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 […]
Reviving earmarks the right way: Some ad...
The Democratic leadership in Congress is currently making fast moves toward reimplementing earmarks after a 10-year moratorium. This is a very positive development to re-empower legislators to direct needed federal resources to local and regional needs. As we’ve written in our recent AEI report, the earmark moratorium failed: It did not reduce discretionary spending, it […]
Why did the U.S. Postal Service’s perfor
Last week, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hauled Postmaster General Louis DeJoy before it and spent the better part of five and a half hours denouncing him.In part, majority Democrats were politicking — —they rehashed their calumny that DeJoy was a Trumpy mephistopheles who plotted to steal the election by delaying mail-in ballots. […]
The return of earmarks: A Q&A on what’s
Various reports indicate that congressional Democrats intend to bring back earmarks. Politico quoted Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) as saying they will return, and that House Appropriations Chair Rosa DeLauro “is working through the details of a reformed process.” This news is not a bolt out of the blue. Last week, an AEI report by Professor […]