"Recent Elections Demonstrate Need for ALI Project on Election Law"

That's the lead story in the American Law Institute's ALI Reporter. It contains this important news:

On the recommendation of ALI Director Lance Liebman and the Program Committee, the ALI Council at its meeting in New York City on October 21 gave its approval for work to begin on a project entitled Principles of Election Law: Resolution of Election Disputes. Professor Edward B. Foley of the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University will serve as the project's Reporter. Professor Foley, a graduate of Yale College and Columbia University School of Law who joined the faculty at Ohio State in 1991, is the director of Election Law @ Moritz, a nonpartisan research, education, and outreach program that serves as a resource for those interested in election-law issues. One of the nation's preeminent experts on election law, he teaches and writes extensively in all areas of this field.

The new project will have two components. The first component will address the principles, rules, and procedures applicable to recounts and the resolutions of disputes over the counting of ballots after they have been cast. The second component will concern the rules for "non-precinct voting"--the casting of ballots by means other than the traditional polling place on Election Day. All interested ALI members are invited to join the Members Consultative Group for this project. They may sign up online by visiting the "Projects" section of the Institute's website, www.ali.org, clicking on the appropriate project link, and following the prompts given.

[Disclosure: I'm a member of ALI and participated in an early planning meeting for this project.]

Posted by Rick Hasen at January 13, 2011 05:09 PM