Faculty Biographies (as provided by the presenters)
Robert F. Bauer
Partner, Perkins Coie LLP
Bob Bauer is the Co-Chair of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration. Mr. Bauer is a
partner at Perkins Coie LLP, in Washington, D.C. He has provided counseling and representation on
matters involving regulation of political activity before the courts and administrative agencies for
national party committees, candidates, political committees, individuals, federal officeholders,
corporations and trade associations, and tax-exempt groups for 30 years. Mr. Bauer served as White
House Counsel to President Obama, and returned to private practice in June 2011.
Mr. Bauer is the author of several books: United States Federal Election Law (1982, 1984), Soft Money
Hard Law: A Guide to the New Campaign Finance Law (2002) and More Soft Money Hard Law: The
Second Edition of the Guide to the New Campaign Finance Law (2004) and numerous articles. He also
serves on the National Advisory Board of the Journal of Law and Politics. In 2000, he received the
prestigious "Burton Award for Legal Achievement" for his legal writing. Mr. Bauer is also the author of
the weblog, www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com, on which he writes about campaign finance and other
topics in political law. He also teaches law at the New York University School of Law, where he is a
Distinguished Scholar in Residence and Senior Lecturer.
Mr. Bauer was General Counsel to Obama for America, the President’s campaign organization, in 2008
and 2012, and he is General Counsel to the Democratic National Committee. He also served as cocounsel to the New Hampshire State Senate in the trial of Chief Justice David A. Brock (2000); general
counsel to the Bill Bradley for President Committee (1999-2000); and counsel to the Democratic Leader
in the trial of President William Jefferson Clinton (1999).
Mr. Bauer has co-authored numerous bipartisan reports, including "Report of Counsel to the Senate
Rules and Administration Committee in the Matter of the United States Senate Seat From Louisiana" in
the 105th Congress of the United States (March 27, 1997); "Campaign Finance Reform," A Report to the
Majority Leader and Minority Leader of the United States Senate (March 6, 1990); and "The Presidential
Election Process in the Philippines," a bipartisan report prepared at the request of the Chairman and
Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (1986).
Mr. Bauer is admitted to the Bar in the District of Columbia. He received his J.D. from the University of
Virginia School of Law and a B.A. from Harvard University.
Benjamin L. Ginsberg
Partner, Patton Boggs LLP
Benjamin Ginsberg is the Co-Chair of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration. He is a
partner at Patton Boggs LLP in Washington, D.C., representing numerous political parties, political
campaigns, candidates, members of Congress and state legislatures, PACs, Governors, corporations,
trade associations, vendors, donors and individuals participating in the political process.
In both the 2004 and 2000 election cycles, Mr. Ginsberg served as national counsel to the Bush-Cheney
presidential campaign; he played a central role in the 2000 Florida recount. In 2012 and 2008, he served
as national counsel to the Romney for President campaigns. He also represents the campaigns and
leadership PACs of numerous members of the Senate and House, as well as the national party
committees. He serves as counsel to the Republican Governors Association and has wide experience on
the state legislative level through Republican redistricting efforts. In addition to advising on election law
issues, particularly those involving federal and state campaign finance laws, he advises on ethics rules,
redistricting, communications law, and election recounts and contests.
Before entering law school, he spent five years as a newspaper reporter at the Boston Globe,
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, The Berkshire (Mass.) Eagle, and The Riverside (Calif.) Press-Enterprise. He
appears frequently on television and he has been a Fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics
and an adjunct professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center. He was recently named one
of the National Law Journal’s 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America.
Mr. Ginsberg is admitted to the Bar in the District of Columbia. He received his J.D. from Georgetown
University Law Center, J.D. and A.B. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Jon Husted
Ohio Secretary of State
As Ohio's 53rd Secretary of State, Jon Husted is responsible for oversight of elections in one of the
nation's most hotly-contested swing states. By his steady hand, Ohio delivered a smooth and fair 2012
Presidential Election with record absentee voting turnout. This was thanks in part to his decision to send
the first ever statewide absentee ballot application mailing to all Ohio voters, thereby reducing the
chance of long lines at the polls on Election Day.
