Edward B. Foley and Michael McConnell | June 10, 2019 | Election Administration
Speaker Nancy Pelosi was correct when she recently said that the best way to avoid a disputed election is for the result to be a blowout. But that is a hope, and we need a plan. If the midterm elections are any indication, the number of states with razor thin...
Steven Rosenfeld | June 6, 2019 | Election Administration
As 2020’s elections edge closer, recent troubling developments are casting new light on an old question—what will it take for the results to be trusted?The emergence of powerful forms of online political propaganda, the absence of progress in 2019 state legislatures...
Steven F. Huefner | December 10, 2018 | Election Administration
Bladen County, North Carolina, provides the latest object lesson for anyone genuinely interested in improving American elections. Each day this past week brought a new revelation about apparent absentee ballot fraud there, fraud that appears increasingly likely to...
Jennifer Morinigo | October 30, 2018 | Election Administration
The American Law Institute is making the updated text for the forthcoming Election Administration Principles available now, in time for the midterm elections. The principles apply to any type of elective office and are structured to be useful to multiple audiences,...
Sabrina Eaton | January 24, 2018 | Election Administration
WASHINGTON – Sixty-one-year-old Portage County resident Larry Harmon showed up to vote in 2015 only learn his registration was canceled. Harmon hadn’t cast a ballot since the 2008 presidential election because he saw abstention as a way to express his...
