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Trump assault on the election just hours away from a deadline he can't overcome

The Fulcrum
December 08, 2020

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Trump assault on the election just hours away from a deadline he can't overcome

Midnight marks a milestone in the tortured path that the election has been made to follow by President Trump's baseless campaign to debase democracy.

No matter how much legal spaghetti Trump and his allies throw at the wall — and there was a fresh batch Tuesday morning involving four states — none of it has a realistic chance to stick once the so-called safe harbor deadline passes in a few hours.

At that point, Joe Biden will cross one of the final formal thresholds before assuming the presidency, and the success of his final steps are supposed to be legally guaranteed and the American electoral system itself will be on the cusp of surviving one of its most extraordinary stress tests.

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Voting groups alarmed as early balloting centers close in Georgia

More than half of the early voting centers in Georgia's third largest county have been shuttered ahead of the high-stakes Senate runoffs next month.

When early voting starts next week, Cobb County will keep just five of its 11 voting locations open. That drastic reduction, voting rights groups say, will disproportionately impact Black and Latino voters in the western suburbs of Atlanta.

Ease of access to the voting booth is a central cause of democracy reform groups in every election, but promoting or suppressing turnout in the next federal contest is of particular importance because the twin runoffs will decide which party controls the Senate.

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Biden should enlist the C-suite to strengthen, safeguard democracy

If President-elect Joe Biden would reach out to business leaders he would find welcoming and enthusiastic partners for the repairing of our democracy, writes former Rep. Tom Coleman.

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Join the Project on Ethics in Political Communication for a conversation about how political consultants can improve American political discourse.

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