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“What do redistricting advocates do now?”
From this Washington Post piece by Amber Phillips:
That’s what redistricting advocates in North Carolina plan to do next. “North Carolina can’t force redistricting reform on its legislature, but it can take it to the state courts, and we will… Continue reading
“How John Roberts Might Allow Trump to Resurrect the Census Question”
I have posted this piece at Slate. It begins:
Despite a favorable ruling for opponents of the census citizenship question on Thursday, the Supreme Court did not definitively decide to exclude citizenship question from the 2020 census. Indeed, I… Continue reading
The Dark Future of Gerrymandering
After today’s disastrous decision, here are some things that line-drawers could do in the future:
Instruct a computer algorithm to generate huge numbers of maps that comply with all nonpartisan criteria and produce as large and durable an advantage as… Continue reading
“A Lot of Candidates May Make It Seem Like Democracy Is Working, But It Isn’t”
That’s the title on Larry Bartel’s op-ed in today’s NYT about reforming the presidential primary process. It’s noteworthy that there’s been an outpouring of commentary and academic work in the past few years urging re-consideration of the nominations process we… Continue reading
New York Weighs in At SCOTUS in Census Citizenship Question Case to Urge Court Not to Decide Equal Protection Question Not Before It.
The latest missive.
“The Cybersecurity 202: Elizabeth Warren aims for the fences on election security”
WaPo:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), the top-polling candidate in the first Democratic presidential debate tonight, also has the most ambitious plan for how to protect U.S. elections from foreign hackers.But that aim-for-the-fences approach, which Warren introduced in an eight-page … Continue reading
“Our next election is dangerously vulnerable, a top Democrat warns. Does Trump care?”
Important Greg Sargent interview with Sen. Wyden.
View My Opening Statement to House Judiciary Committee Hearing About Foreign Interference in 2016 and 2020 Elections
“California political parties couldn’t use ‘independent’ in their names under proposal”
LAT:
With potentially hundreds of thousands of California voters under the mistaken belief that they are registered as independent from partisan affiliation, newly drafted state legislation could end the confusion by forcing one minor political party to change its… Continue reading
“Voting machine giant lobbies for paper ballots over election security concerns”
CNN:
The US’s largest election equipment manufacturer has begun quietly lobbying Congress to force all voting equipment to create a paper trail, a sharp departure after years of selling paperless digital machines that can’t be fully audited. The change… Continue reading
“People Who Can’t Vote Still Count Politically in America. What if That Changes?”
NYT’s The UpShot reports.