The gloriously cooked tweet above reminded me of a series I'd been intending to start where now and then I would cover someone known in the online psephosphere who has a particular gimmick that I haven't previously addressed in detail. The rules for inclusion in this series are:
1. the person in question needs to be a published author on elections and not just a rando twitter pest (though this first one is really scraping the barrel on the first bit)
2. they need to have some defining pet argument or recurring MO that makes covering what they do in one article worthwhile and effective.
3. they need to be someone who I've not already written multiple articles debunking, so no Dennis Shanahans will feature in this series.
I should note here that the subject of this article has written Substack articles unsuccessfully criticising my comments about his nonsense on multiple occasions. (This did come after I blocked him on Twitter in May 2022 for bogus triumphalism and misrepresenting my arguments - he not long after deleted his side of that exchange.) He may be small fry, but from time to time I do come across someone who has taken his eccentric claims seriously. Often these are well-meaning people who do share genuine concerns about the under-representation of the Greens in the House of Reps and just don't realise that this particular version of those concerns is silly.
