Articles by David Hawkings

Editor's Note: This article originally published on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission form the publisher. ‍ New Jersey has become the first state to back away from a pandemic-driven switch to conducting elections almost entirely remotely. Projections of declining Covid-19 cases by the spring prompted Gov. Phil Murphy's announcement Monday that the state's longtime reliance on in-person voting will resume for school board elections in April, municipal contests in May...

New Jersey has become the first state to back away from a pandemic-driven switch to conducting elections almost entirely remotely....

Editor's Note: The following article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher. ‍ The wall of official resistance to President Trump's defeat has started to crumble a bit. A bipartisan collection of federal and state election officials, empaneled by the Trump administration itself, declared Thursday night that this year's election "was the most secure in American history." That statement flatly contradicts Trump's assertions, still ...

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher. ‍ Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said Tuesday he would "suspend" all recent operational changes and cost-cutting moves until after the election in order to "avoid even the appearance of any impact on election mail." The announcement was an emphatic and sudden abandonment of one of the most controversial governmental actions during a presidential campaign transfor...

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher. ‍ The Postal Service is warning the two biggest Midwest presidential battlegrounds, Pennsylvania and Michigan, that much of their election mail won't get delivered on time because the states' absentee ballot deadlines are too tight. That sounding of the alarm bells preceded President Trump's explicit declarations this week that he wanted to deny the USPS an emerg...

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum, and was republished on IVN with permission from the publisher. Straight-ticket voting won't be returning to Texas now that a federal judge has rejected an effort by Democrats to maintain the practice. Allowing Texans to cast one quick vote, in favor of one party's entire slate of candidates, has been allowed for a century and was the way two-thirds of 2018 ballots were cast in the second most populous state. But the Republican-maj...

Editor's Note: This article originally published on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher. Compromise legislation that would make it easier to vote absentee in North Carolina this fall, and safer to vote in person, has been cleared with bipartisan support in the General Assembly. But it faces an uncertain future on the desk of Gov. Roy Cooper, who is being pressed by fellow Democrats for a veto because of a voter identification provision added at the l...