[EL] FW: Healthy Elections Weekly Roundup - Sept. 15 2020

Tue Sep 15 11:09:02 PDT 2020

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From: Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project <mitelectionlab at mit.edu>
Reply-To: Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project <mitelectionlab at mit.edu>
Date: Tuesday, September 15, 2020 at 11:08 AM
To: Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu>
Subject: Healthy Elections Weekly Roundup - Sept. 15 2020

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Healthy Elections Project
Promoting a Safe and Equitable 2020 Election

Welcome to the Healthy Elections Newsletter
Our weekly newsletter features a selection of election-related news, tools, and progress from the Stanford-MIT Project on a Healthy Election.

Newest Updates from the Project

COVID Election Litigation Tracker
Sort, search, and better understand the recent spate of COVID-related election cases with our new election tracker<https://mit.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1c53ea9eb7b39f663ceaee2d4&id=6df74a8a03&e=9135cf1d31>. The database already includes over 300 cases in more than 44 states.
Healthy Elections Map
This past week, we also launched an interactive map<https://mit.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1c53ea9eb7b39f663ceaee2d4&id=d64d14f7bd&e=9135cf1d31> to visualize mail-in balloting and poll worker statistics by state and county, with new features to be added weekly.

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Preparing for November
Healthy Elections has also teamed up with Stanford's d.school to launch a practical guidebook<https://mit.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1c53ea9eb7b39f663ceaee2d4&id=21985ff646&e=9135cf1d31> on running elections during a global pandemic — including poll worker training materials, guidelines for setting up a safe and healthy polling location, and answers to your questions about drop box security and retrieval.

Partner Spotlight: Center for Inclusive Democracy
Our partners at the Center for Inclusive Democracy have designed a user-friendly mapping tool<https://mit.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1c53ea9eb7b39f663ceaee2d4&id=d88ae47c2c&e=9135cf1d31> to aid county election officials in the placement of voting locations. Currently, the Siting Tool is available for Georgia, Arizona, Texas, California, and Colorado, with additional states coming soon.

State Reports
Reports on voting in different states<https://mit.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1c53ea9eb7b39f663ceaee2d4&id=eb094fa5e9&e=9135cf1d31> continue to be published on the Healthy Elections site, with a recent analysis of August elections across sixteen states<https://mit.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1c53ea9eb7b39f663ceaee2d4&id=9e7dd46085&e=9135cf1d31>.

Healthy Elex in the News

  *   Stanford scholars find no partisan advantage for mail-in voting,<https://mit.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1c53ea9eb7b39f663ceaee2d4&id=4a2f60b661&e=9135cf1d31> but look to other challenges coming this fall — with a link to the Healthy Election project's vote-by-mail resource guide<https://mit.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1c53ea9eb7b39f663ceaee2d4&id=f0f20c5813&e=9135cf1d31> | Stanford
  *   Co-director of the Healthy Election project Nathaniel Persily discusses the lawsuit<https://mit.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1c53ea9eb7b39f663ceaee2d4&id=e251d3972e&e=9135cf1d31> against Trump and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy over operations changes that could inhibit mail-in voting | Bloomberg Law
  *   Massachusetts held a relatively smooth election on 9/2<https://mit.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1c53ea9eb7b39f663ceaee2d4&id=666f866d6e&e=9135cf1d31>, benefiting in part from a less politically charged atmosphere, according to co-director of the Healthy Election project, Charles Stewart III | The New York Times
  *   A partnership with <https://mit.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1c53ea9eb7b39f663ceaee2d4&id=2f1c8e245e&e=9135cf1d31> Lawfare<https://mit.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1c53ea9eb7b39f663ceaee2d4&id=903bbb3cd3&e=9135cf1d31> has yielded articles on the USPS<https://mit.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1c53ea9eb7b39f663ceaee2d4&id=97ad76f3ae&e=9135cf1d31>, drop boxes<https://mit.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1c53ea9eb7b39f663ceaee2d4&id=46b4746f1c&e=9135cf1d31>, and lessons from state primaries<https://mit.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1c53ea9eb7b39f663ceaee2d4&id=1bde8b9894&e=9135cf1d31> | Lawfare
  *   Finally, now may be a good time to revisit this piece by Charles Stewart III and Nathaniel Persily<https://mit.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1c53ea9eb7b39f663ceaee2d4&id=3f70d4e88e&e=9135cf1d31> on how states need a strategy for voting in person, as well as voting by mail | The Atlantic
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