Updated 2020-10-31. Changelog.
Here are Joe Biden’s plans for the work he’ll do in office.
Here is the World Health Organization’s advice for preventing the spread of Covid-19. The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also have Covid-19 guidance.
- Vote.org:
- “Let people vote” from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
- “Voting information” from Rock the Vote.
- U.S. Voting Laws from USA.gov.
- Election Official Directory and State Voting Requirements from the U.S. Vote Foundation.
- “Voting outside the polling place: Absentee, all-mail and other voting at home options” from the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL). Updated 2020-09-10.
- “State laws on voting rights/time off to vote” from Workplace Fairness. No listed date.
- Vote411 from the League of Women Voters Education Fund. Guides, and information on candidates (submitted by candidates).
- “The voting process explained” from Democracy Docket.
- “Make a mistake? Know about the ‘cure’ process” from Democracy Docket.
- “Don’t selfie your ballot?” from Snopes.com. 2012-09-06.
- “Are voting selfies legal? We have the answer in all 50 states” from LawandCrime.com. 2016-09-07. (Outdated article, but a good starting point.)
- “Navigating in-person voting for 2020 election” from the League of Women Voters (LWV). 2020-10-15.
- “Absentee and mail voting policies in effect for the 2020 election” from NCSL. Updated 2020-10-02.
- “Voting outside the polling place: Table 14: How states identify voted absentee ballots” from NCSL. 2020-04-17.
- “How to vote in the 2020 election” from FiveThirtyEight. Updated 2020-10-02.
- “Plan your vote” from NBC News. No listed date.
- Straightforward breakdown of state-by-state rules for voting, especially by mail.
- “How to vote by mail in every state” from the Wall Street Journal. Updated 2020-08-18.
- “Mail-in voting versus absentee voting: Differences to know before Election Day” from CNet. 2020-09-03.
- “Election Mail” FAQ and resources from the U.S. Postal Service.
- “Re: Election Mail” from the U.S. Postal Service. Correspondence by Thomas J. Marshall, general counsel for USPS, to election officials. 2020-05-29.
- “New voting laws revive fights over ‘ballot harvesting’” from The Associated Press. Published on Snopes.com. 2020-08-17.
- “5 mistakes that can disqualify your November mail ballot and how to avoid them” from Business Insider. 2020-09-30.
- National election protection hotline from the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Hotlines:
- English: 1-866-OUR-VOTE (1-866-687-8683)
- Spanish: 1-888-VE-Y-VOTA (1-888-839-8682)
- Asian languages (multilingual): 1-888-API-VOTE (1-888-274-8683)
- Arabic: 1-844-YALLA-US (1-844-925-5287)
- Voting Section of the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division.
- Report a Federal Voting Rights Violation.
- “Frequently asked questions” from the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division.
- Voting Rights hotline: 1-800-253-3931.
- “Know your rights: Voter intimidation” from ACLU.
- VoteRiders. Voter ID assistance, with a state-by-state breakdown.
- “Know your voting rights” from Voto Latino. 2020.
- “Everything you always wanted to know about redistricting but were afraid to ask” from ACLU. 2010.
- “Explore voting information by your state” from the National Low Income Housing Coalition. Includes information on whether ID is needed, and what to do if you don’t have a home address.
- “You don’t need a home to vote: Homeless and low-income voter rights manual” from the National Coalition for the Homeless. 2018-08.
- “Know your rights: Voting guide for TGNCNB people” from Lambda Legal. No listed date.
- “#VotingWhileTrans” from the National Center for Transgender Equality Action Fund. 2020.
- “Vote with pride: Election 2020” from GLAAD. No listed date.
- “Let trans people vote” from ACLU. 2020-10-16.
- “Felony disenfranchisement” from The Sentencing Project.
- “Felon voting laws” from HeadCount. Updated 2020-05-26.
- “Felon voting rights” from NCSL. 2020-09-03.
- “Vote. It’s your right: A know-your-rights guide for voters with mental disabilities and advocates” from the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law; the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network; the National Disability Rights Network; Schulte, Roth & Zabel LLP; and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. 2020.
- “Vote For Access” video series hosted by Imani Barbarin.
- “Voter challenge statutes by state” from the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law. Updated 2020-10-16.
- National Disability Rights Network (NDRN) member agencies. State-by-state agencies which advocate for those with disabilities, and which can help with voting problems.
- “Blocking the ballot box: Ending misuse of the ADA to close polling places” from NDRN. 2020-01.
- ACLU. No listed date.
