The law of politics and the politics of law: election law, campaign finance, legislation, voting rights, initiatives, redistricting, and the Supreme Court nomination process
Rick Hasen's web log
"Aggressive Enforcement of the Single Subject Rule"
Dworkin, Fish on CU
Interesting Poll on Campaign Finance Attitudes
"ACLU Challenges Illegal Disfranchisement Of American Indian Voters In South Dakota"
"Is a Constitutional Convention the Best Way to Reform California's Troubled Government?"
On the Road Again
Is CU a Harbinger of Things to Come at the Roberts Court?
"White House Isn't Done with Lobbyists"
Damon Root on CU and Conservative Judicial Restraint
"Digital Technology and Cleaner Politics"
"Understanding Citizens United: An Interview with Richard L. Hasen"
The FEC Reacts to Citizens United
No Legislative Action on CU
"New Illinois undervote law not overly loved by voters and clerks"
"Setting the Record Straight on Universal Voter Registration"
He's BAAAACK!
Two from the CLC Blog
What Have U.S. Senators Said About CU?
Senate CU Hearing Testimony Now Posted
Federalist Society Online Debate on CU
I Guess I'm Just Irresponsible
"Lawmakers: Repower The DNC, RNC"
Robbin Stewart on CU and Anti-avoidance
Ira Glasser on CU
Linda Greenhouse on CU: The Court's "Come Out of the Closet" and Had Its "First Taste of Wine"
The Anti-Extortion Rationale for Limiting Contributions to Independent Expenditure Committees
The Reaction of Michigan (home of Austin) to CU
"Democrats Revisit Campaign Plans in Wake of Ruling"
The Impact of CU on Indian Tribes
"Anti-Abortion PAC Gets Heavy Fine"
Adam Winkler on CU and Corporate Speech
The End of NAMUDNO
"Former FEC Chairman Warns of Fallout From Supreme Court Ruling"
Gerken on Justice Kennedy's Emerging Views on Race
The Latest CU
"Ritter And Legislature To Ask Supreme Court For Guidance On Citizens United"
"Voter Suppression in 2010: It Begins Again"
Imagine That Dept.
Justice Thomas Speaks on CU
Interesting Development in Ninth Circuit Appeal of Arizona Matching Funds Case
"Murray Hill Incorporated is Running for Congress"
Razor Thin Primaries for Illinois Governor, for Both Parties
Alex DeMots on What to Do About CU
"Consensus Textualism: States as Statutory Interpretation Laboratories"
"EAC Releases Report on State Spending of Federal Funds in 2008 to Improve Election Administration"
More CU
"Senate goes back to the drawing board on campaign finance"
White House Position on CU and Foreign Corporate Contributions
What Does Sen. Feingold Want in Response to CU?
Priceless Editorial on Citizens United
A Third CU Congressional Hearing
Dept. of Next Shoe Dropping
"Poll Workers, Election Administration, and the Problem of Implicit Bias"
"Hypocrisy in Citizens United chatter"
"Bullying Complaint in California Primary"
"Judge Orders More Testing of Voting Machines"
"Too Big to Fail? Reforming California's Constitution for the 21st Century"
More CU
I May Not Have Secretary Rokita to Kick Around Anymore
Rush and Askin on CU
"A Political Fundraising Report Card"
Voter ID Compromise in South Carolina?
Sandy Levinson on CU
Jim Bopp Proposes Rulemaking To Gut a Number of Corporate-Related FEC Regs
LA Times Editorializes Against Ballot Petition Signer Anonymity in Doe v. Reed
"Beware the Fortunetellers: Citizens United will significantly alter the regulation of campaign spending, but it's hard to foresee its implications with any real confidence"
"Citizens United Fallout Already Being Felt"
"Republican Leaders Forming New Political Group"
Sen. Franken Press Release on Barring Foreign Money in US Elections Post-CU
"Hanging a 'For Sale' Sign Over the Judiciary"
FEC Chair Petersen on CU
DOJ Voting Section Has Job Openings
More CU
Latest Issue of FairVote "Reformer" Now Available
"What Will Financial Tea Leaves Tell Us About The 2010 Congressional Elections?"
Lowenstein Festschrift Program
Denniston on CU-Alito-Obama
Ninth Circuit Stays Felon Disenfranchisement Ruling Pending Cert. Petition
More on Obama-Alito CU Spat
NY Felon Disenfranchisement Case Gets Encore Run Before Second Circuit
Nacho-Cheese-Flavored Colbert Favors 2012 Run Post-CU
von Spakovsky and Park on CU
"Justice Stevens Renews Criticism of Gerrymandering"
More CU
CU and SOTU
The Revolution May Not Be Televised, But the Lowenstein Festscrift Will Be Webcast
Light Blogging Through Wednesday
Chair of California FPPC Calls CU "A Disastrous Decision"
"Opinion: A New Era for Nonprofit Advocacy?"
Larry Lessig Wants a Constitutional Amendment in Response to CU
"Citizens United and the Bankruptcy of Conservative Originalism at the Supreme Court"
"Legislation Intended to Respond to Citizens United"
"The new world of campaign finance law; D.C. Circuit questions FEC restraints"
"More court cases to test campaign-finance limits"
"Obama to Push Hill on Foreign Cash"
"O'Connor: 'Don't know' if Bush v. Gore the right decision"
Senate Rules Commitee Hearing Feb. 2 on CU
Lyle Denniston Previews SpeechNow Argument
"O'Connor Mildly Criticizes Court's Campaign Finance Decision"
"Critics say redistricting panel needs diversity"
More CU
CU Anti-Avoidance Author's Footnote
The "Daily Show" on Citizens United
Citizens United, SpeechNow, and the Constitutionality of Contribution Limits to Independent Expenditure Commitees
More CU
Dorf on CU
"White House hopes to blunt Supreme Court's decision"
Indiana Supreme Court to Hear Indiana Voter ID Case
"Court Decision Could Spark Unlikely Alliance"
Gerken on Schleicher on the "Mismatch Problem" in Election Law
Don't Miss Nate Persily's Latest Post on CU
Latest CU Roundup
Chief Justice Roberts' Concurring Opinion in Citizens United: Two Mysteries
More Notable CU Stories and Commentaries
"Demographics may explain Coakley's 3% win of hand-count ballots"
Don't Miss Adam Liptak's NYT Analysis of CU
More Interesting CU Stories and Commentaries
The Latest CU Roundup
Citizens United: Academic Mood Check
Ned Foley: Citizens United: A Long Term Perspective
California Court of Appeal Affirms District Court Ruling Denying Use of Cameras at Polling Place
VRA Section 2 Claim Fails in Irving School District
Yes
More CU Links to Stories, Commentaries, and Press Releases
"Bad News for Judicial Elections"
More Releases that Have Come by Email
Sen. Schumer Statement on CU
Gerken on CU
Don't Miss Dahlia on the Theatrics of the CU Announcement Today
"Citizens United: What Happens Next?"
Got You to Say "Bush v. Gore!"
Citizens United Roundup
"Money Grubbers: The Supreme Court Kills Campaign Finance Reform"
My Initial Thoughts on Citizens United
Citizens United Decided: A Transformation of Campaign Finance Law
"Wang: A Bull Market for Donkeys and Elephants?"
Two Questions Which Might Be Answered Soon
"Supreme Court Announces Special Session, Issues 3 Rulings"
"Abolishing the Time Tax on Voting"
Federal District Court in Arizona Strikes Down Arizona Matching Funds Plan as Unconstitutional under Davis v. FEC
Two from the Campaign Legal Center
Definitely Not My Prediction on CU
Now They Are Toying With Us
A Way Out (Or More Likely, A Good Argument in Dissent) in Citizens United Telegraphed in Today's Opinion in Wood v. Allen?
"Monserrate and the Question of Pink Slips for Elected Officials"
"Berkeley Will Use Instant Runoff Voting in 2010 City Elections"
"Wis. Senate Approves Bill to Regulate Election Ads"
Ben Ginsberg on Emily's List and Citizens United
No Citzens United Today
Lawyering Up in Mass.
ACS Debate on Citizens United and Corporate Personhood
"Campaign finance ruling likely imminent"
More on the Black Panthers Story
Second Edition of Hasen Remedies: Examples and Explanations Now Available
"What If Europe Held an Election and No One Cared?"
"Could a recount in Massachusetts Senate race become the real 'delay'?"
Two on Judicial Elections/Recusals
"Turning The Faucet Back On: The Future of Mccain-Feingold's Soft-Money Ban After Davis v. Federal Election Commission"
Two in Yale Law and Policy Review
"Federal Judge in Arizona Still Pondering How to Adjust Public Funding Law"
"A Silver Lining For Campaign Reformers? Expecting Defeat In Court, Groups Are Focusing On A Bill To Publicly Finance Elections"
"Law Meant to Curb Lobbying Sends It Underground"
"Concerns About New York's New Voting Machines"
"Brown Win Could Spark Legal Battle"
" Feingold fears corporate tsunami of campaign cash"
Doe v. Reed Cert Grant
"Maximizing Participation Through Campaign Finance Regulation: A Cap and Trade Mechanism for Political Money"
"Essex County elections chief will retire after being charged in employee pay scheme"
Citizens United Could Come on Wednesday
Breaking News: Supreme Court Grants Cert in Doe v. Reed, the Washington Referendum Case
A 500% Tax on Independent Expenditures
"Don't Restore Felons' Voting Rights"
"3rd-Party Candidate Named Kennedy Could Tip Senate Race in Massachusetts"
More on Possible Prop. 8-Citizens United-Bush v. Gore-Doe v. Reed Connections
"Campaign finance activists on pins and needles awaiting Supreme Court ruling"
Lowenstein Festschrift Schedule Now Posted
San Diego Campaign Contributions Challenge at Preliminary Injunction Stage
"Restore free speech by ending Clean Elections"
"Election administration in New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial elections"
Will The Court Grant Cert in Another Disclosure Case Involving Same Sex Marriage and Referendum Petition Signatures?
"Reform in an Age of Networked Campaigns: How to Foster Citizen Participation Through Small Donors and Volunteers"
"O'Connor Will Keynote Forum on Supreme Court Election Cases"
Anti-Avoidance: Giving Up on the Supreme Court in Citizens United
The Prop. 8-Bush v. Gore Connection, and More on Harassment and Disclosure
The Surprising Citizens United-Prop. 8 Case Connection at the Supreme Court
Must-Read Matt Mosk Article on Citizens United and Jim Bopp
Robocall Advisory Opinion Request Withdrawn
Virginia Area Newspapers Pushing for Governor Kaine to Issue Blanket Restoration of Felon Voting Rights
Holy Cow! No Citizens United Today
Op-Ed Sized Version of "The Democracy Canon" Now Available
"Awaiting The Imminent"
NY Post Exclusive: DOJ to Block Diebold Merger
"Politicizing the Law: The Justice Department has sidelined an honest attorney for enforcing the law."
"Politicizing the Law: The Justice Department has sidelined an honest attorney for enforcing the law."
Call Off the Hounds
"Reformers Praise Obama Administration But Urge Leadership on Campaign Funding"
"How Election Day Registration and Early Voting Are Like PB & J"
"Giving corporations an outsized voice in elections"
"Money Woes Could Stymie GOP Comeback"
"High Court Returns to Busy Schedule"
"Super Bowl-style corporate ads for candidates?"
" Officials worry about costs of catching undervotes"
"Ballot Issues Attest to Anger in California"
"Essex County elections chief charged with paying workers on days off taken for political campaigning"
"The Battle for Voting Rights; Could reassignment of the Bush-era head of the Justice Department section charged with protection of voting rights mean real change?"
"New FEC Draft Would Grant AO Request To Preempt State Laws Barring 'Robocalls'"
"Fifth person charged with voter fraud in 2007 N.J. Senate election"
"Courts Whittle Spending Limits in Election Law"
"Justices may rule soon on campaign-finance case"
Ah, the Good Old Days...
CU Next Week?
CFI Recrunches Data on Obama Micro-Donors
Jonathan Rauch Column on Citizens United
"GOP says Schultz's testing waters on air; Schultz says he's not running"
Don't Forget to Register for the Lowenstein Festschrift
"Paterson's Political Fix"
Judy Corley as the New Bob Bauer
This Week's Electionline Weekly Focuses on Washington Felon Case
What's Next in the Washington State Felon Disenfranchisement Case?
