When election law scholars think about the right to vote, we often divide it into four parts. The first is the right of participation, which involves the right to cast a ballot. The second is the right of expressive association, which concerns the ability of voters to express preferences for parties and candidates they prefer […]
Nathaniel Persily
Nathaniel Persily is the senior research director for President Obama's bipartisan Commission on Election Administration, the James B. McClatchy Professor of Law at Stanford University, and serves on the Anxieties of Democracy program’s Advisory Committee.