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Voting Part 1: The risks and remedies for fair elections with Ned Foley

10.22.2020 - By National Security Law TodayPlay

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Professor Edward "Ned" Foley discusses how Americans elect our federal officers and how the law and the courts have ruled on voting; from naming electors to deciding Bush v Gore in 2000.

Edward Foley "Think the Constitution protects your right to vote? That’s not really true — but it should." Washington Post, October 19, 2020

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/19/does-the-constitution-protect-your-right-to-vote/

Presidential Elections and Majority Rule: The Rise, Demise, and Potential Restoration of the Jeffersonian Electoral College. Edward Foley, 2020

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/presidential-elections-and-majority-rule-9780190060152?cc=us&lang=en&

Ballot Battles: The History of Disputed Elections in the United States. Edward Foley, 2016

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/ballot-battles-9780190235277?cc=us&lang=en&

Bush v. Gore 531 US 98 (2000)

https://www.oyez.org/cases/2000/00-949

Chiafalo v. Washington 591 US _ (2020)

https://www.oyez.org/cases/2019/19-465

Republican Party of Pennsylvania v. Boockvar

https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/republican-party-of-pennsylvania-v-boockvar/

Edward Foley "The Supreme Court ruling on ballot deadlines may be more of a reprieve for Democrats than a win." Washington Post, October 20, 2020

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/20/supreme-court-ruling-ballot-deadlines-may-be-more-reprieve-democrats-than-win/

Professor Edward Foley is the Ebersold Chair in Constitutional Law at The Ohio State University and director of the school's election law program

https://moritzlaw.osu.edu/faculty/edward-b-foley/

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