News - Quoted News - Quoted “The right to vote is going to vary quite a bit across different states in the U.S. It can be really challenging for people to get accurate information about what the law is and how it might be applied to them.” —Professor Ariel White November 8, 2024 Elena Moore and Charlotte West NPR Weekend Edition Sunday “The USPS processes a total of 300 million pieces of mail each day. The total number of mail ballots will be something in the neighborhood of 50 million which, of course, will generate a total of 100 million pieces of mail—a volume that will be stretched out over several weeks. Therefore, this is not a major surge in volume.” —Professor Charles Stewart October 25, 2024 Tribune News Service Boston Herald “...voters have, on aggregate, returned to patterns we saw before 2020, which is that of a slowly growing reliance on convenience voting methods.” —-Professor Charles Stewart September 6, 2024 Ivan Pereira abcnews.go.com “It is our responsibility to see the world as it is, not as we hoped or wished it would be. It is possible that we will one day look back and see the quarter-century after the Cold War as nuclear intermission." The new challenge is "the real possibility of collaboration and even collusion between our nuclear-armed adversaries.” ——Professor Vipin Narang August 20, 2024 David E. Sanger New York Times “I don't think that AI is necessarily going to make misinformation better, in the sense of making it more persuasive, but it's easier to create misinformation.” —Professor Adam Berinsky April 16, 2024 Aidan Ryan The Boston Globe “States are using inordinately expensive assets to shoot down cheap things.” —Professor Erik Lin-Greenberg April 8, 2024 Peter Waldman, Sheridan Prasso and Simon Marks Bloomberg News “That’s something that both Democrats and Republicans need to keep in mind — that this is not going to be the game-changer that anybody believes and hopes for, or fears.” —-Professor Charles Stewart, on automatic voter registration October 1, 2023 Marc Levy Associated Press ““Overthrowing a dictatorship is fundamentally different than building a lasting democracy."” —Professor Mai HassanSpectrumSpring 2023 September 28, 2023 “Increased pressure on China could easily backfire and motivate Beijing to become more aggressive in order to demonstrate its resolve to other states despite its internal difficulties.” —Professor Taylor Fravel Foreign Affairs September 15, 2023 Taylor Fravel Foreign Affairs “Canada manages to have 'wonderfully boring' banks, says David Singer, who studies crises and heads Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s department of political science. 'The recipe for stability is to have well-capitalized, risk-averse banks,' he says. A well-capitalized bank is something like a homeowner with a lot of equity: It has a financial cushion to absorb losses on the value of its assets. 'But banks won’t naturally gravitate toward such behavior. They need thorough and steady regulation that doesn’t ease up when the economy is humming.'” —Professor David Singer April 15, 2023 Max Abelson Bloomberg.com “Vote totals are likely to shift throughout the evening as well as in the days that follow election day as votes continue to be counted. That shift isn’t unusual and can be explained by two dynamics...” —Charles Stewart III November 9, 2022 Sam Levine The Guardian “The logistical issues of manufacturing that many ballots and distributing them in a way that would go unnoticed just boggles the mind.” —Charles Stewart III November 8, 2022 Sudiksha Kochi USA Today “They are a fail-safe method to ensure that everyone who is registered to vote gets to cast a ballot.” —Charles Stewart III November 7, 2022 AP Fox News “They [provisional ballots] are a fail-safe method to ensure that everyone who is registered to vote gets to cast a ballot.” —Charles Stewart III November 4, 2022 Philip Marcelo The Public's Radio “The immovable force in elections over the last 20 years hasn't changed and that is voters really demanding more convenience.” —Professor Charles Stewart III October 28, 2022 Miles Parks NPR “It was a puzzling statement… what [Blinken] seems to be saying is that the status quo across the strait has been shifting because of China’s actions toward Taiwan in the past few years” —Professor M. Taylor Fravel October 27, 2022 Phelim Kine Politico “What brings people to the polls is conflict and uncertainty about who’s going to win the election...When you get it into an equilibrium where there is no uncertainty about who’s going to win the election, then you stay at home.” —Professor Charles Stewart III October 26, 2022 Jusneel Mahal Commonwealth Magazine NPR’s Miles Parks spotlights Prof. Charles Stewart III’s research showing that hand counting ballots is “significantly less accurate, more expensive and more time-consuming than using tabulation equipment.” October 7, 2022 Miles Park NPR “Despite their reoccurrence, I don’t view these statements as reflecting a change in strategy.” —M. Taylor Fravel September 20, 2022 Jesse Johnson The Japan Times “Political scientists Barry Posen and Charles Charles Kupchan argued that Kyiv’s best option was to sue for peace and forgo joining NATO...Despite these pressures, Western support for Ukraine remains strong.” September 15, 2022 Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay Foreign Affairs Prof. Stewart in New Hampshire Public Radio, "State committee hears expert testimony on what drives voter mistrust" September 7, 2022 Paul Cuno-Booth New Hampshire Public Radio Research by Prof. Devin Caughey is cited in The Economist, "American policy is splitting, state by state, into two blocs" September 3, 2022 The Economist “It could increase stress on the Taiwanese Air Force to track, monitor and respond to them … this is a way of basically increasing the daily military pressure on Taiwan.” —M. Taylor Fravel September 1, 2022 Phelim Kine Politico Prof. Stewart predicts less absentee voting in 2022 compared to previous years in the pandemic. August 12, 2022 ABC News Prof. Charles Stewart says additional poll volunteers are needed to prevent long lines, delayed results, and fewer polling locations. August 12, 2022 Isabelle Hamilton ABC News Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 … Next page Next › Last page Last »
