Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

The increase in straight-ticket party voting in recent years means that competitive congressional races can tip one way or the other depending on the showing of the candidates at the top of the ticket.

A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.

Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards.

Science never makes an advance until philosophy authorizes it to do so.

You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, and systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject - the actual enemy is the unknown.

Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.