Two articles on ranked-choice voting and the New York City primary here and here.

Glenn Thrush and Julian Barnes reporting here. From the article: The Trump administration appears to be targeting officials who oversaw the investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign’s connections to Russia, examining the actions of the former F.B.I. director James… Continue reading

David Yaffe-Bellany and Kenneth Vogel of The New York Times provide an interesting account of how crypto lobbyists won over President Trump. Here are some key excerpts: Just over a year ago, while sitting around a table in an ornate… Continue reading

Protect Democracy’s Ben Raderstorf and FairVote’s Mike Parsons have written this piece on the lessons that today’s reformers can learn from the wave of electoral systems reform that swept through American cities between 1915 and 1950, when many cities adopted… Continue reading

From the Democracy Docket, we get this warning on the SAVE Act. The Save Act (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act) would require voters to provide proof of citizenship when they are registering to vote in federal elections. According… Continue reading

The Brennan Center has conducted this analysis, concluding that at least $1.9 billion was spent on online ads in the 2024 election. From the report: Political advertisers spent $1.9 billion on online ads for the 2024 election on the four… Continue reading

The prospect of a new political party by Elon Musk is garnering considerable attention. The question for me is whether the focus on third parties will also begin to undermine the American aversion to proportional representation. Ross Douthat has… Continue reading

The Washington Post‘s Editorial Board is taking local officials in DC to task for refusing to implement a voter initiative to use ranked-choice voting in the District. Voters in the District overwhelmingly approved an initiative that adopts ranked-choice voting and… Continue reading

There has been considerable attention to a slight shift to the right among some nonwhite voters in the 2024 Presidential election. See, for example, here, here, and here. Lenny Bronner and Andrew Van Dam have a story … Continue reading

Politico‘s Michael Schaffer has this piece on the complications of covering our gerontocratic political representatives. The subject in this case is D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton. The story also raises a question about the ethical responsibility of journalists when they… Continue reading

Great thanks to Rick Pildes for doing a fantastic job on the blog this past week. As he mentioned, I’ll be your cruise director for the remainder of the week.

Starting today I’ll be turning over the blogging duties for this week to my friend Guy.

An initial big question here is whether enough credible candidates will be willing to run under this party label. Especially since Musk has tried to define in advance the major policy positions of the party. If states permitted fusion candidacies,… Continue reading

As Elon Musk announces his effort to form a new party here, it’s worth noting that even in the UK, the home of the first-past-the-post electoral system, we are seeing the traditionally dominant two major parties losing support to new… Continue reading