’s 11 electoral votes. On Nov. 30, 2020, Gov. Ducey declared, “I’ve been pretty outspoken about Arizona’s election system and bragged about it, quite a bit, including in the Oval Office. And for good reason… We’ve been doing early voting since 1992. Arizona didn’t explore or experiment this year… In Arizona we have some of the strongest election laws in the country, laws that prioritize accountability and clearly lay out procedures for conducting, canvassing, an ....