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Auditing the 2020 General Election in Georgia: Residual Vote Rates and a Confusing Ballot Format
INTRODUCTION The 2020 general election was unique in American history. Conducted during the country's worst public health crisis since the Spanish Flu of 1918, millions of voters who would ordinarily have voted in person instead cast ballots by mail (Sprunt 2020).
Virtual Special Issue: Ballot Access and Voting Restrictions
With many states passing laws making it harder to vote and ongoing litigation and investigations into the conduct of the 2020 elections, confidence in the democratic process is under fire. Rather than despairing about the state of our electoral institutions, consult cutting-edge research on how elections work and how to make the process of voting better.
Voting Lines, Equal Treatment, and Early Voting Check-In Times in Florida
Amos, Brian, Smith, Daniel A., Ste. Claire, Casey. 2017. “Reprecincting and Voting Behavior.” Political Behavior 39 (1): 133–56. Google Scholar | Crossref Ansolabehere, Stephen, Hersh, Eitan. 2012. “Validation: What Big Data Reveal about Survey Misreporting and the Real Electorate.” Political Analysis 20 (4): 437–59. Google Scholar | Crossref Ansolabehere, Stephen, Hersh, Eitan. 2014. “Voter Registration: The Process and Quality of Lists.” In The Measure of American Elections, eds.
Analysis | Nearly 4 million black voters are missing. This is why.
Blacks in the United States die younger and are jailed at much higher rates than whites. While both these disparities are widely known, few people consider how profoundly they shift the economic and sociopolitical balance of racial power between these two racial groups. To state the obvious, Americans who are dead or in jail cannot vote (with few exceptions to the latter, but not many).
We can’t find any evidence of voting fraud in New Hampshire.
President Trump and his staff continue to claim that voter fraud tainted the 2016 election. Most recently, Trump said that Massachusetts residents were bused into New Hampshire to vote. According to Trump adviser Stephen Miller, “I can tell you that this issue of busing voters into New Hampshire [from Massachusetts] is widely known by anyone who’s worked in New Hampshire politics. It’s very real.
We checked Trump’s allegations of voter fraud. We found no evidence at all.
With recounts underway and President-elect Donald Trump alleging that Democrats benefited from illegal voting, the Nov. 8 election is under intense scrutiny. Although voter fraud in U.S. elections is extremely rare, Trump, Mike Pence and others have claimed during the campaign, during early voting and again this week that Trump might be the victim of voter fraud.
If Obama appoints Scalia’s successor, the Supreme Court will really jump leftward
Republicans and Democrats are already sharply divided over picking a successor to Justice Antonin Scalia. In fact, the divisions are far greater than they were, especially this early in the process, for Obama’s previous two nominees, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. In part, this is because the nomination fight is happening in an election year. Yet there’s also another, more fundamental question at stake.
David Cottrell and Sarrah J. Woods: The ‘dirty’ heroin epidemic
While it’s widely known that heroin is one of the most physically addictive drugs, not as many people realize that the heroin epidemic in the United States is growing by leaps and bounds. Heroin has become a cheaper alternative to opioids and other drugs; and as law enforcement officials crack down on prescription drug abuse, medical “pill mills,” and meth houses, more drug users are turning to heroin to get their fix.
David E. Cottrell - Richmond Times-Dispatch: ON THE MOVE
David E. Cottrell Posted: Monday, December 1, 2014 12:00 am David E. Cottrell David E. Cottrell Mr. Cottrell was elected to the St. John's Church Foundation Board. Mr. Cottrell is Chairman of Retail Data, LLC, a Markel Ventures Company. Posted in On-the-move on Monday, December 1, 2014 12:00 am.
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