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What happened yesterday?

Republican challenges to Joe Biden's electoral votes were rejected, but the logic behind them points to a view of the US constitution quite different from the orthodox one.

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Charles Richardson Constitutional law, Elections, Electoral law, United States 3 Comments 8 January 202126 January 2022

Insurrection in the USA

Donald Trump incites an armed riot in support of his attempts to steal an election. Where does that leave the Republican Party?

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Charles Richardson Elections, Party matters, United States, War and peace 14 Comments 7 January 202117 June 2021

Election preview: Georgia Senate

Joe Biden's hopes of a sympathetic Congress come down to two runoff elections tomorrow in the state of Georgia. They both look too close to call.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Electoral law, Party matters, United States 5 Comments 5 January 202118 January 2021

2020 in review

A tumultuous year comes to an end with incumbent governments generally doing well and democracy managing to weather some storms.

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Charles Richardson Africa, East Asia, Elections, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, Oceania, United States 3 Comments 31 December 2020

Trump: the final days

The final act of the US presidential election puts vice-president Mike Pence in the spotlight, a place that he has tried hard to avoid.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Electoral law, Party matters, United States 4 Comments 30 December 20202 January 2021

An electoral college recap

As the electoral college sets the seal on the US election result, it's important to lay to rest some myths and set out what the college actually does.

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Charles Richardson Constitutional law, Elections, Electoral law, United States 6 Comments 15 December 202025 July 2024

Optional preferences, yet again

The Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters produces a wish list for electoral change, in which politics trumps principle for good or for ill.

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Charles Richardson Australia, Electoral law, United States 6 Comments 14 December 202016 December 2020

America set in its ways

Final results (more or less) from the US presidential election reveal a country deeply divided and extraordinarily stable in its allegiances.

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Charles Richardson Elections, United States 3 Comments 7 December 202010 December 2020

“W” revisited

The disputed-but-not-really presidential election in the US has raised memories of its 2000 predecessor. It's important to understand that the degeneration of the Republican Party didn't begin with Donald Trump.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Ideas, Party matters, United States 8 Comments 3 December 202026 January 2022

No joy for Trump in the courts

Attempts to overturn, or even dent, Joe Biden's victory in the presidential election continue to fail miserably.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Electoral law, United States 2 Comments 30 November 20207 December 2020

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