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TRUMP INDICTED IN NEW YORK / DEPT. OF JUSTICE SPECIAL COUNSEL / CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS / GEORGIA & OTHER TRUMP INVESTIGATIONS

HOUSE JANUARY 6 SELECT COMMITTEE

TAX RETURNS: DONALD TRUMP AND THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION

THE BIG LIE AND THE 2022 MID-TERM ELECTIONS

FAKE NEWS, MISINFORMATION, & DISINFORMATION

DISQUALIFICATION / SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY

HOUSE JUDICIARY SELECT SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE WEAPONIZATION OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

DEMOCRATIC PARTY PRIMARY CALENDAR PROPOSED CHANGES

Donald Trump, the least accurate politician we've ever covered, eyes another White House run

By Maria Ramirez Uribe, Politifact.com | November 14, 2022 |

VOTER TURNOUT FOR 2022 MIDTERM ELECTIONS

Early voter turnout for 2022 midterms on pace to meet record-setting 2018
By Herb Scribner, Axios.com | October 22, 2022 |

Americans Are Casting Midterm Ballots at Record Rates, Which Means the Results Might Take Longer
By Mini Racker, Time.com | October 21, 2022 2:04 PM EDT |

WHICH VOTERS ARE TURNING OUT FOR THE 2022 MIDTERM ELECTIONS?

AGE COHORTS

US midterms: why gen Z and millennials came out to vote and why it marks a generational shift
By Dafydd Townley, Teaching Fellow in International Security, University of Portsmouth (article appeared on The Conversation Web site) | November 23, 2022 11.20am EST |

Midterm exit polls show that young voters drove Democratic resistance to the 'red wave'
By William H. Frey, Brookings Institution | November 18, 2022 |

Young voters turned out for the first time for the 2022 Midterm elections
Interview By Rachel Martin, NPR. Heard on Morning Edition | November 9, 2022 8:28 AM ET |
NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Jack Lobel of Voters of Tomorrow, an organization focused on engaging and mobilizing Gen Z voters, about election results.

Harvard Youth Poll: Top Findings and Takeaways. 44th edition. Fall 2022
FROM the Harvard Kennedy School. Institute of Politics | Thursday, October 27, 2022 |
QUOTE FROM ABOVE ARTICLE:
"Youth today vote at levels that far exceed millennials, Gen X, and baby boomers when they were under 30...."

Gen Z, Millennials and Gen X outvoted older generations in 2018 midterms
By Anthony Cilluffo and Richard Fry, Pew Research.org | May 29, 2019 |

ETHNICITY

The impact Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders voter turnout could have on the midterms
Reported by Laura Barrón-López on the PBS Newshour program | Nov 3, 2022 6:50 PM EST |

Democrats are losing Latino voters as Republicans eye opportunities these midterms
By Kai McNamee, NPR.org | October 24, 20225:00 AM ET |
QUOTE FROM ABOVE ARTICLE:
"Recent polling shows a majority of Latino voters plan to back Democratic candidates in next month's midterm elections, continuing a trend that has held for decades.

But that support is on the decline...."

POLLS AND ELECTIONS IN THE INTERNET AGE

Pollsters fear they’re blowing it again in 2022 Democrats seem to be doing better than expected with voters. But if the polls are wrong, they could be disappointed in November — again.
By Steven Shepard, Politico.com | September 26, 2022 04:31 AM EDT |

Does public opinion polling about issues still work?
By Courtney Kennedy, Andrew Mercer, Nick Hatley, and Arnold Lau, Pew Research.org | September 21, 2022 |

Reforming the Electoral Count Act of 1887

NOTE: Then-President Trump was convinced Vice President Mike Pence could refuse to accept electoral votes from certain states. In fact, the vice president's role [on Jan. 6] is ONLY ceremonial.

Congress passes election reform designed to ward off another Jan. 6
By Miles Parks, NPR.org | December 23, 2022 3:44 PM ET |
QUOTES FROM ABOVE ARTICLE:
"The omnibus spending bill includes a section that would reform the Electoral Count Act, a 1887 law that governs the counting of Electoral College votes in Congress."

"The update passed by the Senate would clarify that the vice president's role in the proceedings is purely ceremonial.

Importantly, the measure also would raise the bar for objecting to a state's slate of electors. As it stands now, it takes just one member of the House and one senator to challenge a state's electors and send both chambers into a potentially days-long debate period, even without legitimate concerns.

The new legislation would raise the threshold for an objection to 20% of the members of each chamber."

Electoral Count Reform Act Passes in Senate Omnibus Bill
League of Women Voters Press Release (LWV.org) | Last Updated: December 22, 2022 |
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"Today the League of Women Voters of the United States's CEO Virginia Kase Solomon issued the following statement after the Senate's passage of the omnibus appropriations bill that includes the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act.

