A major Australian funder will now use a conditional lottery to award funding. I think this is a great policy change and lotteries are likely to become more common as AI-driven application numbers grow theconversation.com/some-austral...

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Three big takeaways: 1. New voting restrictions are bad news for voters of color 2. "Downstream disenfranchisement" means we need to model life-cycle effects of these laws, not just in a single contest 3. Turnout can't be king if we want to understand the costs imposed

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And those who DID still vote moved dramatically to in-person options. In other words, looking at turnout alone (and these are huge turnout effects) understates the "costs" imposed by a rejection, as voters move to less-preferred modes. Who's to say voters will always pay these costs?

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Just as interesting, though, are our findings that having a ballot or application rejected in the primary made voters less likely to vote in the general that fall AND in the presidential primary two years later. These are midterm primary voters! Highly engaged people getting pushed out at high rates

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