If we want to protect the integrity of scientific inquiry, we must protect democracy (at Scientific American)
Environmental Justice Requires Electoral Reform: New Analysis
The Center for Science and Democracy has released a new analysis, Building a Healthier Democracy: The Link Between Voting Rights and Environmental Justice, which demonstrates the negative impact of restrictive election laws on voter turnout across Congressional districts (see the report and our impact maps here).
Let’s Stop Letting Minority Rule Give Us Science Fiction Abortion Laws
Abortion policy would probably be much different in the U.S. under institutions that actually respected political equality and majority rule. More at The Equation.
Court Records Reveal Plan to Use Census for Racial Discrimination
Just weeks before the Supreme Court will determine the constitutionality of placing a citizenship question on the 2020 Census, newly released documents from a federal trial demonstrate that Trump administration officials falsely testified about the Justice Department’s motives and justification for adding the question, a decision that has been roundly criticized by the nation’s leading scientific and civil rights organizations (at The Equation).
Fighting Corruption, Promoting Evidence
New Fact Sheet: Reforms to Strengthen Democracy for the Public Good (@UCS)
Legislation will empower young voters, students to go to polls
California students can help renew our democratic spirit. Here’s how. (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
Congress Can Finally Secure Our Right to an Equally Weighted Vote: Here’s How
When the 116thCongress convenes in January, the new Democratic House majority has promised to make electoral integrity literally its first priority: House Resolution 1 (at The Equation).
Scientific Integrity and Privacy at Risk in Census
When the Framers of the U.S. Constitution determined that political power should be allocated proportionally based on population and race (as opposed to wealth, heredity, or religion), they needed a scientific means of measuring population. That is the primary reason that we have the Decennial Census, so that population traits can be identified geographically (at The Equation).
Congress Can Finally Secure Our Right to an Equally Weighted Vote: Here’s How
When the 116thCongress convenes in January, the new Democratic House majority has promised to make electoral integrity literally its first priority: House Resolution 1 (at The Equation).
