Richard L. Revesz | July 23, 2020 | Inside The ALI
This Director’s Letter was originally published in the summer 2020 edition of The ALI Reporter.This year has been an extraordinarily difficult one. We are ensnarled in a pandemic that has caused a staggeringly large number of deaths and deep suffering and has laid...
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...
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...
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...
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,”...
