Daily Digest for June 23, 2020 Posted at 7:05 a.m. by Cody Nelson
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Good morning. It's Tuesday and we're starting off with talk of Minneapolis police.
As Minneapolis works to reform its police department after George Floyd's Memorial Day killing, the city will need to take on a powerful union. Via AP: "As Minneapolis tries to overhaul its Police Department in the wake of Floyd’s killing, city leaders will collide with a pugnacious and powerful union that has long resisted such change. But that union and [union head Bob] Kroll are coming under greater pressure than ever before , with some members daring to speak out in support of change and police leaders vowing to negotiate a contract tougher on bad cops. ... 'People recognize that this just can’t just be half-baked measures and tinkering around the edges in policy reform. What we’re talking about right now is attacking a full-on culture shift of how police departments in Minneapolis and around the nation operate,' Mayor Jacob Frey said."
Tom Petty's family says President Trump used "I Won't Back Down" at a rally without authorization. As NPR reports, the family is not happy: "Both the late Tom Petty and his family firmly stand against racism and discrimination of any kind," the family said in a statement. " Tom Petty would never want a song of his used for a campaign of hate. He liked to bring people together."
Trump is continuing to protest vote-by-mail with shifting reasoning. NPR debunks the latest: "On Monday, Trump changed his argument again, claiming without evidence that foreign countries would print and send in 'MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS. ... IT WILL BE THE SCANDAL OF OUR TIMES!' he tweeted. Jennifer Morrell, an elections consultant and former local elections official in Utah and Colorado, told NPR that for such a plot to work just for a single ballot, an adversary would need to mimic everything perfectly from the ballot's size, style and even the weight of the paper to the envelope it's mailed in — all of which often changes every election cycle and differs from county to county. 'Ballots are built unique for each election. Each jurisdiction will normally have dozens to hundreds of unique ballot styles. Proofs for each ballot style are reviewed and tested to ensure the ballot scanners will read those ballots and only those ballots,' Morrell said. 'Even ballots created on that system from a previous election cannot be read.'" |
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