Election
Election
U.S. Elections, both past and future.
Tuesday 26 February 2019
The strike on the Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg, a company underwritten by an oligarch close to President Vladimir Putin, was part of the first offensive cyber campaign against Russia designed to thwart attempts to interfere with a U.S. election
Thursday 21 February 2019
"It's become clear to me that the public's confidence in the ninth district seat general election has been undermined,"
Monday 4 February 2019
It is an acknowledgment that Trump [...] hasn’t completely cemented his grip on the GOP and, in any event, is not likely to coast to the 2020 GOP nomination without some form of opposition.
Monday 28 January 2019
But now the N.R.A. is seeking to distance itself from the trip, after revelations that a Russian woman who helped arrange it, Maria Butina, was conspiring to infiltrate the organization.
Friday 18 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 28
Expressions of regret for past positions out of step with today's Democratic Party have become an early staple of the presidential race.
Thursday 17 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 27
Former Republican Gov. Scott Walker signed the new restrictions into law roughly three weeks before he was to leave office
Wednesday 16 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 26
Trump spoke with a reporter [...] on July 8, 2017 and insisted that Russia was “falsely accused” of meddling in the 2016 election contest. Trump apparently demanded that most of this conversation be conducted off the record
Saturday 5 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 15
How educated, suburban whites ended the over-representation of Republicans
Friday 4 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 14
The Constitution provides for both the structure of the Electoral College and presidential pardon power, therefore changing either of them would require a constitutional amendment rather than a law passed by Congress.
Friday 28 December 2018
Government Shutdown Day 7
November's congressional election in Maine marked the first time in US history the ranked-choice voting system determined the outcome of a congressional race.
...two weeks before its much-anticipated hearing to consider evidence of possible absentee ballot fraud
Wednesday 26 December 2018
Government Shutdown Day 5
...saying in a statement that he had not approved the operation and did not support such tactics in American politics.
Saturday 22 December 2018
Government Shutdown Day 1
Building support for Stein was one of a “roster of themes” the Moscow-sanctioned internet trolls “turned to repeatedly”
Tuesday 18 December 2018
This patently frivolous endeavor is not actual lawyering; it is a bald faced effort to run down the clock and prevent the North Carolina Supreme Court from ruling in time for the 2020 election.
Unique structure of the president’s reelection campaign is an expression of his iron grip on the party.
Thursday 13 December 2018
“I think I have the greatest base in the history of politics,” the president said. “I have people that I love and love me, frankly.”
Sunday 25 November 2018
Democrat Mike Espy claims momentum in the final days of the Mississippi special Senate election, but Donald Trump heads to the state Monday to blunt it.
Friday 23 November 2018
“This is now the party of Donald Trump. [...] The bad part is they haven’t broadened [his coalition]. They haven’t gotten his job approval over 50 percent, like Reagan. We haven’t done that.”
Thursday 22 November 2018
...the proposition also creates new limits on lawmakers’ ability to draw up their own districts, requiring them to minimize dividing counties, cities, and towns.
Tuesday 20 November 2018
One ad showed Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith with black men in nooses.
But in her defiant speech Friday, Abrams pointedly did not concede — saying that there had been "deliberate and intentional" voter suppression by Kemp
Monday 19 November 2018
The military is leaving the southern border, and the caravan hasn’t even arrived yet.
Friday 16 November 2018
Thursday 15 November 2018
Walker pointed to the state's history of tight votes [...] and noted that Palm Beach County wasn't proactive in preparing for another such recount.
Tuesday 13 November 2018
For nearly a decade, rigged maps undermined North Carolina’s democracy.
With the certainty that the incoming Democratic House majority will go after his tax returns and investigate his actions, and the likelihood of additional indictments by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, Trump has retreated into a cocoon of bitterness and resentment
With all votes counted, it’s a larger landslide than 1994 or 2010.
Monday 12 November 2018
From “200,000” to … 85. In total, 0.0007 percent of Florida voters were found to be improperly registered. There’s no evidence that any of those voters cast any ballots — especially in 2018, six years after they were removed from the voter rolls.
