In an interview with the Boston Globe’s Joshua Miller earlier this week, Secretary of State William Galvin responded to a critical essay I wrote about his leadership in managing elections. To combat my claim that his administration is “low-energy,” Galvin first touted that the state has “the highest number of eligible voters we’ve ever had.” […]
Eitan Hersh
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Galvin’s low energy dampens voting innovation
SINCE THE FLORIDA election debacle in 2000, the United States has seen dramatic developments in the administration of elections. States are modernizing and innovating so much that the act of voting in 2016 would be almost unrecognizable to a voter from the 1990s. But not in Massachusetts. Here in the Commonwealth, where innovation is typically […]