Sylvia Albert, the director of voting and elections for the liberal advocacy group Common Cause said the filings were so troublesome that she believes there are grounds to disbar the attorneys general who made them.

“When you submit something in court, you’re saying: ‘To the best of my knowledge, the information I’ve given you is true and valid,’” she said.

“Without proper funding, guidance and preparedness, the problems seen in previous elections are going to be just the tip of the iceberg this November,” Sylvia Albert, voting and elections director with Common Cause, warned lawmakers during a congressional hearing last week.

Sylvia Albert, national director of voting and elections at grassroots organization Common Cause, tells Bustle that people who want to get involved in ensuring fair elections can sign up to volunteer with Election Protection, which needs lawyers to answer questions via the nonpartisan voter hotline, 866-OUR-VOTE. If you're not a lawyer, you can still volunteer with Election Protection through its nonpartisan poll monitoring program. "Volunteers commit to taking at least one Election Day shift to stand outside of assigned polling location...

If the Supreme Court does someday set limits on partisan gerrymandering, the details of the new standard will affect how quickly challengers can move to strike down a map. Kathay Feng, national redistricting director at Common Cause, said the court could require challengers to wait a few elections to show that one party had obtained a durable advantage. Alternatively, the court could require challengers to show only that the party in power intentionally drew a map to put the other party at a disadvantage. A more aggressive standard like that,...

Les élections de mi-mandat de cette année nous ont appris que les réseaux sociaux ne sont toujours pas en mesure de lutter contre la désinformation électorale de manière rapide et cohérente.

Notre équipe de désinformation a travaillé avec des partenaires de protection électorale pour supprimer les publicités Facebook.

Le déplacement du pouvoir politique des Américains ordinaires vers les mains d'intérêts particuliers fortunés est particulièrement visible en matière de politique climatique. Le refus de nombreux responsables politiques de prendre des mesures pour lutter contre le changement climatique peut être attribué à l'influence politique croissante de l'industrie des combustibles fossiles.

La Cour suprême a décidé de laisser libre cours au redécoupage partisan des circonscriptions. Mais les tribunaux ne sont pas la seule voie vers des circonscriptions équitables. Les dirigeants des deux camps se joignent à la discussion sur le sujet et critiquent la Cour suprême pour sa décision historiquement mauvaise.

Le 4 avril, des militants de plus de 300 villes sont descendus dans la rue pour exiger la publication complète du rapport Mueller.

Donald Trump Jr.'s claim that he and the Trump campaign received nothing of value from their meeting with Kremlin-connected lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya is no defense at all.