Among other sources, many of the ballots that arrive after Election Day are cast by military service members, contractors and dependents deployed overseas.
Sinema has picked up an insurmountable lead over Republican opponent Rep. Martha McSally, handing Democrats a seat Republicans have held since 1994
Saturday 10 November 2018
Sinema stretched her lead to 28,688 votes on Saturday evenin
Florida began the first full, statewide vote recount in its history on Saturday
Friday 9 November 2018
Kemp (who was running for governor at the same time as he was overseeing the integrity of the election and also putting in place a bunch of attempts at voter suppression) has doxxed hundreds of thousands (291,164 to be exact) of absentee voters by posting an Excel file on the state's website listing out the names, addresses and reasons why they voted absentee.
...it’s clear that an anti-President Trump force hit the country with considerable, if uneven, strength.
We seem to see the same pattern over and over again: A race is extremely close, Democrats demand that every vote be counted, and Republicans [...] try to shut down the counting before all the votes can be counted.
Despite his claims, the president has presented no evidence that officials are attempting to rig the election in favor of Democratic candidates.
Thursday 8 November 2018
Hundreds of functional voting machines sat unused, locked away in warehouses, across metropolitan Atlanta as thousands of black voters weathered hours-long lines at the polls on Election Day.
The Democratic senator’s victory shows that he still understands Montanans better than the president does.
Wednesday 7 November 2018
...ordering political leaders to draw new electoral lines for contests in 2020.
...stripping a traditionally partisan exercise from politicians while aiming to create a more level playing field based instead on geography and demographics.
The two-term incumbent held on, even though Trump won his state big in 2016.
With more than 2.6 million votes cast and 99 percent of precincts reporting, Mr. Evers led by about 30,000 votes.
Democrats took control of the House. Republicans held on to the Senate.
Under Kemp, Georgia purged more than 1.5 million voters from the rolls, eliminating 10.6 percent of voters from the state’s registered electorate from 2016 to 2018 alone. The state shut down 214 polling places, the bulk of them in minority and poor neighborhoods.
Tuesday 6 November 2018
Democrats to win back House, Republicans will hold the Senate: Here are the results of pivotal races in the battle for Congress
The president did not explain where he had heard the rumor, though “Fox & Friends,” one of the president’s favorite shows, claimed that Hawley did not stick around for the rally’s entirety.
“I would like to have a much softer tone. I feel, to a certain extent, I have no choice. But maybe I do,” Mr. Trump told the affiliate when asked about his regrets from his first two years in office.
Monday 5 November 2018
The 30-second prime-time ad stirred fear of a migrant caravan making its way through Mexico that is still hundreds of miles from the United States border.
The ad tries to motivate GOP turnout by playing on fears of the migrants traveling through Mexico.
The president continued his campaign blitz amid late polls pointing to Democratic momentum in key battlegrounds.
For years, Republicans in this state have attempted to undermine the foundation of democratic government: the vote.
It’s unclear how many times the errors have happened [...]. But the latest episodes come after at least a decade and a half of warnings from election security groups about the dangers of relying on voting machines that don’t produce a paper trail — saying they’re insecure and produce results that are impossible to audit.
Sunday 4 November 2018
The lawmakers’ idea was simple. A mix of shame and self-preservation would make candidates less inclined to put out ads that were false or just plain ugly.
Despite forecasts of a Democratic House takeover, liberals grappling with 'PTSD' are braced for another surprise election disaster.
Saturday 3 November 2018
Donald Trump plays dirty, like the pro wrestling heel he is. But his ugly new ad isn’t desperate; it’s shrewd
He slammed Trump for “constant fear-mongering” at a fiery campaign rally in Florida Friday.
Friday 2 November 2018
The White House is planning to tout Trump as the savior of Republicans in the Senate, even if the Democrats retake the House.
Thursday 1 November 2018
“The support that we provide to the secretary for homeland security is practical support based on the request from the commissioner of customs and border police, so we don’t do stunts in this department”
Donald Trump’s racist ad is a shocking provocation. It’s also rooted in a strategy elevated by one of his most controversial senior advisers.
