I’m delighted that Oxford University Press has published my new book Ballot Battles: The History of Disputed Elections in the United States. Rick Hasen was kind to let me write a series of blogs discussing five themes in the book.  They are:

1. Florida Was Not a Fluke

2. The Risk of Another Presidential Election is Higher Than Most Think

3. The History of Disputed Elections Shows that When Institutions are Weak, Individual Character Really Matters

4. Ballot Battles in the Nineteenth Century Were Beset by Violence and Civil Strife; Not So in the Twentieth, and This Progress is Reason to Hope for Even More

5. The Great Dissenter in Plessy Anticipated the Role for Federal Courts Embraced in Bush v. Gore—But Will the Court Repeat that Role Next Time and, If Not, What Then?

Also, electionline invited me to write a piece discussing how the history in the book helps identify reforms for the future; that piece is The Ghosts of Elections Past — and Yet to Come

Finally, Salon excerpted the book’s chapter on Florida 2000.

Happy reading–and happy holidays!