Outside the Beltway

Yes, there can be real problems with election activities, but that does not excuse POTUS’ lies about fraud.

Donald Trump is engaging in another round of baseless and bizarre conspiracy theories about alleged voter fraud.

Florida has begun the recount process in both the Senate and Governor’s races. Where it goes from here is anyone’s guess.

The issues are different than in Florida or Arizona, but the Georgia Governor’s race remains unresolved as Stacey Abrams hopes to find enough votes to force the race into a runoff.

Somewhere, Tim Russert is smiling.

Faced with the probability of losses today, President Trump is already getting ready to blame everyone but himself.

A Georgia County is abandoning a dubious plan that would have closed 2/3 of the county’s polling stations.

After a week, the race for the GOP nomination for Kansas Governor is over. Now it’s on to what could be an interesting General Election.

A new study claims voter ID laws may disenfranchise the demographic, potentially swinging several Congressional races.

Kris Kobach, the controversial Secretary of State of Kansas who is also a Trump ally, holds on to a slim lead in the GOP Primary for Governor.

Based on what can only be described as pure vindictiveness, the President is apparently planning on revoking security clearances of former officials who have been outspoken against the Administration and its policies.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a populist from the left, rode a wave of populism and public disdain for the outgoing President to a landslide win in Mexico

A federal trial court has ruled the practice an unconstitutional infringement on suffrage.

Failed Senate candidate Roy Moore is suing several of the women who accused him of sexual misconduct during last year’s campaign.

A Federal Appeals Court has reversed a lower court ruling that struck down Texas’s Voter ID law as discriminatory against minority voters.

An attempt at defining the conversation.

The students who survived last week’s mass shooting in Parkland, Florida are speaking out, and some on the right are responding by engaging in personal attacks and spreading conspiracy theories.

President Trump has shut down the commission he established to investigate unsupported claims of “voter fraud” in the 2016 election.

Roy Moore isn’t giving up, but he can’t stop the inevitable.

Donald Trump’s core supporters in the Republican Party remain intensely loyal, and that seems unlikely to change.

Another failed attempt to demonstrate the problems of voter fraud in the US.

Thoughts on the quality of our democracy.

More than twenty states are resisting requests for data from a ‘voter integrity’ Commission built on President Trump’s lie that millions of people voted illegally in the 2016 election.

A big win for opponents of Voter ID laws.

Republicans are going to find it difficult to distance themselves from Donald Trump.

It may well be that the 25th Amendment, not the impeachment clause, will be his undoing.

Stephen Miller said something very stupid on “Meet The Press” this morning.

Despite the lack of evidence, Donald Trump continues to claim that there were ‘millions’ of illegal votes cast in 2016.

Those who voted for him thinking he would be guided or controlled by more sober individuals or that he would start acting presidential once elected: you were wrong.

Now Donald Trump is alleging that the 2016 Election was tainted by ‘illegal voting,’ even though he won!

Democracy produces good rulers, right?  Sometimes.  What good democracies actually produce best is good losers. Let us then be grateful for gracious losers, for our losers no less than our winners carry forward the American experiment in self-rule.  

In a ruling that could have a real impact on the 2016 election, the Supreme Court has declined to grant a stay to a lower court ruling striking down a North Carolina law that tightened Voter ID laws and restricted early voting.

A Federal Judge in North Dakota has struck down that state’s Voter ID Law, the fourth such decision in less than a month.

Basic trust in process is essential for democratic governance to function and major party nominees ought not be undercutting that trust for cynical gain.

Big losses for proponents of Voter ID laws in two swing states.

A big setback for one of the most restrictive Voter ID Laws in the country.

Americans have increasingly come to view their political opponents as not just wrong, but evil, stupid, and immoral. That’s not something that makes for a healthy representative democratic republic.

A Federal Appeals Court has dealt a setback to Texas in the battle over its Voter ID Law.

Another setback for those opposed to Voter ID laws.

Oregon has become the first state in the nation to adopt universal automatic voter registration.

Based on the available evidence, there’s very little evidence that Voter ID laws had a significant impact on the midterm elections.

Early voting is a still new idea in the United States, but one that has quickly spread to a majority of states. But, is it a good idea?

After a setback, Texas will be allowed to enforce its Voter ID law. At least for now.

A victory for opponents of Voter ID in Texas, but it’s not likely to stand up on appeal.

An unsurprising decision from the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

A set back for opponents of Voter ID in Wisconsin.