“ELECTION LAW, VOTING RIGHTS, AND THE 2004 ELECTION”
Friday, October 22, 2004 at the University of Miami
1:00 PM TO 6:00 PM
CLE credit available (5.5 hours).
SCHEDULE
1:15-2:45 p.m. “VOTER (DIS)ENFRANCHISEMENT: ISSUES FOR THE 2004 ELECTION”
Doug Chapin, Director, electionline.org; Deborah Goldberg, Director, Brennan Center for Democracy; Janai Nelson, NAACP LDF; Tova Wang, Senior Program
Officer and Democracy Fellow, The Century Foundation.
3:00-4:30 p.m. “COUNTING EVERY VOTE: VOTING TECHNOLOGY AND THE LAW”
Kim Brace, Director, Election Data Services; David Kimball, Professor of Political Science, University of Missouri; Martha Mahoney, University of Miami Law School; Daniel Tokaji, Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law.
4:45-6:00 p.m. “FLORIDA ELECTION LAW: AVOIDING THE GHOSTS OF 2000”
Mitchell Berger, Berger Singerman and counsel in the 2000 recount litigation; Eric
Buermann, General Counsel to the Miami-Dade Republican Party, and former General Counsel to Bush-Cheney in 2000; Ion Sancho, Leon County Supervisor of Elections;Lida Rodriguez-Tassef, Miami-Dade Election Reform Coalition; Courtenay Strickland, Voting Rights Project, ACLU of Florida
Panels moderated by U.S. Circuit Judge Rosemary Barkett and U.S. District Judge Adalberto Jordan.
Cocktail reception with panelists will follow.
Location: Storer Auditorium, McLamore Executive Education Center
School of Business Administration, University of Miami
5250 University Drive, Coral Gables, Florida 33146
(Parking available on campus for $5 at Stanford Drive kiosk)
Sponsored by: Hogan & Hartson LLP, White & Case LLC, Podhurst Orseck, P.A.,
Stearns, Weaver, Miller, Weissler, Alhadeff & Sitterson, P.A., Devine Goodman
Pallot & Wells, P.A.
RSVP to [email protected]. This event is free and open to the public.