Many voters—and even party insiders—view our primary system as outdated and blunder-prone. Exactly 1,357 delegates will be up for grabs today on Super Tuesday, the closest thing the U.S. has to a national primary, with 14 states—and American Samoa—casting their votes. That raises the question: Why don’t we have a national primary, where everyone votes on the same day? That idea, and numerous others, have been floated over the years as solutions to what many voters and even party insiders view as an outdated, blunder-prone presidential primary system. Read Full Story

Tuesday’s primary election in Kentucky pits Amy McGrath against Charles Booker. Here’s what to know. Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell faces a reelection race in Kentucky in November, and Tuesday’s Democratic primary will determine his challenger. The primary pits Amy McGrath against Charles Booker—and the race has been upended by the Black Lives Matter movement in the state where Breonna Taylor was shot by police eight times in March. Read Full Story

Peer-to-peer texting platforms make it easy to make a difference. Want to support your candidate on Super Tuesday? Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have the most robust online texting platforms, called “peer-to-peer” texting: You simply follow a few minutes of instructions, and you can start sending text messages to voters online. Here’s how to sign up to help your candidate of choice: Read Full Story

A lot of pop culture references were flying around the late-night talk show circuit to describe Super Tuesday, but one was particularly egregious. The “Read Another Book” movement is a byproduct of the post-2016 tendency to conflate any political element with themes and characters from Harry Potter . Read Full Story

Bernie Sanders leaving the Democratic primary race clears the way for former Vice President Joe Biden. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont announced his withdrawal from the presidential race on Wednesday morning, following Tuesday’s Wisconsin in-person primary. The in-person primary was widely criticized, and Sanders had called for its postponement . Its results will not be announced until next week . Read Full Story

This organization found little ways to help increase midterm voter turnout in 2018. Next up: a 2020 election in a pandemic. Fears of voter suppression are firmly in the minds of many Americans in the lead-up to 2020, especially following the April primary election in Wisconsin when the Supreme Court refused to allow the state to make changes to its voting process, forcing 450,000 people to turn out in person during the height of a global pandemic and preventing an untold number of people from voting at all because they decided to stay home. Still, intentional suppression is just one of many reasons people don’t cast ballots. There are also unintentional barriers, such as complex or outdated registration systems, as well as lack of motivation or know-how on the part of voters. Read Full Story

COVID-19 is certain to be main topic of discussion between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders tonight. Here’s how to stream the debate for free. With the coronavirus pandemic threatening to overburden the healthcare system and plunge the United States into economic chaos, the two remaining viable Democratic candidates will face off in the nation’s capital tonight for the first one-on-one debate of the 2020 presidential primaries. Read Full Story

The vegan protester rushed the stage as the former vice president was giving a victory speech—when Jill Biden stepped in to protect him. Super Tuesday had a few surprises, not the least of which Joe Biden performed better than many expected he would—keeping him a contender to be the next Democratic presidential nominee. But another surprise of the night was when a vegan protester rushed the stage during Biden’s victory speech and was fended off not by the Secret Service but by Biden’s wife, Jill. Read Full Story

Data from IoT devices—someone entering a building, driving, using a sink or coffee machine—could make all of us more susceptible to highly targeted spear-phishing attacks. The app failure that led to a chaotic 2020 Iowa caucus was a reminder of how vulnerable the democratic process is to technological problems—even without any malicious outside intervention. Far more sophisticated foreign hacking continues to try to disrupt democracy, as a rare joint federal agency warning advised prior to Super Tuesday. Russia’s attempt to interfere in the 2016 election has already revealed how this could happen: social media disinformation, email hacking, and probing of voter registration systems. Read Full Story

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