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Skip to Main ContentThis copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. Distribution and use of this material are governed byour Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. For non-personal use or to order multiple copies, please contactDow Jones Reprints at 1-800-843-0008 or visit www.djreprints.com.https://www.wsj.com/articles/h-r-1-is-democrats-survival-strategy-for-2022-11616795614ShareBy March 26, 2021 5:53 pm ETListen to article(5 minutes) and Stacey Abrams advocate different election reforms and might as well be the same person, both having discovered the personal benefit of alleging their respective elections were stolen from them. Under the Democratic bill H.R.1, expect a lot more Donald Trumps and Stacey Abramses.Some say we should calm down about the proposed sweeping changes because academic research shows that electoral tweaks, in the end, don’t confer lasting partisan advantage. This misses a key wrinkle. In a duopoly market, the parties (which are basically marketing organizations) indeed will always to messages and strategies that divide the electorate down the middle. And big data is apparently making them better at it. The real problem with H.R.1 begins exactly here: Its greater incentive for partisans to allege cheating and refuse to honor outcomes when races are close and even when they aren’t.Continue reading your article witha WSJ membershipAlready a member? Sponsored Offers“Business World” deals with business and the world in which business finds itself. It is aimed at readers who know that public matters are seldom straightforward and are curious for explanations. It's published online Tuesday and Friday evenings, and in the Wednesday and Saturday newspaper editions. Holman W. Jenkins Jr. is a member of the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal. He writes the twice-weekly “Business World” column that appears on the paper's op-ed page on Wednesdays and Saturdays.Mr. Jenkins joined the Journal in May 1992 as a writer for the editorial page in New York. In February 1994, he moved to Hong Kong as editor of The Asian Wall Street Journal's editorial page. He returned to the domestic Journal in December 1995 as a member of the paper's editorial board and was based in San Francisco. Mr. Jenkins won a 1997 Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business and financial coverage.Born in Philadelphia, Mr. Jenkins received a bachelor's degree from Hobart and William Smith Colleges and a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University. He was a 1991 journalism fellow at the University of Michigan.Copyright ©2022 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc. All Rights ReservedThis copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. Distribution and use of this material are governed byour Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. For non-personal use or to order multiple copies, please contactDow Jones Reprints at 1-800-843-0008 or visit www.djreprints.com.

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