Election Recounts: How and Why, Topic of ABA Panel Program

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 11, 2011 – An American Bar Association Standing Committee on Election Law panel will meet Friday in Minneapolis to discuss election recounts and related litigation.  Speakers will use the 2008 Minnesota U.S. Senate race between Al Franken and Norm Coleman as a launching point for discussion of how and why recounts are conducted.  The counsel for Franken and Coleman will provide their perspectives; they will be joined by one of the Minnesota Supreme Court justices who issued the final opinion on the case.

WHO

Moderator:
Benjamin E. Griffith, Esq., Griffith & Griffith, Cleveland, Miss.
Chair, ABA Standing Committee on Election Law

Panelists:
Justice Paul H. Anderson, Minnesota Supreme Court, St. Paul, Minn.
Marc E. Elias, Esq., Perkins Coie LLP, Washington, D.C.
Joseph S. Friedberg, Esq., Law Office of Joseph S. Friedberg, Minneapolis

WHAT
“Anatomy of a Recount”

WHERE
Westin Minneapolis
88 South 6th Street
The Vault Room, Lower Level
Minneapolis

WHEN
3 – 5 p.m.
July 15

This event is free and open to members of the press. For further information or to RSVP, please contact Anne Nicholas at Anne.Nicholas@Americanbar.org or 202/662-1097.

With nearly 400,000 members, the American Bar Association is the largest voluntary professional membership organization in the world.  As the national voice of the legal profession, the ABA works to improve the administration of justice, promotes programs that assist lawyers and judges in their work, accredits law schools, provides continuing legal education, and works to build public understanding around the world of the importance of the rule of law.

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