<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:center"><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:start"><span style="font-size:12.8px">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:start"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:start"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><b>Contacts: </b> </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"> <br>Ken Flower | Bexley Public Library <br>Director of Advancement/Community Relations<br><a href="tel:614-231-9709" value="+16142319709" target="_blank">614-231-9709</a> or <a href="tel:614-545-6942" value="+16145456942" target="_blank">614-545-6942</a><br><a href="mailto:kflower@bexleylibrary.org" target="_blank">kflower@bexleylibrary.org</a></div></div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:center"><b><br></b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:center"><b>National Expert on Disputed Elections to Discuss <i>Ballot Battles</i> at Bexley Public Library</b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Nationally-recognized election law expert and Bexley resident, Edward Foley, will be at Bexley Public Library on Thursday, October 27 at 7:00 p.m. to discuss his book <i>Ballot Battles: The History of Disputed Elections in the United States</i>.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><span style="font-size:12.8px">In </span><i style="font-size:12.8px">Ballot Battles</i><span style="font-size:12.8px">, Foley presents a sweeping history of election controversies in the United States, tracing how their evolution generated legal precedents that ultimately transformed how we determine who wins and who loses. </span><i style="font-size:12.8px">Ballot Battles</i><span style="font-size:12.8px"> is not only the first full chronicle of contested elections in the U.S. It also provides a powerful explanation of why the American election system has been, and remains, so ineffective at deciding the tightest races in a way that all sides will agree is fair. Offered in partnership with the Book Loft, copies of Foley’s book will be available for sale and signing.</span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div><br></div><div>Edward B. Foley (known as “Ned”) is a Bexley resident and directs Election Law at Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University, where he also holds the Ebersold Chair in Constitutional Law. Ned also serves as the Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Election Law Project, which is developing nonpartisan rules for the resolution of disputed elections.</div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://www.npr.org/2016/10/18/498296000/election-law-expert-isnt-buying-claims-that-nov-8-will-be-rigged" target="_blank">Listen to yesterday's interview on NPR's Morning Edition concerning a potential "rigged election" here.</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><b><u>Praise for Ballot Battles</u></b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><span style="font-size:12.8px">"The vitality of democracy depends on honest elections and a fair count of the ballots. Yet as Edward Foley demonstrates in this eye-opening study, many close elections at all levels of American government since 1792 have resulted in contested outcomes that violated one or both of these requirements. With no standard mechanism in place to determine fairly the winner of disputed elections, the instability and bitterness that has marked past elections will likely persist into the future, he predicts, unless we can come up with an accepted means of arbitrating disputed results." </span><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:right">-James McPherson, George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History (Emeritus), Princeton University, and author of <i>Battle Cry of Freedom</i></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="text-align:right"><br></div><br>"<i>Ballot Battles</i> isn't just the most comprehensive study of recounts to date; it's also a lens into our democracy. Foley pairs the clear-eyed perspective of an election lawyer with the idealism of a democratic theorist. He tells us not just who won and why, but who should have won and why we should care. The book is sure to become a touchstone for anyone interested in recounts and of interest to anyone interested in democracy." </div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:right">-Heather Gerken, J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law, Yale University</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br><br>"Professor Foley is the national expert on recounts, and his book is required reading for anyone who cares about the history and future of American election controversies. Those interested in the history will marvel at the detailed and dramatic retelling of contested election controversies stretching from the Founding Era to our own. For students of contemporary politics and election law, the book provides a sobering lesson on the entrenched features of the American constitutional system that make resolution of such controversies so difficult and unlikely to be solved any time soon." </div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:right">-Nathaniel Persily, James B. McClatchy Professor of Law, Stanford University</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br><br>"It's hard not to feel outrage and a little dread reading Edward Foley's retelling of ballot battles dating back to the nation's Founding. That's because, as Foley argues beautifully, American democracy lacks a fair, unbiased, non-partisan way to resolve contested elections. What will happen next time an election's outcome is in limbo? <i>Ballot Battles</i> makes a compelling argument that it could well be messy." </div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:right">-Tamara Keith, White House correspondent, NPR News</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><img src="cid:ii_iufo7l531_157d8812c554332f" width="352" height="544" class="gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T" tabindex="0"><br></span></div><div></div><div><p class="gmail-m_5039102448013620710gmail-m_-8863110657045324535gmail-MsoHeader" align="center" style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:center">###<i><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></i></p><p class="gmail-m_5039102448013620710gmail-m_-8863110657045324535gmail-MsoHeader" align="center" style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:10pt">Where Curiosity Meets Discovery</span></i></p><p class="gmail-m_5039102448013620710gmail-m_-8863110657045324535gmail-MsoHeader" style="font-size:12.8px"><i><span style="font-size:10pt">Bexley Public Library has been serving the Bexley community since 1924. 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