Elections I

What do you want to cover next time?  Electoral college mechanics?

Laws on voting rights

Bush v. Gore:  "The individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States unless and until the state legislature chooses a statewide election as the means to implement its power to appoint members of the Electoral College. U. S. Const., Art. II, §1.

But election administration takes place mostly at the state level.

Modes of voting:

Confidence in outcomes (scroll down):  do you see a pattern?

Polarization and Trump

Prof. Nichols article in The Atlantic

And Ed Durr: