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Law for the Next Pandemic
Ballot Access and the Role of Diligence During an Election-Year Pandemic
Lauren Spungen
B.A., Washington University in St. Louis, 2018; J.D. Candidate, The University of Chicago Law School, 2022.

I would like to thank Professor Genevieve Lakier for her thoughtful feedback and guidance, as well as the previous and current staff of The University of Chicago Legal Forum for their support.

This Comment analyzes how courts have applied Anderson-Burdick to pandemic-related ballot access cases. It focuses on one troubling pattern in COVID-19 ballot access litigation: cases in which courts applying Anderson-Burdick fault plain-tiffs for not being reasonably diligent in collecting signatures prior to or during a shelter-in-place order.

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