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Redistricting

August 9, 2011 (5:15 p.m.) - Daniel Tokaji, professor and senior fellow at Election Law @ Moritz, discusses changing district boundaries and how that affects citizens' everyday lives.

The Day After

Nov. 3 (12:15 p.m.) - Edward Foley, Robert M. Duncan/Jones Day Designated Professor of Law and Director of Election Law @ Moritz, discusses what races remain too close to call the day after Election Day 2010.

Too Close to Call

Nov. 2 (4:45 p.m.) - Edward Foley, Robert M. Duncan/Jones Day Designated Professor of Law and Director of Election Law @ Moritz, talks about how the public should not be worried if races prove too close to call. Read his full commentary

Voter Intimidation

Nov. 2 (3:00 p.m.) - Terri Enns, Clinical Professor of Law and Senior Fellow of Election Law @ Moritz, talks about voter intimidation.

Absentee Ballots

Nov. 2 (11:30 a.m.) - Charles Stewart III, the Kenan Sahin distinguished professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a visiting scholar at Election Law @ Moritz, talks about how absentee ballots may play a big role in the election outcome - problems are already being reported in Pennsylvania.

Three Big Voting Issues

Nov. 2 (9:30 a.m.) - Daniel Tokaji, Professor of Law and Associate Director of Election Law @ Moritz, talks about three issues his team will be following throughout the day: 1) Alaska write-in votes 2) Voter fraud/suppression and 3) Provisional and absentee ballots. (

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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