Steven Rosenfeld | April 17, 2019 | Election Administration
If the 2020 presidential election hinges on recounts in the closest battleground states, there could be a crisis even greater than the 2000 election where the U.S. Supreme Court ended a Florida recount in its infamous Bush v. Gore ruling.“I see what the states have...
Edward B. Foley and Steven F. Huefner | December 29, 2016 | Election Administration
In Part One of our series, we commended the state of Virginia’s effort to coordinate its recount and contest procedures for a presidential election in a way to enable the state to meet the Safe Harbor Deadline. And Virginia is a state with particularly noticeable...
Edward B. Foley and Steven F. Huefner | December 14, 2016 | Election Administration
The idea of expedited procedures is hardly foreign to American law. Indeed, its application to elections—and specifically recounts—is not without precedent. It is perhaps surprising that more states have not adopted specific procedural mechanisms for the expedited...
