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1. Name: Candice Hoke, J.D.  
2. Title: Director, Center for Election Integrity, Cleveland State University

3. Voting Machines
Position:		 Con to the question "Do electronic voting machines improve the voting process?"
4. Reasoning:

"We're facing a huge problem as a nation. We've made the entire election system overly complex and technologically vulnerable, and lowered public confidence in the legitimacy of the results." ("Election Cliffhanger: Will It All Work?" USA Today, October 26, 2006)

5. Credibility
Ranking:		  Experts
Election officials, people with post-graduate degrees in a computer or political science, J.D.s, Members of Congress, or elected officials with significant involvement in, or related to, electronic voting machine issues

6. Involvement:
  • 1994-present - Director, Center for Election Integrity, Cleveland State University
  • 2004-present - Associate Professor of Law, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
  • 1993-1994 - Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University Law School
  • 1987-1993 - Assistant Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
7. Education:
  • Bar Admission, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 1985
  • Bar Admission, U.S. District Court for Massachusetts, 1985
  • Bar Admission, State of Massachusetts, 1984
  • J.D., Yale Law School, 1983
  • M.A., Modern Philosophy, Wellesley College, 1978
  • B.A., Political Philosophy, Hollins College, 1977
8. Relevant Affiliations/Honors:
  • Member, American Bar Association
  • Member, Cleveland Bar Association
  • Member, American Political Science Association
  • Member, International Political Science Association
  • Member, Association of American Law Schools
  • Member, American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
9. Contact Info:
Phone: (216) 397-8266 Fax: Not listed
E-Mail: candice.hoke@law.csuohio.edu
Web Site: Candice Hoke @ CSUOHIO
10. Other: Select publications:
  • "Reasons to Eschew Federal Lawmaking and Embrace Common Law Approaches to Genetic Discrimination," J.L. & Health, 2001 - 2002
  • "State Discretion Under New Federal Welfare Legislation: Illusion, Reality, and a Federalism-Based Constitutional Challenge," Stanford Law & Policy Review, 1997
  • "Arendt, Tushnet, and Lopez: The Philosophical Challenge Behind Ackerman's Theory of Constitutional Moments," Case Western Reserve Law Review, 1997
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