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Organized by Author

• Making Mock Elections Real (2/1/05)
• Better Voter Training Through Television (9/14/04)
• The Power of the Airwaves and the Power of the Vote (9/7/04)

• The Machinery of Democratic Accessibility (10/17/06)
• The Future of Accessible Voting: A Crossroad? (4/18/06)
• Too Little, Too Late (12/6/05)
• Ohio's Disabled Voters: Ignored Again (1/18/05)
• Voters with Disabilities: The Potential Swing Vote in the Presidential Election (11/23/04)

• You Can't Predict, You Can Only Plan: More Lessons From Ohio (11/13/07)
• The Secretary of State's Complaint Against the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections (3/27/07)
• Election Night: Do We Really Need to Know Results Before We Can Sleep? (11/21/06)
• Ohio's Expanded Absentee Voting Rules: Some Thoughts on Their Impact (10/3/06)
• Primary Challenges (4/25/06)
• Exit Polling's Impact on Voter Confidence (1/24/06)
• Sharing the Burden: Some Thoughts on Voter Registration Lists (7/12/05)
• Debate Over Campaign Finance Reform in Ohio Prompts Question: Is Disclosure Enough? (4/19/05)
• Election Reform: The Process Matters (3/1/05)
• Two Weeks Before Election Day, and Yet... (10/19/04)

• I Want My MTV ... Mayor! (6/28/05)

• A November Hypothetical (5/20/08)
• Crawford and the Amicus Court: Further Support for a Non-Partisan Advisory Tribunal (4/29/08)
• Setting an Example of Non-Partisan Judging: An "Amicus Court" for Election Cases (4/28/08)
• Federal Court Extension of Polling Hours: Problem, Proposal, Example (Part 3) (4/15/08)
• Federal Court Extension of Polling Hours: Problem, Proposal, Example (Part 2) (4/1/08)
• Federal Court Extension of Polling Hours: Problem, Proposal, Example (3/18/08)
• Unjustified Federal Court Extension of Polling Hours (3/5/08)
• Cross-over voting under Ohio law (3/4/08)
• "Central Counting" of Paper Ballots in Ohio (2/25/08)
• Administering the March 4 Primary in Ohio (2/19/08)
• Super Tuesday and Provisional Ballots (2/6/08)
• Oral Argument in Voter ID Case: Initial Impressions (1/9/08)
• Look to Minnesota for vote-counting solution (12/19/07)
• Refining the Bush v. Gore Taxonomy (11/2/07)
• The Supreme Court and Election Law: In Search of Doctrinal Specificity (10/2/07)
• Precedent and Judicial Responsibility (7/3/07)
• A Model Court for Contested Elections (Or, the “Field of Dreams” Approach to Election Law Reform) (6/19/07)
• Auditing a State’s Laws for Resolving Election Contests (5/8/07)
• Running Elections in Cuyahoga County Next Year (4/10/07)
• The Future of Bush v. Gore (4/5/07)
• A Bipartisan Way to Settle a Disputed Presidential Election in Ohio? (2/14/07)
• The Nation's Interest in Ohio's New Secretary of State (2/13/07)
• Designing the Democracy Index (1/16/07)
• Election Reform's Top Priority: Changing the Electoral College Calendar (12/19/06)
• Happy Birthday, Bush v. Gore (12/12/06)
• Timing is Everything (12/5/06)
• OH-15: Legal Issues in Recount (11/28/06)
• Redistricting Reform: Back on the Agenda (11/22/06)
• OH-15: 500 Provisional Ballots Invalidated (11/22/06)
• Local Blackouts on the Electoral Grid (11/14/06)
• Montana: Recount and Contest Laws (11/8/06)
• Ohio: Wednesday Morning, 3:00am (11/8/06)
• Be Thankful If It’s All Over By Thanksgiving (11/7/06)
• The Adversarial Legal System at Work (11/6/06)
• Transparency Promotes Trust (11/5/06)
• Serious Issues Surface in Maryland (11/2/06)
• Appellate Opinion in ID Case: No Pre-Voting Remedy Needed (10/31/06)
• Ohio's ID Rules in the Appeals Court: What Next? (10/28/06)
• Two Details of TRO in Ohio ID Case (10/27/06)
• TRO in Ohio Voter ID Case: Initial Thoughts (10/27/06)
• ID Disparities & Post-Voting Review of Provisional or Absentee Ballots (10/25/06)
• Late Delivery of Registration Forms (10/23/06)
• Absentee Ballots in Close Elections: Will They Provide Grounds for a Contest? (10/23/06)
• How to Identify a Successful Election (10/10/06)
• Will the Election System Function Properly This Year? (9/5/06)
• Ohio is not Mexico, but... (7/25/06)
• Justice Kennedy Deserves Praise, Part II (7/3/06)
• The Importance of Randall's Indecisiveness (6/27/06)
• Online Voter Registration is the Answer (6/13/06)
• A Way to Rescue Redistricting Reform (6/6/06)
• Electoral Laments in Major and Minor Keys (5/9/06)
• A Review of the Transcript in the Texas Redistricting Case (4/4/06)
• Will the Expansion of Absentee Voting Yield an Increase in Abuse? (3/28/06)
• Incrementalist Election Law? (3/7/06)
• Doubleheader Tests the Court's Impartiality: EL@M to host Electronic Roundtable on Pending Pair (2/14/06)
• The Remand in WRTL (2/7/06)
• The Roberts Court and Precedent: An Early Test in the Context of Campaign Finance (1/17/06)
• Will Election Law Become Clearer This Year? (1/3/06)
• The Federalism Defect in the Prosecution of Tom DeLay (11/29/05)
• Future Redistricting Reform Must Learn From This Year's Mistakes (1/15/05)
• The Ten Most Urgent Election Reforms (11/8/05)
• Issue 3 is a Big Mistake (11/1/05)
• Federal Courts Should Not Run State Elections (10/4/05)
• How to Hire a Fair Election Law Umpire? (9/13/05)
• Is There a Middle Ground in the Voter ID Debate? (9/6/05)
• What Should the New Justice Do About Campaign Finance? (7/19/05)
• Fact-Specific Election Law (7/5/05)
• Refusing to Unseat a Governor Despite a Flawed Election (6/7/05)
• The People and their Constitution (5/24/05)
• The Filibuster and Democracy (5/17/05)
• The Provisional Ballots of Unregistered Voters (4/5/05)
• Verifying Voter Registration Lists, Part 2 (3/29/05)
• Verifying Voter Registration Lists (3/22/05)
• When to Redo an Election? (1/25/05)
• Minimizing the Need for Provisional Ballots: A Reform Worth Wishing For (12/21/04)
• Investing in Politicians to Boost Corporate Profits (12/7/04)
• Blackwell's Mixed Record So Far (10/5/04)
• Let the Sunshine In (9/28/04)
• Lying to Win (9/21/04)
• Welcome to Election Law @ Moritz (7/20/04)
• Election Law 5-to-4 (7/6/04)
• Comparing Two Cases (6/29/04)
• The Missed Opportunity of Vieth (6/22/04)
• The Necessity of Law for Democracy (6/15/04)

