NBC News: An internal investigation by Facebook has uncovered thousands of groups and pages, with millions of members and followers, that support the QAnon conspiracy theory, according to internal company documents reviewed by NBC News.The investigation’s preliminary results, which were… Continue reading

This NYT story echos my point that the main policy fight over mail-in voting is essentially over. Indeed, the NYT story might underestimate the percentage of voters who will have the option of no-excuse absentee voting, because four of the… Continue reading

AP: About 120,000 inactive Ohio voter registrations will be purged from state voter rolls after the November election, the state elections chief announced Friday, while saying that number could go down if people on the list simply vote in the… Continue reading

A couple weeks ago, Jowei Chen and I posted our forthcoming article, “The Race-Blind Future of Voting Rights.” The replication code and data files for this project are now also available online, along with the appendix. The appendix includes… Continue reading

As if Puerto Rico does not have enough problems already, its voting process for primary elections this weekend collapsed when large quantities of ballots did not arrive at the polling stations. For one report, see here.

This piece, from the Executive Director of the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission, makes good use of my recent work showing how outside spending groups increase internal party conflicts. Some excerpts: “McCain/Feingold is what started the stampede toward… Continue reading

According to this story from Stat News, the money seems to go pretty evenly to both parties, with a slide edge as of now to Republicans (53%).

Nathaniel Lash for NYT Opinion: President Trump has made it clear he’s no fan of mail-in voting. While the president claims he’s concerned about rigged elections and stolen votes, Republicans are also worried that mail-in ballots could favor Democrats. A… Continue reading

NYT editorial.