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CONFERENCE LOOKS AT ELECTION CHAOS:
COUNTING, COURTS AND COMMENTARY

David Broder, national political correspondent for The Washington Post, will deliver the keynote speech at a Northwestern University conference that will gather leading academics, legal professionals and media from across the country in an examination of critical issues that catapulted into the limelight during the uncertainty over the 2000 presidential election results.

Part of the Gertrude and G.D. Crain Jr. Lecture Series, presented by Northwestern…s Medill School of Journalism, Broder…s address will kick off the conference at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 11, on the Evanston campus, in Medill…s Fisk Hall Auditorium, 1845 Sheridan Road, Evanston.

Open to the public, "Election 2000: the Role of the Media, the Role of the Courts, the Roll of the Dice" will continue with four panel discussions on the Chicago campus, beginning at 8:30 a.m. Friday, Jan. 12, at Northwestern University School of Law, Thorne Auditorium, 375 East Chicago Ave.

The conference is co-sponsored by the Joyce Foundation, by Northwestern University School of Law and by Northwestern…s Medill School of Journalism, Institute for Policy Research and Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. The Crain Lecture Series was established in memory of Gertrude and G.D. Crain Jr., founders of the worldwide publisher Crain Communications Inc.

The conference will cover critical legal, political and journalistic issues that courts, commentators and politicians considered at breakneck speed during an election that will go down in history. Conference topics include the design and implementation of the balloting process, the continued viability of the Electoral College, media coverage of election disputes and the legitimate role of the courts in the process.

(www.law.northwestern.edu/depts/communicate/newspages/
Fall00/election2000.htm)

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