COVID-19 and the Need for Voting Reform

COVID-19 Underscores the Need for Voting Reform by Michael Latner and Taofik Oladipo, Union of Concerned Scientists, July 2020 Abstract: Earlier this year, experts projected that voter turnout in the November 2020 election could be the largest in decades. Voter...

Voting Rights and Mass Incarceration

Voting Rights in the Era of Mass Incarceration: A Primer by Jean Chung and Kevin Muhitch, The Sentencing Project Abstract: The dramatic growth of the US prison population and the corresponding reach of the criminal legal system over the last 40 years has led to high...

Voter Fraud

No evidence for systematic voter fraud: A guide to statistical claims about the 2020 election by Andrew Eggers, Haritz Garro, and Justin Grimmer From Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Significance: President Donald Trump claimed that the 2020 US...

Peaceful Protest and Political Violence

Demonstration and Political Violence in America: New Data for Summer 2020 by Roudabeh Kishi and Sam Jones, Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project September 2020 Abstract: The United States is at hightened risk of political violence and instability going into...

Black Lives Matter in the Election

How Did the Black Lives Matter Movement Impact the 2020 Election? by Julie Solane, University of Pennsylvania, March 2nd 2022 Abstract: It was a turbulent run-up to the 2020 U.S. Presidential election: COVID-19 struck, ending and upending lives and livelihoods, while...

COVID-19 in the Election

How COVID-19 Changed Everything About the 2020 Election by Molly Ball, TIME Magazine, August 6th 2020 “If the pandemic has revealed the fault lines in American society, it has exposed something else too: some things are still too important to get caught up in...