"Prop. 8 trial will be shown on YouTube"
"Campaign Reform in the Networked Age: Fostering Participation through Small Donors and Volunteers"
Justice Scalia: Mozart Would Write Best Bush v. Gore Opera
"The Benefits of the Democracy Canon and the Virtues of Simplicity: A Reply to Professor Elmendorf"
Is Ed Schultz Ineligible to Run for Senate in North Dakota Because of a North Dakota Residency Requirement?
"Silicon Valley firm launches new smartphone app to gather initiative signatures"
"Rhode Island Legislature Overrides Electoral Reform Vetoes"
"Paterson to Seek Overhaul in Ethics"
"Instant-runoff voting a go for Oakland"
The End of Lever Machines in NY
More Coverage of Ninth Circuit VRA Decision
Schedule for "Train Wreck: A Conference on America's Looming Fiscal Crisis" Now Available
Ninth Circuit Again Decides Washington State Felon Disenfranchisement Case
"Three Rogue Republican FEC Commissioners Reach New Heights of Irresponsibility and Abuse of Office; Issue Opinion That Rejects Supreme Court Legal Conclusion; Change at FEC Long Overdue"
AALS Panel: "The Census, Redistricting, and Displaced Voters"
"Treaty signed to not resort to robo-calls during 2010 campaign"
Quote of the Day
If Dan Lowenstein Opposes Prop. 11, He Must Be a "Childlike" "Leftist"
Dan Morain is Back
"Are These The Waning Days of 'Austin v Michigan Chamber of Commerce'?"
NYT Editorializes for President Obama to Fix the Presidential Public Fincancing System
Bob Salladay is Back
"The Passion of McCain-Feingold; Under attack from all angles, campaign finance legislation is dying a painful death"
"Obama Ethics Regime Draws Mixed Reviews"
"Politicians rely on county parties to funnel contributions, avoid campaign limits"
TNR: No Formal Conference on Health Care Reform
"First Up For High Court In 2010: Campaign Finance"
"Oregon Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Lobbyists Giving Gifts to Public Officials"
"Richard Winger:'Top-two' open primary is no guarantee of moderation"
South Carolina "Sore Loser" Case to state Supreme Court
"Prop. 8 Campaign Documents Ruling Reaffirmed"
"DOJ approves Georgia's VoteSafe program"
Interest Group Representation and the CA Citizens Redistricting Commission
Nostaligia for Punch Card Voting in Hamilton County, Ohio
Chief Justice Roberts References Pending Citizens United Case in Year-End Report
"Democrats Revisit Presidential Race Rules"
"GOP's closed-primary plan may violate R.I, not US law"
Joan Biskupic on the Legacy of Bush v. Gore
Electionline Publishes "The List 2010"
"The Elysian Foundations of Election Law"
"CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES RAISED $1.42 BILLION IN 2007-2008"
"'Why the delay' on Supreme Court's campaign-finance case?"
Lowenstein-Woocher Team Up to Reverse Prop. 11's Citizen Redistricting Commission?
" Plain Talk: Using popular vote to elect president is the way to go"
"States in play: An early look at 2011 redistricting"
"Voting Section Chief Out Amid Controversy"
" A chaotic year for California ballot propositions"
"Republican Party Sues to Overturn San Diego Law Making it Illegal for Parties to Contribute to Candidates for City Office"
"Justin Levitt Speaks on Alternative Voting Systems and Redistricting Consequences of Incarceration"
"New Population Estimates Show Additional Changes For 2009 Congressional Apportionment, With Many States Sitting Close to the Edge for 2010"
Election Law Roundup: Week in Review
"Battle Lines: The Next Redistricting Brawl"
"All Military Installations to Aid in Voter Registration"
Light Blogging Through New Years
"FEC Members Clash over Family Gifts"
"Law Blocking Acorn Funding Raises Constitutional Question"
Linda Greenhouse on the Citizens United "Hurry Up and Wait"
Latest Fairvote e-Newsletter Now Available
"FEC APPROVES STEPS TO COMPLY WITH EMILY'S LIST OPINION, ELECTS 2010 OFFICERS"
"Director's Note: Wait...This Was an OFF-YEAR?!?"
"No Appeal in Emily's List Case"
The Health Care Bill, The Filibuster, and the House-Senate Conference
"Black leaders urge census to change how it counts inmates"
"Parliamentarian Stokes Republican Ire"
Final Version of "The Democracy Canon" Now Available
Consent Decree in Port Chester Case to Be Presented to Trial Judge Thursday
"SpeechNow Seeks Immunity for '527 Groups'"
"Congress Travels More, Public Pays"
"Pew Study Calculates the Real Cost of Voter Registration"
"The Battle Over Bilingual Ballots"
Eugene Volokh on Prop. 8 Campaign Materials Disclosure Case
"Which Justices on the Supreme Court Use Legislative History?"
The Latest FEC Skirmish
"Commas key in battle to control Philly newspapers?"
Graduate Student Research Project
"Working Families Party Documents Subpoenaed"
Lowenstein Festschrift Registration Now Open
Amar Lecture on Bush v. Gore, Responses, Now Available
"A Holiday Gift for Ohio's Low-Income Voters"
"Counting Us Out? Why Everyone Should Care About the Census Undercount"
"Is Everyone Else Doing It? Indiana's Voter Identification Law in International Perspective"
Voter ID Measure to 2010 CA Ballot?
"More companies are disclosing their political activity"
"McCubbins from UC San Diego to Southern California"
American Original: A Great Read
Historical Quote of the Day
"Court Keeps Campaigns in Suspense"
"A Look at the Obama Administration's Lobbying Initiatives"
Redistricting Games You Can Play at Home
"Veil Thine Eyes; What will it take for the Senate to abolish the filibuster? Just a little Rawlsian magic"
"The Supreme Court Leaves Washington in the Lurch"
""Appeals court denies gay marriage supporters' bid for Prop. 8 communications"
"Phila. ethics task force suggests regulating lobbyists"
"Deadlocked FEC Vote Dismisses Charges Of Illegal Contributions by Florida Company"
Breaking News: CU in 2010
Regular Blogging to Resume Monday
"Senate passes election changes; Compromise to be sought with Ohio House bill"
Republicans May Use Bartlett v. Strickland to Argue Against Allowing Vote on Florida Redistricting Ballot Measure
Covington's Political Law Update Now Available
"Illinois Limits Donations in Elections"
Utah Commission Recommends Automatic and Portable Voter Registration
"Gavin: 'Staggering' Number of Lobbyists Are Failing to Report Political Contributions"
"California to find out if politics can be sterile"
Is Citizens United Drafting Sapping the Justices' Energies and Affecting Their Work Product? And What Does it Mean for a Citizens United Opinion?
"Elections complaint against St. Petersburg mayoral candidate Wagman dismissed"
"Ohio Election Fraud: Convicted Felons Illegally Worked for Anti-Smoking Initiative"
"Lani's Heir; The new, old racial ideology of the Holder Justice Department"
So Far The Court Has Posted Four Opinions on Its Website
As We are Awaiting a Possible Opinion in Citizens United...
"I remember when corporate political expenditures were illegal."
"ACORN report: Disorganized, not criminal"
"Ethics Rules for Congress Curb but Don't End Trips"
"Department of Justice Rejects Redistricting"
"Reformers Wary of Supreme Court Ruling But Say It Could Spark Public Financing Bill"
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Pens Oped About New Disqualification Rule
" Vernon's ex-mayor and his wife are convicted of voter fraud"
"DNC Headed For Super-Delegate Fight"
"First Opinions Expected Tuesday"
"A Closer Look at CRS's Recent Report 'Lobbying and the Executive Branch'"
American Spectator Takes Aim at Soros and Secretary of State Project
John Elwood Reading the Tea Leaves on the Delay in Issuing Supreme Court Opinions
"Prop. 8 backers likely to win disclosure fight"
"President Obama's lobbying reforms praised by Congressional Research Service"
Michigan State Law Review Publishes Symposium on "Administrative Statutory Interpretation"
"A growing gripe among Obama donors: not enough perks"
"Citizens United, Corporate Personhood and the Constitution: CAC Releases Discussion Draft of New Report in Advance of Major Supreme Court Ruling"
Rep. Steve King Makes Strongly Critical Comments About Bob Bauer's Appointment as White House Counsel
"'A Chicken-Stealer Shall Lose His Vote' - Disfranchisement for Larceny in the South, 1874-1890"
"CRS Report Says Obama's Restrictions Have Changed Lobbyists' Ties to Officials"
"Campaign neophyte aims high for secretary of state job"
180-Page GAO Report On Civil Rights Enforcement (including VRA Enforcement) at DOJ During the Bush Years is Coming Thursday
OSC Finds EAC Did Not Hire General Counsel Applicant Because He Was a Republican
"U.S. Judge Opposes Republicans on Elections"
Access More Documents from the Republican House ACORN Hearing
"Doyle signs high court election bill ;Law gives public funds to campaigns that limit spending; challenge likely"
"Prop. 8 foes seek initiative sponsors' internal campaign communications"
"Comments to FEC Reflect Divisions On Defining 'Federal Election Activity'"
Steel Says, Then Backs Off Claim, that Republican Party "Litmus Test" Proposed by Jim Bopp Tied to Cancelling of Bopp Contracts to Defend RNC in Campaign Finance Case
Coverage of Today's Republican House ACORN Hearing
Minnesota IRV Group Fined for Misleading Statements About Endorsements
"Judge rejects RNC bid to end minority voter protections"
"The Voting Rights Act's Secret Weapon: Pocket Trigger Litigation and Dynamic Preclearance"
House Republican Committee Hearings on ACORN
"Fearing Fear Itself: Photo Identification Laws, Fear of Fraud, and the Fundamental Right to Vote"
Latest Caperton Fallout: 4-3 Split on Michigan Supreme Court Over Recusal Rules
As Massachusetts Goes, So Goes....New Jersey?
"SEQUOIA VOTING SYSTEMS' SOURCE CODE FOR NEW FRONTIER ELECTION SYSTEM NOW AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC DOWNLOAD ON COMPANY'S WEBSITE AT WWW.SEQUOIAVOTE.COM"
"Under The Influence Experts Blog Debuts On NationalJournal.com, Providing The Insiders' Take On Lobbying And Advocacy Issues"
"Robocall Exemption Has Activists Talking"
Part 2 of City Hall Investigative Report into Working Families Party Now Available
" FEC Implemented Congress' Vision on Travel Rules"
No Opinion in Citizens United Today
Major Punitive Damages News in California
"Federal Court Lawsuit Settlement Brings Ohio Into Compliance with National Voter Registration Act"
"Statutory Interpretation In The Roberts Court's First Era: An Empirical and Doctrinal Analysis"
"Administration Promotes Lobbyist "Brain Drain'"
Eliza Newlin Carney on the MOVE Act
Larry Gold on CU, and the Questionable Basis for Labor Union Spending Limits
WaPo Editorial on New FEC Travel Rules
"Minor Party and Independent Candidates Are Involved in Constitutional Election Law Cases in At Least 21 States"
"A chance for Floridians to redraw rigged districts"
Paying ACORN, And Constitutional Avoidance by the Executive Branch
When Will We See an Opinion in Citizens United?
City Hall News on the Working Families Party in NYC
"Lobbyists pushed off advisory panels; White House initiative to limit influence could affect thousands"
"Have the Media 'Falsely Framed' ACORN?"
Thanksgiving Blogging Break
von Spakovsky: Bob Bauer Wants To Criminalize Talk About Voter Fraud
"Louisiana Redistricting: An Ugly Post-Katrina Partisan Mess (The Complete Analysis)"
Hoffman Concedes; Speaks More on Election Controversy
"Making Sense of Facial and As-Applied Challenges"
"Public Advocate releases review of voting machine contracts, 11/24/09"
"Political consultant charged with impersonating opposing campaign's chief of staff on 'Robocalls'"
CA Gov. Nominates "Top Two" Advocate Abel Moldonado for Lt. Gov.
"California Court Re-Affirms Tentative Decision; Keeps Public Funding Measure on Ballot "
Sandy Levinson on Tom Friedman on Gerrymandering Etc.