- Brennan Center for Justice. 2020-07-28. Updated 2020-10-14.
- Democracy Docket
- “Here’s a rundown of mail-in ballot cases that have been settled in US courts” from the Boston Globe. 2020-10-29.
- Fill out the 2020 U.S. Census.
- Get out the vote:
- Postcards to Voters
- 2020 Victory mobilization from the Democratic National Committee.
- Work the election:
- “Help America Vote: National Poll Worker Recruitment Day” from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.
- Work Elections.
- Power the Polls.
- “How to become a volunteer voter registrar” by Twitter user JamesMWilliam18. 2020-05-31.
- Support the U.S. Postal Service:
- Save the Post Office from the American Postal Workers Union (APWU).
- “The U.S.P.S. is under attack” by Maia Kobabe. 2020-08-15.
- Legislation (summarized on GovTrack.us):
- Thread about putting pressure on the USPS Board of Governors by Twitter user NastyOldWomyn. 2020-08-14.
- “The antidote to despair” by Teri Kanefield (as a Twitter thread). 2020-08-30.
How can we lower barriers so everyone is able to vote? Some concrete actions to fight for.
- “A guide to pro-voter reforms” from the National Disability Rights Network. 2019-04.
- “Field guides for ensuring voter intent” from the Center for Civic Design.
- “When to expect election results in every state” from FiveThirtyEight. 2020-10-30.
- “After polls close, the real presidential election starts. Here’s a guide to deadlines from Election Day to inauguration” from CNN. 2020-10-18. Updated 2020-10-19.
- “The election that could break America” from The Atlantic. 2020-11 issue preview. Accessed 2020-09-24.
- “The legal fight awaiting us after the election” from The New Yorker. 2020-09-21.
- “November 3: What can go wrong” by Teri Kanefield. 2020-08-29.
- “The voting will end Nov. 3. The legal battle probably won’t.” from the New York Times. 2020-08-08. Updated 2020-08-17.
- “Preventing a disrupted presidential election and transmission” by the Transition Integrity Project. 2020-08-03.
- “This ‘war game’ maps out what happens if the president contests the election” from On Point, National Public Radio (NPR). 2020-07-28.
- “A bipartisan group secretly gathered to game out a contested Trump-Biden election. It wasn’t pretty” from the Boston Globe. 2020-07-26.
- “Trump refuses to commit to accepting election result as Biden enjoys poll lead” from The Guardian. 2020-07-19.
- “The escalating terrorism problem in the United States” from the Center for Strategic & International Studies. 2020-06-17.
- “Parties ready for court battles over virus-era voting rights” from The Associated Press. 2020-04-07.
- WTF Just Happened Today compiled by Matt Kiser. Daily news summaries on the Trump presidency.
- “Lest we forget the horrors: A catalog of Trump’s worst cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes” from McSweeney’s. 2020-10-26.
- “Elections” tag from PolitiFact.
- Snopes.com. Fact-checking and news.
- Votebeat. A nonprofit, nonpartisan news collective reporting on issues of election integrity.
Organized by date, newest first.
- “Biden campaign cancels Austin rally; Trump supporters reportedly harass bus on I-35” from CBS Austin. 2020-10-30.
- “Security info request from Trump campaign perturbs Cumberland County officials ahead of election” from The Sentinel. 2020-10-30.
- “Pandemic slows legal voting from California jails” from CalMatters. 2020-10-30.
- “How the pandemic has affected voters with disabilities — roughly one-sixth of the US electorate” from USA Today. 2020-10-29.
- “Facing gap in Pennsylvania, Trump camp tries to make voting harder” from the New York Times. 2020-10-29.
- “Worried your mail-in ballot still hasn’t arrived? Here’s how to be sure your vote counts” from The Texas Tribune. 2020-10-29.
- “Potentially thousands of requested mail ballots lost in Butler County, official says” from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 2020-10-29.
- “Postal Service ordered to increase late trips for election mail” from The Seattle Times. 2020-10-28.
- “How police, National Guard and military are preparing for election day tensions” from NPR. 2020-10-26.
- “First-class mail service is awful, admitted Postal Service late Friday” from the Lexington Institute. 2020-10-26.
- “The U.S. Postal Service issues new service performance report for the week of October 10th”, a press release from USPS. 2020-10-23.
- “Georgia’s legacy of voter suppression is driving historic Black turnout” from Politico. 2020-10-26.
