Pelosi, state Democrats are pushing for more funding to expand mail-in and absentee voting efforts in the context of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Pelosi, state Democrats push for more funds for mail-in voting
16 States Restrict Access To Voting By Mail
16 States restrict access to voting by mail. In case the coronavirus pandemic persists to year’s end, this could have impact on voting in these states.
What American voters think about voting during coronavirus
The nature of transmission of the coronavirus has left many Americans saying it would be unsafe to hold primary elections amid the pandemic.
Trump says election proposals in coronavirus stimulus bill would hurt Republican chances
To Trump, the vote-by-mail proposal in the original Democrat-backed House version of the coronavirus stimulus bill was detrimental to the Republican Party.
Coronavirus stimulus package: USPS warns it might have to shutter by June
In 1970 a strike warranted the deployment of the National Guard to deliver mail. Once again, the USPS is in crisis mode due to the coronavirus.
How Suffragists Raced to Secure Women’s Right to Vote Ahead of the 1920 Election
President Woodrow Wilson was lukewarm towards suffrage but won re-election. This led suffragists to increase activism in view of the 1920 elections.
Coronavirus cripples voter registration efforts
The coronavirus is having varying impact on elections. One way this is happening is that it is making voter registration more difficult ahead of 2020 polls.
Virus threatens a long-anticipated surge in student voting
The coronavirus pandemic has shuttered campuses from coast to coast threatening the long-anticipated momentum of students in the 2020 elections.
As Election Security Concerns Rise, Paperless Voting Falls
Threats to voting infrastructure have been core concern since 2020. Amid coronavirus, experts are still more and more in favour of a return to paper ballots
The Coronavirus Could Change How We Vote, In 2020 And Beyond
Coronavirus may significantly modify voting methods and it is possible that these changes will not be restricted to the 2020 elections.
- Could the presidential vote be done by mail?
- States begin preparations for mail-in voting in presidential election
- Stimulus Money to Protect Elections Falls Short, Critics Say
- Vote-by-Mail Gains Momentum, But It’s Not Fast, Cheap, or Easy
- $400 million to protect elections in Senate Coronavirus Bill
- Bipartisan Call for emergency funding to expand voting by mail before November
- States Weigh Expanding Absentee Voting
- Democrats press for more stimulus funding to boost mail-in voting
- Risks associated with voting by mail
- This Isn’t The First Time America Has Weathered A Crisis In An Election Year
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The political lessons of the coronavirus pandemic
Fyodor Dostoevsky once said in regards to prisons that you can tell a lot about a society by its response to epidemics of infectious disease.
Australia: challenges of holding elections in the midst of a coronavirus pandemic
In Australia, Queensland’s top officials say you are more at risk of contracting the coronavirus in the supermarket aisle than the polling booth.
Pro-democracy actors’ powerful message at a time of moral crisis
The Chair of the EED says pro-democracy protests in countries like Algeria, Lebanon are a powerful message to Europe in a time of moral crisis.
Is democracy immune from the coronavirus?
Coronavirus is having deep socio-political and socio-economic impact across the world. A new perspective examines if it poses a threat to democracy.
Cambodia: COVID-19 Clampdown on Free Speech
Cambodia is arresting people for expressing concerns about COVID-19’s impact in Cambodia and claiming they are spreading so-called “fake news”.
Why democracies handle crises better than authoritarians
Authoritarians have instead taken advantage of the coronavirus pandemic to pursuing the suppression of freedoms outside the scope of public health.
Cuba creating a Venezuelan dictatorship in its own image
Tamara Suju says much is known about Cuba’s infiltration of Venezuela, little on the repression, intelligence training it gives to Venezuelan operatives.
Democracy is ‘not immune’ to coronavirus
Social distancing is making every facet of life more difficult — including democracy, a fragile system of governance not immune to being ravaged by COVID-19
Hungary Weaponizes Coronavirus to Stoke Xenophobia
The coronavirus pandemic has been a rare moment of global solidarity. However, Hungary has somehow used it to stoke xenophobia
How to deal with authoritarian states?
Expert suggests how a country treats its population, what ideology motivates it, and its approach to the outside world as criteria for dealing with it.
- How to deal with authoritarian states?
- How the coronavirus ‘exposes lie at the heart of Communist China’
- Iran, China and Venezuela called out on human rights abuses
- Zimbabwe: missing pro-democracy campaigner’s wife appeals for president’s help
- How authoritarians subvert constitutional constraints
- Stand with North Korean victims
- Arrested Zimbabwe Opposition MDC Activists Expected to Face Charges of Violence
- Tanzanian Journalist Critical of President Magufuli Freed From Prison
- Why the failure of the Arab Spring in Egypt is Mubarak’s Legacy
- Cameroon: The Ngarbuh Massacre