No Lawn Mowers in the Park
"Are Mapmakers Able to Target and Protect Congressional Incumbents?"
Who is Behind the Anti-Robocall FEC Preemption Argument?
"CAMPAIGN FINANCE AND THE 2008 ELECTIONS: HOW SMALL CHANGE(S) CAN REALLY ADD UP"
"Chevron as a Canon, not a Precedent: An Empirical Test of what Motivates Judges in Agency Deference Cases"
"Loophole.com: How the FEC's Failure to Fully Regulate the Internet Undermines Campaign Finance Law"
Election Law in the Harvard Law Review Supreme Court Issue
Holtzman Vogel Law & Policy Update Now Available
Read Amicus Briefs in Indiana state supreme court voter id case
"No Voting Machine Virus in New York-23 Election"
"Voter Preregistration Report"
"Hoffman Claims Voter Fraud"
Will Ohio Pass an Election Reform Bill This Year?
PPP Poll: 52% of GOP Voters Think ACORN Stole Election for Obama
"Train Wreck: A Conference on America's Looming Fiscal Crisis"
"FEC Guts HLOGA Candidate Travel Restrictions: Statement of Paul S. Ryan, Campaign Legal Center FEC Program Director"
"The National Voter Registration Act: Fifteen Years On"
The Latest Electionline Weekly
"Strange Bedfellows: To Weaken Campaign-Finance Law, Starr's Group Defends Edwards Backer"
Pam Karlan Weighs in on CVRA
"Low turnout in Orange County Assembly race rekindles debate on mail-only voting"
Emily's List Issue Invades LA City Council Race
"Election Expert David Cardwell Dies"
"The Triumph of Voting Rights in the South"
Has Bad Drafting Made All Marriage Illegal in Texas?
Another Point of View on the California Voting Rights Act and the Plaintiffs' Attorneys Benefitting from It
More on the Craig-Bauer Switch
"Nassau ballot count enters third day"
"Politics for Professionals Only: Ballot Measures, Campaign Finance 'Reform,' and the First Amendment"
"Requested FEC Ruling Could Preempt Numerous State Laws Curbing 'Robo-Calls'"
"Public Opinion and Election Law"
"Hoffman 'Unconcedes' In New York 23; Absentee Count Begins Today"
"Lobbyists: Obama's Rules Bring Pain But No Gain"
"Supreme Court ruling could play in 2010 governor's races"
"Obama shakes up counsel's office"
"Judges Calabresi and Easterbrook Face Off on How to Interpret Statutes"
AP Story on Attorney's Fees Earned under California Voting Rights Act Challenges
"Briefs Being Filed in SpeechNow.Org Case Highlight Potential Importance to Campaigns"
"A Better Way: Electronic voter registration could reduce fraud and boost accuracy, confidence"
"In House, Many Spoke With One Voice: Lobbyists' "
"A Serious Challenge to Campaign Laws"
UT " Money in Politics" Survey Released
CU Later
Welcome to the Blogosphere to "State of Elections"
"Michael C. Dorf Is There a Constitutional Right to Sign a Petition Anonymously?"
Profiles of Bob Bauer
"The Transformation of the Campaign Financing Regime for U.S. Presidential Elections"
Government Dismisses Euclid Appeal
"'Post-Racial' America? - A Voting Rights Report"
Marc Elias Takes over for Bob Bauer as Head of Perkins Coie Political Group
Election Law Journal 8:4 Now Available: Preview of ELJ 9:1
Caperton Loses Again, This Time Without Justice Benjamin
Craig Out, Bauer In, as White House Counsel
"Calling the Filibuster Bluff"
"Assessing California's Hybrid Democracy"
"Common data format could streamline elections"
"What Are the Odds of 0 Doug Hoffman Votes in Three Different Polling Places?"
"Washington, D.C.: Campaign Contributions Greasing the Wheels for New Highway Construction?"
" The LBJ School's Center for Politics and Governance To Examine 'Money and Politics' at Fall Forum"
"Can There Be An 'Undeclared' Canon of Statutory Interpretation?"
Pierce O'Donnell Reply Brief in Conduits Contribution Ninth Circuit Appeal
"Did Hoffman Concede Too Soon?"
"Gerrymandering, Pure and Corrupt"
"Earmarks' cash flow lifts firms, lobbyists, lawmakers"
"Acorn Sues Over Funding Vote in House"
"Twitter, Internet undermine Canada election rules"
"Lost Home? Lost Vote?
What Happened to Norm Eisen's Blog Post on Lobbying?
Robocalls
"Candidates Pour More of Own Cash into Races"
"GAB delays vote on system"
A Dunn-Bauer White House Switch?
"Court Won't Hear Case With Conflict Question"
"New ID law didn't greatly hamper voters"
No Opinions in Citizens United Today
Covington Election Law Videos
"Election Spending: Reformers On Flood Watch"
"On the line: State law curbing 'robocalls'"
"Lobbyists sue to block campaign-finance ballot measure"
"U.S. Supreme Court could be next stop for R-71"
"Defending Chief Justice Roberts"
"How to build a better House"
"Voting Equipment and the Way Elections Are Run"
"Haridop to senators: Beware consequences of redistrict amendment"
Bad Ballot Design Apparently Leads to Almost 10% Undervote on Washington State Initiative
"Campaign contribution caps gains broad support"
"Provisional ballots could change IRV outcome in Aspen"
"SCHUMER ANNOUNCES ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION HAS AGREED TO TRANSLATE VOTER REGISTRATION FORMS INTO ASIAN LANGUAGES BEFORE START OF 2010 PRIMARIES"
"NY village gets new voting system to aid Hispanics"
Stanley Kutler on Wisconsin Judicial Election Controversy
Cert Petition Filed in Washington Referendum Signer Disclosure Case
"Low Turnout in Virginia: It's Also About Felon Disenfranchisement"
"Law change means Vt. must move up primary"
"Knox would limit contributions"
Washington State Referendum 71 Appears to Be Approved
Judge Awards Port Chester Its Preferred Remedy of Cumulative Voting in Voting Rights Act
Rep. Israel Moves "Democracy Index" Legislation
"California Legislature tries to block steep cut in pay and perks"
Now Available: Sholk's Updated "Guide to Election Year Activities of Section 501(c)(3) Organizations"
"Justice at Stake Hails Public Financing Breakthrough in Wisconsin"
Trying to Get Around California's Rule on Amending Initiatives
"Instant Runoff Voting on Election Day 2009: Wins, Losses and the Long-Term Trajectory of Reform"
"Uncounted Ballots: A Measure of Vulnerability"
"FEC votes to render no opinion on Brunner campaign plan"
Democracy 21 on Citizens United and the Meaning of "Corruption"
"EAC releases data from 2008 presidential election"
"Getting to Reform: Avenues to Constitutional Change in California"
NAMUDNO Consent Decree Signed by Judges
"Is America Ready for Popular Election of the President? A Debate on the National Popular Vote Movement"
"Election Reform in DC: A Model for the Progressive Administration of Elections"
Next Possible Dates for Citizens United Decision: Nov. 10 and 16
"A constitutional convention isn't the only route to reform"
Ranked Choice Voting in Minneapolis, St. Paul
"Reformers Urged Justice to Appeal Case But SG Said Decision Was FEC's to Make"
"Political Foes Team Up To Improve Voter Registration"
NY-23: Break Out Your Copy of Goldfeder on NY Election Law
"Prisons and City Elections"
"GOP trails in money chase"
"What's New? Lacking Evidence, Conservatives Again Stoke Voter Fraud Fears"
"After identity tangle at the DMV, she'll keep her vote to herself today"
Demos Webcast on National Popular Vote
"The Past, Present, and Future of Election Law: A Symposium Honoring the Work of Daniel Hays Lowenstein"
"Lobbyists Terminating Their Federal Registrations at Accelerated Rate"
John Fund on Potential Vote Fraud in New Jersey, and Media Matters on John Fund
A Challenge to State Anti-Robocall Legislation as Being Preempted by Federal Campaign Finance Law
"Targeting Election Fraud Incentives: 'State Solicitation Of Registration' Laws Are Constitutional"
SG Will Not Petition for En Banc in EMILY's List Case
Will Senator Schumer Be Able to Deliver Moderates in His Own Party on Voter Registration Modernization?
Thinking About Third Parties Before Election Day
"Congress Set to Take Aim at Judicial Recusals"
"Privacy Looms Over Gay Rights Vote"
Two from CQ Politics
"Setback for Group Fighting Gay Marriage in Maine"
"PRESIDENT OBAMA SIGNS SCHUMER BILL TO EASE VOTING PROCESS FOR MILITARY, OVERSEAS VOTERS"
"Demos Applauds Senator Feingold and Representative Ellison for Introducing Same Day Voter Registration Bill"
If the New Jersey Governor's Race Results are Razor Thin....
"GOODBYE SOFT MONEY, HELLO GRASSROOTS: HOW CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM RESTRUCTURED CAMPAIGNS AND THE POLITICAL WORLD"
"Trust, Antitrust and Your Vote"
Campaign Finance Dispute in Crist-Rubio Race?
"State high court says campaign donations can't force recusals"
"White House rebuts allegation that big donors get special perks"
"FEC Puts Obama in a Bind"
"Republican-led Harris County Voter Registration Office Admits to Voter Suppression Tactics"
Watch the Chief Justice George Speech on California and the Initiative Process
"Federal judge rejects anti-gay rights group; PAC has to abide by campaign finance laws"
"Law Versus Ideology: The Supreme Court and the Use of Legislative History"
"Campaign Crises: Detours on the Road to Congress"
"Supreme Court election crucial to redistricting, leaders say"
Second Preliminary Injunction Request Denied in Palmer Voter ID Case
More on SSRN "Election Law and Voting Rights" Downloads
"EXCLUSIVE: Democratic Donors Awarded with W.H. Perks"
"California Would Lose Seats Under Census Change"
"D.C. Vote Hopes Fade on the Hill"
"Amend and Pass HR 1719"
Colbert on R71 and Disclosure of Referendum Signatures
Excerpts and Links to Sens. Feingold and McCain on Citizens United
A Reason Reformers May Not Want to Urge the SG to Seek Review of the "EMILY's List" Case in the Supreme Court
"Editorial: Justice Department to Blacks: We Know Better"
Is McCain-Feingold Making It Harder for President Obama to Raise Money for the Democratic Party than It Was for President Bush to Raise Money for the Republican Party?
"Citizens Not United: The Lack of Stockholder Voluntariness in Corporate Political Speech"
"Judge Denies Prop. 8 Backers Delay on Memos"
"Introduction: Developments in Election Law"
"Voting Reform Finds Bipartisanship"
"One Person, One Dose"
Eliza Newlin Carney on a Post-Citizens United World
"Judge suspends ban on exit polling near NJ polls"
SSRN "Election Law and Voting Rights" Downloads: Needs Work
"Section 5 Survives for Now"
"Gay marriage fight fuels debate over petitioners' rights"
"Analysis: EMILY's List case: To the Court, or not?"
"The Warp and Woof of Statutory Interpretation: Comparing Supreme Court Approaches in Tax Law and Workplace Law "
"Nation's First Open Source Election Software Released"
Want to Learn More About the California Citizen Redistricting Commission?
"US court reviews Ariz. registration requirement"
NAMUDNO,DOJ to Consent to Bailout
Bob Bauer as the Next White House Counsel?
"SENATE PASSES BIPARTISAN BILL TO EASE VOTING PROCESS FOR MILITARY, OVERSEAS VOTERS"
"Constitutional Clash: When English-Only Meets Voting Rights"
California State Auditor Gives Her Perspective on Prop. 11 Redistricting Commission She is Helping to Create
More Reactions to FEC's Emily's List Decision
Ninth Circuit Issues Its Opinion Explaining Its Ruling in Washington R-71 Referendum Case
All Bopp All the Time
More R-71 Litigation from Jim Bopp
"An under-the-radar ballot winner?"