- “Voters in Alabama’s largest county could have their ballots thrown out after a court ruled instructions they were sent are no longer valid” from Buzzfeed News. 2020-10-24. Updated 2020-10-25.
- “Trump campaign sues in Nevada to stop Vegas-area vote count” from The Associated Press. 2020-10-23.
- “The US eliminated nearly 21,000 election day polling locations for 2020” from VICE News. 2020-10-22.
- “Supreme Court blocks curbside voting in Alabama, an option during pandemic” from NPR. 2020-10-21.
- “Iran and Russia seek to influence election in final days, U.S. officials warn” from The New York Times. 2020-10-21.
- “Postal data shows hundreds of complaints about election mail problems” from APM Reports. 2020-10-19.
- “Federal appeals courts emerge as crucial for Trump in voting cases” from The New York Times. 2020-10-17. Updated 2020-10-18.
- “Why do nonwhite Georgia voters have to wait in line for hours? Their numbers have soared, and their polling places have dwindled” from Politico. 2020-10-17.
- “Florida Republicans launch last-minute effort to shut down ballot drop boxes” from Slate. 2020-10-16.
- “LWV of Arizona statement in response to decision in Navajo Nation voting rights case” from LWV. 2020-10-15.
- [“How to ‘weaponize’ misleading narratives about voting: Lessons from Trump-linked PILF playbook”] from Snopes. 2020-10-15. Updated 2020-10-17.
- The article’s title references an email by J. Christian Adamss, who wrote: “Great lesson [on] how to generate, create, organize and weaponize narrative.”
- “Statewide IT glitch halts Virginia voter registration on last day” from VPN, Virginia NPR station. 2020-10-13.
- “Fresno GOP wrongly told voters to drop ballots at gun stores and other unauthorized sites” from The Sacramento Bee. 2020-10-12.
- County Clerk/Registrar of Voters Memorandum # 20240 issued by the California Secretary of State, Elections Division. 2020-10-11. An overview of the vote-by-mail ballot collection process, with a focus on ballot drop boxes and the regulations around their use.
- U.S. Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit decision in Case No. 20-50867, which lets the Texas Secretary of State continue to limit the number of mail-in ballot drop-off locations to one per county. Filed 2020-10-12.
- “Microsoft takes down massive hacking operation that could have affected the election” from CNN. 2020-10-12.
- “The battle over a Texas order limiting ballot drop-off locations, explained” from Vox. 2020-10-10. Updated 2020-10-13.
- “Early voting can start Oct. 13 as scheduled, Texas Supreme Court rules” from The Texas Tribune. 2020-10-07.
- “Florida online voter registration site broken, just hours before deadline to register” from Newsweek. 2020-10-05.
- “Supreme Court revives witness requirement for South Carolina absentee ballots” from the New York Times. 2020-10-05.
- “After ‘egregious’ violation, judge orders census to count through Oct. 31 for now” from NPR. 2020-10-02. Updated 2020-10-03.
- “Voters, voting rights groups sue Gov. Greg Abbott over order to close ballot drop-off locations” from The Texas Tribune. 2020-10-02. Updated 2020-10-03.
- “In big states, tiny counties, Trump attacking voting rules” from The Associated Press. 2020-10-01.
- “Revealed: Trump campaign strategy to deter millions of Black Americans from voting in 2016” from Channel 4 News (UK). 2020-09-28.
- Quotes Jamal Watkins (NAACP): “The thing that’s shocking slash troubling about this is that there’s this category of suppression. That ‘Deterrence’ part. So, we use data – similar to voter file data – but it’s to motivate, persuade and encourage folks to participate. We don’t use the data to say who can we deter and keep at home. That just seems, fundamentally, it’s a shift from the notion of democracy. It’s not ‘may the best candidate win’ at that point it’s ‘may the best well-funded machine suppress voters and keep them at home thereby rigging the election so that someone can win’.”
- “Ransomware attacks take on new urgency ahead of vote” from the New York Times. 2020-09-27.
- “Trump won’t commit to peaceful transfer of power if he loses the election” from CNBC. 2020-09-23.
- “Foreign actors and cybercriminals likely to spread disinformation regarding 2020 election results” from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI). 2020-09-22.
- “Pennsylvania’s ‘naked ballot’ ruling will ‘cause electoral chaos,’ Philly commissioner warns” from the PhillyVoice. 2020-09-21.
- Letter to the Speaker and President of the Pennsylvania State Legislature by Philadelphia Commissioner Lisa M. Deeley. 2020-09-21.
- “Trump supporters disrupt early voting in Virginia” from the New York Times. 2020-09-19.
