"Assisting the vote? Disability as a cost of voting" is now out at Electoral Studies www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
17.09.2025 13:12 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0@electionsmith.bsky.social
political science professor; state politics scholar (direct democracy, voting, elections); cynic, skeptic, & part-time africanist; personal musings
"Assisting the vote? Disability as a cost of voting" is now out at Electoral Studies www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
17.09.2025 13:12 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Continue to be awed by my old man, now in his 90th year, Emeritus prof at Penn State, who founded the field of sport history. Walter Byers and the NCAA | University of Tennessee Press share.google/8aBlmclCEJhC...
13.07.2025 18:18 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0To all those who celebrate #InternationalJazzDay a little of George Gershwin's Embraceable You by Jim Snidero and friends at the Bird's Eye Jazz Club in Basel
30.04.2025 19:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Now out at State Politics and Policy Quarterly www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
22.04.2025 15:07 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Was quite enjoyable, tbh....
20.04.2025 02:12 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0In light of the latest ICE crackdown in Miami, Iβm ungating my Substack analysis from a couple weeks ago on the support for Trump in Doral. open.substack.com/pub/election...
14.04.2025 15:20 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0May have time this summer to dig into this Q some more. open.substack.com/pub/election...
01.04.2025 09:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Figure 1. Predicted probabilities for registering NPA/Unaffiliated by strength of partisanship. Note: Predicted probabilities generated from the estimates in the Florida and North Carolina models in Table 2.
Hey, this looks familiar! Be sure to check it out!
28.03.2025 14:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Congratulations, Michael Wines, on your retirement from the @nytimes.com. And thank you for breaking this bellwether story back in 2021 on the crackdown on faculty free speech at UF. www.nytimes.com/2021/10/29/u...
26.03.2025 10:59 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0"Federal authorities in South Florida have recently detained at least 18 Cubans."
My next Substack post for subscribers will be a deep dive into changes in party registration & turnout of the more than 460K Cuban-born registered voters in FL, 305K in Miami-Dade
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
And also pleased to see this decision by a Federal District Court Judge in Ohio concerning the rights of citizens to amend the state constitution via the initiative process. Several direct democracy scholars and I submitted an amicus brief on behalf of the plaintiffs. electionlawblog.org?p=149008
20.03.2025 02:53 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Highlighting some good news on the legal front. Proud to have served as an expert for the HAUL plaintiffs, working with the amazing attorneys at NAACP LDF, to successfully challenge SB 1 in TX. www.naacpldf.org/press-releas...
20.03.2025 02:47 β π 15 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0From the Nathan Thurm School of Law... www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...
13.03.2025 17:30 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0This is insane: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
07.03.2025 16:41 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 3In honor of the passing of Robert Clark
open.substack.com/pub/election...
I'm hoping some of you might be interested in making a charitable contribution to support UF students working with @electproject.bsky.social and me in our Election Lab. Here's the direct link to give: Election Science Group Fund (023435) www.uff.ufl.edu/giving-oppor...
20.02.2025 18:21 β π 5 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0We will see if FL SOEs step up to oppose DeSantis' proposal that will effectively kill direct democracy in Florida, not because they normatively support the citizen initiative, but because it will be costly and burdensome to distribute and collect signature petitions, beyond validating them
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