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Alaska uses ranked-choice voting. But Trump wants to skip that process and hand the GOP incumbent undeserved votes.
“A president who thought he was winning would not be demanding that votes be reassigned,” Marc Elias says.
Follow us to keep watch on the people rewriting the rules.
NEW: With Georgia's state House flipped blue, and a new Dem governor, there's now a chance to reform the state election board, which has promoted anti-voting policies.
Gov.-elect Lance Bottoms has proposed eliminating it entirely.
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NEW: Attorney General Todd Blanche could not say when or for what the Department of Justice would investigate congressional Democrats, but committed to going after their "threats" in two Sunday interviews.
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BREAKING: Trump Lashes Out After Midterm WIPEOUT xitter.gq/i/broadcasts/2JQXyYXnO…
Thanks to the midterms’ blue tsunami:
🔵 Democrats will run elections in almost all of the “core seven” 2028 battlegrounds.
🔵 Four states Trump won in 2024 elected Democrats to run their elections.
🔵 Democrats flipped three key states and held 13 others.
What it means for democracy in 2028 ⬇️ democracydocket.com/news-ale…
NEW: Pro-voting groups and election workers across Mississippi say they are deeply frustrated and concerned with the large number of voters flagged as inactive this election.
The remaining affidavit and absentee ballots will decide the state’s extremely close U.S. Senate race. demdock.com/4z68A3S
In this year’s midterms, Trump’s historic unpopularity hung around Republicans’ necks and lifted Democrats, Marc Elias writes.
But Trump used his 2020 defeat to build a movement around the Big Lie of election denial. He will try to do the same now: demdock.com/4ivm18o
Election Day has passed, but the fight hasn’t ended. Marc’s full analysis stays open for an extended time.
Join now so you don’t lose access when the paywall goes back up: demdock.com/4zaIQn5
🚨NEW: Voters rejected some of the country’s leading architects of voter suppression laws.
Their nationwide defeats could significantly reshape the federal and state battles over voting rights.democracydocket.com/news-ale…
Marc Elias was called an alarmist for saying Trump would refuse to concede if he lost the 2020 election. Then Jan. 6 happened.
“They want you to believe that Donald Trump may say some things, but in the end, he’ll accept the results,” Marc says. “I don’t believe that.”
Your vote is a target. Follow us to keep watch.
A right-wing think tank argues Congress can — and should — refuse to seat newly elected members in some cases.
The rationale is bunk. But it could convince a few Republicans who are just MAGA-crazy enough to try: demdock.com/4AlaZJ6
Trump’s DOJ was handed a major blow to their midterm subversion plan in Washington state — one that could be the final nail in the coffin.
“This is a blockbuster ruling,” Marc Elias says.
They lost in court. They'll try again. Follow us to be ready when they do.
Democracy Docket is still on the ground in Mississippi, where the Senate race isn’t called and thousands of affidavit ballots could decide it.
We talked to a Rankin County election commissioner about why so many of those ballots are being rejected. 🧵
Rivers also said commissioners can only search their own county’s voter list, not the whole state. So voters registered elsewhere in Mississippi can be rejected as “no evidence.”
She said the secretary of state’s office took away statewide access several years ago.
In the last midterm election, Mississippi ranked dead last in the nation for voter turnout.
This year, it skyrocketed.
In flocking to the polls, Magnolia State voters overcame a system that perhaps makes it more difficult to vote than anywhere in the country: demdock.com/3Uo5ZUJ
