“Accelerating Election Science”
Election Updates has the details of this important new report.
All posts by Ned Foley
House hearing on election subversion
Scheduled for July 28, noon ET.
Trump’s efforts to “primary” Cheney
Politico goes deep into the details of former president Trump’s concerted plans to oust Rep. Liz Cheney as revenge for her commitment to honest vote-counting. Particularly interesting are the efforts to change the rules to make it more difficult for… Continue reading
The latest on battle for electoral reform
NY Times reports on the divide among Democrats. I continue to believe that the short-term strategy should be a stand-alone bill focused solely on combatting partisan gerrymandering, to test the possibility of getting 60 votes in the Senate. If there… Continue reading
A positive bipartisan development
Paul Kane of The Washington Post tweets about a new bill, jointly sponsored by Rep. Rodney Davis and Rep. Abigail Spanberger, to deal with the problem of a presidential candidate dying during critical time periods in the Electoral College process.… Continue reading
We are not in Walter Cronkite’s world
CBS News has a new poll showing that 73% of the voters who (mistakenly) believe there was “widespread fraud” in the 2020 election say they heard this from “reports on the news”; by contrast, only 49% say they heard this… Continue reading
Pew survey: views on voting
What jumped out most to me on a first quick look at these numbers was the racial divide on whether voting is a “fundamental right” or instead a “privilege”. Blacks split 77-21 in favor of “fundamental right.” Asians and Hispanics… Continue reading
A tell from Trump’s money?
This Washington Post story, on Trump’s PAC not spending for the pseudo-audits of the 2020 election, suggests instead that he’s saving the funds for a 2024 run, or perhaps to dole out in the midterms. The most interesting nugget,… Continue reading
House Hardball, part 2
Nick Stephanopoulos makes some fair points in response to my post on whether, in the absence of a new Act of Congress, the House can or should refuse to seat winning candidates solely on the ground that their districts were… Continue reading
Will Pelosi add Kinzinger …
… to the January 6 select committee? Reports are that she might.
Trump on tape about Jefferson & 1800 election
It’s fascinating to hear Trump talk about the historical example that Bruce Ackerman and David Fontana wrote about in their article, Thomas Jefferson Counts Himself into the Presidency. One could rehash how that precedent should be characterized (a point… Continue reading
Collateral damage from ersatz audits
Another state is afflicted with Arizona’s problem: a county’s voting machines have been decertified, because they became ensnared in a pseudo-audit that “was not transparent or bipartisan” (as Pennsylvania’s acting Secretary of State determined). What’s the county going to… Continue reading
Brennan Center Updates Report
Voting Laws Roundup: July 2021. I saw this just after posting on Politfact’s caution on the need to be nuanced when characterizing these new state laws. To the Brennan Center’s credit, this July update prominently states up front: “The… Continue reading
Nuanced Analysis of New Laws
Kudos to Politifact for this careful and detailed explanation of the degree to which the new state laws on voting make it harder to vote in those states.
Their analysis makes clear that they considered only the issue of retrogression:… Continue reading