Subject: Message fro Karen Beckwith re Special House Elections
From: Rick Hasen
Date: 7/28/2002, 12:52 PM
To: election-law@majordomo.lls.edu
CC: Karen Beckwith <kbeckwith@wooster.edu>

Karen Beckwith wrote:


Currently in Ohio there is a debate concerning the decision of
Governor Taft not to hold a special election to the House of
Representatives to fill the seat of former Cong. James Trafficant.

Are there precedents for deciding not to hold a special election?

Are there precedents for waiting until the next regularly scheduled
House elections?

Have there been successful court challenges to such decisions?

Any reflections on these questions, based in election law, will be
very welcome.
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Karen Beckwith
Professor
Department of Political Science
The College of Wooster
Wooster, Ohio   44691  USA
(330) 263-2411
kbeckwith@wooster.edu