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You need to decide now what you'll do if they try to cancel the election. https://twitter.com/TIME/status/1260348322281381896
October 27, 2016 Trump told his rally in Toledo, Ohio, “I'm just thinking to myself right now, we should just cancel the election and just give it to Trump, right? Why are we even having it for?”
His rally crowd cheered.
His rally crowd cheered.
Bush v Gore: citizens do not have the right to vote for president, states do. If the states chose to share their right with citizens, then it's subject to the equal protection clause. States can choose their own electors, citizens don't have to vote. https://www.oyez.org/cases/2000/00-949
What does it look like if state legislatures select the EC delegates?
Dem 223
Rep 302
Tossup 13
Dem 223
Rep 302
Tossup 13
What I'm saying is that the most likely scenario won't be a hard cancellation of the election (as in no election at all), but a soft cancellation that prevents citizens from voting. The states will choose the EC (all cool and constitutional), not the people.
And it will be presented as the right thing to do. They'll say voting by mail isn't secure and voting in person is dangerous, so without an option for the people to vote the states will decide. Equal protection clause means equal access; if they can't, then no one votes.
Monitor your state. Ask how they plan to allow citizens to vote in November. If citizens can't vote in person safely, then ask them what their plan is to allow remote voting. They need a plan now.
via @fairleyraney, this article/interview explains what I've been saying here: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/04/28/2020-election-coronavirus-disaster-impact-215559
Also, check out this best practices presentation for fair elections during crisis (referred to in the above link): https://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/hasen/2020ElectionReport.pdf
Seriously, everyone should read the above report. It has recommendations for states, media, social media orgs, etc. about how to have a properly functioning election. I see some of my twitter faves contributed: @julia_azari @BrendanNyhan & @NormOrnstein + more.
Jared's remarks were a trial balloon, but they provide a perfect newspeg to talk about this really smart report.
Write that story!
Write that story!
Without a Campaign to Cover, Reporters Shift to Covering the Voting Process Itself https://niemanreports.org/articles/without-a-campaign-to-cover-reporters-shift-to-covering-the-voting-process-itself/ via @NiemanReports
“Ought not the people therefore to watch? To observe facts? To search into causes? To investigate designs? And have they not a right of JUDGING on the evidence before them on no slighter points than their liberty and happiness?" Letters from A Farmer in Pennsylvania, 1767.
