Stephanie Chaplin

In an expert brief published on August 3, 2025, the Brennan Center for Justice’s Jasleen Singh outlines the Trump Administration’s unprecedented actions to undermine the upcoming and future elections. She outlines four main areas. In this first post, we will outline the first area — attempting to rewrite rules to take control over states’ role

State and local election officials have counted on the federal government to protect elections. They can no longer rely on this support as voters can no longer rely on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to protect their voting rights. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency or CISA was one of the first federal agencies on

There are many examples in the current administration of support for election deniers and conspiracy theorists. Four or more people in the current administration have denied the results of the 2020 presidential election. In addition, one of the first acts of Donald Trump in his second administration was to pardon 1,500 individuals on trial for

Acting on President Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, his administration is targeting law firms, organizations, officials, and individuals who maintain the fairness of the 2020 elections. The administration has established agencies within the Department of Justice (DOJ) charged with searching out supposedly widespread voter fraud, a problem that does not exist.

In an expert brief published on August 3, 2025, the Brennan Center for Justice’s Jasleen Singh outlines the Trump Administration’s unprecedented actions to undermine the upcoming and future elections. She outlines four main areas. In this first post, we will outline the first area — attempting to rewrite rules to take control over states’ role

With the 2024 national elections now less than six months away, election officials and security experts are working tirelessly to ensure that these elections will be safe, fair, and accurate — free from misinformation and disinformation both foreign and domestic. They clearly have their jobs cut out for them. Officials are attending conferences designed to

As delineated in the US Constitution, SCOTUS (the Supreme Court of the United States) receives the least attention. Its role is listed last — after the legislative branch/Congress (Article 1) and the executive branch/the President (Article 2). In addition, Article 3 is the shortest Article giving the judicial branch the smallest role which is to

Tuesday, April 12 has been set aside as a National Day of Action to let our local election officials know how much we value their tireless efforts. These hard working and under appreciated men and women keep our elections well organized, accurate, efficient and running smoothly. They are the backbone of our democracy and they

According to a Brennan Center for Justice report issued on March 10, 2022, 77% of elections officials believe that threats against election officials and their families are increasing. Previous Secure Elections Network webinar presenter, Turquoise Baker, and Ruby Edlin explain the dire situation. Thirty percent of election officials report knowing at least one official who

According to an article appearing in The New York Times on March 9, 2022, Ms. Peters and her assistant clerk, Belinda Knisley are both accused of tampering with elections machines, security and procedures in 2021. Despite being told by state officials not to allow access to voting machines or provide passwords for those machines to