Mail-in voting is viewed as the way to go in 2020 elections due to the coronavirus. State and local election administrators are pushing voters to use it.
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States push millions of people toward absentee voting amid pandemic
WATCH: Pelosi speaks on coronavirus funding for mail-in voting, election security
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held a news conference May 21 on the 100th anniversary of the House of Representatives’ passage of the 19th Amendment.
‘A game-changer’: Pandemic forces shift in black voter outreach
The coronavirus has forced a shift in black voter outreach. “Historic voter suppression helps drive preference to vote in person”.
Judge grants sanctions against DOJ over citizenship question
A federal judge imposed financial sanctions against the Trump administration for failing to produce documents in census citizenship question litigation.
Coronavirus has made the 2020 election a perfect storm for voting rights lawsuits
The coronavirus pandemic imposed a modification of election methods. This has, in turn, provoked legal battles of potentially historical proportions.
America Is Woefully Unprepared for a COVID-19 Election
It is becoming increasingly evident that America is unprepared for a COVID-19 election. This is worrying as 1 million votes are at stake.
Voting registration activists are shifting their message to health care during the coronavirus pandemic
Voter registration activities play a crucial role in US democracy which includes sanitary measures for voters. This comes in handy during coronavirus.
Suits filed across US challenging mail-in voting obstacles
Covid-19 led to calls for expanded mail-in voting but there are hurdles. Suits are being filed across the US challenging these obstacles.
‘It’s Partly On Me’: GOP Official Says Fraud Warnings Hamper Vote-By-Mail Push
Under Trump’s leadership, the GOP has adopted an anti-mail-in voting rhetoric. GOP officials who want it find themselves in a tight corner.
Republicans and Democrats barrel toward collision on voting by mail
Republicans and Democrats continue to disagree over vote-by-mail during coronavirus. Unlike the Democrats, Republicans have shown little support for it.
- House Democrats include $3.6 billion for mail-in voting in new stimulus bill
- Access Denied? Coronavirus Complicates Voter Access
- Mail-in election could trigger Florida 2000-like chaos, disputes
- Pandemic Prompts Questions About 2020 Presidential Election
- Warren warns coronavirus ‘poses a threat to free and fair elections’
- Coronavirus threatens a guarded tradition for many black Americans: Voting in person
- Postal Service’s Struggles Could Hurt Mail-In Election
- Free the students: why there’s a push to make election day a campus holiday
- GOP group releases ad advocating for voting by mail amid coronavirus pandemic
- Experts worry push for 2020 mail voting could leave Native American voters behind
WORLDWIDE
Illiberal Hungary ‘mounting an ambitious ideological campaign’?
Budapest’s response to coronavirus… has been to suspend parliament and give [Premier] Viktor Orbán open-ended powers to rule by decree, Democracy Digest.
Azerbaijan Should Release Jailed Opposition Leader
Friday marks two months since Tofiq Yagublu, one of Azerbaijan’s top political opposition figures, was thrown behind bars for his activism, HRW.
Why democracies are better at managing crises
Is there a link between political systems and the effectiveness of crisis response? A new perspective shows why democracies are better at managing crises.
Disinformation and democracy: New weapons of political warfare
“…disinformation is not only corrosive to open societies, which depend on collective trust in facts, but also takes a subtler toll on the perpetrator…”
Uganda: Drop Charges Against 19 Homeless Youth
HRW has asked Uganda’s Public Prosecutions Director to release of homeless youth arrested on grounds of breaking COVID-19 lockdown laws.
Bangladesh: Mass Arrests Over Cartoons, Posts
Some critics of government’s response to COVID-19 in Bangladesh are facing the law over charges of spreading rumours and misinformation on facebook.
How to resist the authoritarian surge
There is still a “sort of love of liberalism all over the world, even in places like Russia and China…It is obviously there in Hong Kong”, expert.
As coronavirus threatens legitimacy, China targets victims and critics
The rest of the world has asked China for coronavirus compensation. While this is happening, China is clamping down on voices at home seeking answers.
Falling for China’s Fake Covid-19 News Was Dangerous and Preventable
Coronavirus: “everyone – the US government, the WHO, journalists, public health officials, and others – should have known better than to trust Beijing’s claims”.
COVID-19’s regime-type fallacy: Autocrats also feeling strain
Autocrats have transformed the coronavirus pandemic into an opportunity to further restrict freedoms. But they also feel the strain.
- COVID-19’s regime-type fallacy: Autocrats also feeling strain
- How China exploits the pandemic it helped cause
- ‘He Found One of Stalin’s Mass Graves. Now He’s in Jail’
- ‘Beginning of the end’ for Hong Kong? Two systems ‘dead as a Dodo’
- Autocratic assertion meets democratic dereliction
- COVID-19’s new pretexts for consolidating autocrats’ power
- Don’t pave the way for authoritarian spheres of influence
- El Salvador: President Defies Supreme Court
- Mozambique: Journalist Feared ‘Disappeared’
- Gangnam Smile: North Korean defectors make history