"Shareholders Should Hear About Political Spending"
Breaking News: FEC Will Not Seek Rehearing En Banc in Emily's List Case
Military Voting Bill Expected to Pass Today
"Against Constitutional Mainstreaming: Toward a Proper Judicial Role in Dynamic Statutory Interpretation"
McCain, Feingold Speak on Senate Floor About Citizens United
"Ind. Decisions - Petitions to transfer filed in the Indiana voter ID case"
"Public Corruption Investigation Urged in Texas"
"Republican FEC Commissioners Back Broader Ruling in Black Rock Group AO"
"Avencia Launches Redistricting the Nation.com, a Ground-Breaking Public Engagement Web Application To Measure Compactness and Gerrymandering of U.S. Election Districts"
"Voting Technology in the U.S. and Abroad"
"National Academy of Sciences Releases EAC-funded Report on Statewide Voter Registration Databases"
Roundup of Washington Disclosure Supreme Court Stay Stories
Breaking News: Supreme Court Reverses Ninth Circuit, Reimposes Stay in Washington Referendum Signer Case
"Lobbyists Sue to Remove June 2010 Ballot Measure"
"Election Commissions and Supreme Courts"
Next Expected Chance for Citizens United Opinion: Nov. 3 (Election Day)
"A Grassroots Cautionary Tale"
"Districting amendments appear headed for ballot"
"Field Study: Just How Relevant is Political Science?"
"State Watchdogs Consider Regulating Campaigns' Electronic Messages"
Justice Kennedy Temporarily Stays Release of Washington State Ref. 71 Signers Pending Disposition of Stay Request By Entire Supreme Court
"Show Me the Money! The Geography of Contributions to California's Proposition 8"
"Sandra Day O'Connor Participates in 9th circuit Oral Argument in Voting Rights Case"
"GOP Launches Strategy to Trip Up Health Bill"
"DOJ rejects Handel's appeal of voter verification"
"D.C. Voting Rights May Be Attached to Defense Spending Bill"
"Congressional Ethics Inquiries Drag on, Despite Vows to End Corruption"
Fascinating Judicial Recusal Post-Caperton Controversy Before Wisconsin Supreme Court
"Old Dictionaries" and Statutory Interpretation
"Judge Says Virginia Violated Rights of Overseas Voters"
"Republican senator presses plan to exclude non-citizens from the Census"
"Voting Rights Groups Set Record Straight on Lawsuit Targeted by State Republican Party"
"Heart of reform is in drawing political maps, not finance, some say"
"Release R-71 signatures, court says, but appeal planned"
"Acorn's Woes Strain Its Ties to Democrats"
Follow-Up on McCain/Obama Bundling Numbers
House Committee on Judiciary to Hold Hearing on Judicial Recusals after Caperton
"9th Circuit Panel Seems Unlikely to Rule in Favor of Petition Secrecy"
Sam Issacharoff on Citizens United
"Scandals About More than Sex"
Bray on "Power Rules"
"Will Chris Daggett Fall Victim To The Ballot Order Effect?"
"Republicans focus on ACORN theme in new Web site"
"ACLU Urges Department Of Justice To Object To Changes In County Board Elections In Georgia"
"On Judicial Elections and Judicial Recusal"
" The Voting Rights Act Through the Justices' Eyes: NAMUDNO and Beyond"
Dept. of "Uh, Oh"
"CA TTBR Investigators Send Letter to the EAC"
"The Reform of Campaign Expert Bauer"
CA Gov. Vetoes Measure Barring Initiative Circulators from Being Paid Per Signature
Adam Liptak on the "Honest Services" Cases Before the Supreme Court
"Democracy in a Mobile America"
Interesting Update to McCain Bundling Numbers
"How the Obama Administration Threatens to Undermine Our Elections"
CA to Allow 17 Year Olds to Pre-Register to Vote
California Chief Justice George Blames "Dysfunctional" California State Government on the Initiative Process
Elmendorf on "Refining the Democracy Canon"
Sen. Schumer: Rules Committee to Investigate Diebold Merger
Fred Wertheimer statement on FEC Coordination NPRM
"California 2010 'Top-Two' Proposal Is More Restrictive for Voters than the California 2004 'Top-Two' Initiative"
Mona Charen on Citizens United
"U.S. Term Limits Condemns CA Governor Schwarzenegger for Calling Term Limits 'Crazy'"
"FEC Votes 6-0 to Advance New Proposals To Regulate 'Coordinated Communications'"
A Question Answered
New Jersey Public Advocate Releases Report on Close Elections in State
"SpeechNow.org Challenge to FEC Limits Set for Consideration by Full D.C. Circuit"
FEC to Consider Post-Shays III Rulemaking, But Omits Any New Coordination Rules
Jonah Goldberg on Expanding the Size of the U.S. House
"Caplin & Drysdale Submits Comments to SEC on Proposed Pay to Play Law"
Ronald Dworkin on Citizens United
In the Election Law Mailbag
"Is Welfare Reform to Blame for Declining Voter Registration?"
Quote of the Day
"Federal observers monitor Bethel elections"
"You Don't Have to Be a Structuralist to Hate the Supreme Court's Dignitary Harm Election Law Cases"
FairVote Newsletter Now Available
Tom Perez Confirmed to DOJ Civil Rights Post
Ken Blackwell Oped on Voter Registration Modernization
"Democrats Return Fire On Black Panthers Case"
von Spakovsky Responds to WaPo Article on Bush DOJ Civil Rights Enforcement
"Voting Rights Expert to Run for SOS"
"Allison R. Hayward: Ban on small-business political bucks is unconstitutional"
" Who forgot the $65 million referendum question?"
"CCP files friend-of-the-court brief in Colorado free speech case"
As the October 2009 Supreme Court Term Begins, One 2008 Case Remains Undecided
"From Bush v. Gore to NAMUDNO: A Response to Professor Amar"
Supreme Court Denies Cert in Florida Lobbying Disclosure Case
"FEC Scheduled to Take Up Rulemaking To Implement Court Ruling on Coordination"
"Herdt: Can a 17-year-old register to vote? It depends"
"NJ court reinstates ban on voting site exit polls"
Linda Greenhouse on What She Thinks Happened Behind the Scenes in NAMUDNO
Barry Friedman on NAMUDNO and Judicial Minimalism
"A Right to Vote: Modernizing Voter Registration"
New Electionline Weekly Now Available
"ACLU Report Finds Continuing And Pervasive Voting Rights Violations In Indian Country"
"Acorn to Stand Trial in Nevada Case"
"Hattiesburg city wards upheld"
"Supreme Court Term 09: Paul M. Smith on Citizens United and Court 'Activism'"
"A Critique of the National Popular Vote Plan for Electing the President "
Fred Wertheimer on the Emily's List Case
"Diebold Inc.'s sale of voting machines unit doesn't quiet critic"
"ACLU Challenges Illegal Voter Disfranchisement In Georgia"
" FEC Ruling on LLCs May Pave New Way for Donors"
"The Politics of (In)Justice"
"Why Citizens United May Not Be Like NAMUDNO"
"Election Commission Decisions Deadlocking on Party Lines"
"Leadership PACs Provide a Ticket to Luxury Lawmaking"
"Corporate Political Spending & Shareholders' Rights: Why the U.S. Should Adopt the British Approach""
"Overtime Chapter 4: In Minnesota's Coleman vs. Franken U.S. Senate race, the system worked. But here's how to make it better."
The Other Questions Chief Justice Roberts Could Have Asked in Caperton
"Mass. judge rejects bid to delay Kennedy successor"
"Democrats are Jarred by Drop in Fundraising"
"A Belated Comment on Bauer's Critique of Justice Kennedy"
GOP Seeks Injunction to Block Senator Kirk in MA
FEC Commissioners Speak Out
"Prosecutors Find Allies in Campaign Contributions Case Against Attorney"
"ACLU Argues In Federal Court That South Carolina School Board Election Process Resulted In Racial Discrimination"
Light Blogging the Next Few Weeks
Quote of the Day
Covington's Latest Political Law Update
"Like Hollywood, U.S. should update its voting system"
"Election Lawyers Cite D.C. Circuit Ruling In Calling for Resolution of Black Rock AO"
DOJ Appeals Euclid Decision
Institute for Justice Campaign Finance Cert. Petition to Be Considered Next Week
The Latest on the Mass. Senate Replacement Issue
Vote Nears on Temporary Replacement Senator in Mass.
"Ohio SOS Brunner rules State Sen. Husted is not a resident of his elected district"
"The Rights of Corporations"
"Judicial Campaign Speech Case May Be Destined for Supreme Court; Wisconsin justice faces sanctions for ad that may have gone too far."
Winkler: Three Misconceptions in Citizens United
"Voting Machine Monopoly Threatens Elections"
Robert Mutch on Citizens United the Prof. Hayward Brief, and the History of the Tillman Act
"Prisons Can Inflate Districts' Influence"
Richard Winger on the "Top Two" Primary in Sacramento Bee
Indiana Bar Association Not Happy with Gov. Daniels' Comments About Judge Deciding Voter ID Case
"Action Seen on State Rules After Caperton But Impact of High Court Ruling Still Unclear"
Washington Times Profiles Bob Bauer
More on Emily's List Decision
The New DC Circuit Opinion in Emily's List, Citizens United, and the Role of Political Parties
D.C. Circuit Decides Emily's List Case in 74 Page Opinion
"Campaign Money And The Chief Justice"
"Indiana Court Strikes Down Voter ID Law"
FEC Unanimously Dismisses Action Against Alaska Group, Citing as One Reason the Pending Citizens United Case
"TREASURY DEPARTMENT ISSUES NEW POLICY FOR COMMUNICATIONS ABOUT TARP FUNDS"
More Reactions to Indiana Voting Decision
"Internet Voting: Formulating Structural Governance Principles for Elections Cybersecurity"
"Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita Comments on Indiana League of Women Voters v. Rokita"
"Potential sale of Premier to ES&S raises antitrust questions, other concerns"
"Expand the House?"
Breaking News: Indiana Court of Appeal Strikes Down State Voter Identification Law as Unconstitutional
"Dukakis ducks question of filling Kennedy seat"
Wertheimer Responds to Will
"Sotomayor Issues Challenge to a Century of Corporate Law"
An Absolute Must-Read for those following Citizens United: the Untold Drafting History of Austin
Government Appeals Pierce O'Donnell Case
Has Austin Been Overruled?
Colbert on Citizens United
C.E. Petit on Redistricting (and the Champaign County Clerk)
"Votes are lined up to appoint a senator"
When You Lose Jon Stewart....
Champaign County Clerk Continues Blogging Against Democracy Index
"Charges dropped against city councilman"
von Spakovsky in Faux Movie Review of CU Oral Argument: SG Kagan's Performance "Lacked Depth and Sophistication"
"Election Task Force Members Warn of Problems with State's Help America Vote Act Implementation"
"Documenting Disfranchisement: Voter Identification at Indiana's 2008 General Election "
"How Liberals Can Win by Losing at the Roberts Court"
"Finance Case Renews Focus On Precedent; Roberts, Alito Pledged Deference; Activists After All?"
"Sandra Day O'Connor: End judge elections in Wash."
"Congress Can Better Voter Registration"
Not Everyone is Happy with Diebold Sale of Voting Machine Business
"Electoral Laws and Turnout: 1972-2008"
Brown, Garrett, Karlan, and Olson on the Upcoming Supreme Court Term
Jonathan Adler on Citizens United, New Supreme Court Term
"District Judge Expected to Find Facts, Pass SpeechNow.org Case to D.C. Circuit"
"Senate Votes to Bar Funding for Acorn"
Justice Scalia, Faux Judicial Restraint, and Real Judicial Restraint in Citizens United
"Free Speech, Now that Speech is Free"
"Census Bureau Cuts Off ACORN for 2010"
"Commentary: Justice Department change is a welcome one"
"Irving council district plan has a ways to go before it's absolutely settled"
"PAPERLESS ELECTRONIC ELECTION UPHELD BY GERMAN SUPREME COURT"
Jeff Rosen on Citizens United, Chief Justice Roberts, and CJ Earl Warren
Yes, You Too Can (Apply to) Redistrict the California Legislature!
BLT on CU
Schlozman Not to Be Prosecuted for Perjury
"When an Election is Not Just an Election: Caperton and the Future of Judicial Election Regulation"
Don't Modernize My Voting System, and Don't Give Me Data I Don't Want
Black Panther Voter Intimidation Issue Continues to Percolate
"Judge shields signatures in gay-rights referendum"
Pioneer Press Running Extensive Series Called "Overtime" on Coleman-Franken Race
Very Interesting Results of Some Election Reform Survey Questions in Latest PPIC Survey
"Corporations Aren't People"
"Skeptical SCOTUS in finance hearing"
"The Nation's First Democracy Index"
"If California Republican Party Excludes Independents from Voting in its Primaries, Voting Rights Act May Interfere"
Dahlia Lithwick's "Supreme Court Dispatch" from Citizens United
Democracy Index, Weekend Voting, Universal Voter Registration: Coming to NYC?
