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COVID-19 Election Update: Will the Senate be Complicit in Electoral Disaster?
eric niu/FlickrWith less than 100 days before the November election, majority leader Mitch McConnell’s Senate COVID-19 Bill provides ZERO dollars for emergency election support, despite growing...
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A Call to Action on the Voting Rights Act
Mobilus In Mobili/FlickrOn August 6th, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the right of every citizen to participate in our democracy on an equal basis. The passage of the Voting Rights Act...
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Three Tips for Getting Political Candidates on the Record About Science
One of the most devastating lessons we’ve learned during the COVID-19 pandemic is that when science is sidelined by the government, people pay for it with their lives. As we approach 200,000 people...
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Lost Voters: Voter Turnout, Suppression and Mobilization in Key 2020 Election...
Marion S. Trikosko/WikimediaEnthusiasm for the November election may be at a record high, which is normally good news for a democracy. Unfortunately, even if there were not a global pandemic to...
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Voting, Ballot Rejection, and Electoral Integrity in the 2020 Election
Cindy Shebley/FlickrFor a variety of reasons, ballots can be or rejected or “spoiled” if they are not filled out correctly or if verification protocols are not followed. This year, there is a great...
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How Mail-in Ballots Might Affect Election Night
Tiffany Tertipes/UnsplashUpdate: The Michigan legislature has passed a measure that allows election officials to begin processing mailed-in ballots on November 2 in cities or townships with at least...
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What to Expect on Election Night: Where to Look—and What to Look For
SeventyFour/ShutterstockOn the eve of the 2020 General Election, the Center for Science and Democracy has put together several pieces of information to help voters keep track of the election after...
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Extraordinary Machine: Voters Overcame Electoral Barriers to Smash Turnout...
While final results are still being tabulated, it is clear that voter turnout in the 2020 election is breaking a century-old record with more than two-thirds of eligible voters likely participating in...
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Surrounded by Wolves, the Electoral Process and the People Move Forward
Is our democracy being swallowed up like Little Red Riding Hood, having fallen into a trap laid by the Big Bad Wolf? Chris Ensminger/UnsplashExperts wonder aloud whether we are witnessing an attempted...
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How to Quarantine a Political Virus: Stopping the Sedition Caucus by...
Erin Scott/ReutersOne of the attackers who breached the Capitol building last week in an attempt to halt our democracy’s peaceful transition of power left a note for House Speaker Pelosi after...
View ArticleDC Statehood is Our Right
Not a day goes by when I am not confronted with the fact that my 700,000 neighbors have been purposefully disenfranchised for centuries.
View ArticleWith Census Data Now Available, You Can Help Protect Democracy: Here’s How
2020 US Census data are now available and accessible–and there are an exciting variety of tools for science and democracy advocates to use this data to demand fair and unbiased districting.
View ArticleRepublicans Reject the Freedom to Vote Act
With the specter of election subversion looming over 2024, President Biden has renewed his party’s public commitment to voting rights and electoral integrity—but he has so far avoided pressuring Senate...
View ArticleAchieving Multi-Racial, Multi-Party Democracy: An Alternative Model for Reform
On September 27, the American Political Science Association, the Electoral Integrity Project, and the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Center for Science and Democracy brought together a unique group of...
View ArticleStopping the Decline of US Democracy: Where Is the Coalition We Need?
UCS Senior Fellow Michael Latner describes the three kinds of democratic reform we need to keep our democracy intact–and which has the best chance of succeeding.
View ArticleThe Insurrection Isn’t Over: January 6 Hearings Must Address the Threat of...
As the hearings of the special House Committee investigating the insurrection on Jan 6, 2021 get under way this week, a wide array of organizations and experts are weighing in on the importance of...
View ArticleThe Overturning of Roe V. Wade and When We Stop Governing with Facts
Despite being born in the 80’s in New York, as a Jew and the daughter of a German mother born in 1943, I grew up in the shadow of World War II and the destructive power that humanity is capable of....
View ArticleHow the American Legislative Exchange Council Turns Disinformation into Law
In June 2021, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law a bill banning the state from contracting with or investing in businesses that divest from coal, oil or natural gas companies. For Texas Railroad...
View ArticleAchieving Multiracial, Multiparty Democracy
New CSD report is a call to action from scholars, election experts, and professional organizers. Today the UCS Center for Science and Democracy is releasing a long-awaited task force report,...
View ArticleAsk a Scientist: How to Thwart Threats to Democracy
An NBC News poll released last month generated quite a bit of attention, and for good reason. It found that “threats to democracy” have overtaken the “cost of living” as voters’ top concern. The 21...
View ArticleScientist Reflects: Mail-In Ballots Address Barriers to Voting
As we approach the mid-term election, I find myself thinking about what I was doing this time last year. I was working non-stop as a forensic biomechanical engineer, taking a break only for jury duty....
View ArticleDisinformation: A Racist Tactic, from Slave Revolts to Elections
In the months leading up to the midterm elections, there have been major efforts to disrupt what is the most basic right in functioning democracies: voting. Black women and men are the first and...
View ArticleIn the Fight for Voting Rights, Michigan Is Determined to Win
In 2020, Michigan smashed its record for voter turnout. With 5.5 million voters casting ballots across the state, 71% of residents 18 or older participated in the general election. Two years later,...
View ArticleAsk a Scientist: Can Election Science Ensure the Integrity of the 2024...
This fall, the United States will hold its first presidential election since a mob, egged on by then-President Donald Trump’s false claims of widespread voter fraud, stormed the Capitol to try to stop...
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