Election Law

Administering Elections provides a digest of contemporary American election administration using a systems perspective. The authors provide insight into the interconnected nature of all components of elections administration, and sheds like on the potential consequences of reforms that fail to account for this.

Legal scholars and historians debate the consequences of the flawed election of 2000.

Available to law students & faculty only via Westlaw. Provides a snapshot of key election and voting rights issues from practitioners highly experienced in a wide variety of areas. Part 1 details the election administration processes, challenges, and opportunities at the local and national level. Included are chapters on the FEC, enforcing federal election law, using census data to prove citizenship, and administrative challenges for recounts, contests; and postelection audits. Part 2 details the Voting Rights Act and discusses rights of language-minority voters, voter suppression tactics including voter ID laws, immigration voting rights, and redistricting issues to watch during the current redistricting cycle. Part 3 details the challenges of redistricting and includes state legislative reapportionment, Section 2 vote-dilution litigation, and corporate districting and the Voting Rights Act.

This text provides a history of election controversies in the United States. It covers stories of tight elections, from the 1790s to Al Franken's victory in 2009. The author explains why elections-especially those with high stakes-have and will continue to be fraught with controversy. It also offers an explanation for how the structure of the American political system came to be and how that structure contributes to problematical electoral processes.

This handbook provides an overview of U.S. campaign and election reform efforts, past and present, from the introduction of the secret ballot to touch-screen voting. * Includes extensive quotations from reform advocates, along with excerpts from legislation and court cases related to changing campaign and election procedures. Summaries of recent research on voter turnout provide a means of evaluating legislation intended to increase voter registration and turnout rates

Election 2000 made America aware that its voting system was rife with problems. In a country that prides itself on its self-governing ability, Election 2000 pointed to a crack in the foundation of the mechanism by which the majority of those who participate in the political process chose their leaders. Since the Bush vs. Gore decision chartered the course of history in America, scholars and practitioners alike have struggled to arrive at a comprehensive plan of attack for improving the voting process. The President has signed into law a reform measure enacted by the United States Congress that is being billed as a sweeping bi-partisan effort to effectuate that change. The question is, will America really see a significant and fundamental improvement in the voting process, one that ensures the equal protection of voting rights for all of its citizens?

This behind-the-scenes assessment of the 2000 election dissects the challenging task of running an election and examines fundamental issues about fairness and equality, presenting a strong case for the need to reform elections in Florida and nationwide. Featuring insights and experiences of local election and political party officials in Florida and essays by advocates of election reform and noted political scientists, this book exposes problems associated with participatory democracy, prescribes remedies for these problems, and discusses the consequences.

Promulgated by the American Law Institute, the same people who brought you the Restatements of the Law, this text centers on election administration. Part I provides principles for use by jurisdictions that wish to use absentee-voting or early-voting options as a supplement to in-person precinct-based voting on Election Day. Part II concerns principles applicable to disputed elections generally. Part III specifically concerns procedures necessary for disputed presidential elections given their uniquely challenging scheduling constraints.