Call for Papers: "Voting 45 Years After the Voting Rights Act"
"Kerry Joins the Call for Interim Senator"
"The Business of Voting Machines"
Top Two in California Update
More Citizens United News and Commentary
Transcript, Audio, News Stories, Press Releases
Answering Citizens United Questions at Politico's Arena
Initial Thoughts on the Re-Argument in Citizens United
Live Blogging the Audio Release of the Citizens United Re-Argument
Richard Epstein in Forbes on Voting Rights
"Neil Shapiro: Voting Rights Act no longer justified"
"Kennedy succession focus of Mass. public hearing"
"The Campaign Finance End Game"
DC Circuit Upholds HLOGA Lobbying Disclosure Provisions Against NAM Challenge
"Campaign Finance Showdown"
"Where Floyd Abrams has gone wrong: Hillary's case"
ACS on Citizens United
"An Update on Congressional Continuity"
One Final Pre-Argument Citizens United Resources and Roundup
"Lawmakers Must Cross Aisle On Vote Reforms"
"Sandy Springs wants out of Voting Rights Act"
More Citizens United News and Opinion
"Give the voters the final say: All senators should be elected"
Two Student Notes on NPV
Abrams and Potter Video/Transcript of Bill Moyers Show Now Available
"Vigil-Giron's atty asks judge to dismiss charges until impartial prosecutor can be found"
"Diebold's End: Consolidation of Largest Voting Companies Shows Need to Reform Elections"
Citizens United Update
"Solving the Senate Seat Quandary"
"Burying the Continuing Body Theory of the Senate"
"Irving City Council approves settlement in elections lawsuit"
Extend Prop. 11 to Congressional Redistricting, and Define "Communities of Interest"?
"Under FEC pressure, Palin's PAC doles out cash"
Monica Youn on RNC v. FEC
Ciara Torres Spelliscy on Citizens United
Revised Version of My Paper on Constitutional Avoidance, Citizens United, and NAMUDNO Now Available
"Diebold selling US voting machine unit"
Off to APSA
"Schilling ineligible to run as Republican"
"Schilling ineligible to run as Republican"
"Justices to Revisit Campaign Finance"
"OpenSecrets.org to Conduct Live Web Chat on Landmark Campaign Finance Case"
Abrams and Potter on "Bill Moyers Journal" Talking about Citizens United
IJ Response
"Let Gov. Deval Patrick fill Ted Kennedy's Senate seat"
"Reviving Civil Rights"
And the Oscar Goes to....
"Could These Books Be Banned?"
"Five Reasons Why Citizens United Is a Truly Momentous Case"
Updated Election Law Teacher Database Now Available
Levinson to Krugman: It's the Filibuster, Stupid
"Conn. Campaign Finance System Remains Operating Pending Court Appeal, A.G. Says"
Interim Mass. Senator Coming?
"Bipartisan Group Looks to Reshape Voter Registration"
Richard Epstein on Citizens United
"White House Plans to Shift Efforts at Civil Rights Division"
"Citizens United Sparks Pitched Battle"
"Partisan Rivals Unite to Modernize Voter Registration System"
"IJ and Independence Institute Ask High Court To Strike Down Unconstitutional Regulation Of Issue-Oriented Organizations"
One More Judicial Elections Symposium
Wisconsin Judicial Elections Program Sept. 17
"Federal Judge Throws Out Connecticut's Landmark Campaign Finance Law"
Opinion on the Mass. Temporary Senate Replacement Controversy
"U.S. Meetings With Lobbyists Go Unreported"
"Caperton v. Massey returns to W.Va. Supreme Court"
Citizens United Audio?
"State Board of Elections OKs registration changes for college students"
"Supreme Court to Revisit 'Hillary' Documentary"
Should the FEC Post Opposing Party Briefs, Etc. on Its Website?
Spargo Controversy Lives On
"RNC Attorney Faces Skeptical Judges In Bid to End 'Soft Money' Restrictions"
"Connecticut Public Funding Law Held Unconstitutional Because it Discriminates Severely Against Minor Parties & Independent Candidates"
"How Should Senator Kennedy's Seat Be Filled? Constitutional Considerations"
"Who gets Ted Kennedy's campaign funds?"
"Race, Region, and Vote Choice in the 2008 Election: Implications for the Future of the Voting Rights Act"
"FEC: Club for Growth Permitted to Contact Specter Donors"
IMLA Conference on Voting Rights December 10
"Democrats Vow to Return Money from Financier"
"ACLU Charges Unconstitutional Arkansas Rule Illegally Bars Green Party From Ballot"
"Patrick backs push to appoint successor"
"Kennedy's Death Raises Issues of Succession"
"Citizens United Attracts Many 'Friends'"
"Next Year's Census Count Promises to Rejigger Political Map"
"Pregaming (Once Again) the 'Hillary: The Movie' Argument"
Texas Democratic Party Loses Summary Judgment Hearing on Preclearance and Texas Two-Step
"Nominating the President: Evolution and Revolution in 2008 and Beyond" Now Available
"State GOP leaders in DC to challenge McCain-Feingold campaign finance law"
More Krist Novoselic on the Washington "Top Two" Litigation
When You Can't Get the Support of the NYT Editorial Page....
"Is the Supreme Court Determined to Expand Corporate Power?"
Texas Observer Feature on Irving, Texas Voting Rights Litigation
SpeechNow.org Appeals Denial of Preliminary Injunction
Constitutional Convention Talk in California, New York
WSJ Editorial on Kennedy Senate Replacement Proposal
"Nonpartisan appeal may not have enough time"
"It's predictable: Supreme Court gunning for McCain-Feingold"
"Breaching a Leaking Dam: Corporate Money and Elections"
Motion to Dismiss on Voter Confusion Claims Denied in Washington State Top-Two Primary
"Irving, attorneys near elections deal"
"Holder's Black Panther Stonewall"
"Reform, Taxpayer, and Business Groups Urge Judiciary Committee to Hold Hearings on Redistricting Reform Bill"
"Black candidate for Euclid school board to test new voting system"
Bauer Comes to the Government's Defense in Reading Austin Anti-Distortion as Shareholder Protection
New Jim Bopp Suit Challenging Vermont Campaign Finance Laws
"Leaders cool to Kennedy request"
"Court Rejects Ravitch Appointment"
"Illinois Undervote Notification Law Rankles Local Election Official"
Rehearing En Banc Sought in Fourth Circuit in "Real Truth About Obama" Case
Second Edition of Goldfeder's NY Election Law Now Available
"State Judicial Independence--A National Concern"
A Request for "As Long as One Minute" to Participate in Oral Argument in Citizens United
"Kennedy, looking ahead, urges that Senate seat be filled quickly"
The FEC's Supplemental Reply Brief in Citizens United: Subtly Distorting the Distortion Rationale
Simultaneous Reply Briefs Due in Citizens United Today
"Justice Department rejects non-partisan voting"
"No Limits on Gifts or Questions"
"RNC Takes McCain-Feingold to Court"
Welcome to the Blogosphere to Snitching.org
Two Panels Previewing Citizens United Oral Argument
"The Dignity of Voters --- A Dissent"
Corporate Justice Blog on Citizens United
"Afghan election fraud is unearthed"
LA Times Editorial on Citizens United
"INSIDE WASHINGTON: Election regulators strained"
"Is Your 401(k) Used to Influence Congress?"
"The Citizens United Case: Will the Supreme Court Return America to the 19th Century?"
"Handel Asks Permission to Re-Disenfranchise Voters"
Latest Holtzman Vogel "Law and Policy" Update Now Available
"Cleveland Councilman Zack Reed's 're-election' signs must go, elections commission rules"
Abby Thernstrom Guest Blogging this Week at Volokh
"Election Financing Shake-up Possible"
Floyd Abrams Gets His 10 Minutes in Expanded Citizens United Oral Argument
More Indiana Controversy Over Government Issued IDs
"FEC Dismisses Complaint That McCain Illegally Solicited for Presidential Race"
Library of Congress Posts Comparative Campaign Finance Information
"Squabble Over Argument Time in Citizens United Case"
Is the Democratic Party "A Political Subdivision" under Section 5 of the VRA?
"An Official Right to Vote"
New Section 5 Suit Against South Carolina Over Fusion Candidacies and Filing Deadlines
"The Battle Between Small Donors and Big Spenders"
"FEC split on targeting Specter donors"
"Watchdog Groups Release Database Detailing Earmarks and Campaign Contributions"
Floyd Abrams Wants a Part of the Citizens United Argument, and Apparently Ted Olson Does Not Want to Share
"LULAC Challenges Texas Two-Step"
"Florida Election Laws May Adapt to New Media Demands"
"Get Me Rewrite! Does California Need a New Constitution?"
Latest Covington Political Law Update Now Available
"K Street Files: Meet Fred Wertheimer 2.0"
Potter on "The Potter Exception"
"Wall Street Journal Fact Checking Blunder"
Beth Garrett Appointed to California FPPC by Secretary of State Debra Bowen
"Accounting for the Census Clause"
Georgia asks for DOJ Reconsideration of Preclearance Decision on Voter Verification Process
More on Senator Martinez's Spending
"Campaign Support, Conflicts of Interest, and Judicial Impartiality: Can the Legitimacy of Courts Be Rescued by Recusals?"
"Sen. Martinez not running, but still spending campaign funds"
"Should the Supreme Court Alter Its Approach to Campaign Finance Regulation?"
Richard Epstein and Larry Lessig Debate Campaign Finance Reform
The Latest on the Firing of U.S. Attorney Iglesias
A Clarification on the McCain-Feingold FEC Replacement Proposal
"Around the state: Clerks, public oppose early voting"
"A Century-Old Principle: Keep Corporate Money Out of Elections"
"Obama Picks Foley Hoag Bundler for Ambassador to Norway"
Sens. McCain and Feingold Suggest Alternative to FEC
"Free Speech and Our Election Laws"
"Parties Seek To Influence More Than Elections; Campaign Committees Are Increasingly Flexing Their Clout On Issues"
"'Non-responsive' Justice Dept. pressed again on Panthers case"
"The Real Truth About Obama and its meaning for Citizens United"
"Our Unconstitutional Census"
"Where Have You Gone, Joe The Citizen?"
NYT Article on President Obama's Use of Signing Statements
"The New South and the Voting Rights Act, Post-NAMUDNO"
Replacing Florida Senator Mel Martinez
"Sotomayor Faces Big Workload of Complex Cases"
Bob Bauer Comes Out of Blogging Hibernation to Write About Justice Kennedy, Austin, and Citizens United
Updated ABA Case Preview of Citizens United
"First Up For Sotomayor: A Case With Partisan Edge"
"Schneider to pay Tarkanian $150,000 to settle lawsuit"
"Jefferson Convicted in Bribery Scheme; Ex-Congressman Guilty of Eleven Counts"
"DOJ Will Not Appeal D.C. Circuit Ruling On Debate-Clause Protection of Lawmaker"
Change is Coming to U.K. Electoral Finance Regulation---And You Can Comment
Follow Up on Pelosi-Gingrich Ad Complaint to FEC
"Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Supports Federal Campaign Finance Laws, Rejects Request for Preliminary Injunction in Real Truth About Obama v. Federal Election Commission"
"New Mexico Federal Court Curtails State Campaign Finance Reporting Law"
"Gulf Coast Worried About 2010 Census"
NYT Editorial on First Circuit Felon Disenfranchisement Case
New Project Vote Memo on Internet Access and Voter Registration
"Federal judge OKs Brinkman lobbying"
"First Local Government Seeks Voting Rights Bailout Post Supreme Court Ruling"
"Citizens United and the Rules of Judicial Craft"
Election Law Journal 8:3 Now Available; Preview of ELJ 8:4
"A vote for a bigger California Legislature"
"The Institutional Turn in Budget Politics and Election Law"
"For State, Local Office Seekers, Web Ads Present Potential Pitfalls"
"DNC to Supreme Court: Don't limit President Obama money"
"EAC Data Collection Project"
"Sunlight on Campaign Finance: Supreme Court Should Protect The Public's Right To Know"
"Disclosure, Privacy, and Principles"
On this Day in History
Two Articles on Citizens United
Felon Disenfranchisement Issue Heading to the Supreme Court?