From using technology to streamline the voting process to cleaning up Ohio’s voter rolls, and making it
easier for military families to vote no matter where their service takes them, Jon is always looking to
improve how we run elections in Ohio – and it’s getting noticed nationally. In 2013, the Washington
Post’s blog “The Fix” named him one of their “Top 10 Rising Stars” in America. For his outreach to
military families, Jon was recently recognized by the Association of the United States Army and Ohio was
deemed an All-Star State by the Military Voter Protection Project. Under his watch, Ohio also received
high marks for elections preparedness by voter advocacy groups, including Common Cause, the Verified
Vote Foundation and Rutgers University Law School. In addition, Jon has served on the Executive Board
of the National Association of Secretaries of State and Vice President for its Midwestern Region.
In addition to serving as chief elections official, the Secretary of State is also the custodian of business
filings in Ohio. Secretary Husted is committed to ensuring that Ohio's job creators have a positive first
interaction with the state of Ohio. He reminds his team that government should be in the business of
good customer service and should work every day to eliminate bureaucratic delays that cost businesses
time and money.
Jon Husted was first elected to public office in 2000 as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives.
Only four years later, Jon's colleagues elected him Speaker of the Ohio House, making him one of the
youngest ever to lead the body.
As Speaker, Jon was instrumental in passing the most fiscally-conservative budget in 40 years that
included the reform of the state tax code and the largest income tax cut in Ohio's history. He also led the
passage of the Ed Choice Scholarship -- a school choice option for children trapped in chronically-failing
schools -- and the creation of the Choose Ohio First Scholarship to encourage Ohio students studying in
the STEMM disciplines of science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine. For his
legislative work, he’s proud to have been recognized as a Watchdog of the Treasury and as a Legislative
Trail Blazer by School Choice Ohio.
After serving two terms as Speaker, Husted was elected to the Ohio Senate, where he was a leading
advocate for reforming how we draw legislative and congressional districts. This is a cause he continues
to champion as Secretary of State.
Raised in Montpelier, Ohio, Husted attended the University of Dayton (UD), where he earned AllAmerican Defensive Back honors as a member of the 1989 Division III National Championship football
team. After receiving his bachelor's and master's degrees from UD, Husted stayed in the Dayton area
where he served as Vice President of Business and Economic Development at the Dayton Area Chamber
of Commerce.
With all of his responsibilities, Secretary Husted considers his most important roles as that of husband to
his wife Tina and father to his children, Alex, Katie and Kylie.
William A. Anthony Jr.
Director, Franklin County Board of Elections
William A. Anthony Jr. is the Director of the Franklin County Board of Elections. He has been the Director
since March of 2010. He also has served as a Chairman and member of that Board of Elections for 13
years. He is the past Chairman of the Franklin County Democratic Party, and served in that capacity for
over 8 years. Mr. Anthony also serves on the Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA) Board of Trustees.
Mr. Anthony is a (CERA) Election Center Graduate.
He became active in the Columbus political community at the age of 17 when he met presidential
candidate Hubert Humphrey in front of the Blackburn Recreational Center, where Mr. Humphrey
encouraged him to get involved in his local Democratic party. He listened to Mr. Humphrey and got
involved. He volunteered for the party by licking stamps and making mimeograph flyers and passing
them out throughout the community. He also worked each election cycle doing Get Out The Vote
(GOTV) activities. He has done his share of volunteering and was on the staff for many local, state, and
national election campaigns and was a member of Ohio’s 1996 Electoral College.
As Director of the Board of Elections, Mr. Anthony encourages all citizens of age to register to vote, then
to exercise that right by voting.
David Becker
Director, Election Initiatives, The Pew Charitable Trusts
David Becker is the director of election initiatives for Pew. He supervises work in election administration,
including research and reform efforts to improve military and overseas voting; assess election
performance through better data; use technology to provide voters with information they need to cast a
ballot; and upgrade voter registration systems.
As the lead for Pew’s analysis and advocacy on elections issues, Mr. Becker oversees research and works
with states to modernize registration systems. He also testifies before state legislatures and other
government entities, presents at relevant conferences across the country, serves as a media resource,
and identifies and implements partnerships.
