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...
Edward B. Foley | April 21, 2020 | Election Administration
This article was originally published by Medium.com on April 12, 2021. The United States holds genuine elections, not sham ones. That’s what distinguishes this country from Putin’s Russia and other authoritarian regimes. Or at least it has ever since the Voting Rights...
Franita Tolson and Edward B. Foley | April 15, 2020 | Election Administration
Why was there in-person voting in Wisconsin during a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic? Was the election legitimate? In this podcast episode of Free and Fair with Franita and Foley, election scholars Ned Foley and Franita Tolson analyze the partisanship and polarization...
Edward B. Foley, Steven F. Huefner, Jennifer Morinigo and Pauline Toboulidis | March 18, 2020 | Election Administration
In 2019, The American Law Institute published Principles of the Law, Election Administration: Non-Precinct Voting and Resolution of Ballot-Counting Disputes. Part I, Early In-Person Voting and Open Absentee Voting, provides principles for use by jurisdictions that...
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...
