by Vikram Joshi | Feb 8, 2022 | University of Chicago
Texas’s Senate Bill 1 (SB1) recently came into effect, and with it come further restrictions on the already limited program of mail-in ballots. It was already true that the program may only be used by those over the age of 65, out of town, or disabled, and now there...
by Michael McClure | Feb 5, 2022 | University of Chicago
A few weeks ago, I received the letter pictured above from Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán in my mailbox. “Dear citizen! I write to you today because Hungary has a parliamentary election next spring,” the letter reads. Aiming to mobilize the addressees—Hungarian...
by Astrid Weinberg | Feb 4, 2022 | University of Chicago
Partisan rancor over voting methods threatens the American public’s trust in the legitimacy of elections. Ballot drop boxes, a campaign issue in Georgia’s Republican primary elections for the position of Lieutenant Governor, are the latest target for concerns of...
by Gracie Beasley | Dec 1, 2021 | University of Georgia
What is it? Gerrymandering is the practice of drawing the boundary of an electoral district strategically so that it benefits one political party over another. Gerrymandering was coined after Governor Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts in 1812 when he put a law into...
by Mikaela Linder | Oct 24, 2021 | Suffolk University
Recently, I attended a hearing held by the Massachusetts legislature’s Special Joint Committee on Redistricting where the newly drawn legislative districts were unveiled. Massachusetts, the birthplace of gerrymandering, has a sensitive history with the redistricting...
