The Legal Eagle’s fall 2024 issue is a Special 2024 Election Edition. The issue contains articles on voting restrictions for the 2024 election, how AI affects election integrity, and threats against election workers. A PDF of the Special Election Edition can be downloaded or individual articles can be read and/or printed from The Legal Eagle’s blog, The Lowdown.
Any questions, contact the editor of The Legal Eagle, Jodi L. Miller. She can be reached via email at jmiller@njsbf.org.
Here are the headlines from The Legal Eagle’s Fall 2024 Issue:
Voters in 2024 Election May Face Restrictions
For the 2024 presidential election, voters in 28 states will face restrictions that were not in place for the 2020 election, according to the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan law and policy organization. In its latest “Voting Laws Roundup” from May 2024, the Brennan Center reported that these restrictions include how mail-in ballots are handled and collected, shortened deadlines for requesting absentee ballots, and additional requirements for voter registration organizations. READ MORE
Artificial Intelligence and Election Integrity–A Global Problem
n January 2024, in the midst of the Democratic presidential primary season, some voters in New Hampshire received a robocall supposedly from President Joe Biden urging them to save their vote for the November election.
Here’s what the call said: “This coming Tuesday is the New Hampshire Presidential Preference Primary. Republicans have been trying to push nonpartisan and Democratic voters to participate in their primary. What a bunch of malarkey. We know the value of voting Democratic when our votes count. It’s important that you save your vote for the November election. We’ll need your help in electing Democrats up and down the ticket. Voting this Tuesday only enables the Republicans in their quest to elect Donald Trump again. Your vote makes a difference in November, not this Tuesday.” READ MORE
Threats to Election Workers Threatens Democracy
Running America’s elections—whether it’s a presidential election, a mid-term election or an off-year election—is a lot of work. Yet, every Election Day election officials and poll workers work diligently to make elections across the country run smoothly.
According to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC), an independent government agency that serves as a resource for election administration, more than 150,000 polling places across the country were open for the 2022 mid-term elections. Those locations were staffed by more than 600,000 poll workers. READ MORE
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