Protect Democracy’s Ben Raderstorf and FairVote’s Mike Parsons have written this piece on the lessons that today’s reformers can learn from the wave of electoral systems reform that swept through ...

From the Democracy Docket, we get this warning on the SAVE Act. The Save Act (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act) would require voters to provide proof of citizenship when they are registering ...

The Brennan Center has conducted this analysis, concluding that at least $1.9 billion was spent on online ads in the 2024 election. From the report: Political advertisers spent $1.9 billion on online ...

The prospect of a new political party by Elon Musk is garnering considerable attention. The question for me is whether the focus on third parties will also begin to undermine the American aversion to ...

The Washington Post‘s Editorial Board is taking local officials in DC to task for refusing to implement a voter initiative to use ranked-choice voting in the District. Voters in the District ...

Andrew Albright has published this student note in the California Law Review. Here is the abstract: This Note explores the idea of paying Americans to cast their ballots as a mechanism to increase ...

Rick Pildes covered the exciting news that Heather Gerken is going to head the Ford Foundation, after a successful stint as Yale Law School dean. And even better, as the NYT headline puts it, Ford ...

Florida State University’s Election Law Center now has a place in state statute, even if it didn’t receive full funding. Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed legislation (SB 892) formally establishing the ...

Reckoning with the Undead Irreparable Injury Rule, Review of Litigation (forthcoming 2025), draft available, The Stagnation, Retrogression, and Potential Pro-Voter Transformation of U.S. Election Law ...

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Starting today I’ll be turning over the blogging duties for this week to my friend Guy.

As I highlighted last month, I am deeply skeptical of any third political party venture that purports to represent some middle-of-the-road interests in the United States. Rick P. rightly asks some ...