Former Vice President Joe Biden secured the 270 electoral votes needed to capture the White House on Saturday, major news organizations projected, after election officials in a handful of swing states spent days in round-the-clock counting of millions of mail-in ballots and early votes. The Democrat’s victory came after the […]
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Trump’s Pennsylvania Lawsuits Invoke Bush v. Gore – But The Supreme Court Probably Won’t Decide The 2020 Election
The Trump campaign has filed two lawsuits in federal court over ballot counting and voting deadlines in Pennsylvania, threatening to take the election to the Supreme Court. Both consciously echo the two main legal theories of Bush v. Gore, the infamous Supreme Court case that decided the contested 2000 presidential […]
Read More5 Types Of Misinformation To Watch Out For While Ballots Are Being Counted – And After
With no clear winner yet in the presidential election there’s an opportunity for partisan activists conspiracy theorists and others to exploit public uncertainty and anxiety to attempt to delegitimize the election results. A growing number of narratives alleging electoral wrongdoing have been spreading on social media shared through millions of […]
Read More2020 Voter Turnout Increased As Ohio Valley States Expanded Voting Options
This article was originally published by Ohio Valley ReSource. Much of the Ohio Valley saw historic levels of voter turnout in the 2020 election, as election officials expanded voting options to reduce the risk from coronavirus. Compared to the 2016 election, voter turnout for the 2020 general election increased slightly […]
Read MoreDuring Voting Season, Trump Counties Have Higher Infection Rates
The counties where Donald Trump won by the largest margin in the 2016 election are also the places where the coronavirus has spread the quickest in the weeks leading up to the election a Daily Yonder analysis shows. Counties that voted by a landslide (more than a 20-point margin) for […]
Read MoreThe Missing Voters: The Ohio Valley Has Some Of The Nation’s Lowest Voter Turnout. What Could Change That?
This article was originally published by Ohio Valley ReSource. This fall, Lexington, Kentucky, activist and artist Devine Carama launched a different kind of road trip across his home state. He visited a dozen cities and towns, from Pikeville, in the state’s Appalachian east, to Paducah, near where the Ohio River […]
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