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Election Law @ Moritz is monitoring 2012 election administration issues in key swing states. These issues have potential to impact the outcome of this year's election results. For information on voter ID, absentee and provisional ballots, poll-worker error, recount procedures, and other issues as they arise, click on the individual state links below, or compare states by using the compare menus. Information about individual states will be added as it's available. For additional information about the vote-counting process in these states, including canvassing, recounts, and contests, see Recount Resources.

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Commentary

Gerrymandering as Viewpoint Discrimination: A "Functional Equivalence" Test

Edward B. Foley

A First Amendment test for identifying when a map is functionally equivalent to a facially discriminatory statute.

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In the News

This is why US election ballots routinely go missing

Professor Dan Tokaji was quoted in USA Today about the prevalence of missing election ballots.

"Most of the time, it just goes unreported because it doesn't affect the result," Tokaji said.

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Info & Analysis

Supreme Court Finds Partisan Gerrymandering Claims to be Non-Justiciable Political Questions

In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion on Thursday determining that claims of partisan gerrymandering are political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts. The opinion resolved disputes originating in North Carolina and Maryland, in the cases of Rucho v. Common Cause and Lamone v. Benisek.

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