The Trump campaign ad is the latest example of the President's willingness to lie and fear-monger in order to tear at racial and societal divides
Wednesday 31 October 2018
King, who recently retweeted a Nazi and routinely makes white supremacist comments with aplomb, is suddenly looking like his reelection bid could be in trouble.
Trump’s vows to end birthright citizenship and dispatch a growing number of troops to the border have scrambled the final days of the midterm campaign for both parties
Friday 26 October 2018
“The Hart eSlate machines are not malfunctioning, the problems being reported are a result of user error — usually voters hitting a button or using the selection wheel before the screen is finished rendering,”
The president is mounting an 11th-hour effort to head off high-profile losses for governor and Senate in his adopted home state.
Thursday 25 October 2018
GOP candidates are scrambling to pledge their support for Obamacare’s most popular provision. It’s not been easy.
Wednesday 24 October 2018
The GOP has a real tax cut for the rich, paid for by health care cuts.
The myth of the election prediction wizard is no more.
Tuesday 23 October 2018
Trump repeated Monday that he plans to offer a new tax cut plan before the midterms, even though no one seems to know what it will look like or how it might get through a Congress that only barely managed to pass his signature plan last year.
Monday 22 October 2018
Sunday 21 October 2018
The 2017 Republican tax cuts have been a dud on the campaign trail ahead of the November midterm elections, so President Trump has come up with a new plan: more tax cuts.
Saturday 20 October 2018
Trump said Saturday that Republicans are planning to implement a “very major tax cut” for middle-income earners before next month, even though Congress is out of session until after November’s midterm elections.
Thursday 18 October 2018
Wednesday 17 October 2018
Tuesday 16 October 2018
Monday 15 October 2018
Seller is asking $42,200 for all 19 US state voter databases.
Campaign ads and debates are mostly avoiding the ***Russia investigation in favor of other issues important to voters.
Friday 12 October 2018
A review by The Daily Beast found at least five voter-suppression practices in active use today. All are led by Republicans, all have disproportionate effects on non-white populations, and all are rationalized by bogus claims of voter fraud.
Thursday 11 October 2018
North Dakota and Missouri could decide control of the Senate.
Sunday 7 October 2018
With less than a month until the election, the battle for control of the Senate has been nationalized by the showdown over the Supreme Court
Saturday 6 October 2018
Wednesday 3 October 2018
Tuesday 2 October 2018
Monday 24 September 2018
A meticulous analysis of online activity during the 2016 campaign makes a powerful case that targeted cyberattacks by hackers and trolls were decisive.
Sunday 23 September 2018
“Voters should choose their politicians,” it reads, “not the other way around.”
Friday 14 September 2018
Trump’s vaunted economic growth isn’t benefiting people who work for a living — but the rich want even more
Thursday 13 September 2018
...but also show that Republicans are still favored to maintain their control.
Wednesday 12 September 2018
Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday meant to punish foreign entities for interfering in US elections,
Tuesday 11 September 2018
Trump plans to sign an executive order as soon as Wednesday that will slap sanctions on any foreign companies or people who interfere in U.S. elections, based on intelligence agency findings
The majority leader wants to deprive Democrats up for reelection the chance to campaign.
Sunday 2 September 2018
Kobach, the Republican candidate for Kansas governor in the upcoming 2018 midterms, is a key ally of President Donald Trump on voter fraud and headed the president’s since-disbanded election fraud commission.
Monday 27 August 2018
The Republican lawmaker in charge of the plan said it was crafted to maintain Republican dominance because “electing Republicans is better than electing Democrats.”
Wednesday 1 August 2018
The midterms are approaching, and the president has yet to get serious about protecting the nation’s electoral system from cyberinvasion.
Tuesday 31 July 2018
"It's clear that whoever set up these accounts went to much greater lengths to obscure their true identities than the Russian-based Internet Research Agency (IRA) has in the past"
Monday 30 July 2018
All states, to some extent or another, rely on these private companies for election products. But despite the central role these companies play, state regulations of them are relatively lax.
