Get ready, election lawyers, Title 52 of the U.S. Code will be coming your way in a few days.  From Steve Kolbert (quoted with permission):

Covington’s political law blog mentions that federal election-related statutes will be getting their own title in the U.S. Code — title 52 — starting Sept. 1.

In 2009, Rick wrote about a bill prepared by the House’s Office of Law Revision Counsel to codify into positive law all the election statutes under title 52.

Congress never acted, but now the Office of Law Revision Counsel is acting unilaterally using its editorial control over the U.S. Code to reclassify all the election statutes (currently codified in both title 2 and title 42, and probably some other places) to a new title 52.

Of course, all of this means a whole lot of trouble for those of us electiongeeks who have — intentionally or not — committed to memory the codified section numbers of various and sundry provisions of the VRA, NVRA, HAVA, UOCAVA, VAEHA, and FECA … all of which will soon be changing.  The Office of Law the Law Revision Counsel has an overview of the new Title 52 and a table showing the old and new classifications.