Jennifer Morinigo | August 21, 2020 | Election Administration
In an op-ed piece for The Washington Post Edward Foley of Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law and Joanne Lipman, former editor in chief of USA Today, rebuff the claim that there is a “delay” if presidential election results are not declared on election...
Amy Howe | August 17, 2020 | Election Administration
This piece was featured by SCOTUSblog.com on August 14, 2020, it was originally published at Howe on the Court.The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to intervene in a dispute over absentee ballots for the upcoming elections in Rhode Island. The justices rejected a...
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...