Announcing a regular Q&A/AMA feature

Send me your questions by June 13th. Answers to be sent out Tuesday the 14th

Hi everyone. Democracy by the Numbers is back this week from an unplanned vacation to start the summer. I hope you have all had a nice week.

This post is an especially fun one; we are starting a new question-and-answer feature for the blog! Some writers call this a “mailbag.” You may also think of it, to borrow from the pandemic work-from-home nomenclature, as an “asynchronous” “ask me anything” (AMA). But I am just going to call it a “Q&A” for now.

You can submit questions by filling out this form. More details follow.

Here’s a preliminary plan for how this is going to work. I will run one Q&A post roughly once a month or when someone sends in an excellent question—whichever comes first. For each issue, I will collect several questions submitted via the form and pick one to answer for the entire subscriber list. I will select several other questions to answer for those who support the blog with a paid subscription.

The first Q&A will run Tuesday, June 14th. So please send in your questio…