Must read: A lot of significant new information in this ABC story . One of the most significant is that Pence, and presumably many others around him, fully understood that that there would be a shift in the vote toward… Continue reading

From the Washington Post: The Republican Party’s finances are increasingly worrisome to party members, advisers to former president Donald Trump, and other operatives involved in the 2024 election effort, according to 10 people familiar with the matter…. Donors have… Continue reading

This piece is from @gideonrachman, the Financial Times’ chief foreign affairs commentator (I believe it’s paywalled.) For an extended academic discussion of these issues, see my piece, “Political Fragmentation in the Democracies of the West.” From Rachman: “Political groups… Continue reading

This Nate Cohn piece for the NYT argues that we should take seriously the results from a number of recent polls which converge on the finding that young voters are more divided on a Biden-Trump contest than in 2020. But… Continue reading

One county in critical swing state of PA continues to have problems with its touch-screen voting machines. It’s a good thing the system prints out paper recordings of their vote that voters can check, which is one of the policies… Continue reading

Boulder elected its mayor for the first time and also used ranked-choice voting to do so. This was an example of a “come from behind” RCV win. In the initial tally, two candidates from the Boulder Progressives split the vote… Continue reading

The GOP Conference Rules employ a version of ranked-choice voting to find the candidate with majority support in the caucus as a Speaker candidate. If there’s no majority winner when more than two candidates run, the bottom one is eliminated… Continue reading

Wednesday, the Court is going to hear its first case from this round of re-districting on whether race unconstitutionally predominated in the drawing of a congressional district, in this case CD 1 in South Carolina (R. Nancy Mace’s district).  There’s… Continue reading

Tom Edsall in the NYT does a masterful job synthesizing the state-of-the-art empirical knowledge on how changes in recent years to the way elections are financed have contributed to polarization and extremism. Relying on this data, the piece makes two… Continue reading

I’ve been saying in recent years, as in this 2017 post here, that our politics has become existential to many on both sides. Existential politics is very different from political polarization. There can be sharp differences between parties when they… Continue reading

I do not think the affirmative action cases, or Shelby County, directly cast doubt on the constitutionality of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Louisiana has now raised this question in its letter filing with the Fifth Circuit in… Continue reading

I’ve started reading the new paper Rick H. links to a few posts below. This paper is going to be pored over by those interested in voting laws and policies. Here’s another paragraph from the paper: [W]e believe that the… Continue reading