Baodong Liu is a nationally recognized expert on race, voting rights and U.S. elections. He provided key expert witness testimony in court hearings on the state of Alabama’s redistricting map, testimony that made its way into a subsequent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that found the map unconstitutional.
Liu also provided his expert opinions and/or performed empirical analyses for other federal voting rights cases as well as a landmark Utah case, Navajo Nation, et al, vs. San Juan County, et al. He has given numerous presentations to community and non-profit advocacy groups and helped train several groups on quantitative analysis of racially polarized voting. Liu has provided research services to such entities as the U.S. Department of Justice, the National Science Foundation and the Southern Poverty Law Center. He has been quoted in media locally and nationally on elections and voter behavior and is the founder of easystates.com, a free website that allows users to search and analyze political data from all U.S. states.
More than 7,600 voters have left the Utah Republican Party in the weeks since the U.S. Capitol invasion. State election records also show decreases in other categories but at slower rates.
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Rep.-elect Burgess Owens, who ran a Trump-style campaign for Utah’s 4th Congressional District that focused often on his identity as a Black conservative , will enter office next year as part of the most diverse Republican freshman class in history.