New York Magazine: Do You Remember the Ecstasy of Electing Joe Biden? How the coalition that defeated Donald Trump crumbled. – I don’t agree with the title of this post. I think that coalitions can be rebuilt to keep Trump out of the Oval Office, but there has been some “splintering” since January 2021.

Common Ground Democracy: Don’t Despair—Mobilize for Institutional Change (via Election Law Blog)

Jeffrey Issac/Democracy in Dark Times: Public Safety As Convenient Pretext for Political Repression, From Birmingham 1963 to Bloomington 2024 – essay on how “public safety” was used as an excuse for repressing dissent in the 1960s, and how it is still used today.

Axios: Dems could give Haley a boost in Iowa caucuses – Some Iowa Democrats and independents are planning to crash the state’s Republican caucuses Monday night and become “Republicans for a day” to vote for Nikki Haley — but mostly, against former President Trump. I noticed this on the national news, did not know that was allowed…

Greg Wilson/The Third Bit: What’s The Scratch of the Social Sciences? – how to teach the social sciences to programmers like the Scratch language teaches programming to non-programmers (links to an essay on inessential weirdness of open source development from 2016 – fascinating!).

Reason Magazine: How Florida Fixed Its Vote-Counting Problem After the 2000 Election – Ballots should be counted quickly and accurately

The Federalist: Judge Orders New Louisiana Sheriff Election After Voter Fraud Contaminates The Results

VoteBeat: Texas Republicans want to hand count 2024 primary ballots. Experts say it’s “a recipe for disaster.” – Republicans in counties large and small are considering ditching tabulation machines to count their primary ballots by hand. Only one county — Gillespie in the Texas Hill Country — is moving forward with such plans for now.

Center for the Study of the Public Domain: Public Domain Day 2024 – A review of the works coming into the public domain this year – the most famous one being the Disney cartoon “Steamboat Willie”.

Election Fraud in Bridgeport, Connecticut

NBC News: In Connecticut, a rare election do-over could oust a sitting mayor – The race is among three recent election redos across the country, raising eyebrows among experts who worry such contests may become more common.

NBC Connecticut: Judge orders new Bridgeport mayoral primary after surveillance videos show possible ballot stuffing

Election Law Blog: Coverage of this Bridgeport CT mayoral election

Connecticut Mirror: How the battle for absentee ballots defined the Bridgeport election – More than 22% of all votes cast in the Bridgeport Democratic primary were absentee ballots

Connecticut Mirror: How CT Mirror investigated Bridgeport’s absentee voting process – an excellent breakdown of how the CT Mirror used data journalism techniques to figure out what happened in this election

The Federalist: Judge Overturns Bridgeport Mayoral Election Due To Evidence Of Mail Ballot Fraud