Efforts to deceive are a top concern among state election officials heading into 2024
As they begin to prepare ahead of the 2024 election, efforts to deceive the public regarding voting and elections remains a top concern for state election officials. Several secretaries of state recently gathered in Washington for the annual summer conference of the National Association of Secretaries of State; at the conference officials identified misinformation and the emergence of generative artificial intelligence tools to create false or misleading content as some of their top concerns. Other top concerns included staffing and the loss of experienced
North Carolina elections at risk of chaos with Legislature’s proposed overhaul
North Carolina lawmakers are considering three bills that voting rights advocates claim could grind the state’s democratic apparatus to a halt. The proposed changes would restrict same-day registration and mail in voting. Democratic representatives and voting rights advocates claim the new legislation could threaten the democratic process and suppress voting, Republican sponsors of the three bills did not respond to requests for comment. Visit NBC News to learn more Image Credit: Famartin (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Florida law changes vote-by-mail ballots for next election
A Florida law, Senate Bill 90 passed in 2021, includes restrictions on drop boxes and voting by mail which may impact voters in 2024. The new law mandates all vote-by-mail requests must be submitted before November 8th; additionally, while vote-by-mail requests used to be good for two elections, they are now only good for one. Election officials are already concerned about the low number of vote by mail requests submitted, and critics of the new law say that it heightens voter suppression.Visit WINK News
Rudy Giuliani is negotiating possible resolution to lawsuit brought by 2 Georgia election workers
Rudy Giuliani is negotiating a potential resolution in his legal dispute with former Georgia election workers Wandrea “Shaye” Moss and Ruby Freeman. Moss and Freeman accused Giuliani of defaming them following the 2020 presidential election and have already won nearly $90,000 from Giuliani to cover attorney fees. In a court filing last week Moss and Freeman’s legal team disclosed that Giuliani’s lawyer approached them, “to discuss a potential negotiated resolution of issues that would resolve large portions of this litigation.” In the lawsuit, the
GOP Confidence in 2024 Vote Count Low After Years of False Election Claims, AP-NORC Poll Shows
A new poll shows that few Republicans have high confidence that votes will be counted accurately in the next presidential election. Data from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research suggests that years of attacks against elections by former President Donald Trump and his associates have made an impact on GOP voters. According to the poll, only 22% of Republicans have high confidence that votes will be counted accurately in 2024, a staggeringly low percentage considering the same poll found that 71% of