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More than 20 Pennsylvania counties turned to private philanthropy when it became apparent the Republican-led General Assembly wasn’t going to help them cover COVID-related expenses.
Mark Zuckerberg helped some Pa. counties survive the 2020 election. Right-wing lawmakers say that was unfair. Marie Albiges, The Philadelphia Inquirer © JESSICA GRIFFIN/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS If lawmakers are concerned about private money, Philadelphia election commissioner Al Schmidt said they could include funding for local election offices in the state budget. Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media. Sign up for...
Experts talk Facebook Oversight Board, Trump suspension in Stanford Cyber Policy Center panel Stanford Cyber Policy Center leaders discuss the suspension of Trump’s account with Facebook Oversight Board members (Screenshot: MICHAEL ALISKY/The Stanford Daily) on May 6, 2021 After the Facebook Oversight Board decided to uphold the platform’s suspension of former president Donald Trump’s account, board members and experts scrutinized the process at a Thursday panel discussion hosted by Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center. Some panelists defended the Oversight Board’s creation, while others ...
In the 2020 presidential election, 66 million Americans voted with a mailed-out ballot after most states loosened restrictions on qualifications to vote by mail to make voting safer in the pandemic. Another 36 million people voted in person at an early voting site before Election Day after many states expanded this option. Together, more than 56 million voters cast a ballot in a different way than in 2016, which was "extraordinary," as one recent scholarly study said. North Carolina's increase in using mailed-out ballots, alone, was fivefold. Georgia's was sixfold. Wisconsin's was fifteenfold...
In the spring of 2012, Virginia’s General Assembly passed a bill that required women throughout the Commonwealth to undergo a transvaginal ultrasound procedure before they were allowed to terminate a pregnancy. That law set off a massive national furor, because despite framing that suggested the procedure was medically indicated (it wasn’t), the law was mainly just another means of embarrassing and violating women as part of a programmatic series of unnecessary “informed consent” laws intended to dissuade pregnant women from abortion. Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers spoofed the state on...