The following is a symposium submission from Franita Tolson (USC): On Tuesday, after weeks of early voting, north of 145 million Americans will have cast ballots in this year’s election, the highest turnout in any presidential election in history. With the flurry … Continue reading
Category Archives: #LookingBack
The following is a symposium contribution from Michael Morley (FSU): Our experience with the 2020 presidential election confirms that a sound electoral system rests on three equally important pillars. First, most fundamentally, all eligible voters must have a reasonable opportunity to cast … Continue reading
The following is a symposium contribution from Nick Stephanapoulos (Harvard): The following are a number of tentative thoughts about what the 2020 election means for redistricting—for both the plans currently in effect and the ones soon to be enacted. 1. At the … Continue reading
The following is a symposium contribution from Derek Muller (Iowa): President-Elect Joe Biden’s margin of victory in the Electoral College and in decisive “swing states” is increasingly impermeable to potential recounts or “faithless electors.” It’s reminiscent of the margins of the 2016 … Continue reading
The following symposium contribution is from Sam Issacharoff (NYU): I was born in Argentina under Juan Perón. History has unfortunately given us too many charismatic demagogues, elected to office and quick to turn on every institution that brought them there. Some are … Continue reading
As a follow-up to the #2DaysOut symposium I ran on the Sunday before election day, I have asked the same group of leading election law scholars to weigh in with thoughts on where we stand with the election and election … Continue reading