New York Times: “Here Is One Way to Steal the Presidential Election” by Lawrence Lessig and Matthew Seligman – Gives an overview of how state legislators could direct electors on how to cast their electoral votes, and some ideas to stop this. I would say this could happen – let’s be careful out there!
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New York Magazine: Do You Remember the Ecstasy of Electing Joe Biden? How the coalition that defeated Donald Trump crumbled. – I don’t agree with the title of this post. I think that coalitions can be rebuilt to keep Trump out of the Oval Office, but there has been some “splintering” since January 2021.
Common Ground Democracy: Don’t Despair—Mobilize for Institutional Change (via Election Law Blog)
NBCWashington4: Prince William County admits election tally in 2020 shorted Joe Biden – A Northern Virginia county acknowledged it underreported President Joe Biden’s margin of victory over Donald Trump there in the 2020 presidential election by about 4,000 votes, the first detailed accounting of errors that came to light in 2022 as part of a criminal case. (via Election Law Blog)
Jeffrey Issac/Democracy in Dark Times: Public Safety As Convenient Pretext for Political Repression, From Birmingham 1963 to Bloomington 2024 – essay on how “public safety” was used as an excuse for repressing dissent in the 1960s, and how it is still used today.
Axios: Dems could give Haley a boost in Iowa caucuses – Some Iowa Democrats and independents are planning to crash the state’s Republican caucuses Monday night and become “Republicans for a day” to vote for Nikki Haley — but mostly, against former President Trump. I noticed this on the national news, did not know that was allowed…
The Federalist: Lawsuit Uncovers How Raffensperger Tried To Memory-Hole The Election Law Trump’s Georgia Call Was About – interesting, worth looking into…
Des Moines Register (Iowa): Early call of Trump as winner of Iowa Caucuses stirs anger. Here’s why it happened – I watched NBC brake into their own West Coast newscast to announce this 45 minutes after the start of the caucus – come on people!
CNN: Iowa entrance poll: Most GOP caucus-goers don’t accept Biden’s 2020 win, say a conviction wouldn’t make Trump unfit for office – I did not know that “entrance polls” were a thing, I thought there were only “exit polls”…