electoral system

Mobilizing to Protect Electoral Integrity

By Dan Nexon

On March 27, 2020

Over at the Duck of Minerva, two Indiana University professors – Jeffrey C. Isaac and W. Kindred Winecoff – have a post about the petition they've been circulating to protect the integrity of U.S. elections. Here's an excerpt: Last Wednesday the two of us circulated...

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Tell me this is a joke & not a terribly wrong takeaway from the UK election

By Shakezula

On June 9, 2017

I say this in the spirit not of gloating but wistfulness: Bernie would've fucking won. — Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) June 9, 2017 Please. Thank you. https://youtu.be/kJVROcKFnBQ

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Meanwhile, in sweet Virginia

By Shakezula

On January 16, 2016

Admit it, if you were asked to name a current cause of voter disenfranchisement, you'd say voter identification requirements. You would, wouldn't you? Having to show identification in order.

The Folly of Local Control In Federal Elections

By Scott Lemieux

In "federalism" , electoral system

On September 14, 2007

I have a new article up at TAP about how the collective action problems surrounding attempts to "reform" the distribution of California's electoral votes to help the GOP is an outgrowth of the foolish (or at least anachronistic) decision to leave most of the standards...