• The Potential Election Administration Challenges of Super Tuesday 2008 (2/5/08)
• Purcell's Implications on Pre-Election Litigation (10/24/06)
• Echoes of Bush v. Gore: Courts Are Not Always the Right Forum for Election Contests (1/10/06)
• Redistricting, Electoral Competition, and Citizen Control (10/25/05)
• The Work Ahead (4/26/05)
• Independent Election Administration (2/15/05)
• Reforming the Timetable for the Electoral College Process (11/30/04)
• Partisan Gerrymandering and the Impoverishment of Politics (8/31/04)

• The South Dakota Referendum on Abortion: An Alternative to Court Review? (10/31/06)
• The Risks of Wedge Citizen Initiatives (7/11/06)
• Ballot Initiatives: Use By Political Parties (5/23/06)
• Ohio's Dramatic Citizen Initiative: "Reform Ohio Now" (10/11/05)
• Thoughts on Gerrymandering (3/8/05)
• Election of State Court Judges: The Ohio Experience (8/17/04)
• Judges and Elections (7/13/04)

• Point-Counterpoint on Election Activities of Churches and Charities (8/24/04)

• Democracy's Revenge? Bush v. Gore and the National Popular Vote (5/16/06)
• Are Our Democratic Instincts Atrophying? (8/3/04)

• Administering the New Voter ID Rule Reasonably (5/30/06)
• The Problems with Early Voting (3/15/05)
• Signs of High Turnout Signal Need for Prepared Poll Workers (10/12/04)
• What if Bush Again Wins without the Popular Vote? (8/10/04)

• Don't Play Poker with All Saints Church (10/23/07)
• Political Campaigning by Churches and Charities (12/19/06)
• The IRS and All Saints Church: Tax Procedure in a Case about the Mixing of Religion and Politics (9/26/06)
• Campaign Intervention by 501(c)(3) Organizations (1/31/06)
• The IRS and Secret Campaign Regulation (11/22/05)
• New 527 Bill Plugs Some Major Holes, but is it Constitutional? (2/22/05)
• The Legislature Can Do Better and the Citizens of Ohio Deserve Better (12/14/04)
• Lying to Win (9/21/04)
• Point-Counterpoint on Election Activities of Churches and Charities (8/24/04)

• Are We Condemned to Repeat It? (6/3/08)
• Crawford: It Could Have Been Worse (4/29/08)
• What Congress Should Be Talking About (9/18/07)
• Money for Data: Funding the Oldest Unfunded Mandate (6/5/07)
• The Politics of Justice (5/22/07)
• Early Voting in 2008 (3/13/07)
• Congress Turns to Election Administration (11/28/06)
• Recount Redux?: What Might Happen in a Close Election (10/31/06)
• In Praise of Pre-Election Litigation (9/19/06)
• Thinking About Democracy: Justice Stevens and the Roberts Court (7/18/06)
• Voting Rights Act Preclearance: Why Process Matters (6/20/06)
• Welcome to the Machines: Election Day in Ohio (5/2/06)
• Statewide Registration Lists: The Most Important Election Reform? (3/21/06)
• Voting Technology: Beyond HAVA, Beyond Paper (3/14/06)
• The Roberts Court and the Law of Democracy (2/21/06)
• Ohio's ID Proposal: More Harm Than Good (12/13/05)
• The Moneyball Approach to Election Reform (10/18/05)
• Unhappy Trails in California (9/27/05)
• The Carter-Baker Report: Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right (9/20/05)
• Are Election Reforms Increasing the Margin of Litigation? (6/21/05)
• Ohio Considers Election Reform - Part II 5/10/05)
• Ohio Considers Election Reform - Part I 5/3/05)
• ID and the Right to Vote (4/12/05)
• How Did Ohio's Voting Equipment Fare in 2004? (2/8/05)
• The Paper Trails (7/27/04)

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