Benjamin Ginsberg

Benjamin Ginsberg is the Volker Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a nationally known political law advocate focused on U.S. elections, election law, campaign finance, recounts, election administration, and redistricting. He has represented Republican presidential campaigns, co-chaired the bipartisan Presidential Commission on Election Administration, and appears as a CNN contributor on politics and law.

Weak Voting Protections Keep American Election Law on the Battlefield

At the Aspen Ideas Festival, election-law scholars and political practitioners argued that the immediate danger for 2026 is less a miscounted Election Day than a close election whose count is challenged, delayed or delegitimized afterward. Rick Hasen, Benjamin Ginsberg, Sarah Isgur and Janai Nelson largely trusted local administrators to count ballots, but split over what makes elections legitimate: administrative competence, equal access to the franchise, limits on federal and judicial power, stronger parties, or a constitutional right to vote.

The Aspen InstituteJul 7, 202622 min read