After the People Vote

A Guide to the Electoral College

Monday, October 18, 2004 | 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036

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After the completion of the 2000 presidential race, Americans were left with many questions concerning the Electoral College. How are disputed presidential elections resolved? Why do we have an electoral college? Is the Electoral College still necessary? The latest edition of After the People Vote: A Guide to the Electoral College (AEI Press, August 2004) answers these and other questions surrounding America’s unique, and often misunderstood, electoral process. Yale Law School professor Akhil Reed Amar will join the book’s past and present editors, AEI’s Walter Berns and John C. Fortier, in debating the merits of the Electoral College.

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9:45 a.m.	Registration

10:00	Panelists:	Akhil Reed Amar, Yale Law School
		Walter Berns, AEI
		John C. Fortier, AEI

11:30	Adjournment

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Walter
Berns

Walter Berns is also a professor emeritus at Georgetown University. A scholar of political philosophy and constitutional law, he has written extensively on American government and politics in both professional and popular journals. He is the author of numerous books on democracy, the Constitution, and patriotism. His most recent book is Democracy and the Constitution (AEI Press, 2006), a collection of essays. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2005.
Phone: 2028625859
Email: wberns@aei.org

John C.
Fortier

John Fortier is the principal contributor to the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project and executive director of the Continuity of Government Commission. A political scientist who has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Delaware, Boston College, and Harvard University, Mr. Fortier has written numerous scholarly and popular articles. His books include Second-Term Blues: How George W. Bush Has Governed (Brookings Institution Press, 2007); Absentee and Early Voting: Trends, Promises, and Perils (AEI Press, 2006); and After the People Vote: A Guide to the Electoral College (AEI Press, 2004). Mr. Fortier writes a column for Politico and is a frequent radio and television commentator on the presidency, Congress, and elections.
Phone: 2022186779
Email: jfortier@bipartisanpolicy.org
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