Character doesn’t count. The guardrails are down. …The GOP looks likely to hold the Senate, which means Republicans can put a brick on any legislation a President Joe Biden would want to pass. Trump has already given the GOP three U.S. Supreme Court justices and conservative control of ...
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Data for this list was acquired from trusted online sources and news outlets. Read on to discover what major law was passed the year you were born and learn its name, the vote count (where relevant), and its impact and significance. 1919: The National Prohibition Act Library of Congr...
— The Recount (@therecount) July 15, 2024 Provincetown fundraiser featuring VP Harris, top Mass. pols still slated for Saturday — 3:59 p.m. At least one undecided Mass. voter is now backing Trump after shooting — 3:47 p.m. Biden campaign slams Vance pick — 3:40 p.m. See reac...
6. Hepersonally crossed police barricadesat the Capitol during the riot, and attempted to submit “alternate” (i.e. fake) pro-Trump electors to the official count. And he evencoordinated all this with Trumpwhen he was invited to the White House to discuss the “stop the steal” strategy...
In 2024, there are somenew safeguards in place. In 2022, President Biden signed theElectoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022(ECRA) to clarify some of the vague language in the Electoral Count Act of 1887 that Trump loyalists attempted to game to their advantage....
a regime may postpone an election if there is a significant chance that it will lose. In addition, it has been a common practice of authoritarian regimes to intervene once balloting has begun by intimidating voters (e.g., through physical attacks) and bymanipulatingthe count of votes that hav...
Any ballot received by 5 pm on Friday following the election would count even if it did not have a postmark as long as there was no other indication that the ballot had been submitted to the postal service for delivery after Election Day (i.e., if the ballot was dated after Election Da...
Nonetheless, I did send a private email memo to a few friends in Kenya and Washington back on May 15, 2022 (shortly before Raila and Ruto chose running mates) titled “A Few Thoughts on the Kenyan Election”: 1. First big election in Africa after the end of the Post-Cold War peace ...
But the Electoral Count Reform Act would protect against that possibility by adding judicial review. Pildes also said that a simple tweak, making it clear that the results of the judicial review would preempt the governor’s decision, could make that even clearer and has been supported...