I have posted on SSRN a very close to final version of this paper, to be published in the University of New Hampshire Law Review. Here is the abstract: Total Vote Runoff (TVR) is an electoral system designed to be… Continue reading

I’ve posted another paper on SSRN. Here’s its abstract: Total Vote Runoff (TVR) is an electoral system designed to be identical to Instant Runoff Voting (IRV), which is the most commonly understood and implemented form of Ranked Choice Voting… Continue reading

I have posted this new paper on SSRN. Here’s the abstract: It is possible to end gerrymandering by removing the power to draw district lines from government officials and giving this power to the voters themselves. In a self-districting… Continue reading

This Friday, December 9 at noon (ET), Election Law at Ohio State is hosting a roundtable of election law experts, as we have previously. This time is to reflect on the 2022 midterms and consider key issues confronting our election… Continue reading

From the Washington Post, with details over allegations relating to the counting of ballots especially in Maricopa County.

Since publication of the Washington Post column describing the “Total Vote Runoff” variation on Ranked Choice Voting, questions have arisen about the relationship of this procedure to what is known in the electoral systems literature as Baldwin’s method. The two… Continue reading

As noted when I blogged about the Washington Post column on the “Total Vote Runoff” variation of Ranked Choice Vote (co-authored with Eric Maskin), a mathematical feature of this method is that it will elect a Condorcet Winner–the candidate who… Continue reading

On Election Night in 2012, I first noticed the phenomenon that I termed the “blue shift” and since 2020 has often been called “the red mirage.” While watching the returns coming in, I was attempting to calculate what… Continue reading

I had the opportunity to discuss Ranked Choice Voting on WOSU All Sides with Ann Fisher. (Mike Thompson was substituting for Ann Fisher today.) I was fortunate to be joined in the conversation by Nate Atkinson, who teaches… Continue reading

Eric Maskin and I have written a Washington Post column explaining how a Total Vote Runoff version of Ranked Choice Voting is a small but significant adjustment to the “instant runoff” method used in Alaska (and elsewhere). The only change… Continue reading

An astute reader of my previous blog post, The Problem with Pendulum Politics, inquired why it might be necessary to abandon America’s longstanding electoral system of partisan primaries followed by plurality-winner general elections, when that system served the country… Continue reading

Another must-listen podcast (in my judgment): this one from Ezra Klein, interviewing John Sides and Lynn Vavreck about their new book, Bitter End (also co-authored with Chris Tausanovitch). I’ve starting reading the book, and so far it’s a must-read, but… Continue reading

Two weeks out from Election Day, many of the most closely watched and competitive statewide races are between a MAGA Republican and a Democrat. Here are few examples: Arizona’s gubernatorial race between Kari Lake and Katie Hobbs New Hampshire’s Senate… Continue reading