As a follow-up to yesterday’s post about Henry Olsen’s column on the potential effects of Alaska’s new electoral system (and how it can help non-MAGA Republicans like Lisa Murkowski), there’s new reporting on how dissatisfied Senator Mitch McConnell is with… Continue reading

Miami Herald: Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the arrests of 20 people across Florida — spanning five counties, including Miami-Dade and Broward — on charges of voting illegally, the conclusion of a two-month investigation spearheaded by the governor’s newly-created state… Continue reading

I hope Mitch McConnell and other GOP Senators read Henry Olsen’s new Washington Post column. As regular readers of his columns know, Olsen is no RINO. (See, for example, his GOP-promoting column of August 15.) What’s distinctive and… Continue reading

Reply brief.

Campaign Finance and Election Misinformation (in-person or live-stream options) When it comes to the health of U.S. electoral politics, money and misinformation are prominent concerns.  Campaign spending continues to set records, and false or misleading election-related content proliferates on social… Continue reading

Steven Bradbury, who headed OLC during President George W. Bush’s second term and served as General Counsel of the Department of Transportation in the Trump administration, has written on Substack an extensive analysis of constitutional and statutory issues relating to… Continue reading

AJC: A long-simmering clash between two branches of Georgia government exploded into public view on Wednesday, when an attorney for Gov. Brian Kemp moved to kill a subpoena seeking the Republican’s testimony before the Fulton County special grand jury… Continue reading

ProPublica deep dive.

San Antonio Express-News: The elections administrator in Gillespie County, which includes Fredericksburg, is stepping down Tuesday over death threats, stalking and understaffing that followed the 2020 election, according to the Fredericksburg Standard-Radio Post.“I’m understaffed and underpaid and… Continue reading

You can read the opposition at this link.

This is something.

Echoing Aaron Blake’s analysis in the Washington Post, which I blogged about yesterday, Amy Walter, Jessica Taylor, and Dave Wasserman, all of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter, jointly highlight the importance of the difference in electoral… Continue reading

This interesting new paper by Chris Kenny et al. compares the newly enacted House plans across the country to sets of randomly generated maps. The bottom line is that the House as a whole is just slightly more pro-Republican than… Continue reading

As Rick Pildes observed a few days ago, Alaska’s at-large House seat may show the significance of using different versions of ranked-choice voting. Now that we have some preliminary returns in both the special election and the first round of… Continue reading