<p> ELECTION LAW</p><p>Instructor: Scott Gessler Adjunct Professor</p><p>Meeting Times T-Th, 9:00-10:15 am Room 170</p><p>Required Reading Michael Dimon, Bradley Smith, & Michael Solimine, Voting Rights and Election Law, (2010)</p><p>Michael Dimon, Bradley Smith, & Michael Solimine, Voting Rights and Election Law 2015 Supplement, available at: http://www.lexisnexis.com/store/images/Supplements/3285 -2015Supplement.pdf</p><p>Additional readings as assigned</p><p>This course examines the rapidly evolving field of election law: the right to vote, voting procedures, redistricting, candidate selection, and campaign finance laws. It emphasizes federal law, including applicable constitutional jurisprudence. Materials include recent decisions that highlight ongoing legal issues.</p><p>A. Voting Qualifications </p><p>1. Tuesday, August 18, 2015 Voting Rights and Election Law, 1-35 </p><p>2. Thursday, August 20, 2015 Voting Rights and Election Law 36-77 Supplement, 1</p><p>3. Tuesday, August 25, 2015 Voting Rights and Election Law 78-100</p><p>B. Political Questions, One Person One Vote</p><p>4. Thursday, August 27 Voting Rights and Election Law, 117-159 Supplement, 2-3</p><p>5. Thursday, September 3, 2015 Voting Rights and Election Law, 161-192 Supplement, 4</p><p>C. Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act and Districting by Race</p><p>1 6. Tuesday September 8, 2015 Voting Rights and Election Law, 225-235, 272-283 Supplement, 5-15</p><p>C. Districting by Race</p><p>7. Thursday, September 10, 2015 Guest Lecturer Voting Rights and Election Law, 285-288, 321-341, 379-410</p><p>E. Political Parties</p><p>8. Tuesday, September 15, 2015 Voting Rights and Election Law, 443-478</p><p>9. Thursday, September 17, 2015 Voting Rights and Election Law, 478-510 Supplement, 23-24</p><p>10. Tuesday, September 22, 2015 Voting Rights and Election Law, 510-548 Supplement, 24</p><p>11. Thursday, September 24, 2015 Voting Rights and Election Law, 548-574 Supplement, 24</p><p>F. Political Speech</p><p>12. Tuesday, September 29, 2015 Voting Rights and Election Law, 597-626 Supplement, 34 (starting at note 3)-36</p><p>13. Thursday, October 1, 2015 Voting Rights and Election Law, 626-658</p><p>14. Tuesday, October 6, 2015 Voting Rights and Election Law, 659-687 Supplement, 36-48</p><p>15. Thursday, October 8, 2015 Voting Rights and Election Law, 688-708 Supplement, 48-49</p><p>16. Tuesday, October 13, 2015</p><p>2 Voting Rights and Election Law, 766-783 Supplement, 49-61</p><p>G. Campaign Finance</p><p>17. Thursday, October 15, 2015 Voting Rights and Election Law, 785-821</p><p>18. Tuesday, October 20, 2015 Voting Rights and Election Law, 821-835, 843-863 </p><p>19. Thursday, October 22, 2015 Voting Rights and Election Law, 863-880 Supplement, 62-65</p><p>20. Tuesday, October 27, 2015 Voting Rights and Election Law, 881-886, 936-944 52 U.S.C. § 30101(9)(B)(i), 11 CFR §§100.72 and 100.132 Federal Election Commission, Advisory Op. 2004-30 (Citizen’s United) (Sep. 9, 2004) Federal Election Commission, Advisory Op. 2010-08 (Citizen’s United) (June 11, 2010) Citizens United v. Gessler, 773 F.3d 200 (10th Cir. 2014) </p><p>21. Thursday, October 29, 2015 Voting Rights and Election Law, 887-908 State ex. rel. Two Unnamed Petitioners v. Peterson, 2015 WL 4376442 (Wis. 2015) (read *1 to *20 only) 11 CFR 119.20</p><p>22. Tuesday, November 3, 2015 No reading</p><p>23. Thursday, November 5, 2015 Voting Rights and Election Law, 915-936, 944-958 </p><p>24. Tuesday, November 10, 2015 Voting Rights and Election Law, 958-990</p><p>25. Thursday, November 12, 2015 Voting Rights and Election Law, 990-1014 </p><p>26. Tuesday, November 17, 2015 Voting Rights and Election Law, 1014-1053 Supplement, 65-70</p><p>3 27. Thursday, November 19, 2015 Voting Rights and Election Law, 1053-1059, 1064-1080 Supplement, 71-82 Supplement, 83-86</p><p>H. Election Day</p><p>28 Tuesday, November 24, 2015 Voting Rights and Election Law, 1081-1112 Supplement, 87-88</p><p>4</p>