Outside the Beltway

A special session looms. (And how this is not like the filibuster in the US Senate).

It’s at least as bad as you thought it was.

The latest front on the war on truth.

Let’s call it what it is.

National Review’s Kevin D. Williamson advocates for less democracy in America.

No, Colorado’s voting regulations are not roughly the same as Georgia’s.

And, really, all of this current wave of election legislation.

How well do single-seat districts lead to representation? (And of what?)

A truly silly characterization from Senator Mike Lee.

Georgia Public Broadcasting provides a useful list of provisions.

An example from Dan McLaughlin of NR

It makes voting harder.

Let’s not get overly dramatic about special elections.

The lack of common understandings and shared assumptions makes political conversations challenging.

It really does feel like a daily occurrence.

The fixes worsen the stated problem (more on Iowa and other states’ attempts to restrict voting).

Making it harder to vote in Iowa.

HR1 is a national approach to expanding voter access. State legislatures are trying to both expand and restrict the vote as well.

And what GOP opposition says about the party.

A CPAC speaker and the return of the problem of the Heritage electoral fraud database.

Voting ourselves out of this mess is not so easy

Let me point you to a reform proposal.

AZ, GA, and Pa are on the table.

The sitting president is asking GA officials to find votes despite the fact that the results have been confirmed thrice.

The absurd notion that the President of Senate is the arbiter and judge of the electoral vote.

Granted, there are more than two. But from a political science/political history POV, these two stick out in my mind.

Wherein I detail evidence of fraud and take the Heritage Foundation’s database of fraud to task.

There won’t be a Lincoln Party. It isn’t sustainable.

The phone tour continues.

Wherein I respond to a ridiculous comparison.

Because a certain kind of election nerd likes graphs.