Windham, New Hampshire, a town with 14,000 residents, found itself in the public eye after the 2020 election. Eight candidates ran for four open seats in the state legislature, and Republicans swept them. Kristi St. Laurent, a Democrat, requested a hand recount. The recount revealed that she had lost by even more votes than initially […]
Election reform in the states is not all...
Throughout 2021, many media and progressive thinkers have propagated a distressing narrative around state elections: GOP state legislators and governors in the grips of a “stolen election myth” are ramming through policies to quash access to the ballot. Democracy is being crushed, they lament…. (Read more)
Election Q&A: Katherine Gehl explains fi
Katherine Gehl is a former corporate CEO, founder of the Institute for Political Innovation, and the co-author, with Harvard Business School professor Michael E. Porter, of “The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy” (2020). Gehl argues that if Americans want results, innovation, and accountability from our elected officials, […]
Why the Electoral Count Act needs reform...
The Electoral Count Act (ECA) burst into the news late last year. Some Republicans claimed this 1887 statute empowered Congress to reject states’ electoral vote slates, which could prevent a presidential candidate from reaching the 270 votes needed to be officially deemed the winner. Under this scenario, the House of Representatives — not voters via […]
Biden’s administrative state erases Trum
The Biden administration proposed more than eight hundred new regulations in its first four months in office. These new rules, which will have the force of law if adopted, were issued by seventy-nine different agencies, from the Agency for International Development to the Workers Compensation Programs Office. The three most prolific of the bunch were […]
New York’s mayoral race shows that ranke
fter an embarrassing administrative gaff, a few zany candidates, and nationwide anticipation, New York City’s final vote tally for the mayoral primaries is in. Eric Adams won the Democratic contest and will face off with long-shot Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa for Gracie Mansion. Both candidates were selected by ranked choice voting—the city’s first mayoral election […]