A groundbreaking report from the Brennan Center details how Congress can secure elections.
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Doug Smith
NEW REPORT: The federal government regulates colored pencils more stringently than it does America’s election infrastructure. Our proposal outlines ways Congress can ensure safe and secure elections with stronger federal oversight of election vendors.
 
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There have been numerous attacks on the nation’s election infrastructure in recent years. However, a federal district court in Tennessee dismissed a 2018 lawsuit, calling the risk of future harm to voters “too speculative.” The Brennan Center and Troutman Sanders LLP have filed a court brief asking an appeals court to reverse that ruling.
 
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The 2020 election could see the highest voter turnout rate in more than a century. Here’s how to make sure that’s not too much of a good thing by taking steps now to keep long lines at polling stations in check.
 
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America is becoming an increasingly diverse and multicultural nation. Brennan Center’s Mireya Navarro writes in the New York Times on why that makes this the right moment to look for bipartisan opportunities to build coalitions across racial lines.
 
Neal Katyal
Celebrated Supreme Court lawyer and former acting Soliciter General Neal Katyal joins Brennan Center President Michael Waldman (historian and former speechwriter for President Bill Clinton) to discuss Katyal’s new book book, Impeach: The Case Against Donald Trump. Katyal argues the Ukraine allegations are an open and shut case for impeachment, and warns that if the president is not held accountable for asking foreign powers to interfere in our elections, our democracy may never recover. RSVP today!