Tag: Voting & Elections
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Armed Man Rushes Candidate
Political violence does not have to succeed to erode a democracy. It needs only become ever more ordinary. On Sunday, an armed man rushed toward Amy Acton, the Democratic candidate for governor of Ohio, as she campaigned at the Canfield Fair. Police say 38-year-old Patrick Havas pushed through the crowd toward Acton, knocking people down…
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Trump vs Ballot Envelope
Why, one wonders, does the administration want the Postal Service deciding which envelopes carry a vote? Today the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to let the Postal Service decide which ballot envelopes states are allowed to mail. Solicitor General John Sauer describes the rule as “only modest envelope-design and addressee-information requirements.” But here is…
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Election “Fraud” Monitors
Come November, we may have arrived at that place. On Monday, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon announced the Justice Department will send approximately one thousand election monitors into polling places for the November midterms. She said the department is selecting jurisdictions where it believes voter fraud exists, promising “prosecutions in the pipeline” and claiming that…
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Trump vs Nursing Home Voters
The administration is systematically making it harder and harder to hold it to account at the ballot box, targeting one vulnerable population after another. On July 20, the Trump administration threw out the federal rules that told nursing homes to help their residents vote. Two million Americans live in long-term care. Since 2020, federal memos…
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Ballot Emergency?
The emergency appears to be that too many people might vote in a way the leader does not like. On Monday, in an emergency filing to the Supreme Court, the Trump administration asked the justices to revive his executive order restricting mail voting. The filing calls the situation an emergency because the administration says it…
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Trump Foreign Election Fund
Where the United States used to try to export the ideals of democracy, now it has put right wing influence on a grant schedule. On Monday, July 13, the State Department published a grant offer aimed at Europe. Nearly five million dollars, split among two or three winners, including funding for research on mass migration’s…
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Trump Sowing Vote Doubt
It’s easy to see what appears to be the aim of the speech. Leaders in autocracies like Hungary and Venezuela spread doubt about elections they feared losing, then cited that doubt to reject the results. Our midterm elections are coming up in November. The doubt is being sown now. Last night Donald Trump gave a…
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Trump Election Takeover
Elections run by the ruler are elections in name only. This week the Trump administration continued its work to take over elections. On Tuesday, the Justice Department sent letters to election officials in all 50 states and DC, threatening criminal prosecution over noncitizen voting and giving states five days to respond with a plan. Noncitizen…
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Vote By Mail Attack
The federal government is trying to control who gets a ballot. Yesterday Postmaster General David Steiner told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that the Postal Service will not deliver ballots to voters in states that refuse to turn over their voter lists to the federal government ahead of time. Michigan Senator Gary…
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Votes for Women
Old, terrible arguments, it seems, never die; they simply wait for new keynote speakers. In early June, Turning Point USA’s Women’s Leadership Summit in San Antonio gave a keynote platform to tradwife influencer Savanna Stone, who called for an end to women’s right to vote. She is proposing a one household, one ballot system in…
Notes To My Future Self 