“President Trump this week dissolved the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, a body that was supposed to root out and prevent suspected voter fraud after Trump’s unverified claim that “millions of people who voted illegally” cost him the popular vote in 2016. Jessica Huseman, a ProPublica reporter who has been following the story, joins…
President Trump’s claim that millions of illegal votes were cast in the 2016 election is unsubstantiated, but his Commission on Election Integrity is still charged with investigating the matter. What do state officials who actually run elections think? William Brangham talks to Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap and Arizona Secretary of State Michele Reagan.
A commission created by President Trump to look into potential voter fraud and Russian interference with the U.S. election has brought the annual meeting of the National Association of Secretaries of State this weekend to center stage. The association is comprised of officials who oversee elections in all 50 states. Denise Merrill, the association’s president,…
Seventeen ballot measures will go before California voters on November 8. According to the Los Angeles Times, “It is the longest list of state propositions on a single ballot since March 2000.” Some have already garnered controversy such as Proposition 60 (Adult Films and Condoms), Proposition 62 (Death Penalty), Proposition 63 (Firearms and Ammunition Sales),…
Long Beach City College (LBCC) has a 5-member governing Board of Trustees. In the race for LBCC Board of Trustees, two of the five districts represented are in contention, Areas 2 and 4. (You can see a map of the Trustee Areas HERE). TRUSTEE AREA 2 Irma Archuleta was appointed by the LBCC Board of…