Ned Foley on Citizens United, Stare Decisis and Constitutional Truces
Ruth Marcus Column on Citizens United Reargument
"Citizens United, Stare Decisis, and Democracy"
An Anti-Rent-Seeking, Anti-Extortion Rationale for the Austin Limits?
DOJ Considered RICO Charges Against ACORN Affiliate Project Vote in 2004
Supplemental Amicus Briefs in Citizens United; Thoughts on BCRA Sponsors' Brief
ACS Panel on "Diversifying Our Courts"
Cover of "Townhall" Magazine Features Article on ACORN
"EXCLUSIVE: No. 3 at Justice OK'd Panther reversal"
State Court in Colorado Bars Enforcement of Major Provisions of Campaign Finance Initiative, Amendment 54, on First Amendment Grounds
"Commissioners Deadlock Again on Rulings About Key Campaign Finance Law Questions"
Eight Former Republican FEC Commissioners File Citizens United Amicus Brief Urging Court to Overrule Austin and McConnell
Alec Ewald on "Criminal Disenfranchisement and the Challenge of American Federalism"
New Rove Testimony and Email About the U.S. Attorney Firings and Voter Fraud Allegations in New Mexico
"Judge seals Wash. gay-marriage signatures"
Ninth Circuit Holds that AG Need Not Get FEC's Permission Before Investigating and Prosecuting Possible Election Law Violations
A Saturday Iowa Caucus for 2012?
"Citizens United: The Government Presses Its Case to Regulate All Speech"
"Sotomayor Closer To Sitting On Campaign Finance Case"
"A look at HR 1826 and the Public Financing of Congressional Campaigns"
July 29 Heritage Event on Voting Rights with Thernstom and von Spakovsky
Sleep Deprivation as a Legislative Tool
Brennan Center on Voter Registration Reform
"President Obama refunds cash to Kenyan aunt, convicted murderer, lobbyists"
Elmendorf and Leib on Citizen Juries to Break Budget Impasses
"For a Typo?"
Washington Post Editorializes on Election Day Registration in DC
American University's CDEM (Bob Pastor, the Force Behind Carter-Baker) Issues Election Administration Report
"Enormous archive of third party and ballot access information now available on line"
The Government's Remarkable Supplemental Brief in Citizens United: No Mention of Corporate "Distortion"
"GOP to stage push for voter ID laws"
"City Council works on bringing single-member districts to Irving"
California Sausage Factory: Budget Edition
Election Law Blog One of the "Best Read" or "Stickiest" Blogs?
"A Dispute Over Obama's Birth Lives on in the Media"
"Democracy Restoration Act Needed To Restore Voting Rights Of Millions Of Americans"
"U.S. District Court in Alabama Says State May Require More Signatures for U.S. House than for President"
Citizens United Supplemental Brief for Appellant Now Available
"In Vote Fraud Case, Acorn Challenges a Law as Unconstitutional"
"Caperton Capers"
von Spakovsky Says Sen. McCain Does Not Understand McCain-Feingold
New 4th Edition of "The Lobbying Manual" Available for Pre-Order
FEC to Revisit Political Committee AO, Other Business at "Hastily Called" July 28 meeting
Military Voter Bill Passes Senate on Voice Vote; On to Conference
SG Asks for 10 Minutes for Seth Waxman to Argue in Citizens United;Government Brief Filed
"Election Law Discriminates Against Everyone Except Mayor Bloomberg"
Lighter Blogging until August 17
David Broder on NAMUDNO and Ricci
"Appeals court OKs group's challenge to touch-screen voting"
"Obama Campaign Returning Foreign Contributions"
"New Project Vote Report Evaluates Fifteen Years of the NVRA"
Judge Sotomayor Responds to Written Election Law Questions of Republican Members of Senate Judiciary Committee
"Bill is Start in Reforming Initiative Process"
Leiter Gets (Partial) Results!
Roll Call Buys CQ
"Ballot Initiatives: Tool for Reform or Threat to Basic Rights?"
"Looking Abroad For Answers On Voter Registration"
Profile of Election Law Prof. and Kansas Secretary of State Candidate Kris Kobach
"2008 Surge in Black Voters Nearly Erased Racial Gap"
"Group claims BMV rules make voting tougher"
Constitutional Avoidance, Anti-Avoidance, NAMUDNO, and Citizens United
Pildes: The Return of Alternative Voting
Kagan
"Extend Press Freedoms to Companies"
"Automatic Voter Registration is the Way to Go"
"The Legal Workshop" Posts Op-Ed Sized Version of "The Untimely Death of Bush v. Gore"
A Rose by Any Other Name Dept.
"Irving Could Appeal Election Ruling"
"No Gridlock at the FEC"
New California Opinion on What Documents Must Be Attached to a Referendum Petition
Another Exchange with Judge Sotomayor on Campaign Financing
"Federal judge orders Irving to adopt single-member districts for city council"
"SCHUMER, CHAMBLISS & NELSON ANNOUNCE KEY SENATE COMMITTEE UNANIMOUSLY APPROVES BIPARTISAN BILL TO MAKE VOTING EASIER FOR MILITARY VOTERS"
"FEC Ready to Consider Competing Drafts Of Advisory on 'Political Committee' Status"
Judge Sotomayor Exchanges on Election Law Issues
"Demos Announces Two Key Appointments in Democracy Program"
2009 Election Law Casebook Supplement Now Available
Senate Rules Committee Adopts Sen. Bennett Amendments on Military Voters Bill
Fuller Opinion in Euclid Voting Rights Act Section 2 case
Judge Sotomayor Questioned about NAMUDNO, Hayden v. Pataki
"Viewpoint: If My Election Isn't Broken, Don't Fix It: The Limits of Voter Confidence Measures and Public Opinion on Election Reform"
Getting Tougher to Get an ID for Voting in Indiana?
Can the California Judiciary Fix California's Structural Budget Problems Through Election Law Litigation?
"Sotomayor: Bush-Gore case brought needed change"
New Lawsuit Challenges Bar Code as Violating Right to Secret Ballot in Washington State
FEC Republican Commissioners Go on the Offensive
"New Case Study Documents Successful Turnaround of Missouri's Public Agency Registration Program"
"Yup'ik-Speaking Voters To Receive Additional Language Assistance In The City Of Bethel, Alaska"
"On Campaign Finance Board, Sotomayor Balked at Overstepping Law"
"Nominee to FEC Pits Lawyers v. Senators"
"Senate Confirms Obama's Pick to Lead 2010 Census"
Judge Sotomayor and Election Law
"Who's Standing in the Way of FEC Reform?"
E.J. Dionne on Judge Sotomayor and Citizens United
"Experts: Minn. election law needs improvement"
More Leaks on How Ricci Was Decided in 2d Circuit
"Olson Promises Battle Over Campaign Finance Laws"
New Speech or Debate Ruling from DC Circuit
Who Should Argue Citizens United?
"Senate to Begin Consideration of Census Chief"
Stuart Taylor on the Citizens United Reargument
"Spakovsky Likely Headed Back To Voting Rights Agency, In Volunteer Post"
"SCHUMER, CHAMBLISS & NELSON ANNOUNCE BIPARTISAN BILL TO GUARANTEE MILITARY BALLOTS FROM OVERSEAS NEVER GO UNCOUNTED"
"New Republican Sonia Sotomayor attack: campaign cash"
NPR's "Dollar Politics" Series
"Voting Rights Groups Sue to Force States to Register Low-Income Voters; Suits Filed Against Indiana and New Mexico for Violating the National Voter Registration Act"
Interesting Profile of Pierce O'Donnell in LA Times
"Promises to Keep"
"A way forward on campaign finance"
Minnesota Law Review Publishes Symposium on Law and Politics in the 21st Century
"Barack Obama could preside over demise of modern campaign finance"
"Will Supreme Court roll back campaign finance and protect free speech?"
Pildes: Citizens United and Disfavored Speakers
CLC Blog on "Unity 08" Litigation
"MINNESOTA'S $50 POLITICAL CONTRIBUTION REFUNDS ENDED ON JULY 1"
Pildes: Hanging In on Bailing Out
Beth Garrett's Review of Elhauge's "Statutory Default Rules" Book
Profile of NAMUDNO Plaintiff's Lawyer Greg Coleman
In the Election Law Mailbag
Does the Presence of Direct Democracy Cause a Decrease of Trust in Government?
"Understanding the Labyrinth: New York's Ballot Access Laws"
Will Citizens United Feature Prominently in the Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings?
Mark Shelden on Residual Votes and the Democracy Index
Rep. Kalin Responds to WSJ Coleman-Franken Editorial
"Is Now Really The Time To Loosen Corporate Spending? The Supreme Court Takes An Aggressive Posture On Rethinking Political Finance Limits"
Republican FEC Commissioners Side with DCCC in Dispute Concerning Whether Disclaimers are Necessary with Telephone Polls (including so-called Push Polls)
"McCain, Feingold Team Up Again Over FEC"
"Pure Overreach"
John Yoo on NAMUDNO
George Will on NAMUDNO
Doug Chapin on Alec Ewald's "The Way We Vote"
Independence Day Blogging Break
"Balls, strikes and absentee ballots"
"Commentary: Supreme Court's Unexpected 'Judicial Minimalism' in Voting Rights Case"
"Federal Grants Give States Edge in Collecting Precinct-Level Election Data"
"New Look at Election Spending Looms in September"
"Washington Post Sells Access, 25,000+"
"November 2006 Undervote Analysis"
Persily: Exhausted by Exhaustion
"The Rhetoric of a 'Stolen' Election"
"McCain and Feingold Use 'Hold' to Pressure Obama on FEC Picks"
Pildes: Confusion About the Future of Voting-Rights Litigation
"EAC Releases Report on Voter Registration"
Using Technology to Push "Weekend Voting Act"
A Bit More on Citizens United and the "Incurable Defect"
More Legal Analysis of Yesterday's MN Supreme Court Ruling in Coleman-Franken
"Franken will grill Sotomayor on campaign finance"
"The 'Absentee' Senator"
"John McCain, Russ Feingold reunite to block Barack Obama's FEC pick"
NAMUDNO and Citizens United Loom Large in Supreme Court Term Retrospectives
Citizens United: Did the Court Ask for Briefing to Cure an Incurable Defect?
Lyle Denniston on the MN Coleman Ruling and Bush v. Gore
"Impressive unanimity: The historical significance of Coleman v. Franken"
"Why Norm Coleman Lost"
"Campaign Finance Case and the Vote on Sotomayor"
"Court opens door to possibility of corporate political spending"
"Preserving Our Institutions: Presidential Succession"
Coleman Concedes
Breaking News: Minnesota Supreme Court Decides Coleman-Franken, Unananimously in Favor of Franken
Thoughts on Citizens United, All in One Place
"Supreme Court prepares to strike down campaign spending restrictions"
" Delay in 'Hillary" case scares campaign reformists"
"'The Commission Has Been Road-Blocked': Republicans' War On The FEC"
"Is McCain-Feingold Headed the Way of the Dodo?"
Citizens United: What Did Justice Souter Know and When Did He Know It?
How About Bush v. Gore?
More Citizens United News and Commentary
"Thoughts on This Term and the Next"
"Congressional hearing on self-determination for Puerto Rico--bill for referendum has 150 sponsors"
California Appellate Court Decides Dispute Over Membership in Political Party County Committee
"Special prosecutor appointed in Shaffer case"
Reminder of the Day
"Why Has the Roberts Court Suddenly Gone Minimalist?"
DOJ Opposes Cumulative/Limited Voting in Euclid, Ohio Section 2 Voting Rights Case
"The Supreme Court Gets Ready To Turn on the Corporate Fundraising Spigot"
Additional Briefing Ordered in Citizens United [UPDATED]
Reactions to the Citizens United Order
Did Justice Alito Say Something About President Obama's Views of Judging and Empathy in Ricci?
