Stephen Ansolabehere
Stephen Ansolabehere is Professor of Government at Harvard University. His academic research focuses on U. S. elections, media, and representation, with particular emphasis on political advertising,...
View ArticleJohn C. Bonifaz
John Bonifaz is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Free Speech for People, a national, non-partisan campaign that works to challenge the misuse of corporate power and restore republican democracy...
View ArticleNathaniel Persily
Nathaniel Persily is the Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law and Political Science and the Director of the Center for Law and Politics at Columbia Law School. Professor Persily’s scholarship...
View ArticleMark Posner
As a Senior Counsel in the Voting Rights Project, Mark Posner is responsible for addressing issues relating to the enforcement of the Voting Rights Act and the National Voter Registration Act....
View ArticleRob Richie
An expert on international and domestic elections and electoral reform, Rob Richie has directed FairVote since its founding in 1992. Among his activities at FairVote, Richie has: • been a guest on many...
View ArticleJames Sample
Before joining the Hofstra Law faculty in 2009, Professor Sample served as an attorney in the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of law since 2005. Before...
View ArticleJohn Koza
John R. Koza received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Michigan in 1972. He published a board game involving Electoral College strategy in 1966. From 1973 through 1987, he was...
View ArticleRichard Briffault
Richard Briffault is Joseph P. Chamberlain Professor of Legislation at Columbia Law School. His primary areas of teaching, research and writing are state and local government law and the law of the...
View ArticleBarry Fadem
Barry F. Fadem is a partner in the law firm of Fadem & Associates in Lafayette, California. He specializes in all aspects of campaign and election law, and provides expert consultation in the area...
View ArticleRobert Erikson
Robert S. Erikson is a professor in the political science department and faculty fellow at the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy at Columbia University (Ph.D., University of...
View ArticleJustin Levitt
Justin Levitt is a professor of constitutional law and the law of democracy at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, and a recognized national expert on election law. His work has included extensive...
View ArticleJoshua A. Tucker
Joshua A. Tucker is Professor of Politics with an affiliated appointment in the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University (NYU) and an Affiliated Professor of Politics at NYU-Abu...
View ArticleVictoria Bassetti
Victoria is an expert on voting in America and on the legislative process. She also has extensive experience in the way politicians and social causes use social and new media. She has a second area of...
View ArticleAlexander Keyssar
Alexander Keyssar is the Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy at Harvard University. An historian by training, he has specialized in the explanation of issues that have...
View ArticleBrenda Wright
Brenda Wright is the Vice President of Legal Strategies at Demos. She has led many progressive legal and policy initiatives on voting rights, campaign finance reform, redistricting, election...
View ArticleA Vote in South Dakota Should Matter as Much as One in Florida
This Election Day, Americans again face the very real possibility that their popular vote choice for president will lose the election by failing to capture a majority of electoral votes. In fact, we...
View ArticleTrevor Potter
Trevor Potter is the founding President and General Counsel of the Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that represents the public interest in administrative, legislative and...
View ArticleDemocratic poll analysis: Reflecting on 2012 and looking ahead
A month after Americans cast their ballots, the president, who campaigned unabashedly as a progressive Democrat, now faces a fresh opportunity to govern in the same manner. A new POLITICO-George...
View ArticleWeighing Policy, Not Partisanship, in Changes to the Electoral College
A week after the 2014 midterm elections, most of our attention is focused on what the newly elected leaders will bring. Bigger storms may be brewing. As I wrote in Roll Callon November 7th, and as...
View ArticleHow to end the tyranny of the Electoral College
Since 1991, Nebraska has awarded its electoral votes to presidential candidates by congressional district, one of only two states that do not award all electoral votes to the statewide popular-vote...
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