“Electronic Voting Machines Could Become Major Disease Vector,” Election Security Advocates Request Cleaning Guidelines For Machines Posted on April 23, 2020 (June 18, 2020) Election Protection Following the publication of a Guide for Safe Voting During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Free Speech For People issued a letter to electronic voting machines vendors to request a video demonstration for how to properly clean the machines. Free Speech For People, a national nonpartisan legal advocacy group, issued a letter today requesting electronic voting machineRead More
“Insecure, Unreliable, Unverifiable, and Unsafe”: Voting Rights Advocates Challenge Legality of New Voting System In North Carolina Posted on April 15, 2020 (June 18, 2020) Election Protection Complaint Filed on Behalf of the North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP and Several North Carolina Voters Washington, DC (April 15, 2020) – Today, voting rights advocates filed a lawsuit in Wake County Superior Court challenging the new electronic voting system that Mecklenburg County and several other North Carolina counties rushed to implement for theRead More
Free Speech For People Files Reply Brief in Case Demanding Election Security Emails Posted on April 14, 2020 (May 19, 2020) Election Protection Free Speech For People filed our reply brief in National Election Defense Coalition v. Lawson, a case challenging the Indiana Secretary of State’s refusal to disclose election security-related emails exchanged with the National Association of Secretaries of State. Case background Secretary of State Connie Lawson was the 2017-18 President of the National Association of SecretariesRead More
Free Speech For People Joins Scientific Experts in Open Letter Urging Election Officials to Avoid Internet Voting Posted on April 9, 2020 (June 2, 2020) Election Protection Free Speech For People joined a coalition of scientific experts and government watchdog groups in issuing an open letter calling on Governors, Secretaries of State and State Elections Directors to avoid the use of any internet voting or voting app system in U.S. elections. Prepared by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)Read More
Free Speech For People Publishes Guide for Safe Voting During COVID-19 Pandemic Posted on April 7, 2020 (June 18, 2020) Election Protection Free Speech For People published today a report entitled: “Safe Voting During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” in collaboration with Dr. Joia Mukherjee, a physician, clinical researcher, and educator trained in Infectious Disease, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and public health at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard School of Public Health, and Mark Ritchie, an election managementRead More
Alyssa Milano Features Free Speech For People’s Election Security Work on Sorry Not Sorry Posted on April 7, 2020 (May 19, 2020) Election Protection Free Speech For People President John Bonifaz and Senior Advisor on Election Security Susan Greenhalgh appeared on Sorry Not Sorry, a podcast hosted by actress and activist Alyssa Milano. “This may be our most important episode of the podcast yet.” Milano says, “Please listen wherever you get your podcasts. You will be shocked. You willRead More
“There’s going to be scandal involved in this bailout”: Former Chief Inspector General Warns Following Passage of The CARES Act. Posted on April 7, 2020 (May 19, 2020) Challenging Corruption Neil Barofsky, Former head of SIGTARP – the watchdog that oversaw a historic $750 billion dollar bailout during the 2008 recession – recently appeared on Moyers On Democracy to discuss government accountability and the CARES Act. The former Chief Inspector General stressed the importance of accountability for the $2.2 trillion stimulus package Congress recently passedRead More
Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to Seattle public campaign financing law Posted on March 30, 2020 (May 19, 2020) Defending Key Reforms Today, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to Seattle’s innovative public campaign financing program in the case of Elster v. City of Seattle. In 2015, Seattle voters enacted a novel democracy voucher program for public campaign financing. Under the democracy voucher program, eligible Seattle residents receive four $25 vouchers that they can use toRead More
Free Speech For People Statement on Reports That U.S Senators Sold Stock Following Confidential COVID-19 Briefings. Posted on March 20, 2020 (October 8, 2020) Defending Key Reforms The news that at least two U.S. Senators, Richard Burr (R-NC) and Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), sold major holdings of stock, apparently after receiving confidential briefings on the spread and severity of the coronavirus pandemic, but just before public revelations of that information caused the stock market to crash, is a gut punch to Americans whoseRead More
FSFP Statement Endorsing the Natural Disaster and Emergency Ballot Act of 2020 Posted on March 20, 2020 (June 2, 2020) Election Protection Free Speech For People applauds Senators Klobuchar and Wyden and their colleagues for responding to the COVID-19 pandemic by proposing reasonable, appropriate, and commonsense provisions to ensure the United States will be able to hold free and fair elections while protecting voters, poll workers, and election officials during this crisis. The U.S. election structure is facing unprecedented challenges and extraordinaryRead More