Before joining Pew, Becker served as a senior trial attorney in the Voting Section of the Department of
Justice’s Civil Rights Division, where he led numerous investigations into violations of federal voting laws
regarding redistricting, minority-language voter rights, voter intimidation, and vote dilution. He also
served as lead counsel for the United States on litigation over statewide redistricting in Georgia in 2001,
which was ultimately decided by the Supreme Court in Georgia v. Ashcroft. In addition, he supervised
federal monitoring of elections and helped direct Department of Justice policy on enforcing the Help
America Vote Act.
Mr. Becker received his J.D. and undergraduate from the University of California, Berkeley.
Matthew Damschroder
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State & Director of Elections, Ohio Secretary of State
Matthew Damschroder was named Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (Director of Elections) for Ohio’s
53rd Secretary of State, Jon A. Husted, in January, 2011. Previously, Damschroder led the Franklin
County (Columbus, Ohio) Board of Elections, one of the nation’s twenty-five largest local elections
jurisdictions, since June 2003. A native of Columbus, Matt graduated from The Ohio State University
with a degree in Business Administration and is pursuing a graduate degree at OSU’s John Glenn School
of Public Policy and Management. A frequent contributor to the Pew Center on the State’s “Make Voting
Work” initiative, Matt became a Certified Elections and Registration Administrator (CERA) through The
Election Center in 2005 and was a trustee of the Ohio Association of Elections Officials (OAEO), having
served as its President in 2007. In 2010, he received the “Good Government Award” from the Franklin
County Consortium for Good Government for his dedication to promoting an informed voting public.
Carrie L. Davis
Executive Director, League of Women Voters of Ohio
In February 2012, Carrie Davis joined the League of Women Voters of Ohio as Executive Director,
bringing to the League her extensive experience as an advocate for voting rights and good government
at the Statehouse, in the courtroom, and in local communities. Prior to joining the League, Carrie served
as staff counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio, where she worked on a variety of issues
including voting rights, free speech, criminal justice, racial justice, LGBT rights, reproductive freedom,
and government accountability.
Carrie has litigated numerous election law and good government cases including the 2008 case Project
Vote v. Brunner that obtained a court order keeping open the Ohio window for simultaneous
registration and early voting. She was also part of the legal team in the case Boustani v. Blackwell that
struck down a 2006 Ohio law requiring naturalized citizens to produce a certificate of naturalization if
challenged at the polls.
Carrie is a native Ohioan and has a B.A. in philosophy and public policy from Albion College and a J.D.
from Case Western Reserve University. Carrie interned on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. as part of a
Women in Public Policy program and later worked as a Congressional Aide. Carrie returned to Ohio to
attend law school and enter public service. During law school, Carrie worked as a legal intern with the
Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education and served as Editor-in-Chief and Bureau
Chief of The Internet Law Journal.
Edward B. Foley
Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer Professor for the Administration of Justice and the Rule of Law; Director,
Election Law @ Moritz
Edward B. Foley, the Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer Professor for the Administration of Justice and the
Rule of Law, is the Director of Election Law @ Moritz. He also serves as a reporter for the American Law
Institute’s Election Law Project.
Professor Foley’s teaching and scholarship cover the field of election law. His current research focuses
on the resolution of vote-counting disputes, and his recent publications include a three-part series in the
Election Law Journal (volume 10) on Minnesota’s 2008 U.S. Senate election: The Lake Wobegone
Recount (pp. 129-164), How Fair Can Be Faster (pp. 187-226), and The Tale of Two Teams (pp. 475-482).
He is also the author of The Founders’ Bush v. Gore: The 1792 Election Dispute and Its Continuing
Relevance, 44 Indiana L. Rev. 23 (2010), which he delivered at Ohio State on Oct. 14, 2008, as the
University Distinguished Lecture. He is at work on a book about the history of disputed elections in the
United States, from the founding era to the present.
Professor Foley designed a simulated dispute of the 2008 presidential election, which involved a special
panel of three nationally prominent retired judges to adjudicate the hypothetical case. In his essay, The
McCain v. Obama Simulation: A Fair Tribunal for Disputed Presidential Elections, 13 N.Y.U. J. LEG. & PUB.
POL. 471-509 (2010), he explains how this experiment (including the opinion that the three-judge panel
issued) can aid in resolving future disputed elections. Professor Foley’s prior writings on Bush v. Gore,
provisional ballots, the Twelfth Amendment, among other related topics, set the foundation for these
current and ongoing projects.
