COVID-19 has caused a voter registration crisis. The New York Times and FiveThirtyEight ( article and podcast ) covered work done by the Center for Election Innovation & Research (CEIR) that shows voter registration in 11 states (and DC) is down by 70% in April 2020 vs April 2016. tl;dr: Voter registration was down approximately 70% in April 2020 vs April 2016 according to CEIR Publicly available…
I’ve been making my way through The Turnout Gap by Bernard L. Fraga to better understand who votes and why. I had absolutely no idea how bad it got for Black voting after Reconstruction with the implementation of Jim Crow: Black turnout declined from 61 percent in the eleven former states of the Confederacy in 1880 to 17 percent in 1900 and 2 percent in 1912 . White turnout also dropped, but only…
Today’s my last day at Cision. This marks the end of a 12-year run that accelerated through three acquisitions in the last two years. From founding Union Metrics, to being acquired by TrendKite, to being acquired by Cision to being acquired by Platinum Equity, I’ve learned more than I could have imagined. More than anyone else, I need to thank Erik Huddleston for believing in what we built at UM…