Victims’ willingness to call the police facilitates access to the justice system and potential resources. Research shows a decline in police notification in the United States in recent decades, but the research
so Richman’s claim offered something exceedingly rare: near certainty that fraud was happening at a significant rate. According to his study, at least 38,000 ineligible voters—and perhaps as many as 2.8 million—cast ballots in the 2008 election, meaning the “blue wave” that put Obama ...
5 January 2024 © The Author(s) 2024 Abstract Recent studies have shown that biased search results can produce substantial shifts in the opinions and voting preferences of undecided voters – a phenomenon called the "search engine manipulation effect" (SEME), one of the most powerful list effec...
Since 2020, however, there seems to be a growing “war on merit.” The San Francisco School Board voted to endLowell High School's entrance examso that every student could attend in the name of opportunity and equality. As a public school, I understand the rationale. Over on the east co...
I am basically a pin cushion for my doctor now with regular thyroid tests, we discuss pre-menopause and I am also now eligible for breast screening. No longer are my visits to the doctor for an occasional water infection from burning the candle at both ends but instead are due to ...
register more voters and get them to vote, especially younger people. It’s pretty simple: If you want to reflect the will of the people, you have to hear what they have to say. After all, somewhere around one-third of America’s eligible voters didn’t even vote in the 2020 ...
Instead, 2020 Californian Democrats could likely afford millions of voters defecting and still win. Next the electoral votes don’t strictly correspond to the population, eligible voters or cast ballots. A vote in one state like Wyoming can be worth 3.6 x more than in California. Even ...
In 2008, Barack Obama won about 47 percent of the vote in Georgia, a huge improvement for the Democrats from four years earlier, when John Kerry received just 4…
Even if electoral votes were allocated exactly according to each state’s share of the U.S. population or share of eligible voters, the electoral process would still not resemble a national popular vote. Generally, most states are winner-take-all, meaning that the winner of the state in an...
‘Deterrence’ case (e.g. spouses in Italy): The combination of facilitated laws and restrictive procedures lead to low levels and gaps, as many eligible immigrants are discouraged from applying but the few interested are able to meet the legal requirements. ...