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"A Bully Pulpit Approach to Elections in the Early Biden Administration"

I have this piece at the Illinois Law Review Online entitled A Bully Pulpit Approach to Elections in the Early Biden Administration. It begins:

2020 yielded innovation to administer an election during a pandemic, high voter participation, divisive social media maelstroms, and extraordinary doubt cast by the losing presidential candidate on the results, all culminating in a riot at the Capitol during the counting of electoral votes. Election disputes looked bad in 2016,1 but they appear to have become even worse. Election law has attracted President Joe Biden’s attention, but much less in legislative reforms and much more in the bully pulpit to advance his agenda.