Be patient on election night 2020. Counting the returns will take time - Poynter
It’s time to let go of old ideas about how election night will work. This November, there’s a good chance we won’t have a clear winner in the wee hours of the morning. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, many states are urging residents to vote by mail, and election officials are bracing for a more time-consuming ballot-counting process.
An Hour-by-Hour Guide to Election Night - WSJ
Citing a surge of mailed ballots, numerous states have said they expect to need extra time to do their counting. The ballots pose challenges for election workers because they can involve manual processing, such as removing them by hand from envelopes and verifying them as valid before feeding them into counting machines. Processing of those ballots can’t start until Election Day in some states, including Pennsylvania and Michigan. In other states, there might not be full results until days after Election Day. This is a guide for watching election results, based on East Coast times.
How foreign influence efforts are targeting journalists -The Washington Post
After widespread analysis of disinformation tactics in the 2016 U.S. election and the 2017 French presidential election, among others, many analysts expected to see more of the same in 2020. New analysis in the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy’s latest report, “The New Weapon of Choice: Technology and Information Operations Today” notes these “hack-and-leak” operations would probably pose a significant risk in the 2020 elections.
Fear Of Voter Intimidation Is Its Own Voter Intimidation - FiveThirtyEight
“There’s a danger in overplaying this risk and making it seem more dangerous than it actually is,” Cooter said. “In a way that could have a suppressive effect on desire to go vote.”
Safety Checklist for November
This document is meant to help you take some precautions and map how you plan on acting, engaging, or abstaining from action in November. Remember: each of us has a different risk model, meaning that we all know best what we can or can’t handle, have the capacity for, or expertise on.
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