Professor Foley has taught at Ohio State since 1991. Before then, he clerked for Chief Judge Patricia M.
Wald of the U.S. Court of Appeals and Justice Harry Blackmun of the United States Supreme Court. In
1999, he took a leave from the faculty to serve as the state solicitor in the office of Ohio’s Attorney
General. In that capacity, he was responsible for the state’s appellate and constitutional cases.
Professor Foley is a graduate of Columbia University School of Law and Yale College.
John Fortier
Director of the Democracy Project, Bipartisan Policy Center
John C. Fortier joined the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) in April 2011. He is a political scientist who
focuses on governmental and electoral institutions. Prior to coming to BPC, he was a research fellow at
the American Enterprise Institute, where he also served as the principal contributor to the AEI-Brookings
Election Reform Project, the executive director of the Continuity of Government Commission, and the
project manager of the Transition to Governing Project. He was also a regular contributor to AEI’s
Election Watch series. He also served as the director of the Center for the Study of American Democracy
at Kenyon College.
Mr. Fortier is the author of Absentee and Early Voting: Trends, Promises and Perils (AEI Press: 2006),
author and editor of After the People Vote: A Guide to the Electoral College, and author and co-editor
with Norman Ornstein of Second Term Blues: How George W. Bush Has Governed (Brookings Press:
2007), and numerous academic articles in political science and law journals.
Mr. Fortier has been a regular columnist for The Hill and Politico and is a frequent commentator on
elections and government institutions and has appeared on ABC’s Nightline, CNN, Fox News, PBS’s News
Hour, CBS News, NBC’s Today Show, C-SPAN, NPR, Bloomberg, and BBC. He has taught at Kenyon
College, University of Pennsylvania, University of Delaware, Harvard University and Boston College.
Mr. Fortier has a Ph.D. in political science from Boston College and a B.A. from Georgetown University.
Karla Herron
Immediate Past President, Ohio Association of Election Officials, & Delaware County Elections Director
Karla Herron serves as Director of the Delaware County Board of Elections. She also is the immediate
Past President of the Ohio Association of Election Officials (OAEO), and from 2007-2011 she served as a
Trustee for the OAEO. Ms. Herron is currently the Legislative Co-Chair for the OAEO and serves on a
committee that is comprised of OAEO Members and County Commissioners of Ohio. Ms. Herron is the
2013 recipient of the National Association of Secretaries of State-Medallion Award as Election Official of
the Year.
Ms. Herron is a (CERA) Election Center Graduate, (PECP) Ohio Education Program Graduate, and (REO)
Election Center (Ohio Program) Graduate.
Steven F. Huefner
Professor; Legislation Clinic Director; Senior Fellow, Election Law @ Moritz, The Ohio State University
Before joining The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law faculty, Professor Huefner practiced law
for five years in the Office of Senate Legal Counsel, U.S. Senate, and for two years in private practice at
the law firm of Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. He also clerked for Judge David S. Tatel of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and for Justice Christine M. Durham of the
Supreme Court of Utah. Professor Huefner was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar at Columbia Law School,
where he served as head articles editor for the Columbia Law Review.
Professor Huefner has published a number of articles and one book, From Registration to Recounts: The
Election Ecosystems of Five Midwestern States, co-authored with his Election Law @ Moritz colleagues.
His research interests are in legislative process issues and democratic theory, including election law. He
is conversant in Japanese, spent one summer working for a Japanese law firm, and remains interested in
Japanese law.
Professor Huefner is director of Clinical Programs at Moritz, as well as director of the Legislation Clinic.
He teaches Legislation, Jurisprudence, Law & Religion, and Legal Writing. He also serves as the associate
reporter for the American Law Institute’s Election Law Project, and was the Reporter for the Uniform
Law Commission’s drafting committee that developed the Uniform Military and Overseas Voters Act.
Professor Huefner received his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law and A.B. from Harvard
College.
Stéphane Lavertu
Assistant Professor, John Glenn School of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University
Professor Lavertu has a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin, a master’s in
education policy analysis and evaluation from Stanford University, and a bachelor’s in political science
from The Ohio State University. His research examines how U.S. politics affects the design, operation,
and performance of public agencies. Some of his recent publications have examined the impact of
politics on the structure of federal agencies, the timing of federal rulemaking, the implementation of
performance measurement and accountability systems in K-12 education, and the administration of
elections. His most recent research examines the impact of state and federal measurement of local
school performance on district politics, administrative practices, and student educational outcomes.
