The 2020 election faces unparalleled risks to its conduct and integrity. Foreign actors are working to interfere in the election. Conservative groups have filed lawsuits to remove hundreds of thousands of voters they say are ineligible from voter rolls. One civil rights group found that almost 300 counties in the South reduced polling places in the years since 2012. On…
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Old law could leave 2020 presidential race in stalemate Conditions may be ripe for an ‘almost unintelligible’ provision to muddle the election By Todd Ruger - Posted June 1, 2020 The nation’s 133-year-old law for picking a president has a provision that has never been needed to settle a disputed election, since it deals with…
Keep Our Republic StaffJune 1, 2020
The future of electoral democracy in the United States is, without exaggeration, at risk. While a global pandemic and economic meltdown could provide a pretext for this threat, it does not come from abroad. Instead the threat comes from our own elected leader, the President of the United States—and those who know him best, know…
Joel McCleary and Mark MedishMay 4, 2020