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...
by jpitney | Nov 14, 2020 | Election Security, Elections
From the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA): The members of Election Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council (GCC) Executive Committee… released the following statement: “The November 3rd election was the most secure in American...
by jpitney | Nov 5, 2020 | civic virtue, Civility, Elections, Uncategorized
Yuval Levin at AEI: At the heart of our pervasive crisis of alienation are widespread failures of responsibility, deep-seated cultural divisions and a deadly dearth of solidarity. Such challenges can seem impossibly immense when we look at our country from the top...
by jpitney | Nov 3, 2020 | Civility, Elections
Former Attorneys General Eric H. Holder Jr. and Michael B. Mukasey at The Washington Post: Our system can accommodate even ill feeling, and it has. Our second president, John Adams, famously left Washington in 1801 before Thomas Jefferson was sworn in as the third....
by jpitney | Oct 15, 2020 | Elections, Journalism
Katherine Jacobsen at the Committee to Protect Journalists: Covering elections as a foreign correspondent in the United States has traditionally meant press conferences, long days at political rallies, and road trips through rural America. This year, however,...
