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Barbara Peck
Chief Communications Officer
Moritz College of Law
55 W. 12th Ave.
Columbus, OH 43210-1391
Email: peck.5@osu.edu
Phone: (614) 292-0283

Covered Topics

The Election Law @ Moritz program has faculty experts with expertise in election law and related fields, including the following topics:

  • Absentee & Early Voting
  • Ballot Access
  • Ballot Design
  • Campaign Advertising
  • Campaign Finance
  • Candidate Eligibility
  • Citizens United & related legislation
  • Disability Access to Voting
  • Early Voting
  • Electoral College
  • Election Contest
  • Election Judges
  • False Campaign Ads
  • Felon Voting Rights
  • Get Out the Vote
  • Help America Vote Act (HAVA)
  • Improper Election Administration
  • Improper Election Communications
  • Political Activities of State Employees
  • Poll Worker Training
  • Polling Place Challenges
  • Polling Place Notices
  • Polling Place Observers
  • Polling Place Press Access
  • Primary Election Schedules
  • Provisional Ballots
  • Purging of Voter Rolls
  • Recount & Run-Off Procedures
  • Redistricting
  • Selection of Presidential Electors
  • State Voter Registration Databases
  • Student Voting
  • Vote Dillution
  • Voter Eligibility
  • Voter Fraud
  • Voter ID
  • Voter Registration
  • Voter Supression
  • Voter Turnout
  • Voting Rights Act
  • Voting Technology

Election Law @ Moritz is nonpartisan. We do not endorse, support, or oppose any candidate, campaign, or party. Opinions expressed by individuals associated with Election Law @ Moritz, either on this web site or in connection with conferences or other activities undertaken by the program, represent solely the views of the individuals offering the opinions and not the program itself.

Election Law @ Moritz institutionally does not represent any clients or participate in any litigation, but individuals affiliated with the program may from time to time in their own personal capacity engage in pro bono representation of clients other than partisan candidates or organizations.

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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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