Edward B. Foley, Steven F. Huefner, Justin Levitt, Lisa Marshall Manheim and Jennifer Morinigo | June 18, 2020 | Election Administration
In the face of the pandemic and rising concerns about safety at the polls, an unprecedented number of voters across the nation requested an absentee ballot for the primary elections, overwhelming election officials and bringing to light serious problems with absentee...
Andrew Cohen | June 3, 2020 | Election Administration
This article was originally published by UC Berkeley Law on May 15, 2020 and has been reproduced with permission. View the original post here. Just 2½ months ago, current hot-button questions about the upcoming election seemed unthinkable: Will in-person voting be...
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 Rosenfeld | April 17, 2019 | Election Administration
If the 2020 presidential election hinges on recounts in the closest battleground states, there could be a crisis even greater than the 2000 election where the U.S. Supreme Court ended a Florida recount in its infamous Bush v. Gore ruling.“I see what the states have...
