Richard L. Hasen | August 7, 2020 | Election Administration
This article was originally pushed by The University of Chicago Law Review Online. The following is the introduction. Footnotes have been omitted. I. IntroductionPutting aside the Supreme Court’s controversial decision in Republican National Committee v. Democratic...
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...
Richard L. Hasen | July 22, 2020 | Election Administration
ABSTRACTThe COVID-19 global pandemic, which already has claimed over 100,000 lives in the United States by the end of May 2020, revealed cracks in American economic and social infrastructure. The pandemic also has revealed the inadequacy of the American political...
Richard H. Pildes | July 8, 2020 | Election Administration
ABSTRACTThis fall, most states are likely to see a massive surge in absentee voting. The significantly greater burdens absentee ballots impose on election administration, compared to in-person voting, are not widely appreciated. Unless certain key dates in the...
Kevin Morris and Peter Miller | June 30, 2020 | Election Administration
ABSTRACTWe report the first study of the effect of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) on voting behavior. We draw upon individual-level observations from Milwaukee matched to similar observations in the surrounding counties to assess whether fewer polling...
