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Ballot Design

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Information & Analysis

There are no news developments on Ballot Design that Election Law at Moritz has covered, or is covering at this time.

Commentary

2012

Why Florida Should Not Be the “Next Florida”: Fixing the Debacle In Palm Beach County (10/24/12)

2008

The Ohio Ballot Experiment of 2008 (10/29/08)

News Wire

Election law news from across the country concerning Ballot Design

October, 2013

With ranked-choice voting, Minneapolis mayoral race becomes Battle to Be Nice (10/31/13)
Election-law changes likely on 2014 Arizona ballot (10/24/13)
The Cost of a Two-Tiered Election in Arizona (10/22/13)
A ranked-choice voting system for Congress (10/18/13)
Court: Rewrite pension referendum, despite early voting (10/11/13)

September, 2013

High-Cost Runoff for Public Advocate's Post Prompts Calls for Reform (9/30/13)
Recently obtained 1993 city primary law causes consternation for Board of Elections officials (9/18/13)
27 other things the North Carolina voting law changes (9/09/13)

August, 2013

Ballots in Colorado recall elections will have messages addressing voters (8/08/13)
Do Popular Votes on Rights Create Animosity Toward Minorities? (8/08/13)

January, 2013

Florida Governor Backs Voting Changes (1/18/13)

December, 2012

Top state elections chief meets with South Florida supervisors (12/13/12)

October, 2012

Gessler: Colorado prepared for election spotlight (10/31/12)
Bucher: Any delays at early voting sites likely due to 101 versions of long, custom-made ballot (10/30/12)
New laws, big ballot could mean confusion for 2012 Florida voters (10/29/12)
Secretary of State Ruth Johnson ordered to appear in court for hearing in voting case (10/05/12)

October, 2011

Election law 'slipped by' GOP leadership (10/07/11)

April, 2011

GOP moves to repeal TN paper ballot law (4/25/11)
Lawmakers to revisit sample ballot change (4/19/11)

February, 2011

Election reform groups want more names on ballots (2/01/11)

December, 2010

NY's new voting process already questioned . (12/30/10)

September, 2010

Tennant calls GOP ballot lawsuit 'frivolous' (9/21/10)

August, 2010

The era of bilingual voting will dawn soon in Northeast Ohio (8/23/10)
Design a Better Ballot (8/20/10)
Cuyahoga County Board of Elections told to print bilingual ballots or be sued (8/11/10)
GOP candidate wants ‘voter ID’ system (8/05/10)

July, 2010

Maryland invalidates indepedent voters (7/19/10)

June, 2010

Parties object to being abbreviated on Oregon ballot (6/09/10)

April, 2010

Lawsuit settlement to lead to bilingual ballots in 2012 (4/16/10)

November, 2009

Ritchie wants new design instructions for absentee ballots (11/13/09)

September, 2009

Runner sues Attorney General over ballot wording (9/28/09)
Morris pols know ballot spot is important (9/23/09)

August, 2009

Suit fights Pierce County ballot language (8/22/09)

July, 2009

Detroit elections chief defends ballot designations (7/14/09)

June, 2009

Oregon Democrats back down from ballot law change (6/26/09)

May, 2009

Bill would translate NYC ballots to Russian (5/20/09)
Piazza may back bilingual ballots (5/18/09)

April, 2009

County Adopts Plastic Ballots (4/02/09)

February, 2009

Asian voters renew call for bilingual ballot mandate (2/26/09)

October, 2008

Straight-ticket omits presidential race (10/20/08)
Court says state must use disputed ballot (10/16/08)

Litigation

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There are no active cases on Ballot Design that Election Law at Moritz is covering at this time.

Archived Cases

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