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This casebook offers a student-friendly, practical approach with carefully-designed pedagogical features. Its streamlined approach tracks the chronological order of an election, with significant focus on election administration.

Features:

Tightly-edited cases Useful notes that help serve as classroom discussion tools Up-to-date with the most recent Supreme Court and lower court decisions, including Shelby County (invalidating part of the Voting Rights Act) and lower court litigation involving the 2012 election

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• Introduction(p. xv)
• Part I The Law of Legislative Districting(p. 1)
• A The Political Question Doctrine(p. 2)
• Baker v. Carr(p. 3)
• B One Person, One Vote(p. 14)
• Reynolds v. Sims(p. 15)
• Lucas v. 44th General Assembly of Colorado(p. 22)
• Brown v. Thomson(p. 29)
• Karcher v. Daggett(p. 33)
• Tennant v. Jefferson County Commission(p. 43)
• C Minority Vote Dilution: The Constitution and Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act(p. 48)
• City of Mobile v. Bolden(p. 48)
• Rogers v. Lodge(p. 56)
• Johnson v. De Grandy(p. 67)
• Gonzalez v. City of Aurora(p. 76)
• Holder v. Hall(p. 82)
• D Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act(p. 96)
• Shelby County v. Holder(p. 102)
• E Race-Based Gerrymanders(p. 129)
• Miller v. Johnson(p. 131)
• Easley v. Cromartie(p. 146)
• F Partisan Gerrymanders(p. 162)
• Vieth v. Jubelirer(p. 163)
• Larios v. Cox(p. 191)
• In re Senate Joint Resolution of Legislative Apportionment 1176(p. 207)
• G Bringing It All Together(p. 226)
• League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry(p. 244)
• Summary of the Law of Legislative Districting(p. 260)
• Part II The Law of Nominating Candidates(p. 263)
• Introduction(p. 263)
• A Preliminary Note on the White Primary Cases(p. 264)
• A Political Party versus the State(p. 266)
• Democratic Party of the United States v. Wisconsin ex. rel La Follette(p. 266)
• B Voter or Candidate versus Political Party(p. 273)
• New York State Board of Elections v. López Torres(p. 273)
• C Washington's "Top-Two" Primary and the Limits of Party Autonomy(p. 280)
• Washington State Grange v. Washington State Republican Party(p. 281)
• D Inviting Nonmembers to the Party (or at Least to Its Primary)(p. 293)
• Clingman v. Beaver(p. 294)
• E Candidate v. State: The State's Control over the Content of the General Election Ballot(p. 307)
• Burdick v. Takushi(p. 308)
• Timmons v. Twin Cities Area New Party(p. 313)
• F Independent Candidates on the General Election Ballot(p. 323)
• Anderson v. Celebrezze(p. 323)
• G Minor Party Candidates on the General Election Ballot(p. 336)
• Nader v. Keith(p. 336)
• Libertarian Party of Ohio v. Blackwell(p. 341)
• Summary of the Law of Nominating Candidates(p. 351)
• Part III The Law of Campaign Practices(p. 353)
• Introduction(p. 353)
• A False or Misleading Campaign Ads(p. 354)
• McKimm v. Ohio Elections Commission(p. 355)
• The Team Working For You v. Ohio Elections Commission(p. 363)
• Rickert v. State Public Disclosure Commission(p. 365)
• B Last-Minute and Harassing Campaign Tactics(p. 374)
• Burson v. Freeman(p. 376)
• Unwanted Political Campaigning: A Hypo on Robocalls(p. 388)
• C Election Crimes(p. 389)
• United States v. Salisbury(p. 389)
• United States v. Cole(p. 395)
• Ray v. Texas(p. 397)
• D Campaign Finance(p. 401)
• 1 The Buckley Foundation(p. 402)
• Buckley v. Valeo(p. 403)
• 2 "Soft Money" and Political Party Spending(p. 419)
• McConnell v. Federal Election Commission(p. 420)
