Election Law Attorney

Robert Kelner

1 article 2012

Robert Kelner is a prominent election law attorney and partner at Covington & Burling LLP, where he chairs the firm's election and political law practice. He contributed to The Weekly Standard in 2012 with analysis of early voting reform and its implications for the electoral process.

Early Voting Reform: A Ticking Time Bomb

October 18, 2012 · states, 2012 Elections, Reform

In election law, as in so many things, the word “reform,” when associated with a new idea, is usually a sure sign that mischief is afoot. A case in point: early voting reform. This innocuous sounding but insidious idea, which has led some 32 states to allow voting to commence as much as six weeks…