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early and often
Mar. 14, 2024
Is Trump Gearing Up for Another Premature Victory Claim? Trump has abandoned an RNC voting-by-mail initiative. It could be a sign that he’s looking to demonize mail ballots and replay his 2020 strategy.
early and often
July 27, 2023
Trump Backs Early Voting, But Says It’s Still ‘Election Rigging’ He’s urging Republicans to “beat the radical left at their own game” by taking advantage of the (perfectly legal) voting methods he demonized in 2020.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
June 15, 2023
Republicans Are Dead Set Against Early Voting (Unless It Helps Them) There’s no evidence that convenience voting is corrupt. But Trump and DeSantis still attack it while advocating its use by their own voters.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 midterms
Nov. 2, 2021
Raffensperger Fears Future Election Violence, Can’t Stick Around to Thwart It The 45th president’s least favorite Republican official is fighting very high odds against his renomination by the Trumpy Georgia GOP.
By Ed Kilgore
2022 midterms
Oct. 29, 2021
Can Nicholas Kristof Actually Win the Oregon Governor’s Race? The short answer is maybe. As a progressive outsider, he might be able to exploit a leadership vacuum in his native state.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Says Republicans Must Solve the Big Lie or Their Voters Won’t Vote It’s unclear how Trump’s phony fraud incidents can be solved by a party that opposes federal election legislation. But it keeps the focus on himself.
By Ed Kilgore
California Republicans’ Demonization of Voting by Mail May Backfire The state has made universal voting by mail permanent. Now Republicans must deal with the effect of Trump’s disinformation on mail ballots.
By Ed Kilgore
2021 california recall election
Sept. 13, 2021
By Ed Kilgore
Why I Waited a Month to Fill Out My California Recall Ballot After much deliberation, I decided not to vote for a replacement candidate – but not because Gavin Newsom told me to skip the question.
By Ed Kilgore
texas voting law
Aug. 12, 2021
Texas Republicans Outlast 15-Hour Filibuster to Advance Voting-Restriction Bill Texas Democrats took another dramatic, if futile, step against a voter-suppression bill in the Republican-controlled state.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
June 22, 2021
Believe It or Not, Some States Are Making It Easier to Vote Amid the outcry over Republican-led states restricting voting opportunities, some states are moving in the opposite direction.
By Ed Kilgore
Can Joe Manchin of All People Trigger a Breakthrough on Voting Rights? The much-maligned Democrat has unveiled a compromise proposal that is getting praise from his party for a change.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
May 31, 2021
Texas Democrats Block Voting Restrictions Bill, For Now The GOP-led bill bans drive-thru voting, caps poll hours, and adds new rules for mail-in ballots, among other measures to limit voting access.
By Chas Danner
voting by mail
Apr. 30, 2021
Making Voting More Convenient May Help Democrats After All Census data shows that Democratic-leaning younger voters benefited from more flexible voting arrangements in 2020.
By Ed Kilgore
Did Trump Ruin Polling, Too? Pollsters are beginning to wonder if Trump succeeded in discouraging response to polls just as he discouraged voting by mail.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
Apr. 3, 2021
The States Following Georgia’s Lead on Voter Suppression Similar voting restrictions could soon be enacted in key Republican-controlled states like Arizona, Florida, New Hampshire, and Texas.
By Ed Kilgore
Raffensperger’s Support for Georgia’s Voter-Suppression Law Won’t Save Him Georgia’s secretary of state blasphemed Trump, and that’s all that matters to his fellow Republicans.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
Mar. 26, 2021
What Can Democrats Do About Georgia’s Voting-Rights Restrictions? They are already going to court, and could pass preemptive legislation in Congress. But winning control of the state in 2022 is the best solution.
By Ed Kilgore
Georgia Republicans Take Revenge on Voting Rights After major Democratic wins, the embattled GOP passes a harsh law to claw back power.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
Feb. 25, 2021
Republicans Return to Old Voter-Suppression Playbook Trump shifted the focus to phony vote-by-mail fraud claims, but Republicans tried to limit all kinds of voting pre-2020 — and they’re at it again.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
Feb. 18, 2021
State Republicans’ War on Voting by Mail Has Begun The GOP, which once championed the practice, is reintroducing restrictions abandoned years ago.
By Ed Kilgore
Georgia Senate Runoffs Head Toward a Dramatic Finish Amid epic spending and strong early voting, the contests that will determine Senate control remain in a dead heat.
By Ed Kilgore
Why Did Trump’s Plan to Contest an Election Defeat Fail? For months, many feared that Trump was plotting to mount an election challenge. His efforts were either insufficiently serious or merely incompetent.
By Ed Kilgore
contested election
Nov. 20, 2020
Trump’s Hold on the GOP Rank and File Continues to Be Amazing He convinced millions to vote in person, then convinced millions more than the partisan split in voting methods he engineered proves massive fraud.
