Reply #26: Media contact for Ohio Election law:

[Turn CO Blue]

Professor S. Candice Hoke
Associate Professor of Law
<http://www.law.csuohio.edu/faculty/hoke/>


J.D., Yale Law School
M.A. expected, University of Chicago, Graduate Faculty of Political Science
B.A., Hollins College

Professor Hoke specializes in the constitutional law governing legal relations between the federal and state governments, including in such regulatory areas as election law, welfare and public assistance programs, health/medical insurance, and employment law. She has served as a pro bono consultant to the US Senate Judiciary Committee and to the White House. Pertinent for the 2004 Ohio election litigation, Professor Hoke was an observer of many polling places in Cuyahoga County and personally witnessed poll workers issuing erroneous instructions to provisional ballot voters. Previously, Prof. Hoke taught law at the University of Pittsburgh and Case Western Reserve University law schools, litigated for both corporate and public interest firms, and served as a federal appellate law clerk. Her published work on constitutional and regulatory federalism issues is widely cited, and she serves as a media consultant on issues including the election law applicable in Ohio's 2004 election. Prof. Hoke was present at Cuyahoga County polling places on November 2, 2004, and personally witnessed poll workers giving voters erroneous instructions on how to complete provisional ballots.

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I'll be stuck at work the rest of the day - so please somebody email her for me and ask her if Blackwell's NOT ALLOWING the signature books to be available during a recount is legal or not...


her email is on the link above