• 3 Political Parties and "Coordinated" Expenditures(p. 452)
• In Re Cao(p. 452)
• 4 Corporate and Union Independent Expenditures(p. 468)
• Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission(p. 472)
• 5 Contribution Limitations(p. 504)
• Randall v. Sorrell(p. 504)
• Foster v. Dilger(p. 515)
• 6 Public Financing(p. 523)
• Arizona Free Enterprise Club's Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett(p. 524)
• 7 Disclosure and Disclaimer Requirements(p. 539)
• Buckley v. Valeo(p. 540)
• Citizens United v. FEC(p. 545)
• SpeechNow.org v. FEC(p. 550)
• 8 Looking Forward: The (Uncertain) Status of PACs and Other Advocacy Organizations(p. 555)
• SpeechNow.org v. FEC(p. 556)
• The Real Truth About Abortion, Inc. v. Federal Election Comm'n(p. 561)
• Summary of the Law of Campaign Practices(p. 570)
• Part IV The Law of Voting(p. 573)
• Introduction(p. 573)
• A Voter Eligibility(p. 574)
• 1 Foundations(p. 574)
• Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections(p. 575)
• Kramer v. Union Free School District No. 15(p. 580)
• 2 The Voting Rights of the Mentally Infirm(p. 586)
• In Matter of Absentee Ballots Cast by Five Residents of Trenton Psychiatric Hospital(p. 586)
• 3 Felon Disenfranchisement(p. 589)
• Hayden v. Pataki(p. 590)
• B Voter Registration and Identification(p. 603)
• 1 Historical Overview and the Basis of State and Federal Power(p. 603)
• Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc.(p. 606)
• 2 Voter Identification and Equal Protection(p. 619)
• Crawford v. Marion County Election Board(p. 620)
• 3 The Accuracy of Voter Registration Lists(p. 636)
• Florida NAACP v. Browning(p. 637)
• 4 Judicial Partisanship Over HAVA Enforcement(p. 652)
• Ohio Republican Party v. Brunner(p. 653)
• Brunner v. Ohio Republican Party(p. 671)
• 5 Additional Voter Registration Litigation(p. 671)
• C Early Voting(p. 671)
• Obama for America v. Husted(p. 673)
• D "Election Eve" Litigation(p. 689)
• Purcell v. Gonzalez(p. 689)
• 1 The Immediate Fight over the Meaning of Purcell(p. 692)
• Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless v. Blackwell(p. 692)
• 2 Voter Eligibility Challenges(p. 695)
• Miller v. Blackwell(p. 696)
• Summit County Democratic Central and Executive Committee v. Blackwell(p. 698)
• Spencer v. Pugh(p. 702)
• 3 "Last-Minute" Litigation to Extend Polling Hours(p. 703)
• E The Counting of Ballots(p. 704)
• 1 Ballot-Counting Disputes in the States(p. 704)
• Gecy v. Bagwell(p. 706)
• In re Miami Mayoral Election of 1997(p. 708)
• Huggins v. Superior Court(p. 711)
• 2 The Federal Dimension to Disputed Elections(p. 717)
• 3 The 2000 Presidential Election(p. 719)
• Gore v. Harris(p. 725)
• 4 The Endgame of the 2000 Presidential Election(p. 739)
• Presidential Election Procedures(p. 741)
• U.S. Const. Amend. 12(p. 741)
• 3 U.S.C. §5 [Safe Harbor Deadline](p. 742)
• 3 U.S.C. § 6(p. 742)
• 3 U.S.C. §15(p. 742)
• Bush. v. Gore(p. 744)
• 5 Ballot-Counting Disputes After Bush v. Gore(p. 771)
• A The Possibility of Another Disputed Presidential Election(p. 771)
• McCain v. Obama(p. 773)
• B The Reality of Other Major Disputed Elections(p. 781)
• Coleman v. Franken(p. 781)
• C Litigation over the Counting of Provisional Ballots(p. 786)
• Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless v. Husted(p. 789)
• Service Employees International Union Local 1 v. Husted(p. 798)
• F The Limits of Litigation as a Tool of Election Law Reform(p. 800)
• Andrade v. NAACP of Austin(p. 801)
• Dudum v. Arntz(p. 806)
• Summary of the Law of Voting(p. 814)
• A Concluding Observation(p. 816)
• Table of Cases(p. 819)
• Index(p. 827)