Eric Maskin and I have written a Washington Post column explaining how a Total Vote Runoff version of Ranked Choice Voting is a small but significant adjustment to the “instant runoff” method used in Alaska (and elsewhere). The only change… Continue reading

An astute reader of my previous blog post, The Problem with Pendulum Politics, inquired why it might be necessary to abandon America’s longstanding electoral system of partisan primaries followed by plurality-winner general elections, when that system served the country… Continue reading

Pew Research Center: Two years ago, shortly before the 2020 presidential election, Republicans’ trust in the nation’s election system had eroded considerably. Today, with the midterm elections approaching, widespread GOP distrust persists – and in some cases has deepened.… Continue reading

Jerry Goldfeder’s latest.

VoteBeat: Federal marshals escorted two leaders of True the Vote out of a Houston courtroom on Monday morning and into a holding cell. Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips have been held in contempt of court for refusing to release the… Continue reading

ProPublica reports.

Politico: Congressional investigators have obtained eight disputed emails that attorney John Eastman — a key architect of Donald Trump’s effort to subvert the 2020 election — had asked a federal appeals court to shield from lawmakers.Eastman revealed in a Sunday… Continue reading

Vox: In the lead-up to the November midterm elections, groups that have allied themselves with former President Donald Trump and Republicans have encouraged people to stake out polling sites — with the explicit goal of building a case to… Continue reading

CPI: In 2020, ballot drop boxes were a sturdy, metallic symbol of increased voter access amid a pandemic. Absentee and mail voting surged across the country, and voters used drop boxes to return 41% of those ballots.Two years later, they’ve… Continue reading

Francis Wilkinson column for Bloomberg.

AP reports. If Republicans take control, one could imagine a reversal of the holding that the state constitution contains controls on partisan gerrymandering. Depending on when that happens, it could moot the Moore v. Harper case pending before the US… Continue reading

Another must-listen podcast (in my judgment): this one from Ezra Klein, interviewing John Sides and Lynn Vavreck about their new book, Bitter End (also co-authored with Chris Tausanovitch). I’ve starting reading the book, and so far it’s a must-read, but… Continue reading

You can find the motion here: For the past two weeks, Defendants have incited and engaged in a campaign of voter intimidation at ballot drop boxes in Arizona, with the express purpose of keeping people from using them to… Continue reading

AP reports.