500,000 Primary Ballots Rejected in 2020. Trump Won By Less Than 80,000 Votes In 2016. Terrifying.
More than 500,000 mail ballots were rejected in the primaries. That could make the difference in battleground states this fall. We need...
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Sylvia Gillpatrick
- Aug 21, 2020
- 1 min
An Avalanche of Voter Suppression
. . . It is almost impossible to overstate the vast number of ways to prevent American from voting. Vote Save America has a great article...
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Sylvia Gillpatrick
- Aug 7, 2020
- 1 min
Obama's First Wave of Endorsements Is In!
President Obama has released the first wave of his 2020 endorsements. I will get them onto the individual state pages for Adopting a...
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Sylvia Gillpatrick
- Aug 4, 2020
- 1 min
Electoral College and History of Racism in US
As our revived national conversation on race has made clear, the legacies of slavery and white supremacy run wide and deep in American ...
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Sylvia Gillpatrick
- Jul 22, 2020
- 1 min
States May Curb ‘Faithless Electors,’ Supreme Court Rules
WASHINGTON — States can require members of the Electoral College to cast their votes for the presidential candidates they had pledged...
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Sylvia Gillpatrick
- Apr 5, 2020
- 3 min
US Postal Service in Danger
• Congress: House Democrats, led by Oversight and Reform Committee chairwoman Carolyn Maloney, have warned that the U.S. Postal Service...
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Sylvia Gillpatrick
- Apr 5, 2020
- 1 min
MOVIE: Gerrymandering in Michigan
On Friday, the documentary feature film "Slay the Dragon," which explores gerrymandering and the successful effort to eliminate it in...
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Sylvia Gillpatrick
- Apr 2, 2020
- 1 min
Wisconsin -- a Battleground State -- Is Holding Election on April 7, Getting Sued Already
"The Democratic lawsuit argues that because of mounting coronavirus cases and a statewide ban on gatherings of more than 10 people, ...
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Sylvia Gillpatrick
- Mar 4, 2020
- 1 min
Super Tuesday -- Biden vs. Sanders
Joe Biden powered to a dominating sweep of the South and surprisingly strong showings in New England and the Upper Midwest on Tuesday...
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Sylvia Gillpatrick
- Mar 4, 2020
- 1 min
Delegate Counting in Democratic Nominations
"To become the Democratic Party’s nominee, a candidate needs to win 1,991 of the party’s delegates. Here’s how that happens. Democrats ...
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Sylvia Gillpatrick
- Feb 20, 2020
- 1 min
Republican Propaganda on Facebook
Facebook created “Project P” — for propaganda — in the hectic weeks after the 2016 presidential election and quickly found dozens of...
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Sylvia Gillpatrick
- Feb 17, 2020
- 6 min
Great Ideas from Virginia to Make Voting Easy
Virginia is leading the way to get fair voting practices in place in their state. This is a great summary of the actions and the impact...
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Sylvia Gillpatrick
- Jan 7, 2020
- 1 min
Russian Disinformation Targeting US Veterans
Russian trolls are targeting American veterans, and Trump’s government isn’t helping, group says
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Sylvia Gillpatrick
- Nov 28, 2019
- 1 min
Republicans Tried to Rig the Vote in Michigan – But ‘Political Novices’ Just Defeated Them
n 2016, Katie Fahey, a Michigan woman with no political experience, put up a Facebook post asking if anyone she knew wanted to do...
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Sylvia Gillpatrick
- Nov 22, 2019
- 1 min
Facebook Allows Political Ads to Mislead and Lie
As Facebook cracked down on disinformation flooding its social media platforms, executives decided to codify a key loophole: Politicians...
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Sylvia Gillpatrick
- Nov 11, 2019
- 2 min
WHAT TO DO TO DUMP TRUMP . . . NOW!
One year out -- Donate to organizations that are dedicated to getting out the vote, building a campaign and hiring volunteers for...
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Sylvia Gillpatrick
- Nov 11, 2019
- 2 min
HOW GERRYMANDERING WORKS
Pretty simple really. You just draw the lines in a way that make sure that the minority party, usually Republicans, win. Here is how this...
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Sylvia Gillpatrick
- Nov 11, 2019
- 1 min
WHERE, AND HOW, IS IT DIFFICULT for AMERICANS TO VOTE
It is head-spinning to realize all the ways that voting is manipulated and suppressed in American elections. I had no idea. This is a...
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Sylvia Gillpatrick
- Aug 25, 2020
- 1 min
500,000 Primary Ballots Rejected in 2020. Trump Won By Less Than 80,000 Votes In 2016. Terrifying.
More than 500,000 mail ballots were rejected in the primaries. That could make the difference in battleground states this fall. We need...
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Sylvia Gillpatrick
- Aug 21, 2020
- 1 min
An Avalanche of Voter Suppression
. . . It is almost impossible to overstate the vast number of ways to prevent American from voting. Vote Save America has a great article...
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Sylvia Gillpatrick
- Aug 25, 2020
- 1 min
500,000 Primary Ballots Rejected in 2020. Trump Won By Less Than 80,000 Votes In 2016. Terrifying.
More than 500,000 mail ballots were rejected in the primaries. That could make the difference in battleground states this fall. We need...
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Sylvia Gillpatrick
- Aug 21, 2020
- 1 min
An Avalanche of Voter Suppression
. . . It is almost impossible to overstate the vast number of ways to prevent American from voting. Vote Save America has a great article...
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