The N.Y. Times reports on efforts by centrists to overturn New Jersey’s ban against fusion voting. Explaining that the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a similar challenge to a Minnesota anti-fusion law in 1997, the article discussions how the current NJ… Continue reading

Tom Edsall gave Rick Pildes the last word–actually the last several paragraphs–in his latest column. Here’s just the very end, quoting from Rick’s 2019 Yale Law Journal article: “In an initial flush of romantic enthusiasm, social media and the… Continue reading

The Washington Post details the GOP’s efforts to recruit both poll workers and poll watchers, with the aim of looking for irregularities. Obviously, it will be worrisome if these recruits fabricate bogus claims of election fraud comparable to Trump’s Big… Continue reading

N.Y. Times on the campaign finance angle raised in Monday’s January 6 committee’s hearing. The body of the article dampens the expectations raised by its headline: “The experts said that any investigation of Mr. Trump’s fund-raising would likely target his… Continue reading

Following yesterday’s Washington Post piece along the same lines, the New York Times has an analysis of the extent to which election denialists have won GOP primaries. Jim Marchant’s apparent victory in yesterday’s Republican primary for Nevada’s Secretary of State… Continue reading

The issue of whether the Justice Department should file criminal charges against former President Trump for the deliberate fraud he perpetrated in claiming the election was stolen when he knew it was not, based on the evidence presented by the… Continue reading

This Washington Post editorial is a welcome reminder of the need to fix this glaring flaw in the state’s rules for processing mailed ballots.

538 analysis of new poll it did with Ipsos. (Thanks to Lee Drutman for tweeting this.) Now, can this increased public concern on the topic serve as a basis for the kind of structural reform necessary to reduce the magnification… Continue reading

Insightful and well-argued column. Only quibble: while I thoroughly agree that the committee is “making a case beyond any reasonable doubt in the court of public opinion” of “Trump’s responsibility for the events of Jan. 6,” does this mean… Continue reading

I’m happy to be participating in this zoom-based event on Thursday (June 16), at 7:30 ET: The Network for Responsible Public Policy, a non-partisan educational forum where experts discuss important public policy issues, presents “America’s Vulnerable Elections.”  This session will… Continue reading

Philip Bump thoroughly debunks Trump’s attempted rebuttal of the January 6 committee’s hearing yesterday. His analysis of Trump’s assertions is methodical and extensive, in Bump’s words, “not because they are deserving of serious consideration but to demonstrate why they aren’t.”… Continue reading

CNN reports.