Executive director Jennifer Clarke will present on Voting Rights Act Challenges to Reductions in Opportunities to Vote at a November 20 Pennsylvania Bar Institute program.
Click here to register for the program, where you will learn to get a step-by-step guide to the electoral process, from getting your candidate on the ballot to financing a campaign and to conducting recount litigation if the vote is close. Other topics include:
- Understand the start-to-finish legal issues involved in running for
public office - Learn how nomination petition challenges can be made—and
defended—and the evolving constitutional standards concerning
the status of petition circulators - Understand strategy and tactics in recounts and contests
- Update your knowledge of the case law and
applicable statutes - Understand the practical impact of the constitutional issues
arising from Citizens United v. FEC and SpeechNow and the current
pressure for greater disclosure of the sources of campaign funds - Learn the inside story of the successful challenge to
Pennsylvania’s voter ID statute and the failed attempt to resist
voter ID in other states - Become current on developments concerning absentee and
provisional ballots - Learn the important lessons from the state reapportionment
litigation - Understand the Supreme Court’s recent decisions on
reapportionment
Election Law, Campaign Finance and Lobbying Disclosure
Pennsylvania Bar Institute
November 20, 2015, 9:00 AM — 1:15 PM
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