"The Electoral Count Reform Act will strengthen our democracy by providing clear and updated guidelines for certifying and counting the American people's votes for President and Vice President. This necessary legislation is one step towards ensuring our country never experiences another January 6.

"While we welcome the bipartisan bill to reform the original Electoral Count Act of 1887, our elected officials must do more to make democracy work. We need Congress to pass voting rights expansions so that all Americans have an equal opportunity to have their voices heard in our elections."

How to Fix the 1887 Electoral Count Act: Congress must address shortcomings in the law that were exploited by insurrectionists trying to overturn the will of the voters on January 6. [Explainer]
By Daniel I. Weiner, Martha Kinsella, and Kathering Scotnicki (Brennan Center.org) | June 29, 2022 LAST UPDATED: September 22, 2022 |

CERTIFYING ELECTIONS: WHAT IF ELECTION DENIER CANDIDATES RUNNING IN 2022 WIN? WHAT HAPPENS IN 2024?

Rural Arizona county certifies election after judge’s order
By Jonathan J. Cooper, Associated Press as seen on the PBS Newshour Web site | December 2, 2022 9:57 AM EST |

Election certification delays few, but a 'test run' for 2024
By Associated Press, as heard on All Things Considered on KNAU News Talk - Arizona Public Radio | November 30, 2022 at 1:42 PM MST |

Counties in Arizona, Pennsylvania fail to certify election results by legal deadlines
By Hansi Lo Wang, Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) as heard on NPR Morning Edition | November 29, 2022 8:49 AM |

Lawsuits likely after handful of counties refuse to certify midterm results County board members in Arizona and Pennsylvania declined Monday to certify the election.
By Zach Montellaro, Politico.com | November 28, 2022 04:01 PM EST Updated November 28, 2022 9:15 PM EST |

GOP Congressman Dan Crenshaw says election deniers know they’re lying The representative from Houston said fellow Republicans admitted behind closed doors that the 2020 election wasn't stolen, and he warned that such messaging could dangerously mislead voters.
By Matthew Choi, Texas Tribune.org | November 4, 2022 4 PM Central | QUOTE FROM ABOVE ARTICLE:
"Members of Congress who contested the 2020 election results admitted behind closed doors that they know their cause is false, U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Houston, said on his podcast published Wednesday [Nov. 2], offering his sternest rebuke yet of his party's rejection of President Joe Biden's win."

Explainer: What U.S. election deniers could do in 2024 if they win this November
By Tim Reid, Reuters.com | November 4, 2022 5:09 AM CDT | Last Updated 3 days ago |
QUOTE FROM ABOVE ARTICLE:
"What most worries voting rights groups and constitutional scholars is the potential for a governor and secretary of state, working in tandem, to dispute or ignore the popular vote total, to refuse to certify a presidential election result, or even to claim the losing candidate actually won their state...."

Democracy on the ballot—What do election deniers want?
By Elaine Kamarck and Norman Eisen, Brookings.edu FixGov Blog | Thursday, October 20, 2022
QUOTE FROM ABOVE ARTICLE:
"On Election Day [November 3, 2020], more than half of all Americans voted absentee or early. This chart from MIT shows how Americans have cast their ballots from 1991 to 2020. Prior to 2020, there was a slow but discernable tendency to vote early or by absentee ballot...."

Cheney ponders 2024 bid after losing Wyoming GOP primary
By Steve Peoples and Mead Gruver, AP | August 17, 2022 |
QUOTE FROM ABOVE ARTICLE:
"With Cheney’s loss, Republicans who voted to impeach Trump are going extinct.

In all, seven Republican senators and 10 Republican House members backed Trump’s impeachment in the days after his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol as Congress tried to certify President Joe Biden’s victory. Just two of those 10 House members have won their primaries this year."

Four of the 10 Republican House members who voted to impeach Donald Trump after the Jan. 6 attack chose not to run for re-election. Four lost their Republican primaries. Two won their Republican primaries and will be running for re-election in November 2022.

Liz Cheney loses GOP primary to Trump-backed Harriet Hageman
By Andrew Solender, Axios | August 17, 2022 | QUOTE FROM ABOVE ARTICLE:
"Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) on Tuesday became the highest-profile House Republican to lose their primary to a Trump-endorsed challenger after voting to impeach the former president, according to AP.

Why it matters: Former President Trump has made ousting the 10 House Republicans who voted for his impeachment one of his top priorities of the cycle — and Cheney, the vice chair of the Jan. 6 select committee, was enemy No. 1."

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