This week the 11th Circuit issued a shocking opinion curtailing voting rights in Florida. Over half of ex-felons in Florida are now excluded from registering to vote, because first they have to pay fines, fees, and restitution – effectively, a tax on voting. In response to this, we suggest that a solution. Our Redistricting Moneyball […]
Entries from September 13th, 2020
Florida Moneyball, 11th Circuit edition
September 13th, 2020, 11:07am by Sam Wang
Tags: 2020 Election · Moneyball · Redistricting
Boosting Princeton turnout: introducing Vote100
September 12th, 2020, 2:14pm by Zachariah Sippy
In 2014, according to the National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement, only 11% of Princeton Undergraduate students voted. This dismal turnout inspired Princeton’s Vote100 initiative, with a stated goal of encouraging a 100% turnout rate among eligible Princeton students. In 2018, the population of students voting more than quadrupled, to 50%, but it is […]
Tags: 2020 Election · Politics · Princeton
The Authoritarian Checklist, September 2020
September 6th, 2020, 7:24am by Sam Wang
In his public abuse of Laurene Powell Jobs, Donald Trump reminds us again of the PEC Authoritarian Checklist. At this point, the Trump Administration meets all 10 criteria for authoritarianism that I laid out in 2017, before the start of the term. It was a way of laying out possibilities in advance, preventing the concepts […]
Tags: 2020 Election · President · U.S. Institutions
The mailbag
September 5th, 2020, 7:59am by Sam Wang
Some recent correspondence of interest…
Tags: 2020 Election
New PEC feature: 50-State Guide to 2020 Elections
September 1st, 2020, 8:00am by Zachariah Sippy
While the Presidential election is hogging most of the attention, there are literally thousands of other races on the ballot. All 435 US House of Representatives seats, and a large Senate class (35 elections) are up for grabs. These races will have a massive impact on legislation and the composition of federal courts. Our 50-state […]
Tags: 2020 Election · Politics · Redistricting