By Ed Kilgore
supreme court
Oct. 29, 2020
How the Supreme Court Has Already Tinkered With the 2020 Election The Court has deferred to state decisions about mail-ballot deadlines and other election issues, with some conservatives clearly wanting to intervene.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Oct. 23, 2020
Is Republican Voter Suppression Starting to Backfire? The same dynamic that led Wisconsin Democrats to turn out massively in the teeth of a pandemic could be fueling the surge in early voting.
By Ed Kilgore
‘I Voted’ Stickers for Everyone Who Needs One A New York Magazine collaboration with 48 artists
By The Editors
vision 2020
Oct. 16, 2020
What the Early-Voting Deluge Could Mean for the Election Record levels of early voting may mean record overall turnout. But even if early voters are just voting earlier, it could make for a quicker count.
By Ed Kilgore
2020 elections
Oct. 14, 2020
We May Have to Wait for Senate Election Results, Too For reasons ranging from slow counts of mail ballots to funky majority-vote requirements, we may not know who controls the Senate until January.
By Ed Kilgore
I Love Politics Michael B. Jordan’s bare chest and bitten lip reminds us to vote early
By Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz
Should We Stop Panicking About Trump Stealing the Election? The odds of a contested presidential election have dropped. But until Trump’s attacks on mail ballots are repudiated by his party, some risk remains.
By Ed Kilgore
supreme court
Oct. 6, 2020
Once Again, Supreme Court Won’t Help Make It Easier to Vote During COVID The Court is putting an end to late preelection interventions by federal judges.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Sept. 30, 2020
The Democratic Advantage in Voting by Mail Is a Mixed Blessing Democrats will be able to “bank” a lot of early votes, but then they may have to fight all the way to the Supreme Court to get them counted.
By Ed Kilgore
presidential debates
Sept. 30, 2020
Trump Closes Debate by Threatening Election Night Chaos Rather than forswearing an early victory claim, Trump said the Supreme Court should weigh in on his incoherent, fact-free attacks on voting by mail.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Sept. 29, 2020
Trump Keeps Repeating These Ludicrous Attacks on Voting by Mail Some Trump claims are made up, others are exaggerations, and still others mistake safeguards against fraud for fraud.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Sept. 23, 2020
A Nightmarish End to the 2020 Elections Is Becoming All Too Plausible Barton Gellman lays out in great detail how Trump might use chaos to steal a second term, or at least create a constitutional crisis.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Sept. 22, 2020
Pennsylvania Becomes Ground Zero For Election Lawsuits One key struggle is over a court ruling that determined that “naked ballots” mailed without special envelopes will not be counted in November.
By Ed Kilgore
2020 elections
Sept. 17, 2020
Overshadowed by 2020 Crises, California Ballot Initiatives Are Still a Big Deal Bringing back affirmative action, paring back Prop 13, and fighting benefits for gig workers are among the initiatives on the line this year.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Sept. 10, 2020
Social-Media Platforms Will Discourage Premature Election Victory Claims What Twitter and Facebook are doing should be emulated and expanded by all broadcast and cable networks before Election Night.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Sept. 9, 2020
Top Republican Election Lawyer Trashes Trump’s ‘Voter Fraud’ Lies Ben Ginsberg tried to find widespread “voter fraud” for decades. Now he’s calling out Trump’s claims as fraudulent.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Sept. 8, 2020
Trump Backers Make a Case for Stealing Election, Before Biden Gets the Chance Conservatives are advancing a dangerous argument, suggesting a premature Trump victory declaration may be justified by a planned Democratic coup.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Sept. 4, 2020
Mail Ballot Requests Are Sky High, and They’re Largely From Democrats Expectations that mail ballot requests will spike are being fulfilled, along with a partisan tilt in voting methods and a maybe a contested election.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Sept. 3, 2020
Democrats Scramble to Prevent Premature Trump Victory Declaration In battlegrounds with little experience voting by mail, a faster count may keep Trump from calling the race before all the votes are counted.
By Ed Kilgore
voting by mail
Sept. 2, 2020
Trump Asks Americans to Defend Against Voter Fraud by Committing Voter Fraud The president advised people to test North Carolina’s mail-in system by voting in person then casting an absentee ballot, which is illegal.
By Matt Stieb
vision 2020
Sept. 2, 2020
Election Day Is About to Begin Ten states begin sending out mail ballots in September and seven hold in-person early voting the same month.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Sept. 1, 2020
An Election Night ‘Red Mirage’ Is a Nightmare for Democrats Evidence grows that thanks to big partisan splits in voting methods, Trump may have an Election Night lead even if mail ballots doom him to defeat.
By Ed Kilgore
voting by mail
Aug. 31, 2020
What’s the Deadline for Mail-In Ballots? With an expected pandemic-induced spike in mail-in ballots, the stakes are unusually high for election-rules litigation.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Aug. 27, 2020
If Trump Was Really Worried About Mail-Ballot Security, He’d Try to Fund It Trump complains about overwhelmed and insecure election systems. Why won’t he accept Democratic proposals to spend some money to address them?
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Aug. 18, 2020
The Biden Campaign Is Shelling Out to Make Sure You Know How to Vote by Mail The more voters (and media) know about mail ballots and slow counts, the less Trump can pull a fast one on Election Night.
By Ed Kilgore
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