Mike on the Mic🏴☠️🐉🗡🇺🇸 retweeted
I have soft launched the site, UnderstandingCongress.org. The site aims to explain the what, why, and how of Congress, and includes both curated and original content.
Please have a look, and send me suggestions/pitches for content.
Mike on the Mic🏴☠️🐉🗡🇺🇸 retweeted
"Together, we can improve participation and the health of our democracy at a time when we desperately need it." Check out UCS's Senior Voting Rights Fellow @mlatner's latest blog to get the scoop on the report's key findings. #GOTV #VotingRights act.ucsusa.org/44BBHgD
Mike on the Mic🏴☠️🐉🗡🇺🇸 retweeted
🚨NEW 🚨 Electoral Integrity Global Report 2023: Increase in Election Quality in Many Countries!
Read the report (electoralintegrityproject.co…) and check out the dataset on Harvard dataverse (shorturl.at/enMV2)!
Mike on the Mic🏴☠️🐉🗡🇺🇸 retweeted
Who opposes the Independent State Legislature theory?
➡️ Steven Calabresi of @FedSoc
➡️ 21 U.S. senators
➡️ @Schwarzenegger
➡️ A group of retired four-star generals
➡️ J. Michael Luttig, a conservative retired judge
Democracy is not a partisan issue.
newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…
Mike on the Mic🏴☠️🐉🗡🇺🇸 retweeted
Fantastic paper this AM from @danmthomp & @Apoorva__Lal on turnout & partisan impacts of private election funding (Zuck/CTCL, etc). They find that the $ _barely_ increased turnout & Dem vote share. TLDR: "We find that the fx are not large enough to have swung the 2020 election"
Mike on the Mic🏴☠️🐉🗡🇺🇸 retweeted
Request denied — $550K intended to establish tablet connections on election day, which would enable election officials to remotely monitor check-in times, slowdowns, and technical difficulties has been rejected by Georgia's governor.
More: bit.ly/3pwaFYV
Mike on the Mic🏴☠️🐉🗡🇺🇸 retweeted
As Rep. John Lewis said: “The right to vote is precious, almost sacred. It is the most powerful nonviolent tool or instrument we have in a democratic society." As we mark 30 years of the NVRA this week, honor those who risked their lives for democracy. Register to vote. #NVRA30
Mike on the Mic🏴☠️🐉🗡🇺🇸 retweeted
The FL legislature's system designed to fail has again ensnared. The FL Division of Elections cleared this individual with a prior felony conviction and outstanding LFOs to register to vote, but he's found guilty of a 3rd-degree felony for voting in 2020.
gainesville.com/story/news/l…
Mike on the Mic🏴☠️🐉🗡🇺🇸 retweeted
A GOP effort to pull Texas out ERIC— which is based on an election conspiracy theory— survived a legislative set back this week. For @VotebeatUS & @TexasTribune texas.votebeat.org/2023/5/17…
Mike on the Mic🏴☠️🐉🗡🇺🇸 retweeted
Voter registration reform is being discussed in many countries. What improves register quality?
@HollyAnnGarnett and I evaluate electoral register quality in 159 countries and find that voter registration improves *both* completeness and accuracy.
Open access and free to read ⤵️
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Mike on the Mic🏴☠️🐉🗡🇺🇸 retweeted
.@bruce_katz on economic geography and the industrial transformation … thenewlocalism.com/newslette…
Mike on the Mic🏴☠️🐉🗡🇺🇸 retweeted
I was happy to help write this brief, on one of the most glaring and arbitrary forms of disenfranchisement in modern times. Americans who move ABROAD can still vote absentee in their former states, while Americans who move to U.S. TERRITORIES can’t.
Today ELC, along with @CampaignLegal, filed an amici brief in support of Plaintiffs in Borja v. Nago agreeing that UOCAVA and UMOVA are unconstitutional because they severely and unjustifiably burden the right to vote.
Mike on the Mic🏴☠️🐉🗡🇺🇸 retweeted
Out now and open access!
Elections During Emergencies and Crises
We draw out the lessons of running elections during the covid pandemic and call for electoral reforms to prepare for future emergencies.
It has been a great pleasure working with @ClarkAlistairJ, @ErikAsplund6, all the case study authors, @Int_IDEA colleagues and many more on this 724-page volume.
idea.int/publications/catalo…
Mike on the Mic🏴☠️🐉🗡🇺🇸 retweeted
The case was Shelby County v. Holder
Leo instructed the GOP pollster Kellyanne Conway to bill a nonprofit group and use that money to pay Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, documents show. The same year, the nonprofit group filed a brief to the Supreme Court in a landmark voting rights case. wapo.st/3LzCGpM
Mike on the Mic🏴☠️🐉🗡🇺🇸 retweeted
On #EarthDay, this powerful blog post by UCS’s President @jckreilick still holds truth, and is a reminder of "how progress stems from persistent, continuous, and courageous action". act.ucsusa.org/3zZlCnD
Mike on the Mic🏴☠️🐉🗡🇺🇸 retweeted
A very important development. Those not yet directly affected by authoritarian actions should take note.
miamiherald.com/news/local/e…
Mike on the Mic🏴☠️🐉🗡🇺🇸 retweeted
Excited to have @SekouFranklin share this post with @3Streamsblog "50 reasons why Tennessee matters in the long haul struggle for democracy" medium.com/3streams/50-reaso…
Mike on the Mic🏴☠️🐉🗡🇺🇸 retweeted
Wisconsin Assembly Bill 128, which creates special rules for lawsuits involving the state legislature, is an effort by conservative lawmakers to undermine faith in our public institutions and find excuses for rulings that didn’t go in their favor.
americanoversight.org/americ…
Mike on the Mic🏴☠️🐉🗡🇺🇸 retweeted
Of particular note: we are at 15 states that have passed hormone therapy bans for trans people. Some of these bills are still sitting on governors desks. Here is a map of the bills/policies introduced, passed, and blocked. Note Missouri's adult ban from the AG is included.
Mike on the Mic🏴☠️🐉🗡🇺🇸 retweeted
Sat. 11:30am CT at #mpsa2023: "Democracy on the Ballot"
Papers are on democratic fragility, election integrity, race, affective polarization.
Panelists include @DavidAlexBatema @r_lieberman @Matt_Placek @JAlexKeena @mlatner @carolinaplescia @BoyerMing @rdawkins22 @prof_timmy