Thursday 26 July 2018
McCaskill is a top target for Republicans looking to grow their slim Senate majority in 2018. Turns out, Russia’s “Fancy Bear” hackers are going after her staff, too.
Tuesday 24 July 2018
While the intelligence agencies are silent on the impact of Russia’s attack, outside experts who have examined the Kremlin campaign [...] have concluded that it did affect an extremely close election decided by fewer than 80,000 votes in three states.
Thursday 19 July 2018
...departures that come as cyberattacks are a major concern for the country’s security agencies.
Wednesday 18 July 2018
For the third straight day, President Trump cast doubt on whether he views Russia as a threat
At issue is a grants program overseen by the federal Election Assistance Commission and aimed at helping states administer their elections and improve voting systems
Tuesday 17 July 2018
It is the latest initiative by national security agencies to push back against Russian aggression in the absence of direct guidance from the White House on the issue.
Trump reversed course on Tuesday, saying he meant to say: “I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t be Russia.”
The presence of such software makes a system more vulnerable to attack from hackers
Friday 13 July 2018
The vendor, ByteGrid LLC, was purchased by a Russian investor in 2015 without knowledge of Maryland state officials
Thursday 28 June 2018
Winner's leak of a single document confirming not only everyone's suspicions, but things already stated by US government officials, will net her the longest sentence ever imposed on someone charged under the Espionage Act.
Wednesday 27 June 2018
Bolton once said Russia's election interference was a "true act of war" against the US, and that a policy based on trusting Russia was "doomed to failure."
Friday 22 June 2018
As you may recall, Kobach made the poor decision to personally represent his office in a lawsuit challenging a voter-ID law, and let’s just say that ignoring the court’s rulings wasn’t the only mistake he made at trial.
Thursday 21 June 2018
...more the double the number previously given by the Department of Homeland Security.
Monday 7 May 2018
Sunday 6 May 2018
The president has raised the specter of impeachment in cautioning his party against letting the House, and even the Senate, fall into Democratic control.
Thursday 26 April 2018
...because the latter would be “much easier to win.”
Wednesday 14 March 2018
Political analysts in the state agreed that the district’s gerrymandering was part of the reason it was supposed to be impossible for Democrats to win. This is a seat that used to be so solidly Republican that Democrats didn’t even bother competing in it.
Wednesday 7 March 2018
The GOP is bracing for an embarrassing defeat next week in a district Donald Trump won by 20 points.
Tuesday 6 March 2018
Trump said his administration is conducting a deep study and will have strong suggestions on protecting the midterms and beyond.
Tuesday 20 February 2018
"Thank you Mr. President for the support. I hope that over the course of the campaign I also earn the support and endorsement of the people of Utah."
Monday 19 February 2018
The original Republican-drawn map had become the butt of national jokes due to its reliance on strange, sprawling shapes to create a balance of electoral power heavily tilted toward the GOP.
Tuesday 13 February 2018
“There should be no doubt that Russia perceives its past efforts as successful and views the 2018 U.S. midterm elections as a potential target for Russian influence operations,” said Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence.
Sunday 11 February 2018
Under the existing map, Democratic House candidates have routinely received roughly 50 percent of the statewide popular House vote but only five of the state's 18 House seats. The new map is unlikely to change that.
Wednesday 7 February 2018
For Democrats to take control of the chamber, they must keep all of their seats and win two of the Republican seats in play. It is numerically possible, but there is little room for error.
“The point is, if it's their intention to interfere, they are going to find ways to do that. We can take steps we can take, but this is something that, once they decide they are going to do it, it's very difficult to pre-empt it”
Tuesday 9 January 2018
Federal judges have ruled that North Carolina’s congressional district map drawn by legislative Republicans is illegally gerrymandered because of excessive partisanship that gave the GOP a rock-solid advantage for most seats and must quickly be redone.
Sunday 24 September 2017
Zuckerberg acknowledged the problem posed by fake news. But he told Obama that those messages weren’t widespread on Facebook and that there was no easy remedy
Wednesday 20 September 2017
The founding fathers never anticipated the rise of Facebook and fake news.
