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In an election law and administration class this semester, I am looking for organizations and governments to pair with high quality students in conducting elections research. Many of the PORES students are very skilled in data analysis. DM me if interested in learning more.

Huge shout out to PORES for facilitating my work Katie Steele, a truly outstanding Penn undergrad, on this project penntoday.upenn.edu/news/racial-bu…

.Marc Meredith/Penn Arts & Sciences: "The National Voter Registration Act of 1993 helps, but is not sufficient to prevent poorly-conceived list maintenance protocols from unnecessarily disenfranchising minority voters."

A change in PA laws & rise in mail voting led many to worry about "naked" ballots being disqualified in 2020. Daniel Hopkins, Marc Meredith, & Kira Wang of Penn looked at how things actually shook out: bit.ly/3zlqce7 PORES

Sharing some research that I did with Dan Hopkins and fabulous Penn rising Sophomore @kirawangg about how many mail ballots are "naked" in Pennsylvania medium.com/mit-election-l…

I enjoy having colleagues that turned our lunch-time disagreement over the legitimacy over something happening in the world into a published paper.

Political scientist Marc Meredith of Penn Poli Sci Dept PORES shares his thoughts on redistricting, turnout, and races to watch as November's midterm elections loom. penntoday.upenn.edu/news/three-thi…

Looking forward to talking about rejected mail ballots tomorrow (10/19) with Judd Choate and Tova Wang at 1 pm EST / 12 pm CST. Open to anyone, but need to register here hhh.umn.edu/event/mail-bal….

‘Naked ballots’ are back — and they’re a danger to democracy wapo.st/3EWZFJw

Why we should still be concerned about rejected mail ballots in 2022, especially in Pennsylvania x.com/monkeycageblog…

Interesting article from Michael Morse on the future of the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC)

New: Texas wants to build its own voter list crosscheck program after a push from the TX GOP to get rid of the tool that already does that — Kansas did it and failed. Indiana tried too and that program stalled texas.votebeat.org/2023/3/28/2365…

The median age of a voter in Philadelphia County who a returned a mail ballot by the morning of November 8, 2022 was 57. The median age of a voter in Philadelphia County who returned a mail ballot by this morning is 67.

Great article in the Philadelphia Inquirer by PORES fellow Leo Cassel-Siskind on rejected mail ballots in Philadelphia. Jonathan Lai 🙊 賴柏羽 does such a fantastic job working with our students. inquirer.com/politics/elect…

If you have a copy of a New York voter file from 2022 (especially from Oct 2022) sitting on your hard drive that you would be willing to share, I would be grateful

Today we are delighted to launch SEVEN new white papers assessing the current state of knowledge and practice in seven key areas of election administration. Find it all at electionlab.mit.edu/research/proje…

It was great writing the voter registration report with the fabulous team of Seo-young Silvia Kim, Michael Morse, and Stephen Pettigrew with help with Jon Griffiths, Liz Stark, and Katie Steele from PORES. Long story short, so much research on voter registration is needed.

I am excited to be the new Editor-in-Chief of the Election Law Journal. I encourage you to submit your best elections scholarship to ELJ, no matter what your country of focus is. email.liebertpub.com/q/17GKomZ1hpGS…

My favorite conference of the year