Michael Morse

Assistant Professor, @pennlaw. I study voting rights, election administration, and the criminal justice system.

[Michael Morse @MichaelLMorse]

I've updated “Democracy’s Bureaucracy" (@BULawReview) on @SSRN—it's about the development & derailment of the Electronic Registration Information Center (@ericstates_info), a critical cross-governmental bureaucracy for voter registration. Comments welcome! https://t.co/0IS9vPxYIH

[Shiro Kuriwaki @shirokuriwaki]

I've launched a new website where anyone can interactively visualize ticket-splitting rates from actual ballots (cast vote records) for any pair of contests on the 2020 Georgia ballot. Check it out!
https://t.co/DKXVj3ubaH

[Charles Stewart III @cstewartiii]

Here's an important new article in Science Advances on the privacy issues related to publishing cast vote records. It turns out they're not as dire as many think/fear.
https://t.co/gZfOm0wv55

[Shiro Kuriwaki @shirokuriwaki]

What's the evidence for the concern that releasing ballots violates the secret ballot? A @ScienceAdvances article, published today with Jeff and Michael, reports privacy violations (or lack thereof) in various types of reporting regimes. Writeup at
https://t.co/RT7x99HQ7g

[Yale ISPS @ISPSYale]

Is an anonymous ballot no longer private once it is released to the public? New research from @shirokuriwaki, Jeffrey Lewis @UCLA, and @MichaelLMorse uses actual election data to weigh privacy and transparency: https://t.co/znQzwMKVqO

[SSRN @SSRN]

This study introduces a #framework for categorizing #election administration issues as individual, electoral, or systemic harms, focusing on the impact of #ballot design.

Read: https://t.co/MMpcpDfkfy
Subscribe: https://t.co/GP0lp5MVdU

#LawTwitter

[Karen Tani (@kmtani.bsky.social) @kmtani]

It was exciting, surprising, and - if I'm honest - scary, to be invited to write the Foreword to this year's @HarvLRev Supreme Court issue. Those who have come before are giants in the field. And this past Term was a wild one. https://t.co/ilzAs5cjsW (1/x)

[SSRN @SSRN]

Mail-in #voting has raised concerns about lost votes by mail. This study examines how procedural requirements can impact lost #votes & notes measurement issues when equating lost votes with rejected #mailballots.

Read: https://t.co/OImYPY2ijx
Subscribe: https://t.co/Dtjl9GK6bt

[Ben Swasey @benswasey]

A simple truth is at the root of many false election claims: Voter rolls are imperfect.

A step-back explainer: https://t.co/jW5bLwFWc0

[NBC News @NBCNews]

Some states report their vote quickly, while others take upward of a week or two.

The patterns of how votes are reported can make it difficult to tell in the middle of election night who the winner is going to be in the end. https://t.co/uX1CUCPiJC

[Rick Pildes @RickPildes]

In the NYT, I've published an essay on the major political reforms on the ballot in a number of states.
"And while nearly all attention is fixated on the presidential race, Americans in a number of states will also be voting on some of the most significant sets of political reforms in decades. Taken together, these ballot measures — in red, blue and purple states — constitute a major referendum on whether we can reduce political extremism through institutional change."

https://t.co/yHttPpHbFC
@baseballot @uniteamerica @CassSunstein @nyulaw @nytimes @LarryDiamond @protctdemocracy @rgoodlaw

[Rick Pildes @RickPildes]

The RNC emergency stay application in the Supreme Court significantly expands the number of absentee ballots potentially at stake.
In light of the position the RNC brief takes, I have updated my estimate of the number of absentees in PA potentially at stake. https://t.co/9fpdu6FyGd

[University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School @pennlaw]

@rickhasen Read the full terrific article co-authored by Penn Carey Law Asst. Prof. of Law @MichaelLMorse with Penn’s Marc Meredith (@mieuque), Amaya Madarang, and Katie Steele: https://t.co/IeoDgXGQVT

[Carter Walker @ByCarterWalker]

Check out this map we made! These Pennsylvania counties give voters a chance to fix errors on their mail ballots https://t.co/XfMDEwtaA6

[Commissioner Neil Makhija @NeilMakhija]

There’s a lot of misinfo about elections swirling.

So I made a video for @NYTimes clearing some of it up.

“Our Elections are Secure. The Right to Vote is Not.”

In it, we also share what protecting voting rights looks like.

https://t.co/ykEcAenA3A

[Nicholas Stephanopoulos @ProfNickStephan]

🚨Today is publication day for my book, "Aligning Election Law"!

The book argues that promoting alignment between governmental outputs and popular preferences should be an overarching goal of election law.

You can buy the book at the link below.

https://t.co/B3fwYkIXBp

[Shiro Kuriwaki @shirokuriwaki]

We've released our first public version of 2020 cast vote records -- records from 40 million ballots in 20 states. https://t.co/0If6I74IRY (thread/)

[The Yale Law Journal @YaleLJournal]

In her Feature, Gocke counters the conventional wisdom that public utility commissions are ill-equipped to address climate change by uncovering a forgotten history of New York’s energy transition.

[University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School @pennlaw]

🎉 Congrats to all Penn Carey Law faculty teaching award recipients for the 2023-2024 academic year:

Kamil Ali-Jackson; Sean Burke C’95, G’95; Jean Galbraith; @CaraMcClellan6; @MichaelLMorse; @elizpollman; Jessica Simon C'95, & @kmtani L'07, PhD11! https://t.co/kS041jSJwj

[Shiro Kuriwaki @shirokuriwaki]

Our article on racial coalitions is published with page numbers (and open access). We improved existing MRP models to estimate voteshares by race and by district (/thread)
and thanks to @dailykos for the perfect cartograms

[Eitan Hersh @eitanhersh]

My article with @JustinGrimmer, "How Election Rules Affect Who Wins," was recently posted in final published format at Journal of Legal Analysis.

Open access link: https://t.co/eohkkp9z4X