Last week, Florida Sen. Bill Nelson, a member of the Armed Services subcommittee on cybersecurity, informed the Tampa Bay Times before a campaign event in Tampa that Russia has already successfully hacked election systems in his state.
Nelson's announcement naturally prompted consternation and...
The Supreme Court ramped up Republican voter suppression tactics on Monday when it decided in a split 5-4 decision along partisan lines to permit Ohio’s system for stripping voters from the rolls to proceed.
In Ohio, registered...
35,000 to 40,000 parolees in New York can now fully participate in the democratic process.
After the New York legislature voted it down, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) signed an executive order on Wednesday immediately granting all paroled felons the...
Voter I.D. laws.
Gerrymandering.
Voter suppression.
Regardless of the form it takes, Republicans are perpetrating a concerted campaign in America to disenfranchise Democrats and minorities who vote for them.
Now there is an amendment to a law that just...
November mid-term elections are just around the corner, and the voter-suppression machine has just been oiled, cleaned, and fired up.
Ten years ago the Republican party was licking its wounds after the country elected its first...
It's confirmed.
Russia officially penetrated several states' voter rolls during the 2016 election.
This is according to Jeanette Manfra, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) head of cybersecurity, who stated in an interview with NBC News:
"We saw a targeting of 21 states and an...
Know anyone who still thinks elections don't matter?
If so, ask that person why right-wing billionaires like the notorious Koch brothers are prepared to spend up to $400 million on upcoming mid-term congressional races, 60 percent more than...
As Democrats begin to reclaim seats, and Republicans resign their positions like rats fleeing a sinking ship, it's looking as though the prospect of turning Congress back over the Democrats next year is increasingly likely.
Another good...
Resistance is not futile.
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced an end to the controversial Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity (PACEI), convened in the spring to feed into Trump’s fiction about three to five-million illegal voters casting fraudulent ballots last...
There is so much going on already this week for which we progressives should be thankful.
But if you're able to tear yourself away from Paul Manafort's indictment, here is something else to look forward to.
Thanks...
On October 1, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) launched a nationwide effort to expand voting rights. Faiz Shakir who is the ACLU's national political director told McClatchy last month that this was their chance...
This week SCOTUS heard oral arguments in Gill v. Whitford, the case out of Wisconsin that may finally see the Court do a little legal smackdown on political gerrymandering. It's long overdue, to be sure. It...
In a time when our electoral process is under attack like never before, it's encouraging to see some local and state governments doing right by the citizens they represent.
The 2016 presidential election demonstrated the lowest...
There is a nefarious force out there actively working to rob you of your right to vote, speak freely, and rest comfortably under sacrosanct constitutional protections we typically take for granted.
That force has a name--ALEC.
ALEC is...
Although some argue it is too early to start talking about the 2020 election when we still have to turn Congress blue next year, talk about whom the Democrats might run against President Donald Trump is...
Vice-president Mike Pence and Kansas secretary of state Kris Kobach's “Presidential Commission on Election Integrity” must be onto something pretty big if it's requesting voter data from every state in the country.
In a letter sent to states...
The Supreme Court is once again stepping in to determine whether an electoral procedure as old as the republic violates the Constitution.
Monday, the nation's highest court announced it will begin looking into gerrymandered election maps for evidence of discrimination...
Last week we learned through a defense contractor's leaked documents to The Intercept that Russia hacked a Florida voting equipment vendor and sent spear-phishing emails to over 100 local election officials up until days before election day.
About the leak, Sen....
Could New York be competing with California for the title of "most progressive state?" Could New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo (D) be mulling over a presidential bid? Or could it simply be that New...
President Donald Trump has formed a commission.
It's not looking into shenanigans Russia is alleged to have engaged in during the election. It isn't going to probe institutional racism in policing those responsible for extra-judicial killings...