Professor Lavertu’s research on election administration started in 2008 when he served on a team that
evaluated the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board’s implementation of its Election Day data
collection system. That collaboration led to a report and an academic article on the politics of election
administration. His current interests are on the future of performance measurement in an age of “big
data” and its implications for the agencies administering educational programs and elections.
Matthew Masterson
Deputy Chief of Staff/Chief Information Officer, Ohio Secretary of State
Matthew Masterson currently serves as the Deputy Chief of Staff/Chief Information Officer for the Ohio
Secretary of State. In this role Mr. Masterson is responsible for the day to day operations of the
Secretary of State’s information technology division. As part of this role Mr. Masterson is responsible
for voting system certification efforts by the Secretary of State’s office including being the liaison to the
Ohio Board of Voting Machine Examiners.
Prior to becoming Deputy Chief of State Mr. Masterson worked as the Deputy Election Director for the
State of Ohio. In that role he helped to develop Ohio’s online change of address system that was used
by more than 100,000 voters prior to the 2012 election. Additionally, he was the elections lead for
Ohio’s voter registration database and other election technology issues.
Prior to moving back home to Ohio, Mr. Masterson was Deputy Director for the EAC’s Voting System
Testing and Certification Program. In this role Mr. Masterson’s primary responsibility was the creation of
the next iteration of the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (VVSG). Mr. Masterson worked with the
EAC’s Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC) and the National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST) in the creation of the TGDC’s recommended Voluntary Voting System Guidelines. In
addition to these responsibilities Mr. Masterson managed the day to day business of the EAC’s
laboratory accreditation program including the creation of the EAC’s Voting System Test Laboratory
Program Manual. Prior this position Mr. Masterson joined the EAC in 2006 as a Special Assistant/Counsel
to Chairman Paul DeGregorio.
Mr. Masterson was admitted to practice law in the State of Ohio in November of 2006. Mr. Masterson
graduated from the University of Dayton School of Law in May 2006. At the University of Dayton Mr.
Masterson served as the Chief Justice of the Moot Court program and Student Bar Association VicePresident. Prior to law school Mr. Masterson received BS and BA degrees from Miami University in
Oxford, OH.
Michael Stinziano
State Representative (18th District), Ohio House of Representatives
Representative Michael Stinziano serves the residents and businesses of Bexley, Franklinton, German
Village, Grandview Heights, Weinland Park, The Hilltop, Italian Village, Merion Village, Olde Towne East,
Schumacher Place, The University Community, and Victorian Village. Representative Stinziano serves as
the Ranking Minority Member on the House Judiciary Committee and on the House Insurance and
House Public Utilities Committees.
Representative Stinziano also serves on the National Governing Board of the Council of State
Governments; as Vice Chair of the Workers Compensation Insurance Committee of the National
Conference of Insurance Legislators; and as a Member of the Labor and Economic Development
Committee and the Redistricting and Elections Committee of the National Conference of State
Legislatures.
Representative Stinziano worked for the Woodrow Wilson International Center, a think-tank for national
and international issues in Washington, D.C. He worked as a congressional intern in Washington; as a
research assistant for two members of the British Parliament; as a legal extern for the Supreme Court of
Ohio; as a law clerk for the Ohio House Democratic Caucus; and as an assistant to the general counsel
for Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner.
In 2008, Representative Stinziano became director of the Franklin County Board of Elections and is the
only member of the Ohio General Assembly who is an Elections/ Registration Administrator certified by
the National Association of Election Officials. The National Conference of Insurance Legislators Institute
for Insurance Policy also recognizes him as a Certified Associate Insurance Policymaker.
In addition, Michael serves as a Chairperson for the Columbus Bar Association’s Government Agencies
Committee and is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association and the Public Interest Law Foundation.
Michael has also served on the Board of Kids Voting Central Ohio, has volunteered as a mediator in the
Franklin County Prosecutor’s Night Mediation Program and also served as a director of the Dispute
Resolution and Youth Program at the Moritz College of Law.
Michael received a B.A. from the University of Richmond, a M.B.A. from George Washington University
and a J.D. from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.
