In what some have described as “the biggest win yet for political reform,” voters in Alaska in the 2020 elections adopted a ballot measure that replaced partisan primaries with a “top-four” primary election and ranked choice voting in… Continue reading

President Biden’s Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States voted today to submit its final report to the President. I am honored to have served on the Commission, which also included a number of academics and others who… Continue reading

I’ll be delivering this address later today at the 12th Annual Loyola Constitutional Law Colloquium. The address is based on my recent article entitled Political Fragmentation in the Democracies of the West.

Rick Hasen links to the new FEC report on federal election spending over time. In addition to reporting the data, the FEC says spending has increased dramatically over time, “particularly after the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United.” Spending has… Continue reading

From the Desert News: Ranked choice voting made its debut across 21 Utah municipalities Tuesday. And while the results are still preliminary, we’re starting to gauge how Utah clerks, voters and candidates feel about the system that’s been touted as… Continue reading

This story out of Mass. highlights the problems that can arise when legislators split election precincts to pursue their own ends in redistricting. From MassLive: New political boundaries for the Massachusetts House and Senate became official Thursday as Gov.… Continue reading

Terrific WP piece by Ray LaRaja and Alexander Theodoridis  on how the VA GOP found its way to a more electable nominee for governor through the use of ranked-choice voting. The story does not highlight this additional fact: party leaders… Continue reading

Texas attracted national attention for a variety of changes it made to its voting policies. The new state law banned two practices that Houston had used for the first time during the pandemic election: 24 hour voting and drive-thru voting.… Continue reading

Any guesses as to what election board this refers to?? It’s the NYC Election Board, as lovingly described by the New York Times. Here’s more of the Times disemboweling of the Board: If you built a laboratory solely to… Continue reading

As the subtitle says, this Washington Post three-part immersive series examines Jan. 6 and its fallout through audio, video, photography and revelatory new reporting. The Washington Post today released a three-part investigation into the forces that led to the… Continue reading

VA made a change in its election-administration policies after the 2020 election that I and many others had been advocating. In 2020, state law barred officials from starting to process must absentee ballots before polls had closed. This year, election… Continue reading

This is the opening of a Politico deep dive into the riveting Democratic Party primary for a Senate seat in NC: By the time Jeff Jackson got here, he already had been to 95 of the 100 counties in the… Continue reading

From the Washington Post: As Vice President Mike Pence hid from a marauding mob during the Jan. 6 invasion of the Capitol, an attorney for President Donald Trump emailed a top Pence aide to say that Pence had caused… Continue reading

Washington Post: Tucker Carlson, the most popular voice in conservative media, drew condemnation Thursday for the trailer of a new series he plans to debut next week promising to “tell the true story” of the Jan. 6 insurrection, in which… Continue reading