Monday 11 September 2017
U.S. "intelligence missed it when Russian intelligence stole the president of the United States."
Thursday 7 September 2017
The same morning, “Katherine Fulton” also began promoting DCLeaks in the same awkward English Mr. Redick used. “Hey truth seekers!” she wrote. “Who can tell me who are #DCLeaks? Some kind of Wikileaks? You should visit their website”
Wednesday 6 September 2017
Facebook officials reported that they traced the ad sales, totaling $100,000, to a Russian “troll farm” with a history of pushing pro-Kremlin propaganda
Friday 1 September 2017
The assaults on the vast back-end election apparatus — voter-registration operations, state and local election databases, e-poll books and other equipment — have received far less attention than other aspects of the Russian interference
Wednesday 23 August 2017
A federal judge has ruled that changes Texas made to its voter identification law earlier this year did not go far enough to render the state's policy constitutional.
Thursday 10 August 2017
If Donald Trump were to say that the 2020 presidential election should be postponed until the country can make sure that only eligible American citizens can vote, would you support or oppose postponing the election?
Saturday 22 July 2017
The new legislation sharply limits the president’s ability to suspend or terminate the sanctions — a remarkable handcuffing by a Republican-led Congress six months into Mr. Trump’s tenure.
Thursday 20 July 2017
“There’s a pretty clear and easy answer to this and it’s 'yes,'” Thomas Bossert said when asked whether the Russians worked to manipulate the U.S. election
Thursday 13 July 2017
“I said to him, ‘Were you involved in the meddling with the election?’” Mr. Trump recalled. “He said, ‘Absolutely not. I was not involved.’ He was very strong on it. I then said to him, in a totally different way, ‘Were you involved with the meddling?’ He said, ‘I was not — absolutely not.’”
Mr. Trump conceded that he did not ask Mr. Putin a question about the election that he wanted to ask: “Who were you really for? Because I can’t believe that he would have been for me. Me. Strong military, strong borders — he doesn’t care about borders — but strong military. Tremendous.”
He also said the wall would have to be transparent, using an offbeat example to explain why. “When they throw large sacks of drugs over, and if you have people on the other side of the wall, you don’t see them — they hit you on the head with 60 pounds of stuff? It’s over,” he said. “As crazy as that sounds, you need transparency through that wall.”
Wednesday 12 July 2017
...examining whether the Trump campaign’s digital operation – overseen by Jared Kushner – helped guide Russia’s sophisticated voter targeting and fake news attacks on Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Monday 10 July 2017
...the first indication that someone from President Trump's inner circle met with Russians during the campaign.
Sunday 9 July 2017
When he was first asked about the meeting on Saturday, Donald Trump Jr. said that it was primarily about adoptions and mentioned nothing about Mrs. Clinton.
Friday 7 July 2017
...a friendly encounter that ended in confusion over whether Trump had agreed to absolve the Kremlin of any wrongdoing.
1. It fails the smell test spectacularly 2. The FBI requested the servers 3. Podesta wouldn't have had control over this decision
Friday 23 June 2017
The intelligence captured Putin’s specific instructions on the operation’s audacious objectives — defeat or at least damage the Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, and help elect her opponent, Donald Trump.
Wednesday 21 June 2017
The Obama administration feared that acknowledging Russian meddling in the 2016 election would reveal too much about intelligence gathering and be interpreted as “taking sides” in the race
Both parties spent the $50 million race for Georgia’s 6th Congressional District trying not only to win the seat but to test strategies, messages and ideas.
Tuesday 20 June 2017
While Handel’s victory only brings the Republican House majority back to its baseline level after the 2016 election, it denied Democrats a momentum boost toward the 2018 midterms
Voter turnout is expected to be sky-high, and both parties are watching for clues about how to fight the 2018 elections.
Saturday 17 June 2017
Over 140,000 people have already voted in the race between Karen Handel and Jon Ossoff, including 36,000 who didn't vote in the first round.