The Citizens United Order
"How Ricci Will Affect the Voting Rights Act"
What Does the Citizens United Order Mean?
Order in Citizens United
Citizens United to Be REARGUED
CA Supreme Court to Decide on Secret Ballot in Special District Elections
"Pawlenty Waiting on Court Ruling"
Dahlia Lithwick Talks NAMUDNO, Citizens United, Etc.
Pam Karlan on Why C.J. Roberts Wrote the Opinion He Did in NAMUDNO
"Boundary-Enforcing Supreme Court Decisions (Part III): How to Recognize Them, Why We Often Don't "
"Democrats Work To Avoid 2008 Primary Strife"
"Some say new constitution would solve state's woes"
"Fixing the Voting Rights Act"
"Can the Voting Rights Act Survive Another Challenge?"
Question of the Day
More on Port Chester
Derfner on NAMUDNO
Kang: The Continuing Relevance of Section 5
"Club for Growth aims to drain Specter"
"Thoughts on the FEC and Its Troubles"
The Past as Prologue: From FEC v. Davis to Citizens United?
"Voting Rights and the High Court"
Linda Campbell on Justice Thomas's Opinion in NAMUDNO
"Judicial Statesmanship On Voting Rights"
"What's Next For The Voting Rights Act?"
"Veteran Latino-rights advocate charged with voter fraud"
"DOJ Appeals Dismissal of Charges Of Illegal Contributions by O'Donnell"
"DOJ responds in Port Chester voting rights case"
"Conyers backs off probe of ACORN"
Eleventh Circuit, Applying Burson Strict Scrutiny-Lite, Upholds Florida Law Barring Individuals from Post-Election Solicitation of Petition Signatures Within 100 Feet of a Polling Place
Epstein: NAMUDNO and the Dilemma of Observational Equivalence
FEC Unanimously Adopts New AO and Audit Procedures
More Statistical Evidence of Vote Manipulation in Iran?
"Caperton and Boundary-Enforcing Justices Part II: How Vague Law Can Create Stable Outcomes"
Keyssar's "Right to Vote," Revised Edition
Find All the TAPPED Posts on NAMUDNO
A Clearer Read of James Samples' Comments on Greenhouse on Caperton
Gans: Some Thoughts, Post-NAMUDNO, Going Forward
Just Wondering Dept.
"Settlement in Missouri is a Victory for Low-Income Voters"
"A New Page for Voting: It's Time to Ditch Paper-Based Registration"
Guest Post: Linda Greenhouse Responds on Caperton
Who is Writing the Majority Opinion in Citizens United?
No Citizens United Today
Sandler on the FEC Republican Commissioners' Statement of Reasons Explaining the Inexplicable
"The Court Kicks the Can---What's Next?"
"CCP files brief challenging 'matching funds' provisions in Arizona"
McDonald: Court Signals No Future Challenges to Section 5
NAMUDNO and the Phantom Exhaustion Requirement
Persily: Perpetual Constitutional Avoidance?
If There Will Be Biometric ID for Immigration Purposes...
Tom Perez May Be Confirmed to Head Civil Rights Division of DOJ Soon
"Public Campaign Financing in North Carolina Judiciary: Balancing The Scales (2009)"
Just Wondering Dept.: Citizens United Edition
Linda Greenhouse on Caperton
Republican Commisioners Explain the "Inexplicable"
Mike Dorf on NAMUDNO
Michael McDonald on Proactive Bailout
Guest Post: Behind the Scenes in NAMUDNO
Rep. Tanner Issues Press Release Pushing Bill Establishing Independent Bipartisan Redistricting Commissions for Congressional Districts
"Denver judge shelves donations ban; Judge doubts constitutionality of amendment curbing campaign contributions"
Pildes: Going Forward
The Thomas Mini-Enigma in NAMUDNO
Issacharoff: On Statesmanship
Ellen Katz: Roberts Didn't Blink
Your Daily Dose of NAMUDNO Commentary
"GOP spent $900,000 to help Coleman pay legal bills"
"Reform Group's FOIA Request Highlights Ongoing Battle Over FEC Disclosure Policy"
"State May Sue Justice Department"
The Scalia Enigma in NAMUDNO
Mark Posner's Analysis of NAMUDNO
Ansolabehere and Persily: Deciding Not to Decide...For Now
"Cornyn: I'll Support Norm Coleman if He Appeals to the Supreme Court"
More on VRM
"Democracy 21 and the Campaign Legal Center Call on FEC Vice Chairman Peterson and Commissioner Hunter to Correct Their 'Clear Misrepresentation' of Groups' Views"
Charles: Waiting for the Civil Rights Communty
Cain and Tokaji: Promoting Equal Participation: A Voting Rights Act for the 21st Century
Get Ready for "Voter Registration Modernization" (or "VRM")
Tired of 3-3 Ties at the FEC on 527 Enforcement? Try a 2-2 Tie (with Two Recused)
Gerken: Can Congress Take a Hint?
NAMUDNO Roundup
More NAMUDNO Commentary
"Quelle Surprise! The Unexpected Ruling that Saves Section 5"
Early News and Commentary on NAMUDNO
Initial Thoughts on NAMUDNO: Chief Justice Roberts Blinked
Breaking News: NAMUDNO Decided 8-1 Reversing on BAILOUT Grounds, Not Striking Down Act
"McConnell Carefully Chooses His Battles"
"How to Trust Electronic Voting"
"White House Changes the Terms of a Campaign Pledge About Posting Bills Online"
"Everyone a Winner? The Lost Art of Conceding Defeat "
Atlanta-Journal Constitution Article on Upcoming Supreme Court Ruling in NAMUDNO
Will Business Interests Try to Defeat IRV in SF?
"Election Law Questions...for Prof. Hasen (and his students)"
"Obama's Pledge on Donations Faces Reality"
"Senator Leahy: 'Striking Down the Voting Rights Act Would be Conservative Activism Pure And Simple'"
FEC Considering Alternative Drafts AOs on Coleman Paying His Legal Bills with FEC Funds
The NVRA and the "Democracy Index"
"Source: Reportedly unanimous U.S. Senate election Supreme Court decision under 'gang edit' now"
"White House Intensifies War on Lobbyists"
"Promoting Change, Not Paralysis, at the FEC"
Ronald Rotunda Appointed to California's FPPC
Dep't of Bad Timing: Coleman-Franken Tomorrow Morning? Citizens United?
"Political Insider: A John Linder attempt to de-fund the Voting Rights Act"
"Senators Warn Court Against 'Activism' on Voting Rights Law"
Senator Specter on NAMUDNO, Congressional Power to Renew the Voting Rights Act
FEC Split Gets Nastier: Latest Battle Over FOIA Requests and the Attorney-Client Privilege
California Court of Appeal Decides Case Involving Standards for DRE Recounts
"After lobbyist boasts, Feinstein cancels event"
I Guess Former Rep. Jefferson's Housekeeper Does Not Like Ice Cream
"Reformers Fear Quick Vote on Sullivan Could Discourage Other Changes at FEC"
From Grunge to Grange
More Thernstrom on NAMUDNO
AG Holder on NAMUDNO
Young Political Majors Head Pleads Guilty to Voter Registration Fraud
"Election at a Draw, Arizona Town Cuts a Deck"
"Secretary and Clerk Close Lobbying Loophole"
League of Women Voters v. Brunner Settles
"CFAC and MAPLIGHT.ORG Win Public Access to California Database of Lawmakers' Votes"
"Gay Rights Group Planning to Publicly Out Signers of Referendum Petition"
More on Illinois Reform Problems
"New FEC Pick Must Respect Law's Boundaries"
"Redistricting looms over 2010 landscape"
"For Some in Illinois, Talk of Reform Was Just That"
Jefferson Case in Roll Call
WSJ Editorial on Tennessee Judicial Selection
BNA Reports on Lobbying Delisting Issue
"Proposed law would end Pennsylvania's closed primaries"
"Speed of Iran vote count called suspicious"
Reading the Statistical Tea Leaves on Justice Kennedy at Oral Argument in NAMUDNO
Some Evidence Justice Ginsburg is Not Planning on Retiring at the End of the Term
"Franken/Coleman: former justice isn't surprised by lengthy process"
No Supreme Court Opinions in Citizens United or NAMUDNO Today
Mebane on Election Fraud in Iran
"Expanding Democracy: Voter Registration Around the World"
WaPo Editorializes on Failure of DC Voting Rights Act
I Know I Said I Don't "Tweet"
Eliza on Caperton Ruling
Washington Post Editorial Board Notices Disturbing 3-3 Splits at FEC
Justice Ginsburg Comments on NAMUDNO; Says More 5-4 Decisions Coming
Lobbying: De-Listing De-mise?
"Law targeting Shaffer may no longer be enforceable"
"Ruling on judges' campaign cash may echo in Wisconsin"
Determining Election Fraud without Smoking Gun Evidence: The Case of Iran
"Experts: Brunner Deal Iffy"
"Registration And Voting On Same Day Sought in D.C."
"Hispanic school trustee says win shouldn't affect Port Chester voting-rights case"
More on Lobbyist Delisting
"Justices May Strike Down Part Of Voting Rights Act"
More on Pelosi FEC Complaint: Even in Unanimity FEC Commissioners Split on Party Lines
"Preparing for the Worst on the Voting Rights Act"
FEC Unanimously Rejects Complaint Against Speaker Pelosi in Exercise of Prosecutorial Discretion
"Why the Voting Rights Act Matters "
Bob Bauer on J. Kennedy's Craftsmanship of Caperton, and the Contribution-Expenditure Distinction
Covington's Political Law Update
Illinois Clerks Fight Against Mandatory Notification of Voter Undervotes
Finally I'm in the Loop
"Senate Rules Approves Labor Lawyer for Seat on FEC"
"Brunner requests blessing of deal"
Caplin and Drysdale's Political Activity Law Bulletin Now Available
California's Judicial Code in Light of Caperton
The FEC and Partisan Splits: A Clarification
"Voters With Disabilities: More Polling Places Had No Potential Impediments Than in 2000, but Challenges Remain"
"The high court's role on the Voting Rights Act "
Minnesota Supreme Court Issues Opinion in Election Law Case---But Not Coleman-Franken
"Law and the Polarization of American Politics"
"Senate Panel To Vote on Federal Election Commission Nominee"
Blankenship Speaks on Caperton Case
"New York State of Mindlessness"
"Can Pawlenty use his political war chest to run for president?"
Things Getting Worse, Much Worse, in Terms of FEC Enforcement
Franken Awarded $94,000 in Trial Court Costs; Appeal Still Pending
"The Voting Rights Act, Through the Looking Glass"
" Ruling May Open Finance Law Loophole"
"Uncertainty in Law Circles Over New Rules for Judges"
Will Britain Give Up "First Past the Post" in the House of Commons for IRV?
Norm Coleman and the Supreme Court: The Standard for Getting a Stay
About That Judge Ortero Order on Conduit Contributions...
"FEC: President Obama funneled money to swing states"
In the Election Law Mailbag
"Holder Winks at Voter Intimidation"
Will the Coleman Decision Be Released by the Minnesota Supreme Court on Thursday?
Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings to Begin July 13
"Appeals Court Rejects Nader Lawsuit"
"Top court won't hear Ga. voter ID issue"
Caperton v. Massey Roundup
"Senate Rules Committee Set June 10 To Consider Sullivan's FEC Nomination"
Thernstrom on NAMUDNO
Federal District Court Rules that Under Some Circumstances Conduit Contributions Not Illegal
"2008 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN FINANCIAL ACTIVITY SUMMARIZED: RECEIPTS NEARLY DOUBLE 2004 TOTAL"
"In Defense of Judicial Elections"
"One Lobbying Battle Ends, But A War Remains"
Group Reactions to Caperton
"Lobbyists unlimited in honoring lawmakers"
Pildes on Caperton
Judge Sotomayor and the Ricci Case: An Unusual Leak to the New York Times
Initial Thoughts on Caperton v. Massey: First Meaningful Constitutional Limits on Excesses of Judicial Elections
Breaking News: Supreme Court Reverses 5-4 in Caperton v. Massey
Top-Two System in Washington State Far from "Nirvana"
"All but over for Coleman, experts say"
"Workers Charged with Absentee Ballot Fraud in AC"
"The 'Phantom Menace:' A Campaign Finance Prequel"
"Creating a Democracy 2.0 to Pass a New Deal 2.0"
Roll Call Report Denied on Coleman's Plans
"Ailing, Banks Still Field Strong Lobby at Capitol"
Quote of the Day
"Voter fraud is a reality in Kansas"
"Voting Rights Act Ruling Will Expose 'Judicial Activism'"
"What are Campaigns For? The Role of Persuasion in Electoral Law and Politics"
More on Voter Fraud Allegations in Beverly Hills
Would Coleman File a Cert Petition if He Loses in the Minnesota Supreme Court?
