With five months before primary season begins,State election officials around the country are busy upgrading voting equipment notably through new purchases.
Democracy in America articles
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“New York’s Arcane Election Laws Continue to Suppress Voters”
Remember Florida’s butterfly ballot and the hanging chad? The 2000 presidential election seems like a distant memory, but leave it to New York to remind us.
North Carolina court holds State Legislative Districts are Gerrymanders
Unanimous State Court decision in North Carolina has held State Legislative Districts as unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders under State Constitution.
There is fresh pressure for Republicants to act on gun reform
For members of the Grand old Party (GOP), Republicans, hoping to run out clock on gun reform, the weekend’s mass shooting in Texas has complicated the math.
The 10 counties that will decide the 2020 election
Years after presidential election, Democrats and Republicans are eyeing a much larger battlefield ahead of the 2020 contests.
Trump moving forward to divert $3.6B from military projects for border wall
Trump administration moving forward with its plan to divert $3.6 billion from military construction projects to border wall, notifying congress.
Congress set for chaotic fall sprint
Congress has several must-pass bills on its agenda, including spending legislation to prevent a government shutdown on Oct. 1.
Inquiry into Trump’s alleged role in scheme to silencing affair scandal
House Democrats to make Trump’s alleged involvement in a 2016 scheme to silence two women who claim to have had affairs with him major investigative focus.
Technology and Presidential Primary Campaigns
2018 Pew poll found 77 percent of Americans would support laws to restrict the total amount of campaign spending for spending caps crosses partisan lines.
2020 electoral contest risks taking place on a narrow political base
Political division, voters hardened and resistant to change constitute a recipe for a 2020 general election that could be contested on a narrow base.