Protecting the Vote: Suppression, Fraud, and the Future of Voter ID Laws
By Kate Hoagland – Communiqué: Fall 2012, Volume 11
The Ash Center kicked off its Democracy Seminar Series with a spirited debate assessing the increasing number of voter laws in the 2011-2012 election cycle and the implications of the politicization of election administration by state legislatures. Held at the JFK Jr. Forum and co-sponsored by the Harvard Institute of Politics as part of its election series, the event featured Jennie Bowser, senior fellow at the National Conference of State Legislatures; John Fund, senior editor of The American Spectator; Alex Keyssar, Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy, HKS; and Tova Wang, senior democracy fellow of Demos and fellow at The Century Foundation.... Read more about Communiqué: A Look Back at the Center’s Fall Democracy Seminars