In-person voting is going to remain critical this fall – far moreso than is widely recognized currently.  Yet as of now, many election officials are assuming they must ensure 6 feet of social distance between the actual polling booths;… Continue reading

Very significant that Michelle Obama’s speech last night (transcript here) emphasized the importance of voting in person. That’s a signal that the discussion among Democrats is beginning to turn in this direction.

Once again, the Trump administration has strongly endorsed no-excuse absentee voting – the form of voting that matters most this fall.  This time the endorsement came from Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, whom Jake Tapper interviewed this Sunday.  As usual,… Continue reading

As a follow-up to Dr. Fauci’s comments on the safety of in-person voting, it is worth noting that, back in April, South Korea was one of the first countries to hold major national elections since the pandemic began. South Korea… Continue reading

This is a critically important statement from Dr. Fauci, from this interview two days ago. It’s important that people have the option of voting by mail, which at least 80% or so of voters will now have. But as a… Continue reading

The Daily Beast has this story about a 17-minute documentary which was to have appeared at the Democratic Convention in WI, about the tremendous turnout Democrats had in WI’s April 7th primary. I quoted the subtitle to the story, because… Continue reading

As this blog recently noted here, Senator Rubio has introduced legislation to change the two key dates in the federal law that governs the electoral college process. Ned Foley and I today published this op-ed in The Hill, aiming… Continue reading

Once again, as this CNN story recounts, President Trump strongly endorsed absentee voting even as he criticized “universal mail-in voting.” And once again, journalists completely fail to recognize the significance of his endorsement of absentee voting. I am going to… Continue reading

Original perspective here on this issue, from a new academic article by Ryan Doefler and Sam Moyn. In the same spirit as Mark Tushnet’s book from several years back, Taking the Constitution Away from the Courts. Here is the abstract:… Continue reading

This NYT story echos my point that the main policy fight over mail-in voting is essentially over. Indeed, the NYT story might underestimate the percentage of voters who will have the option of no-excuse absentee voting, because four of the… Continue reading

As if Puerto Rico does not have enough problems already, its voting process for primary elections this weekend collapsed when large quantities of ballots did not arrive at the polling stations. For one report, see here.

This piece, from the Executive Director of the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission, makes good use of my recent work showing how outside spending groups increase internal party conflicts. Some excerpts: “McCain/Feingold is what started the stampede toward… Continue reading

According to this story from Stat News, the money seems to go pretty evenly to both parties, with a slide edge as of now to Republicans (53%).

This is a good survey article by Brendan Nyhan about what we know (or wrongly think we know) about misinformation regarding factual matters, including on policy and politics: the sources of misinformation, the distribution of public beliefs about it, and… Continue reading