State of Elections

What We Are Doing:

Voting – in our country people have tried to rock it, stuff it, defraud it, gerrymander it, disenfranchise it, expand it, turn it out, recount it, and stop it. How we vote, the whole crazy process from months before the polls open to months after they have closed, has increasingly come under the microscope of lawyers, judges, campaigns, and average citizens in the past decade. We’re interested too.

We dedicate this blog to how Americans vote. We will focus our microscope closer than the four year presidential pageantry and the buzz of national campaign finance law coverage on the evening news. It’s voting at the local level, determined by state and local level election laws and practices, that make the difference in our perennial exercise of democracy.

Our goal is to cover every state in the union – to examine the particulars of how they’re voting, redistricting, and recounting. We recognize the ambition inherent in such a goal and know we can’t do it on Day One or without help. So we invite you to help us get there.

While you will find facts and opinions in our posts, the purpose of this blog is not to advance any political agenda, candidate, or party. We want to inform our readers and ourselves about interesting aspects of election law in our United States.

Comments? If you would like to make a comment to our posts, please email Editor@stateofelections.com We won’t put every comment up b/c wise people have advised against doing so. But we will post responsive and considered comments that advance the discussion.

Who We Are:

This blog is a run by the students of the Election Law Society at William & Mary Law School. But it wouldn’t last long without help from lots of institutions and great people like our guest bloggers, the Election Law Program and their Advisory Committee, the Institute of Bill of Rights Law, and our neighbors, the National Center for State Courts.