Professor, Lawyer, Long Haul Trucker in the 2020 Election

• In Event: Diversified Approaches to Simulations and Games in the Classroom II (Livestreamed)

Abstract

The 2020 Election mobilized a literal nation-wide “lawyer cavalry” of count monitors. Pursuant to the particular nuances of a state’s law, lawyers appointed by the Republican and Democratic parties occupy, witness, and challenge this procedural component of the democratic process. In key states, movement lawyers served this function from early voting through recounts and runoffs, stretching into 2021. As a practicing attorney and Assistant Professor of Political Science, this paper provides my interdisciplinary approach, methodology, and delivery strategy for teaching Voting Rights from Wisconsin and Georgia digitally, as I volunteered, incorporating daily simulations and problem-solving the substantive and mechanical inquiries arising in near real-time, to strengthen student understanding of voting mechanics and federalism in controlling law and policy, and introducing, promoting, and sustaining pluralism through rotating model legal assignments and simulated ballot challenge arguments.

Author

• Courtney Chenette, Hollins University