CRC on Ranked-Choice Voting and United for Democracy
"Scott Walter, president of the Capital Research Center, a conservative watchdog group, compared ranked-choice elections to 'putting the votes in a blender.' He said the method does not honor the…
Kathryn Murdoch
The Left-Wing Megadonors Pushing for Ranked Choice Voting
Written Testimony To Georgia Senate Ethics Committee Sen. Max Burns, Chairman Scott Walter President, Capital Research Center January 22, 2024 Chairman…
Scott Walter’s Testimony on Ranked Choice Voting to the Ohio State Senate
Ranked-choice voting (RCV) was first used in America a century ago. It was then largely forgotten until tens of millions of dollars began to be put behind the idea in…
A Conversation with the New Jersey Constitutional Republicans
In a wide-ranging conversation with J.R. Carman of the New Jersey Constitutional Republicans, Capital Research Center (CRC) president Scott Walter discusses how CRC began as an organization that investigates donor…
Onetime Disinformation Donors Back Left-Wing Propaganda Targeting Disinformation [REPOST]
On Tuesday, political media outlet Axios reported on the latest project of controversial Democratic operative Tara McGowan. McGowan will head Good Information, a nominally for-profit “public benefit corporation” venture “to…
Scott Walter Testifies to a Senate Finance Subcommittee on “the Political Activities of Tax Exempt Entities”
The Capital Research Center has studied the problems connected to the intersection of politics and tax-exempt entities for decades. Just in the last few months, many more scandals have erupted.
The Murdoch Mission to Save Democracy: The Rest of the Story
On March 14 the New York Times ran a profile of wealthy lefty activist Kathryn Murdoch, daughter-in-law of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, under the cloying headline “How a Murdoch Hopes…
Ranked-Choice Voting: How RCV Works
At least 22 jurisdictions—including New York City, San Francisco, Maine, and Alaska—used ranked-choice voting (RCV) in their most recent elections. That number is expected to more than double in the…
Ranked-Choice Voting: Winning by Losing
New York City’s first experience with ranked-choice voting is far from the first controversy involving the system that has been pushed financially by the Left and in some cases is…
Ranked-Choice Voting: Catching On
During 2021 some 30 bills were introduced in state legislatures across the country to make their states RCV states. But the idea has particularly caught on at a local level,…