by jpitney | Nov 15, 2021 | Election Security, Free Speech, Internet, Journalism, Journalists, Russia, Social Media, Technology
From the Aspen Institute: The Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder is making 15 recommendations to help government, private industry, and civil society advance solutions to and reduce the greatest harms in America’s urgent mis- and disinformation...
by jpitney | Oct 31, 2021 | Election Security, Elections, Uncategorized
Testimony of Al Schmidt, City Commissioner of Philadelphia, The Committee on Rules and Administration of the United States Senate, Emerging Threats to Election Administration, Tuesday, October 26, 2021 “This is domestic terrorism. The whole point is to terrorize, to...
by jpitney | Sep 20, 2021 | Bipartisanship, Election Security, Elections
Michael Wines at NYT: It is perhaps a metaphor for the times that even the volunteer who checked you into the polls in November now has a legal defense committee. The Election Official Legal Defense Network, which made its public debut on Sept. 7, offers to...
by jpitney | Jun 7, 2021 | Democracy, Election Security, Elections, State Government
At AEI, Kevin Kosar spoke with Zachary Courser and Eric Helland of Claremont McKenna College: You and your students created a scorecard to measure states’ adaptations to make voting accessible during the pandemic. How did you create the scorecard, and which states...
by jpitney | May 6, 2021 | civic virtue, Congress, Constitution, Election Security, Elections, Electoral College
Liz Cheney: I am a conservative Republican, and the most conservative of conservative values is reverence for the rule of law. Each of us swears an oath before God to uphold our Constitution. The electoral college has spoken. More than 60 state and federal courts,...
by jpitney | Dec 2, 2020 | Election Security, Elections, Electoral College
From the editors of National Review: Trump’s most reprehensible tactic has been to attempt, somewhat shamefacedly, to get local Republican officials to block the certification of votes and state legislatures to appoint Trump electors in clear violation of the public...
