Jim Saksa

Jim covers election-related matters at the federal level. He previously reported for CQ Roll Call, WHYY and Philadelphia City Paper. Before journalism, Jim misspent some of his youth as a corporate attorney.

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Election deniers say an obscure rule on Wi-Fi routers means Trump can decide how votes are counted. Here’s why they’re wrong

The convoluted plan rests on a dubious legal theory: that a little-used Commerce Department regulation on “Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain” that mostly covers Wi-Fi routers and antivirus apps actually authorizes Lutnick to order sweeping changes to voting machine systems and mandate hand counts of ballots across the country.

By Jim Saksa

A few noncitizen votes are a scandal. But thousands of rejected ballots are business as usual

If a tiny number of noncitizen votes compromised the integrity of New Jersey’s elections, the exponentially larger number of ballots from valid voters that were rejected due to strict interpretations of the rules — often enforced in ways that err on the side of suppression, rather than inclusion — surely did even more damage. And yet, the issue has spurred no investigations, no calls for new legislation loosening voting or counting rules, and no impassioned denunciations from lawmakers.

By Jim Saksa

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