From Washington Post: “What’s interesting is that Trump is now the leader of the resistance,” said Simon Rosenberg, founder of the liberal NDN think tank. “He can do a lot to make it far more difficult under what is… Continue reading

Let’s say the probability of a recount in state 1 changing the result of the initially tabulated vote in favor of losing candidate B is 0.2% (I made the 0.2% figure up just for illustration). But B needs to have… Continue reading

Jeb Bush has a very good point-by-point account of how Florida, after the 2000 Bush v. Gore debacle, dramatically modernized its election system to give us one of the best run states this year. He lists 11 changes, too much… Continue reading

In the key states we are still waiting on, it looks like Libertarian candidates received considerably more votes than the margins Trump is losing by currently. These numbers can of course change, and don’t assume anywhere near all Libertarian voters… Continue reading

This is the most in-depth story I’ve seen, from the Detroit Free Press, about how the ballot processing went on in one particularly important location, Detroit. Rick linked to it below, but I wanted to highlight that it contains all… Continue reading

This is an extremely responsible, important statement from the majority leaders of the PA Senate and House. It deserves wide circulation because it makes clear that the voters will decide the election. This statement goes a long way to ensuring… Continue reading

These are comments from City Commission Chairwoman Lisa Deeley. She is the one who wrote the letter to state officials worrying that there could be 100,000 of these ballots statewide: Tuesday, she was here to tell you, was an utter… Continue reading

The Washington Post has published this new op-ed of mine. As readers here know, I made my efforts to change this situation, now all that’s left is to assign blame: Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor and Republican legislature will both deserve blame… Continue reading

From the WSJ’s excellent technology writer, Johanna Stern: The first rule of election social media is: You do not use election social media. We should all take the occasional social-media break in our lives—right now’s a great time. My… Continue reading

North Carolina has a lower percentage of votes being cast absentee than many states. According to the most recent data, about 21% of the votes cast thus far have been by absentee ballot, with the rest coming from early in-person… Continue reading

See this story in the NYT, focusing on one official in a small county in PA.

In advance of a possible Susan Collins loss in Maine, the headline writers at the New York Times and Washington Post are blaming Maine’s ranked-choice voting system (don’t blame the authors of these stories, they do not control the headlines).… Continue reading