Our Changing Elections

Voter challenges, provisional ballots, week-long recounts... since 2000, they've become part of a new vocabulary of our elections. We look at new trends and new difficulties facing our voting process, and if this is something we'll need to get used to. Laura's guests are Linda Fowler, Professor of Government at Dartmouth College and David King, a lecturer in Public Policy and Associate Director of Harvard University's Institute of Politics. In the wake of the 2000 presidential elections, Professor King directed the Task Force on Election Administration for the National Commission on Election Reform, chaired by former presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. That effort culminated in voting rights legislation signed by President Bush in late 2002.