Excited to announce that I've been asked to be editor of @electionwatch_ until the end of the year - as we look to provide analysis of elections in Australia and across the Asia Pacific, as well as the hotly anticipated polls in the US. We are relaunching this week. Thread:

First up we have @Dr_NMCarter's analysis of the Biden campaign's decision to choose @KamalaHarris as vice presidential running mate https://electionwatch.unimelb.edu.au/articles/kamala-harris-the-first-doesnt-have-to-be-the-only-one

Meanwhile @historyogi provides an insightful post-mortem of Singapore's elections, among the first in the world to be held successfully under Covid-19 https://electionwatch.unimelb.edu.au/articles/singapores-ge2020-a-post-mortem

Sri Lanka is likely to see constitutional reform after a landslide election victory for the Rajapaksas, writes Dr Michael Breen of @ArtsUnimelb
https://electionwatch.unimelb.edu.au/articles/sri-lanka-constitutional-reform-on-the-horizon-after-landslide-election-victory2

Pui Man Katy Chan of @ArtsUnimelb breaks down the consequences of Hong Kong 'postponing' its elections by a year, allegedly due to Covid-19 https://electionwatch.unimelb.edu.au/articles/hong-kongs-cancelled-elections

And we have republished a great piece from @IndoAtMelb by Dr Mada Sukmajati looking at whether Indonesia can and should be holding local elections in December given how the pandemic is unfolding there https://electionwatch.unimelb.edu.au/articles/indonesias-local-elections-and-the-pandemic