The Hill. The potential three-way race between incumbent Sinema as an independent, Gallego as the Democrat, and Lake as the Republican, is reason to consider alternative forms of Ranked Choice Voting, including the Total Vote Runoff procedure. The existing plurality-winner… Continue reading

Burgess Everrett in POLITICO: “Manchin doesn’t see a No Labels run the same way most Democrats do. In an interview, he questioned the assumption that it would inevitably be a spoiler for Democrats.”

The Hill: “A Monmouth University poll found 30 percent think Biden won because of voter fraud, a result that “has been a nearly constant percentage” in the polling since the presidential election in November 2020. That figure includes 68… Continue reading

ABC News: ‘As part of their probe, Georgia Elections Board investigators interviewed a social media user who “admitted he created a fake account and confirmed the content that was posted on the account was fake,” the new report said.… Continue reading

Kyle Cheney in POLITICO: “Bar authorities say Eastman’s scheme began after basic legal challenges to the election results failed to influence the outcome — despite Trump’s repeated efforts to sow false claims of election fraud. Eastman spent much of… Continue reading

NC Newsline (via Electionline). “The Southern Coalition for Social Justice and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP asked the court to declare the law unconstitutional on Fourteenth Amendment grounds.” The suit cites the specific history of law, dating back to 1877… Continue reading

Mark Neisse in the Atlanta Constitution-Journal. “The board concluded that Fulton, a bastion of Democratic voters, made significant corrections to election operations over the past two years during a performance review started by Republican state legislators under a voting law… Continue reading

A NY Times explainer. A couple of additional points on this. First, the article states: “Mr. Debs ran for the Socialist Party in 1920 and received about 3 percent of the vote.” True, but it might be worth noting also… Continue reading

Over at the DemocracySoS Substack, Steven Hill adds another post to the dialogue he’s been having with Lee Drutman. Their debate is over fusion voting and, in particular, how it compares to Ranked Choice Voting in solving some of… Continue reading

Watch him tell Brett Baier: “They were counting ballots, not the authenticity of the ballot. The ballots were fake ballots.” He still has no answer for the point that the courts all ruled those accurately counted ballots to be… Continue reading

            John C. Breckinridge was Vice President of the United States in 1860, when he ran for the presidency as the nominee of Southern Democrats, who had split from the northern wing of the party (which nominated Stephen Douglas). Lincoln… Continue reading

Interesting paper showing turnout effects during Jim Crow from Confederate monuments. Here’s the abstract: Confederate monuments have become central to modern debates over racism and discrimination in America. In this paper, I explore the contemporaneous socio-political effects of Confederate monuments… Continue reading

Newsday reports on last-minute move by New York’s legislature, which now moves to the governor.

N.Y. Times: ‘But the mistrust of early voting that Mr. Trump planted still permeates the G.O.P., leaving many holdouts among election deniers, who called the acceptance of mail-in ballots misguided. “They are 100 percent wrong,” Mike Lindell, the MyPillow… Continue reading