NYT Guest Essay: Income tax forms are notoriously complicated, but there is one simple question that is missing: “Would you like to register to vote in your home state?” With over 150 million American households filing federal income tax… Continue reading

The dynamics of internet and social-media based disinformation, misinformation, and conspiracy theorizing are similar in the election-law domain and the pandemic/vaccination domain. Although this story involves the issue of vaccinations, the structure of the argument reveals much about our current… Continue reading

From Politico: The poll released Thursday by UC San Diego’s Yankelovich Center found more than two-thirds of the electorate back some form of change, with 40 percent supporting “major” alterations — a 10-point increase compared to the findings of a… Continue reading

Here is Duke’s press release, with information on how to attend virtually. Jonathan Mattingly, referred to below, is one of the very best social scientists who works on redistricting. We worked together on behalf of Common Cause in the challenge… Continue reading

Press Release from the Election Law Journal: New Rochelle, NY, September 27, 2021 — Two surveys conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic showed that support for vote by mail (VBM) fell sharply because Republicans became less worried about catching COVID-19. As… Continue reading

Here’s the abstract from a fascinating new NBER study by Sarah Cohodes & James J. Feigenbaum: In the United States, people with more education vote more. But, we know little about why education increases political participation or whether higher-quality… Continue reading

From CNN: In the days since the final report was released in Arizona last week, Trump and his supporters have ignored its topline result. Instead, they have insisted the review backed up various conspiracy theories they have spent months… Continue reading

The Washington Post has this story: Twitter is testing a host of new features the social network says will boost user safety on the platform, but free speech advocates warn that the tools could be easily exploited by government officials… Continue reading

From the Washington Post: The legislation permanently extends vote-by-mail provisions enacted in California during the coronavirus pandemic. Those provisions were in place during the 2020 election as well as during this month’s unsuccessful campaign to recall Newsom.Even though ballots… Continue reading

From the AP: Days before Germany’s federal elections, Facebook took what it called an unprecedented step: the removal of a series of accounts that worked together to spread COVID-19 misinformation and encourage violent responses to COVID restrictions.The crackdown, announced Sept.… Continue reading

From the Atlanta Journal Constitution: The internal civil war puts the newly minted Trump Ticket — the three Georgia statewide candidates endorsed by the former president — in a strange spot. Do they agree with Trump’s assessment of Kemp,… Continue reading

From Political Wire: “Republicans spent tens of millions of dollars in 2020 to keep Democrats from painting more of Texas blue. Now, the GOP is trying to fireproof its districts with a new map that contains the suburban damage… Continue reading

I’ll be guest blogging this week (and started yesterday). I’ll have a few things to say about what the recent German election and the Democratic Party have in common, after I get posts out this morning collecting recent stories on… Continue reading

I’m a big fan of Iceland, which has one of the richest political and literary histories in the West. So this story from the Washington Post caught my eye: Iceland heralded a weekend election result that would have made it… Continue reading