Ranked-choice voting passed another big test in New York City. Around 800,000 New Yorkers voted in last week’s Democratic mayoral primary. Now as the final vote tallies come in, despite city officials’ mishandling of the vote tally, we can see that critics’ worst fears about this voting system were needless. The city’s Board of Elections […]
How Utah balances ballot access and elec...
By all accounts, Utah ran its 2020 elections very well, avoiding the political acrimony and lawsuits that have occurred in Arizona and some other states. Utah’s election policies enable ease of access to ballot while maintaining high security. How did Utah strike this balance? To answer this question, I spoke with Amelia Powers Gardner….(Read more)
Could Kamala Harris Steal the 2024 Elect...
I had fun writing this piece. Of course, the odds of such are scenario are very long—not least because midterms tend to be cruel to the incumbent party, and the Democrats hold a very narrow majority. But the point was to illustrate that the Electoral Count Act is flawed—and a confluence of events could lead […]
States election adaptations during the p...
COVID-19 forced states to make myriad adjustments to their elections administration in order to ensure sufficient access to the ballot. Changes included expanding voter access to the use of absentee ballots, extending voter registration deadlines, and increasing the number of polling places, among others. How well did states do in adapting their elections administration? To […]
Election reform and the political right:...
A major media narrative stipulates that the political right has gone mad and is ruthlessly proceeding to change state election laws to suppress Democratic voters — with Georgia being a prime example. This characterization is grotesque, as is plain to anyone who bothers to look at the new election laws in Georgia and Florida. Yet, […]
Georgia’s election law and voter suppres
The media has published many stories about voter suppression — many of which advance a narrative that Republican-controlled state legislatures are trying to curb the right to vote. Georgia’s Election Integrity Act (SB 202) received especially intense opprobrium, and has been denounced as Jim Crow 2.0. Should Americans be alarmed that voter suppression is on […]