WHEN: Monday, December 7th 2015 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. ET
WHERE: Bipartisan Policy Center, 1225 Eye Street NW, Suite 1000, Washington, DC, 20005
Close elections are not a matter of ‘if.’ Instead, as author Ned Foley notes in his forthcoming book Ballot Battles: The History of Disputed Elections in the United States, “every year, somewhere in the country there is a state legislative race (or some other form of local election) that gets decided by just a handful of votes.” Sometimes the contests are national. Just 15 years after the Bush-Gore disputed election, the question remains: will the next big recount controversy be decided with any better procedures than we had in 2000?
Join us, along with the National Capital-Area Political Science Association, on December 7 as the author and a panel discuss some of our country’s closest, most bitterly disputed contests and what learning from the past means for the future of election policy.
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