Election Security 2020 : Securing the Vote While Securing the System
Election Security: Securing the Vote While Securing the System
Tag: voting
Presidential Election 2020: Voting Deemed Safe & Secure, Proclaims Trump CISA Director
November 15, 2020 – The United States Elections have been deemed “safe” and “secure” by Trump’s own Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), in addition to non-partisan organization VerifiedVoting.org. Yet, despite their findings, Trump continues his bellicose pronouncements that the election was “rigged”…
Pendleton Act in Peril: Trump Dismantles 137 Year Old Civil Service Act Dislodging Gov’t Employees
October 31, 2020 – Trump Up-Ends 137 year old Federal Civil Service Workforce Act by Executive Order – The Pendleton Act – protective of federal civil service employees, was signed into law on January 16, 1883 by the 21st President of the United States, Chester Alan Arthur. The law’s intent…
Life, Liberty Or Disenfranchisement: Wisconsin Voters Rise Up to Cast Aside Partisan Legal Victory
April 14, 2020 – Wisconsin voters were dealt a bad hand–a pandemic during a statewide election and a Democratic primary. The options: putting them in harms way, shuttering their polling places, or ending the statewide absentee ballot campaigns. By no fault of their own, these voters were caught in the…
Treason by Any Other Name…is Still Treason
July 20, 2018 – For those who have only read about treason in the story-books, we have a real-life event going on that may scholars believe is unprecedented in our nation’s history. That is where a sitting president’s closest advisors have close affiliations with high-ranking members of a foreign adversary–here…
Gerrymandering, Where to Draw the Line?
January 24, 2018-Recently, both the US Supreme Court and state courts have been taking up the highly controversial and highly politicized issue of political gerrymandering–that is the artificial manipulation of voting districts by those in state legislatures to favor the party in power–their own. It’s accomplished by these legislatures creating…
Voter Suppression by Means of Obstructionism–Alive & Well in US ‘Democracy’
March 24, 2016 – As many may already be aware, the voting lines for the Presidential Primary were extraordinarily long in Maricopa County Arizona. In Maricopa, some predominantly Latino areas only got one–or no polling places at all! One might ask, How can this be, this is America? As a…