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Jay Lee

Jay Lee is a Senior Research Associate with Sightline Institute, primarily working on electoral upgrades across Cascadia. Jay has a quantitative background in statistics and elections research, and prior to Sightline worked with Reed College’s Elections & Voting Information Center. He is interested in voting system reforms, the over 90,000 local governments in the United States, reproducibility in scientific computing and data science, and causal inference techniques for isolating effects in observational studies. He holds a BA in mathematics from Reed College. A Texan abroad in Portland, Jay enjoys riding his bike around town, alternating trips to the Oregon Coast and the Cascades, sci-fi and fantasy novels, and tabletop role-playing games. Find his latest research here. Email him at jay@sightline.org , and follow him on Bluesky or LinkedIn.

Kristin Eberhard

Kristin Eberhard

Latest articles

Portland Election Delivers City’s Most Representative Council Ever

Well, it’s working!  Portlanders just used proportional ranked choice voting to elect their most representative city government in more than ...
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What Oregonians Need to Know About Ranked Choice Voting

Author’s note: In early 2023, I wrote about Oregon House Bill 2004, which let voters decide whether to adopt ranked choice ...
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Mirroring the Nation, Voter Turnout Dropped in Alaska’s 2022 Election

Takeaways Find audio versions of Sightline articles on any of your favorite podcast platforms, including Spotify, YouTube, and Apple. In ...
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‘Majority Rules’ Brings Election Reform to the Big Screen

Last month, I caught the new feature-length documentary Majority Rules at its theatrical release in New York City’s East Village. 
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What Can Portland Learn from America’s Oldest Proportional Election System?

This article is part of the series Fairer Elections in Portland Find audio versions of Sightline articles on any of ...
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Ranked Choice Voting Would Help Oregonians Vote for their True Favorite

UPDATE 06/30/23: The Oregon legislature passed a measure on June 25, that lets voters decide whether to adopt ranked choice voting ...
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Yes, Oregon, There Is a Way to Build Enough Homes

Takeaways After decades of underbuilding, Oregon has a serious housing shortage. Governor Tina Kotek wants the state to build 36,000 ...
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The Democracy Reforms Coming to Cascadia

Takeaways Ranked choice voting is coming to three more Cascadian jurisdictions. Even-year elections advance in King County and elsewhere. Alaska ...
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Cascadians, Get Ready to Vote on Voting

Find audio versions of Sightline articles on any of your favorite podcast platforms, including Spotify, Google, and Apple. Voters across ...
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Ten Things Portlanders Should Know About Multi-Member Districts

This article is part of the series Fairer Elections in Portland Find audio versions of Sightline articles on any of ...
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Summer Recap: Changing Portland’s City Charter

This article is part of the series Fairer Elections in Portland Find audio versions of Sightline articles on any of ...
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San Juan County (WA) Council Blocks Ranked Choice Voting and Other Charter Amendments from November Ballot

Takeaways At the last minute, Councilors decided voters would not get to decide on proposed County Charter amendments. The Council’s ...
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