Tuesday 13 June 2017
...including incursions into voter databases and software systems in almost twice as many states as previously reported.
Monday 5 June 2017
The report indicates that Russian hacking may have penetrated further into U.S. voting systems than was previously understood.
Thursday 1 June 2017
Putin of Russia denied any state role on Thursday but said that “patriotically minded” private Russian hackers could have been involved.
Friday 26 May 2017
But if nothing else, the Republican's win demonstrates that a candidate’s hostility toward the media is no deal-breaker for voters -- and it might even be helpful.
Due to early voting in the state, close to two-thirds of ballots had been cast before news of the Jacobs assault even emerged.
Wednesday 24 May 2017
The Russian document cited a supposed email describing how then-Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch had privately assured someone in the Clinton campaign that the email investigation would not push too deeply into the matter.
Saturday 13 May 2017
Trump keeps a stack of color-coded maps of the United States representing the results of the 2016 election. ... Trump sometimes hands the maps out to visitors as a kind of parting gift
Thursday 11 May 2017
“In fact, when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said, ‘You know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made up story, it’s an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should have won.’”
Wednesday 3 May 2017
Trump has spent 68 of the 176 days since he won the presidential election talking about the fact that he won the presidential election.
"Their purpose was to sow discontent and mistrust in our elections. They wanted us to be at each others' throat when it was over"
The FBI director says the idea that the agency affected the election makes him 'mildly nauseous.' But he stands by his decision.
Saturday 22 April 2017
In the case of Mrs. Clinton, he rewrote the script, partly based on the F.B.I.’s expectation that she would win and fearing the bureau would be accused of helping her. In the case of Mr. Trump, he conducted the investigation by the book, with the F.B.I.’s traditional secrecy.
Sunday 16 April 2017
Wednesday 12 April 2017
Mr. Manafort’s ties to Ukraine and Russia have come under scrutiny as federal officials investigate Russian meddling in the American presidential election.
Monday 10 April 2017
A "legal source" also told the AFP news agency that Mr Levashov was the subject of an extradition request by the US.
Saturday 1 April 2017
“To arrange a call from a Russian diplomat to your political opponent, press 1,” the video says, first in Russian, and then in English. Press 2 “to use the services of Russian hackers,” and 3 “to request election interference.”
Friday 31 March 2017
Monday 20 March 2017
“Russia probe that Comey confirmed was, as best we can tell, in effect before Nov. 8,” he wrote, referring to Election Day. “Fair to ask why he didn’t think voters deserved to know."
Friday 10 March 2017
Saturday 4 March 2017
Thursday 2 March 2017
These false reports could have the effect of illegally increasing the amount Trump could accept from contributors for his 2020 reelection campaign.
Wednesday 1 March 2017
Mr. Trump’s statements stoked fears among some that intelligence could be covered up or destroyed — or its sources exposed — once power changed hands.
Sunday 26 February 2017
Saturday 25 February 2017
Hansen’s 58-42 percent victory over Marino on Saturday ensured that Democrats will maintain control of the state Senate.
Saturday 18 February 2017
"Life is a campaign. Making our country great again is a campaign. For me it's a campaign, to make America great again is absolutely a campaign."
Thursday 16 February 2017
"There is very little doubt that they have either interfered or attempted to interfere in a number of elections in democracies," Mattis said
Wednesday 15 February 2017
“I just want to say that we are very honored by the victory that we had, 306 Electoral College votes,” Trump said. “We were not supposed to crack 220, you know that, right? There was no way to 221; then they said there’s no way to 270. There was tremendous enthusiasm out there.”
The consensus among lawmakers came at a tense moment, when congressional Republicans were already finding it difficult to defend Trump as the tempestuous start to his term has stoked frustration, fatigue and fear on Capitol Hill.
Monday 6 February 2017
Sunday 29 January 2017
Even more importantly - completely changes how non profits can handle him. 501c3's cannot "campaign" or risk losing nonprofit status.
Saturday 28 January 2017
However, relations between Trump and his team and Russia have been under scrutiny following allegations that Moscow meddled in the US election last year.
Sunday 22 January 2017