Kevin Kosar posted about the president's latest election executive order so I didn't have to. @kevinkosar
https://kevinrkosar.substack.com/p/several-thoughts-on-trumps-executive
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@BPC has just released a timely and important report on who among American voters possesses citizenship-proving documents. I'm delighted they found the Survey of the Performance of American Elections (produced by @mitelectionlab) useful.
Do Documentary Proof of Citizenship Requirements Disadvantage One Party More Than the Other? • Bipartisan Policy Center
Analysis of the SAVE America Act and documentary proof of citizenship requirements shows that about 12% of registered voters lack common qualifying documents, with disparities across party affiliation, income, education, and race. These findings highlight potential impacts on voter access under proposed legislation.
Pocket veto, anyone?
Bookmark this: the University of Wisconsin Law School voter list litigation tracker: https://statedemocracy.law.wisc.edu/tracker-doj-lawsuits-states-voter-data/
I re-ran the classic Tufte model predicting midterm congl election results using updated data. The model doesn't work as well as it once did & dRDI no longer influences seat loss. Confining the analysis to the most recent elections, it gives a prediction of a seat loss of ~ 38.
The call for participation in the 2026 Election Science, Reform, and Administration conference has just dropped. Submit your proposals for papers, roundtables, posters, and all the rest:
Congress geek alert, recommittal department:
The four Democrats who voted to pass the SAVE Act also voted to recommit the bill to the committee. The recommittal vote failed 211-215 on a strict party-line vote.
Just listened to the Bongino podcast, so you don't have to, where DJT advocates for R's to nationalize elections. Puzzled why this is news, except that it illustrates how Pres Trump is still obsessed with claims that soberminded people of both parties long ago debunked.
This is a great video about very interesting research about voting technology. Definitely worth the look.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbL1dlFT0NM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbL1dlFT0NM
Beyond the Hype: A Research Driven Look at Claims About New Voting Technology
This essay by @kevinrkosar is consistent with many (but not all) of my thoughts about Congress these days. A traditional way of expressing this is something like, "show horses have taken over the farm, but there are still more work horses than you think."
https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2026/01/100016/
https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2026/01/100016/
