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Election Law Online Lectures

The Election Law Program has produced a series of video lectures intended to educate principally judges, but also journalists and the general public, about election law matters.

1. Managing a Recount: What Every Judge Needs To Know - an overview of the key issues judges should be aware of when handling recount and recount-related matters.


2. Election Law Controversies: The Basics of Election Litigation - a resource for judges, lawyers, journalists, and others interested in our electoral process.


3. A View from the Trenches: Advice for Judges Handling Election Related Lawsuits - advice for judges handling election related lawsuits from experts Bob Bauer and Ben Ginsberg.


4. Redistricting Litigation: What Every Judge Should Know


5. War Games
   
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War Games

Tim Kaine and George Allen are locked in a too-close-to-call election for the U.S. Senate on November 6, 2012, Kaine leading by only 203 votes statewide. In one precinct, it appears that a DRE machine has malfunctioned—registering zero votes in the U.S. Senate race, despite normal vote totals in the U.S. Congressional and Presidential categories. Petitioner Allen asks the court to fully examine the allegedly malfunctioning machine, even though its statutory authority to do so is unclear.

Managing a Recount: What Every Judge Needs To Know

Redistricting Litigation: What Every Judge Should Know

Biographies
Jessica Amunson is an associate at Washington D.C. based firm Jenner & Block where she is a member of the Election Law and Redistricting Practices. She has briefed matters before the U.S. Supreme Court involving partisan gerrymandering, voter identification requirements and National Voter Registration Act.		J. Gerald Hebert is Executive Director and Director of Litigation at the Campaign Legal Center. Over the last three decades, he has served as legal counsel for parties and amici curiae in numerous redistricting lawsuits, including several cases decided in the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Hebert is a former adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center where he taught courses on voting rights, election law, and campaign finance regulation.
Trevor Potter is a member in Caplin & Drysdale’s Washington, D.C. office, where he leads the firm’s Political Activity Law Practice. He is one of the country’s best-known and most experienced campaign and election lawyers, and a former Commissioner and Chairman of the Federal Election Commission. Mr. Potter served as John McCain’s General Counsel for his 2000 and 2008 campaigns, and is founding President and General Counsel of the Campaign Legal Center.		John Hardin Young is counsel to the Washington, DC law firm of Sandler, Reiff & Young. He is recognized as one of the nation’s leading electoral recount and dispute resolution lawyers. Mr. Young is an Adjunct Professor at William & Mary Law, and member of the Advisory Committee to the William & Mary Election Law Program.

A View from the Trenches:
Advice for Judges Handling Election Related Lawsuits
from Experts Bob Bauer and Ben Ginsberg

Moderated by Dean Davison Douglas, Founding Director,
Election Law Program and Arthur B. Hanson Professor of Law

Biographies
Robert Bauer is currently White House Counsel. Formerly, Mr. Bauer was a partner at Perkins Coie in Washington, D.C. where he was the chair of the firm’s political law group. Mr. Bauer was general counsel to Obama for America, the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. He is the author of several books and articles on election law and ran a popular blog that focuses on campaign finance and other election law issues www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com.		Benjamin Ginsberg is currently a partner at Patton Boggs in Washington, D.C. and represents political parties, campaigns, candidates, and other entities involved in the political process. He is currently representing Senator Norm Coleman and his campaign in the ongoing Minnesota recount. Mr. Ginsberg has served as counsel to both the 2000 and 2004 Bush-Cheney presidential campaigns, playing a central role in the 2000 Florida recount. He has also represented the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee, and the Republican Governors Association.

Election Law Controversies: The Basics of Election Litigation
A Resource for Judges, Lawyers, Journalists, and Others Interested in Our Electoral Process

Go directly to:

• Module 1: Why Election Law Cases Are Different
• Module 2: Pre-Election Issues
• Module 3: Election Day Litigation
• Module 4: Post-Election Litigation
• Module 5: Electronic Voting Issues