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Voter ID Clarity Needed in North Carolina, and Better Pay Requested for Poll Workers in South Carolina

January 22, 2024January 22, 2024

We’re in the Carolinas today, where South Carolina’s election director appealed for higher pay to replace poll workers driven off by threats and low wages, and North Carolina democracy groups want clarity of new restrictive voter ID rules.

Virginia’s Prince William County Accounts for Mistakes in the 2020 Election and Implements Changes in Personnel, Validation and Reporting

January 18, 2024January 18, 2024

Prince William County, Virginia announced January 11th that human and data errors in the 2020 election resulted in an overcounting of votes for Donald Trump, and an undercounting of totals for Joe Biden.

How the Changing Social Media Landscape Could Hamper the Fight Against Disinformation from Both Foreign and Domestic Bad Actors

December 27, 2023December 28, 2023

We reported recently on Russia’s anticipated 2024 election influence campaign, much of which is based on exploitation of social media platforms. But under free speech pressure from American Conservative activists, social media platforms have stripped out even the modest protections which existed in 2020.

Missouri Candidate for Secretary of State Proposes Hand Counting 3 Million Ballots; Wisconsin Legislators Propose Abolishing the Election Commission

December 7, 2023December 7, 2023

Legislators in Missouri and Wisconsin continue to throw shade on the validity of the 2020 election, proposing bills perpetuating the myth that widespread fraud cost Donald Trump the election.

Shasta County Almost Hand-Counted Its Ballots in November. Instead, it Lost an Expensive Game of Election Denial Chicken with the State of California

December 4, 2023December 4, 2023

Just days before the Nov. 2023 election, the chair of the Shasta County, CA Board of Supervisors was threatening to defy a new California law, and hand count ballots instead of using an electronic ballot tabulator. The county supervisors blinked.