“The right to vote is going to vary quite a bit across different states in the U.S. It can be really challenging for people to get accurate information about what the law is and how it might be applied to them.” —Professor Ariel White November 8, 2024 Elena Moore and Charlotte West NPR Weekend Edition Sunday
“The USPS processes a total of 300 million pieces of mail each day. The total number of mail ballots will be something in the neighborhood of 50 million which, of course, will generate a total of 100 million pieces of mail—a volume that will be stretched out over several weeks. Therefore, this is not a major surge in volume.” —Professor Charles Stewart October 25, 2024 Tribune News Service Boston Herald
“...voters have, on aggregate, returned to patterns we saw before 2020, which is that of a slowly growing reliance on convenience voting methods.” —-Professor Charles Stewart September 6, 2024 Ivan Pereira abcnews.go.com
“It is our responsibility to see the world as it is, not as we hoped or wished it would be. It is possible that we will one day look back and see the quarter-century after the Cold War as nuclear intermission." The new challenge is "the real possibility of collaboration and even collusion between our nuclear-armed adversaries.” ——Professor Vipin Narang August 20, 2024 David E. Sanger New York Times
“I don't think that AI is necessarily going to make misinformation better, in the sense of making it more persuasive, but it's easier to create misinformation.” —Professor Adam Berinsky April 16, 2024 Aidan Ryan The Boston Globe
“States are using inordinately expensive assets to shoot down cheap things.” —Professor Erik Lin-Greenberg April 8, 2024 Peter Waldman, Sheridan Prasso and Simon Marks Bloomberg News
“That’s something that both Democrats and Republicans need to keep in mind — that this is not going to be the game-changer that anybody believes and hopes for, or fears.” —-Professor Charles Stewart, on automatic voter registration October 1, 2023 Marc Levy Associated Press
““Overthrowing a dictatorship is fundamentally different than building a lasting democracy."” —Professor Mai HassanSpectrumSpring 2023 September 28, 2023
“Increased pressure on China could easily backfire and motivate Beijing to become more aggressive in order to demonstrate its resolve to other states despite its internal difficulties.” —Professor Taylor Fravel Foreign Affairs September 15, 2023 Taylor Fravel Foreign Affairs
“Canada manages to have 'wonderfully boring' banks, says David Singer, who studies crises and heads Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s department of political science. 'The recipe for stability is to have well-capitalized, risk-averse banks,' he says. A well-capitalized bank is something like a homeowner with a lot of equity: It has a financial cushion to absorb losses on the value of its assets. 'But banks won’t naturally gravitate toward such behavior. They need thorough and steady regulation that doesn’t ease up when the economy is humming.'” —Professor David Singer April 15, 2023 Max Abelson Bloomberg.com
“Vote totals are likely to shift throughout the evening as well as in the days that follow election day as votes continue to be counted. That shift isn’t unusual and can be explained by two dynamics...” —Charles Stewart III November 9, 2022 Sam Levine The Guardian
“The logistical issues of manufacturing that many ballots and distributing them in a way that would go unnoticed just boggles the mind.” —Charles Stewart III November 8, 2022 Sudiksha Kochi USA Today
“They are a fail-safe method to ensure that everyone who is registered to vote gets to cast a ballot.” —Charles Stewart III November 7, 2022 AP Fox News
“They [provisional ballots] are a fail-safe method to ensure that everyone who is registered to vote gets to cast a ballot.” —Charles Stewart III November 4, 2022 Philip Marcelo The Public's Radio
“The immovable force in elections over the last 20 years hasn't changed and that is voters really demanding more convenience.” —Professor Charles Stewart III October 28, 2022 Miles Parks NPR
“It was a puzzling statement… what [Blinken] seems to be saying is that the status quo across the strait has been shifting because of China’s actions toward Taiwan in the past few years” —Professor M. Taylor Fravel October 27, 2022 Phelim Kine Politico
“What brings people to the polls is conflict and uncertainty about who’s going to win the election...When you get it into an equilibrium where there is no uncertainty about who’s going to win the election, then you stay at home.” —Professor Charles Stewart III October 26, 2022 Jusneel Mahal Commonwealth Magazine
NPR’s Miles Parks spotlights Prof. Charles Stewart III’s research showing that hand counting ballots is “significantly less accurate, more expensive and more time-consuming than using tabulation equipment.” October 7, 2022 Miles Park NPR
“Despite their reoccurrence, I don’t view these statements as reflecting a change in strategy.” —M. Taylor Fravel September 20, 2022 Jesse Johnson The Japan Times
“Political scientists Barry Posen and Charles Charles Kupchan argued that Kyiv’s best option was to sue for peace and forgo joining NATO...Despite these pressures, Western support for Ukraine remains strong.” September 15, 2022 Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay Foreign Affairs
Prof. Stewart in New Hampshire Public Radio, "State committee hears expert testimony on what drives voter mistrust" September 7, 2022 Paul Cuno-Booth New Hampshire Public Radio
Research by Prof. Devin Caughey is cited in The Economist, "American policy is splitting, state by state, into two blocs" September 3, 2022 The Economist
“It could increase stress on the Taiwanese Air Force to track, monitor and respond to them … this is a way of basically increasing the daily military pressure on Taiwan.” —M. Taylor Fravel September 1, 2022 Phelim Kine Politico
Prof. Stewart predicts less absentee voting in 2022 compared to previous years in the pandemic. August 12, 2022 ABC News
Prof. Charles Stewart says additional poll volunteers are needed to prevent long lines, delayed results, and fewer polling locations. August 12, 2022 Isabelle Hamilton ABC News
