This event on how to hold an election during a pandemic will feature leading California policymakers, academics presenting new research, and the release of new polling data on California's electorate:

About to tune into UC Center Sacramento’s event featuring Marc Berman and Senator Tom Umberg. Looking forward to hearing about how factors like COVID-19 will shape the #2020Election. USC Center for Inclusive Democracy’s Mindy Romero will also be joining the discussion!

Marc Berman highlights that California has existing policies to ensure citizens can safely cast their ballots. He says, “Since we already had much of the infrastructure in place, it was much easier to ramp up vote-by-mail in response to COVID-19.”

Senator Tom Umberg referenced other bills such as SB-72 that allows eligible voters in California to register to vote on #ElectionDay and SB-423 that would help to ensure every voter in California can safely vote in-person.

A reminder from UC Center Sacramento's event: CA citizens can track their ballot and correct problems on their ballot to ensure their vote is counted in the #2020Election! sos.ca.gov/elections/ball…

According to the study: 52% said they wanted to vote-by-mail 30% said they would vote in-person 19% said they would drop off their ballot Access the full report here: cid.usc.edu/fact-sheets

Yup, Stan, academia is kinda like playing baseball where everyone bats .127 and even when you do get a hit, you have to do every ludicrous thing three umpires tell you before you can reach base. But as a former editor and frequent R2, I think peer review is vital, if sadistic.

Excited to publish this new paper on trust in elections with CassidyReller and Anthony Anderson: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

What happens when politicians meet TikTok? It's early days for this technology, but based on what we have learned from other social media platforms, there are reasons to worry: thehill.com/opinion/campai…

Excited to see Nhat-Dang Do (professor at Trinity College, UCSD alumn) present his excellent research on RMIGs (racial minority interest groups) at Arizona State's Kopf Conference, "Puentes: Bridging American Politics' Interest Group and Institutions Research."

Excited to release a dataset with nearly 4 million tweets by all American state legislators, coded for topic and ideology through supervised learning, here: dataverse.unc.edu/dataset.xhtml?….

This dataset is the basis for my new paper coauthored with Dan Butler and Stan Oklobdzija (🦋stano.bksy.social) in SPPQ, cambridge.org/core/journals/…

My take on #Calexit — fun hashtag, bad idea fw.to/2XkpZRC

Could Donald J. Trump campaign echo Pete Wilson's 94 CA Gov bid & alienate Latino voters long term, asks Thad Kousser?

Gov. Jerry Brown's appointment of Ryan M. Martin to be CA's new A.G. gives big platform to one very talented Latino leader at the same time...

...that it opens up a Congressional seat opportunity for John A. Pérez, perhaps California's most talented legislative leader of past decade

The nerdiest issue in Obamacare replacement is the one that means the most to the nation's most vulnerable: thehill.com/blogs/pundits-…

Essential services that #FreedomCaucus wants out of #RepealANDReplace address causes of "deaths of despair" cnn.it/2mxsncZ

Personal Characteristics of MPs and Legislative Behavior in Moral Policymaking ow.ly/N5fY30eNmla via LSI #APSA17