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...
Ad Hoc Committee for 2020 Fairness and Legitimacy | May 29, 2020 | Election Administration
An ad-hoc committee of scholars and researchers recently released a report, “Fair Elections During a Crisis: Urgent Recommendations in Law, Media, Politics, and Tech to Advance the Legitimacy of, and the Public’s Confidence in, the November 2020 U.S. Elections,”...
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...
Amy Howe | April 6, 2020 | Election Administration
This article was published on SCOTUSblog.com on April 5, 2020.One day after Wisconsin Republicans asked the Supreme Court to block a lower-court ruling that extended the deadline for voters to submit absentee ballots in the state’s primary election, Wisconsin...
