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Oct 31, 2024 | 
cato.org | Walter Olson
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Walter Olson
Big Money Unleashed: The Campaign to Deregulate Election Spending, by Ann Southworth, University of Chicago Press, 336 pages, $32.50A decade ago, it passed for common wisdom that the Republican Party and maybe the Democrats too were captives of a wealthy donor base that could lock up electoral results by burying rivals in campaign spending. It all seems long ago.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
sacbee.com | Kevin R. Kosar |Keith E. Whittington |Walter Olson
Editor's Note: Although partisans on both sides of the aisle have warned that the stakes of the upcoming presidential election could not be higher, the two campaigns themselves have been remarkably light on policy substance. With Election Day now a week away, we reached out to dozens of thinkers, writers, and analysts and asked them about their biggest concerns about a potential Trump or Harris administration.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
cato.org | Walter Olson
Contrary to Saad’s claim that Zuckerberg “[gave] $400+ million to Democrats,” these grants were offered to offices in red and blue, swing and non-swing areas alike, and they did not go to candidates or parties. By contrast, Musk’s scheme to pay voters is limited to swing states and blatantly designed to help one particular candidate.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Rachael Larimore |Chris Stirewalt |Paul Miller |Walter Olson
Dispatches from Nevada, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Published October 26, 2024 Hello and happy Saturday. If you had told 16-year-old me that 2024 me would be working for a politically conservative digital media company, I’d have had a few questions. Starting with, “What does conservative mean?” and “What is a ‘digital media company?’” I had my heart set on being a sportswriter. And I was, for a while.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
charlotteobserver.com | Walter Olson
PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 20: SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk awarded Kristine Fishell with a $1 million check during the town hall at the Roxain Theater on October 20, 2024 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Musk has donated more than $75 million to America PAC, which he co-founded with fellow Silicon Valley venture capitalists and tech businessmen to support Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
cato.org | Walter Olson
This November voters in Nevada, Colorado, and Idaho will consider whether to adopt versions of the “Alaska model,” discussed in this space here, here, and here, which does away with party primaries in favor of a single primary open to all followed by a general election that employs ranked choice voting (RCV). Alaska voters themselves will also vote on whether to keep that model, opponents having succeeded in submitting enough petition signatures to place a repeal measure on the ballot.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
cato.org | Walter Olson
Generated with ElevenLabs AI technology. Number three in our series of occasional roundups on election law and policy: “Misinformation spreads after 750,000 names removed from North Carolina voter rolls. Here are the facts.” Good examination by the Raleigh News and Observer of typical viral claims that catastrophize about routine list maintenance as if it were some sort of voter suppression plot.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
homelandsecuritynewswire.com | Walter Olson
ELECTION INTEGRITYTrump’s 2020 Stolen Election Claims Are Wrong on the MeritsPublished 23 September 2024Donald Trump is back to saying the 2020 election was stolen from him, and his followers regularly echo these claims. It’s therefore helpful to keep on hand one or two of the exhaustively detailed state-by-state accounts by election lawyers and scholars of why this isn’t so. Donald Trump is back to saying the 2020 election was stolen from him, and his followers regularly echo these claims.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
memo.com.ar | Gabriel Conte |Walter Olson |Hernan Bitar
El ministro de Desregulación y Transformación del Estado, Federico Sturzenegger, prepara una serie de decretos para la eliminación de más de 60 organismos del Estado. En eso trabaja desde marzo el funcionario con la intención de reducir la estructura del organigrama estatal sin la necesidad de someterse a las voluntades del Congreso.
