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Candice Hoke
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Professor Hoke is the founding
Director of the Center for Election Integrity at Cleveland State
University and an Associate Professor of Law. She was a Yale
Law Journal editor, a judicial clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the First Circuit (Boston) and a staff member of the North
Carolina Governor's Office before becoming a law professor.
At 17 she was named a member of the North Carolina Governor's
Inaugural Committee. Before becoming rigorously nonpartisan,
she had worked for both Republican and Democratic candidates,
including in election protection for the 2004 Kerry-Edwards campaign
and for the third party candidates who triggered the Ohio 2004
presidential recount. At Cleveland-Marshall College of Law she
currently teaches Election Law, Regulatory Law, and Employment
Law.
Professor Hoke's broad-based
election reform work has been focused on both the Ohio and national
election levels. Most recently, she has served as a research
Team Leader for the California Secretary of State's landmark
scientific study of voting systems (2007), as Project Director
of the Public Monitor of Cuyahoga Election Reform (2006-08),
and is a member of the American Bar Association's Advisory Commission
on Election Law (2007-). She proposed and led the first post-election
audit in Ohio (Cuyahoga, November 2006), and has served as an
on-site consultant for post-election auditing in another of Ohio's
major counties (March 2008). She has testified to Congress on
the need for independent election auditing as a critical component
for rebuilding public trust in the election system.
Professor Hoke is a member of
the Advisory Boards of three election reform organizations, including
the Verified Voting Foundation and the Florida Voters Coalition,
and a member of the Ohio Secretary of State's Voting Rights Advisory
Council. She has spoken widely on election reform issues, including
on the dangers posed by the current regulatory approach to voting
machines. She has provided media education on voting technology
and election administrative issues to promote better reporting
and a more knowledgeable public. For the Center, she has authored
numerous public reports and memoranda addressing elections issues.
The Center's work has been covered by the New York Times and
the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project, and the Center has
been profiled in a Pew Charitable Trusts' electionline.org publication.
Professor Hoke and the Center
for Election Integrity are dedicated to achieving verifiable
accuracy, voter access, legal compliance, and transparency throughout
the electoral administrative system. |
