After eight years of building election security networks, the Trump administration and the DOGE are dismantling those systems. A network that hundreds of cybersecurity and law enforcement officials have built to protect it from future threats. After laying off 130 staffers since February, DOGE continues to lay off staffers from the CISA. The Trump administration […]
Tag: Voting
Voter Suppression is Getting Smarter—Are We?
In U.S. history, voter oppression has been any legal or extralegal measure to reduce voting or registration by members of a targeted racial group, political party, or religious community. In recent years, states have erected barriers to voting by imposing strict voter ID laws, cutting early voting times, restricting registration, and more. With digital technology […]
Op-Ed: Why the Electoral College Should be Abolished
Five candidates have won the popular vote and lost the election in American history: Andrew Jackson in 1824, Samuel Tilden in 1876, Grover Cleveland in 1888, Al Gore in 2000, and Hillary Clinton in 2016. This is a problem because it eliminates the democratic principle that the candidate with the most support from the people […]
Op-Ed: Not Voting is Worse than Voting for the ‘Wrong’ Politician
It seems like every election cycle, people are faced with deciding whether to vote for the lesser of two evils or for no one. Some argue that casting a ballot for the “lesser of two evils” is a moral compromise, whereas others believe that sitting out of an election is a form of protest. In […]
What is Gerrymandering, and How Does it Affect US politics?
Gerrymandering is a process of manipulating an electoral district’s boundaries to the advantage of a party or person. The act has often been criticized as unfair, dishonest, and an attempt to reg voter outcomes, yet both Democrats and Republicans utilize it in the US today. Gerrymandering comes into play usually once in a decade when […]
