David Bateman

Assoc. Prof of Political Science, works on American political development, Congress, voting rights, ideas of democracy, and labor, race, and class

[David Bateman @DavidAlexBatema]

Democratization is the enduring task of America. It's what it has always needed to do, and that remains true today.

[Cornell American Studies @CornellAMST]

Fascinating & timely. "I want us to ask how current disenfranchisement projects are trying to reconceive of what political community looks like in the United States, or who ‘the people’ are in America." @DavidAlexBatema

[David Bateman @DavidAlexBatema]

@SidneyRothstein Exit Souls

[David Bateman @DavidAlexBatema]

Signature verification on mail in ballots is, paradoxically, even dumber since it cuts out the step of “well let me try it again sometimes I just do a swirl”

[David Bateman @DavidAlexBatema]

This happened to me in 2022. Took a while but got there in the end.

[David Bateman @DavidAlexBatema]

@dawn_teele @womensmarch Not even ‘64????

[David Bateman @DavidAlexBatema]

This happened to me in 2022. Took a while but got there in the end.

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

Nevada’s secretary of state, seeing high number of rejected ballots in Clark and Washoe, says one of the biggest issues is that the signatures of younger voters don’t always match what’s on their driver’s licenses:

“It’s mostly the fact that young people don’t have signatures these days. And when they did register to vote through the automatic voter registration process, they signed a digital pad at D.M.V., and that became their license signature.”

https://t.co/3JWllKejpN

[David Bateman @DavidAlexBatema]

Guess we’re gonna find out if high turnout still helps dems

[David Bateman @DavidAlexBatema]

the we didn't commit that crime we committed this other crime defense

[Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social) @adambonin]

Holy fucking shit. Elon Musk's legal defense to why his $1M giveaway wasn't an illegal lottery/sweepstakes under Pennsylvania law is ... "ignore everything Elon said about this being random; we actually carefully selected the winners." 🤯 https://t.co/9qgbWyh8dD

[Adam Bonin (@adambonin.bsky.social) @adambonin]

Holy fucking shit. Elon Musk's legal defense to why his $1M giveaway wasn't an illegal lottery/sweepstakes under Pennsylvania law is ... "ignore everything Elon said about this being random; we actually carefully selected the winners." 🤯 https://t.co/9qgbWyh8dD

[David Huyssen @davidhuyssen.bsky.social @davidhuyssen]

Given the volume of extant scholarship and journalism on the administrative and legal dismantling of faculty governance for decades, this is would be an embarrassing story to publish in a high school newspaper.

[David Bateman @DavidAlexBatema]

@Cornell How is this message compatible with @Cornell’s newly adopted “institutional neutrality” posture? To vote or not is at least as politically charged a choice as for whom to vote. Who is making decision about which political choices to weigh in on?

[David Bateman @DavidAlexBatema]

RT @Cornell: Election Day in the United States is tomorrow, so make a plan and get out to vote, Cornellians.

For resources related to voti…

[The Harvard Crimson @thecrimson]

BREAKING: Harvard Libraries suspended ~25 faculty members from entering Widener Library for two weeks after they held a silent “study-in” protest there last week — an extraordinary sanction by Harvard against its own faculty.

@neilhshah15 reports.

https://t.co/PdLRqdjTJZ

[Jacqueline Sweet @JSweetLI]

Rep. Nick LaLota, running for reelection in up-for-grabs NY-01, was one of the signers of this letter, demanding an explanation from the Naval Academy for inviting NYU historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat to give a history department lecture, after pressure from Heritage Foundation because of her anti-Trump opinions.

Ben-Ghiat told The Baltimore Banner her planned lecture was not going to mention Trump or contemporary politics at all, but rather was about what happens to militaries under authoritarian rule.

The letter from the Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee echoed Heritage Foundation fellows, and editorials in the Heritage Foundation's The Daily Signal.

[Eric Lee @EricLeeAtty]

Cornell University backs down on threat to revoke Momodou Taal's visa. A significant victory for free speech but the fight continues.

[Jake M. Grumbach @JakeMGrumbach]

Feels surreal the way elites in US media, universities, business, etc go after Gaza activists. Just flagrantly violating the exact norms and rights—like honesty, due process, tolerance of different views, good faith, and impartiality—that they claim to care about.