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...
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...
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, 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...
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...
