Edward B. Foley | September 2, 2021 | Election Administration
Below is the abstract for “Requiring Majority Winners for Congressional Elections: Harnessing Federalism to Combat Extremism,” available for download on SSRN. Congress should enact a law requiring a candidate for a seat in Congress to receive a majority of votes in...
Edward B. Foley | November 23, 2020 | Election Administration
This article originally appeared on SCOTUSblog on Nov. 16, 2020. For the past several months, Election Law at Ohio State and SCOTUSblog have teamed up to track significant election-related lawsuits with the potential to reach the Supreme Court and affect the...
Steven F. Huefner, Edward B. Foley, Derek T. Muller, Franita Tolson and Jennifer Morinigo | October 8, 2020 | Children and the Law, Election Administration
The 2020 election is seeing unprecedented volatility leading up to November 3. Will this volatility make a difference, helping or hurting the system’s capacity to serve its purpose? This is the first of many questions about the 2020 election that this group of...
Edward B. Foley and Lauren Klosinski | July 28, 2020 | Election Administration
In “America Has to Count on More than Prayer in the Case of Close Election,” featured on The Hill, Edward B. Foley explores growing concerns that if the upcoming presidential election this November remains unsettled after the results are in, it inevitably will end up...
Steven F. Huefner, Edward B. Foley and Pauline Toboulidis | July 24, 2020 | Election Administration
With the November election less than four months away, and the certainty that it will involve a dramatic increase in the amount of voting by mail, we recently recorded an episode of Reasonably Speaking to discuss some of the legal issues that might arise surrounding...
