Latinos will play a major role in the country’s changing demographics. Census population projections suggestLatinos will help push the U.S. into a majority-minority nation by 2044. And millennial voters make up a larger share of the Latino electorate than they do any other ethnic group. ...
Canada and Japan, but suggests the growing demographics of inequity that threaten to be only reinforced by the absence of a comprehensive plan for national health care. It is a terrifying truth that the majority of poor uninsured reside in 114 of ...
In this section we show that short bursts outperform biased random walks for finding districting plans for the Louisiana House of Representatives with a large number of majority-minority districts. In addition to Louisiana, we also performed this analysis on New Mexico, Texas, and Virginia; our f...
Also, people voting for different parties are demographically identifiable, and certain demographics may be more or less willing, on average, to make their vote public. So even in a system without fraud, the public vote percentages wouldn’t necessarily correspond to the actual percentages. A demo...
What is plurality in voting?The Electoral College:In the United States, the president is elected by the Electoral College. In order to become the president, a candidate must win the majority of the electoral college or else the election is sent to the U.S. House of Representatives to ...
"I think that it's a privilege to vote in a deep red state like this," he says. "Especially when turning Texas blue is within our grasp." Not long ago, the suggestion of Texas going blue would have seemed implausible. But as Gen Z enters the political arena, such suggestions seem...
ApairofTexasbillsthat would imposenew restrictionsin what is,by one measure, already the hardest state in which to vote. Among other things, the bills would effectively ban drive-through voting, require voters with disabilities to prove they could not vote in person before they can be sent a ...
(2005) argue that, without the mobilizing efforts of candidates and political parties, early voting turnout in Texas's 2000 gubernatorial election would likely have been marginal. The motivation to vote EIP may not be ''self-actuating'' in that ''[s]imply put, in-person early voting has ...
imagined past which never existed, as well as unreconstructed racists and sexists who want to go back to straight up “we own our wives and we own black people” policies, and unreconstructed plutocrats who want to become noblemen and rule over everyone. These are all shrinking demographics....
In Texas, there are more than a dozen suggested bills and Republican Gov. Greg Abbott said they’re needed because Harris County, recently a Democratic stronghold, made changes at the local level to increase turnout during the pandemic. “We must pass laws to prevent election officials from je...