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Archived Features

Below is a list of past projects Election Law @ Moritz has worked on.

2008 Election

2006 Election

  • Recount Roundup
  • Overview
  • Ohio Primary Problems
  • Voting Technology Nationwide
  • Electronic Roundtable
  • Ohio Voter Registration Regulations
  • 50 Questions for 5 States
  • Election Law and the Roberts Court (Sept. 29-30, 2006)

2005 Election

  • Post-Election Redistricting Reform Developments
  • Ohio Ballot Initiatives

2004 Election

  • e-Book on Election Law
  • Ohio Governor Taft Speaks at EL@M Event (Oct. 21, 2004)
  • False Campaign Ads: Pros and Cons of Regulation (Oct. 11, 2004)
  • Electronic Voting: The 2004 Election and Beyond (Sept. 23, 2004)
  • Money & Politics 2004: New Rules, New Practices (Sept. 15, 2004)
Top 10 Election Issues

Commentary

Daniel P. Tokaji

A Poster Child for Dysfunctional Districting

Daniel P. Tokaji

 

Fifty years ago next month, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Baker v. Carr (1962), inaugurating the “reapportionment revolution” which led to the redrawing of legislative districts across the country. This milestone provides the opportunity to reflect not only on what has been accomplished, but also on what still needs to be done.

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In the News

Daniel P. Tokaji

This week: Bama voting rights case in DC courtroom on Thursday

Professor Daniel Tokaji, a senior fellow at Election Law @ Moritz, was quoted by The Birmingham News in an article about a local county's crusade to end 47 years of federal government oversight of its election returns.

Shelby County is hoping a federal appeals court will agree that the county no longer needs the U.S. Justice Department to approve changes in the ways elections are conducted because the area has progressed from its discriminatory past. It is unclear whether the case would be the vehicle with which justices of the U.S. Supreme Court would review the constitutionality of Section 5.

"I am reasonably confident they're going to take up the question of Section 5 constitutionality within the next few years," Tokaji said. "It could be Shelby County, it could be South Carolina, or some other."

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Info & Analysis

Edward B. Foley

Federal Court Finds Equal Protection Violation

In the Hunter case, involving provisional ballots in a local Ohio election from 2010, the federal district court has ordered that ballots must be counted if they are otherwise eligible if they were miscast because of poll worker error. 

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