Using Automated Plan Generation to Evaluate Redistricting Proposals, 59 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1521 (2018). Edward B. Foley, Requiring Majority Winners for Congressional Elections: Harnessing Federalism ...
Votebeat: State election officials are raising legal and practical concerns about a new Trump administration plan to create a digital version of the existing federal voter registration form. Under the ...
NYT: A lawsuit filed on Monday on behalf of four New Yorkers charges that the state’s congressional map unconstitutionally dilutes Black and Latino votes in a district that covers Staten Island and ...
In theory, elections are the greatest safeguard of democracy—but in practice, their integrity is under increasing pressure. This panel assessed the resilience of our electoral systems amid rising ...
The fight for House control in next year’s midterm elections has shifted into unfamiliar terrain: state capitals and courthouses. Rather than recruiting candidates and conductingearly fundraising, ...
A bipartisan ABA Task Force on American Democracy recently endorsed the relegalization of fusion voting as a political reform with significant potential “to combat hyper-partisan polarization and the ...
Indiana Gov. Mike Braun has officially called lawmakers back to the Statehouse for a special session to redraw the Hoosier State’s congressional maps mid-decade, as requested by President Donald Trump ...
Anti-fusion laws arbitrarily prevent voters from associating with a viable candidate without associating with a major party they despise. Where a state bars fusion, voters who align politically with a ...
In Fusion and the Freedom to Associate to a Better Politics, recently presented at a symposium of the Kansas Law Review, and now posted on SSRN, Michael L. Thomas, Jr. and I explain how courts should ...
Florida is considering a move that would give people a closer look at what’s being taught in its public universities — another potential flash point as conservative-led states scrutinize higher ...
NYT: Timothy Mellon, a reclusive billionaire and a major financial backer of President Trump, is the anonymous private donor who gave $130 million to the U.S. government to help pay troops during the ...
Newsmeter: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has issued a fresh advisory setting out stringent norms for the disclosure and responsible use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and synthetic content ...