- “McConnell vows vote on Ginsburg replacement as her death upends the 2020 race” from the New York Times. 2020-09-18. Updated 2020-09-20.
- “Judge blocks Postal Service changes that slowed mail” from Politico. 2020-09-17.
- Links to “USPS Impact”, which tracks changes to the USPS and their impact across different states.
- “Trump appointees torpedo report on threats to minority voting right during the pandemic” from USA Today, via archive.today. 2020-09-17. Page captured 2020-10-01.
- “The F.B.I. director warns of Russian interference and white supremacist violence” from the New York Times. 2020-09-17.
- “Voters with disabilities face barriers in 2020 from COVID-19” from Teen Vogue. 2020-09-16.
- “85 million pieces of mail delayed in a week under DeJoy, Senate report finds” from Forbes. 2020-09-16.
- “South Carolina GOP mailer manipulates Trump tweet to remove vote-by-mail fearmongering” from the Huffington Post. 2020-09-15.
- “No Democrats allowed: A conservative lawyer holds secret voter fraud meetings with state election officials” from ProPublica. 2020-09-15.
- “When will you know if Biden or Trump wins? It could depend on absentee ballot rules in these states” from the Los Angeles Times. 2020-09-15.
- “‘I have blood on my hands’: A whistleblower says Facebook ignored global political manipulation” from BuzzFeed News. 2020-09-14.
- “The media’s role in calling an election” from On Point, NPR. 2020-09-14.
- “Federal judge blocks USPS from sending mailers containing incorrect voting information to Coloradans” from the Denver Post. 2020-09-12.
- [“By most accounts, the Massachusetts primary was a historic success. Now comes the hard part”] from the Boston Globe. 2020-09-11.
- “Conservative judicial decisions keep boosting GOP voter suppression” from Mother Jones. 2020-09-11.
- “New cyberattacks targeting U.S. elections” from Microsoft. 2020-09-10.
- “Four questions before the courts that will shape how we vote” from the Washington Post. 2020-09-09.
- “In Georgia, officials are investigating hundreds of cases of double voting” from the New York Times. 2020-09-08.
- “DHS draft document: White supremacists are greatest terror threat” from Politico. 2020-09-04.
- “The Trump administration continues to erode election security” from Wired. 2020-09-03.
- “Nella Explains the USPS (Part 1)” by Antonella Inserra. Video. 2020-09-03.
- “Trump encourages people in North Carolina to vote twice, which is illegal” from the New York Times. 2020-09-02.
- “Massachusetts primary 2020: I voted by mail and in person; Here’s how election officials processed my vote” by Steph Solis from MassLive. 2020-09-02.
- “Russians again targeting Americans with disinformation” from the New York Times. 2020-09-01.
- “1 million primary ballots were mailed late, postal service watchdog says” from the New York Times. 2020-09-01.
- “Georgia voter roll purge errors” from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Georgia. 2020-09-01.
- Georgia 2020 Purge List from the Palast Investigative Fund.
- “U.S. Postal Service watchdog to probe service woes as worries rise about mail ballots” from Reuters. 2020-08-14.
- “Election officials warn it could take weeks to determine results in November” from CNBC. 2020-08-14.
- “How Wisconsin’s 23,000 rejected absentee ballots could spell trouble for the November election” from Wisconsin Public Radio, NPR. 2020-07-23.
- “Freed by court ruling, Republicans step up effort to patrol voting” from the New York Times. 2020-05-18.
- “A conservative legal group significantly miscalculated data in a report on mail-in voting” from ProPublica. 2020-05-02.
- “Conservative operatives float plan to place retired military, police officers as GOP poll watchers on election day” from The Intercept. 2020-04-11.
- “How the Iowa caucuses became an epic fiasco for Democrats” from the New York Times. 2020-02-09. Updated 2020-02-11.
- “Cleaning up or purging voter rolls?” from NPR. 2019-12-20.
- “Mitch McConnell’s opposition to federal election security is hitting home” from Mother Jones. 2019-11-25.
- “Whistleblower explains how Cambridge Analytica helped fuel U.S. ‘insurgency’” from NPR. 2019-10-08.
- “Source hacking: Media manipulation in practice” by Joan Donovan and Biran Friedberg. 2019-09.
- “The ADA is being used to disenfranchise minority voters” from ThinkProgress. 2018-08-22. Updated 2018-08-24.
- “Donald Trump’s warning on election night sounds familiar to some immigrants” from the New York Times. 2016-10-21.