Tossed Salad and Scrambled Eggs

The electoral college is getting a lot of flack lately for being why Trump won the election. It occurred to me that the EC, as it is popular...

Forget who the candidates are for a moment. Everything that can be said about them has been said. (Some things bear repeating, but I'll...

Put aside the details of the candidates for a moment; the primary elections have a serious structural problem that needs to be fixed before...

I've talked in the past about how trust in elections is critical. Right now the system simply can't be audited, by design. We have h...

The democratic party has selected their candidate for governor. He has no public policy statements, website, or twitter feed. He has an ina...

So I've covered the legislative races, but there are others. Right now there's a heavily-politicized retention election for judges. ...

TL;DR Puttbrese, Aljabbary, Mancini, Rawlings are the only candidates in competitive primaries that I can say seem better than their oppon...

TN-7 has been redistricted out of Davidson County, but enough of greater Nashville is in TN-7 that I want to comment on this race as well. ...

The below are my impressions of each candidate in the upcoming August 7 primary elections for Governor of Tennessee. These impressions are ...

Ah, TN-5. The office I ran for back in the day. I learned a lot from that experience, but that's for another post. The below are my im...

The below are my impressions of each candidate in the upcoming August 7 primary elections for US Senator from Tennessee. These impressions a...

Much of modern geopolitics is based on the idea of territorial integrity . A state has these borders, and they are not to be changed. When w...

Ballots must be physical . The ballot should exist as a physical medium, allowing for recount by multiple independent parties. Ballots mus...

There's a lot of talk lately about voter ID laws . Like many things, this issue has devolved into two sides. One side says that these la...