Charles Stewart III
Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology_
Charles Stewart III is the Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Political Science at MIT, where he has
taught since 1985. His research and teaching areas include congressional politics, elections, and
American political development.
His current research about Congress touches on the historical development of committees, party
leadership, and Senate elections. Since 2001, Professor Stewart has been a member of the Caltech/MIT
Voting Technology Project, a leading research effort that applies scientific analysis to questions about
election technology, election administration, and election reform. He is currently the MIT director of the
project. Professor Stewart is an established leader in the analysis of the performance of election systems
and the quantitative assessment of election performance.
Professor Stewart has been recognized at MIT for his undergraduate teaching, being named to the
second class of MacVicar Fellows in 1994, awarded the Baker Award for Excellence in Undergraduate
Teaching, and the recipient of the Class of 1960 Fellowship. Since 1992, he has served as Housemaster of
McCormick Hall, along with his spouse, Kathryn Hess.
Professor Stewart received his B.A. in political science from Emory University, and S.M. and Ph.D. from
Stanford University.
Christopher M. Thomas
Michigan Director of Elections
Christopher M. Thomas is employed by the Michigan Secretary of State as the Director of Elections and
has served in this capacity since 1981. He administers the Michigan election law, campaign finance act,
and lobbyist disclosure law. He began his election administration career in 1974 in Washington, D.C.
with the U.S. House of Representatives and the Federal Election Commission.
Mr. Thomas earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from Michigan State University,
received his Masters Degree in Urban Affairs from St. Louis University in St. Louis, MO, and graduated
from Thomas Cooley Law School in Lansing. He is currently a member of the Michigan State Bar
Association. Mr. Thomas has been an Adjunct Professor at Thomas M. Cooley Law School since 2001
teaching election law.
Mr. Thomas is a founding member of the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED) and
was elected NASED’s President in 1997. At the NASED Conference in January 2013, he became NASED’s
President for the second time. He served as Chair of the Board of Advisors to the U.S. Election Assistance
Commission from 2006-2008. This Board was created by the Help America Vote Act to review guidelines
and studies before they are issued by the Election Assistance Commission. At the NASED Summer
Conference in 2012 he was honored to receive NASED’s Distinguished Service Award.
On May 21, 2013, Mr. Thomas was appointed by President Obama to the Presidential Commission on
Election Administration.
Daniel P. Tokaji
Robert M. Duncan/Jones Day Designated Professor of Law; Senior Fellow, Election Law @ Moritz
Professor Daniel P. Tokaji is an authority on election law and voting rights. He specializes in election
reform, including such topics as voting technology, voter ID, provisional voting, and other subjects
addressed by the Help America Vote Act of 2002. He also studies issues of fair representation, including
redistricting and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Professor Tokaji’s scholarship addresses questions of political equality, racial justice, and the role of the
federal courts in American democracy, with a special focus on election administration. Among the
publications in which his work has appeared are the Michigan Law Review, Stanford Law & Policy
Review, and Yale Law Journal. He is a co-author of the casebook Election Law: Cases and Materials (4th
ed. 2008) and co-editor of Election Law Journal.
His published articles include “The Future of Election Reform: From Rules to Institutions,” 28 Yale Law &
Policy Review 125 (2009), “The New Vote Denial: Where Election Reform Meets the Voting Rights Act,”
57 South Carolina Law Review 689 (2006), “Early Returns on Election Reform: Discretion,
Disenfranchisement, and the Help America Vote Act,” 73 George Washington Law Review 1206 (2005),
and “First Amendment Equal Protection: On Discretion, Inequality, and Participation,” 101 Michigan Law
Review 2409 (2003).
A graduate of Harvard College and the Yale Law School, Professor Tokaji clerked for the Honorable
Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Before arriving at Ohio State, he
was a staff attorney with the ACLU Foundation of Southern California and Chair of California Common
Cause. He has litigated many civil rights and election law cases. He was lead counsel in a case that struck
down an Ohio law requiring naturalized citizens to produce a certificate of naturalization when
challenged at the polls. He was also an attorney for plaintiffs in cases that kept open the window for
simultaneous registration and early voting in Ohio’s 2008 general election, and that challenged punchcard voting systems in Ohio and California after the 2000 election.