Sanderson: Analysis of Bill Clinton's Cybersquatting Loss
"ACORN, former workers vow to fight Nevada charges"
von Spakovsky Doesn't Disappoint
"Bush v. Gore and the Lawlessness Principle: A Comment on Professor Amar"
"Experts: Prognosis grim as Coleman runs out of legal options"
Clarksburg, West Virginia City Council Member Arrested for Distributing Anonymous Campaign Literature
More Voter Fraud Claims Debunked
Gov. Pawlenty and the Election Certificate
In the Election Law Mailbag
And the Effect on Coleman-Franken is...?
"Feds spike voter citizenship checks in Georgia"
"Voter Fraud May Have Changed Beverly Hills Expansion Project Outcome"
Texas Legislature Adjourns After Voter ID Bill Killed
Coleman-Franken Roundup
Early Coleman-Franken Oral Argument Analysis
Why Section 5 Still Matters, Or, The Obama DOJ Differs from the Bush DOJ
Balkin and Gerken Talk Democracy Index, NAMUDNO
"Beyond Ricci: Judge Sotomayor and the Voting Rights Act"
"Latest FEC Deadlock Frees McCain From Charges of Raising 'Soft Money'"
Live Blogging the Coleman Franken Oral Argument
"Get the Al Franken Show on the Road"
"Methodological Advances and Empirical Legal Scholarship: A Note on Cox and Miles's Voting Rights Act Study"
"'Blog Entry' Sparks Furor Over Sotomayor"
"Will the British rank the vote? Burst of interest in IRV and PR across the pond"
"Minnesota's Senate Race Now Comes Down to Five Votes"
"EXCLUSIVE: Career lawyers overruled on voting case"
"A Long Record on Campaign Finance, Often in Support of Regulations"
"The Talk, and the Talk, and the Talk, of Austin"
"Coleman appeal heads to state's highest court"
More on Judge Sotomayor and Campaign Finance
"The Future of the Voting Rights Act"
"Why Is the FEC Withholding Documents From the Public in Violation of Its Own Regulations and Policy Statement?"
"Garrett Withdraws as Obama's Top Tax Policy Official"
"A steep fall for patriarch of tiny, industrial Vernon"
"Sonia Sotomayor: No empathy for campaign cash"
Chemerinsky on the Problems with a Constitutional Convention in Calfornia
"Nader Accuses McAuliffe of Suppressing Votes"
AEI Forum June 4 on Wallison-Gora Book
Viewing Judge Sotamayor Through Her Election Law Decisions: Careful, Thoughtful, Mainstream Leaning Left
"The Court's NAMUDNO Decision: Judging the Costs and Efficiency of Preclearance"
"Thank B.C. for winning its PR war; Proportional representation may look more democratic, but it comes at too high a price"
"Voting Rights-and Wrongs: The Elusive Quest for Racially Fair Elections"
"Texas House Democrats Stop Voter ID Bill"
"Prop 8 Stands; More Ballot Battles Ahead"
Will Chief Justice Roberts "Hold Back" in NAMUDNO?
"Sotomayor Not Seen Changing Stance Of Court on Campaign Finance Issues"
"STATEMENT OF CFB CHAIRMAN FATHER JOSEPH P. PARKES, S.J. ON THE APPOINTMENT OF FORMER BOARD MEMBER SONIA SOTOMAYOR TO THE SUPREME COURT"
What Does Jan Crawford Greenburg Know?
"Lawyers' Committee Files Comment Letter Urging DOJ to Interpose a Section 5 Objection to a New Program for Verification of Voter Registration Data"
"Candidate Kobach claims widespread voter fraud"
"First Amendment Victory: Federal Court Strikes Down Florida's 'Electioneering Communications' Law"
"SOTOMAYOR v SESSIONS: Obama Supreme Court nomination sets up battle over voting rights"
A Few Thoughts on the Prop. 8 Opinion from the Perspective of Election Law
"Dems seek concessions over voter ID"
The Other Big Story of the Day
Stuart Taylor on the Politics of the Sotomayor Nomination
Winger on Judge Sotomayor's Election Law Opinions
Sotomayor!
"Favorites of Left Don't Make Obama's Court List "
"End Run on Free Speech"
"Parliamentary stalemate continues in House"
"A golden opportunity to revamp the Voting Rights Act"
A State Constitutional Convention Fixing California's Structural Governmental Problems as the Price for a Federal Bailout?
"Pawlenty vetoes Motor Voter registration bill"
"Controversial voter ID bill threatens walkout at Texas Capitol"
"Director's Note: Would the Last One out Please Turn out the Lights?"
"3-3 Votes On The FEC: Why So Frequent? What Do They Mean?"
Judge Wood and the Conventional Wisdom
"Herbkershman, Richie: Time to run off runoffs"
Views of Assistant AG for Civil Rights Nominee Perez on Voter ID and Crawford
Roll Call Editorial on Military Voting
"Tiebreaking Vote Cast by Dead Man; Runoff Required"
"Poll: Coleman should concede, voters say"
"Even if voter ID comes up, it may not pass the House"
Judge Wood and Election Law
"Judge recommends dismissal of Ohio ACORN lawsuit"
"California voters exercise their power -- and that's the problem"
"Top Coleman Fundraiser Concedes Growing Hardship, But Presses On"
"St. Louis Election Board claims 50 people committed vote fraud"
Noveck on "Campaign Finance Disclosure and the Legislative Process"
von Spakovsky Responds on NAMUDNO Standing Question
More Judge Wood Rumors
Another Special Election Drubbing: Reports of Hybrid Democracy's Life are Greatly Exaggerated
More Reason to Continue to Think Judge Diane Wood Will Be President Obama's First SCOTUS Nominee
"Election Commission Dimisses Claims vs. Wal-Mart"
"The Incumbency Problem Has Everything to do with Money"
"The Republican Commissioners and the Meaning of the Deadlocks at the FEC"
"The Voting Rights Act, the Souter Vacancy, and the Future of the Supreme Court"
CREW Complaint Against Gov Palin and RNC: No Wardrobe Malfunction
BNA on FEC Wal-mart Split
"Pawlenty caught between Senate rock and recount"
"High court won't delay trial of ex-Rep. Jefferson "
"Campaign Finance Rules May Take a Beating"
Toobin Profile of Chief Justice Roberts in The New Yorker
"Parties Prepping for Redistricting Fight"
More Coverage of the Final Coleman Brief
von Spakovsky Against Section 5 in the Clarion-Ledger
Another ACORN Conspiracy Theory Leading Nowhere
"How to elect the president: A national debate"
"GOV. RITTER SIGNS SIX ELECTION AND VOTING REFORM BILLS"
"John G. Matsusaka: Prop. 1A won't cure state's overspending"
Initial Thoughts on Coleman's Reply Brief
Franz on FEC Deadlocks
Chapman Responds to von Spakovsky on NVRA
Election Law Casebook Supplement
"Supreme Court's Final Weeks Will Be Busy Ones"
"Franken, Coleman: Looking ahead to today's last brief"
"Groves Rules Out Use of Sampling in 2010 Census"
More FEC Deadlocks
More on Standing and NAMUDNO
More on NAMUDNO and Standing
Another Way Out for the Supreme Court in NAMUNDNO?
The Nation Likes the National Popular Vote Plan
More Bachmann (and Now Beck) on ACORN
Jamie Raskin in Support of the National Popular Vote Plan
von Spakovsky on DOJ Politicization and the NVRA
Another Partisan 3-3 FEC Split, This One Over Whether Wal-MART was Politically Coercing Its Employees
While Franken's Brief Sees the Coleman Appeal as Simply Wrong, Ned Foley Continues to See Nuances and Complexities
Has There Been Some Manipulation of the Almanac of the Federal Judiciary to Hurt Judge Sotomayor?
And in Election Law News from Canada...
Another Must-Read Symposium
"The Most Disparaged Branch: The Role of Congress in the Twenty-First Century"
Prediction: President Obama Will Nominate Judge Diane Wood of Seventh Circuit
Quote of the Day
"Report: One-Fourth of Overseas Votes Go Uncounted"
Adam Cohen on NAMUDNO
Bachmann on ACORN
Covington's Political Law Update Now Available
Thad Kousser on the Upcoming California Election
More Supposed Concern About Voter Fraud in Indiana
Check Out the New "Double X" Website
"Spring Awakening: The Case for Corporate Disclosure of Political Contributions"
"Coleman Wants Campaign To Pay Cost Of Responding To TPM Story -- Even Though It Never Responded"
"Universal Voter Registration for the State of New York"
All Federal Election Law in One Title of U.S. Code?
Franken Brief Roundup
Economists Don't Believe American Democracy is Working
"Election Fund Is Keeping Government Honest"
Initial Thoughts on Franken's Minnesota Supreme Court Brief
Franken Brief Due Today
"Election Officials Share Mixed Emotions on Voting Rights Act"
"Voter ID Could Advance Today"
"The real voter-registration fraud was on ACORN"
"N.J.'s outgoing election law chief leaves legacy as nonpartisan"
"FEC Shakeup Long Overdue"
Anti-ACORN Legislation Makes It to the Floor of the U.S. House
"Sunlight on NASED ITA Reports"
New Link to Info about Wallison-Gora Book
"Decades of Campaign Finance Law Under Siege"
"Florida Republicans Withdraw Plan to Revise Voting Rules"
Another Important Statement of Reasons from the Three Republican FEC Commissioners
"Court Allows Steele Into RNC Lawsuit Challenging FEC Soft-Money Restrictions"
"Supreme Court Got It Wrong: Contribution Limits Don't Hamper Electoral Competition"
Off to DC
Hebert Takes on von Spakovsky on Bailout and the VRA
Rules Committee Hearing on Military and Overseas Voters
Election Reform Still on Schwarzenegger Agenda Post-Governorship
"A 'Post-Racial' Assault on Voting Rights"
In the Election Law Mailbag
"Deep-pocketed donors want campaign finance reform"
A Revised Version of "The Democracy Canon"
More Hebert on NAMUDNO
The FEC's Controversial Press Release Policy....
"Washington, D.C.: Report - Modernizing Our Voter Registration System Could Eliminate Millions in Wasteful Spending"
Heather Gerken is Willing to Send Justice Kennedy (or Presumably His Clerks) Gaddie and Bullock's Page Proofs
"Awaiting, with Trepidation, High Court's Decision on Voting Rights ActAwaiting, with Trepidation, High Court's Decision on Voting Rights Act"
"Some PACs Run After Politicians Drop Out ; Neither Retirement Nor Electoral Defeat Stops Spending on Personal Items"
"FEC Fails to Initiate Real-Time Reporting"
"Lawmakers divided over need for election reform"
"Criminal Charges Against ACORN Raise Concerns About Its Partnership With Census Bureau"
"Ga. follows Ariz. on citizenship proof for voters"
"An Unnatural Woman: The Secret Life of a Supreme Court Short-Lister"
Has Gerry Hebert Been Successful in Obtaining Section 5 Bailouts for Va. Counties Because "Old Colleagues" in the Voting Section are Being "Flexible" for His Clients?
Specter Wanted More from the Minnesota Courts Than Norm Coleman Asked For
"SCHUMER URGES OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR VETERANS TO REGISTER TO VOTE"
Foley on the Complicated Nature of the State Law Claims in Coleman v. Franken
Justice Souter, Judge Sotomayor, and Voting Rights
"With Specter Switch, Minnesota Senate Race Could Drag On for Months -- or Longer"
Pa Supreme Court on State Constitutional Grounds Strikes Down Ban on Contributions from Those in Gaming Industry
Bauer Keynote on Lobbying as a Problem and a Profession
CATO Video on Citizens United Case
"Groups push for first gay Supreme Court justice"
"Voting Rights Milestone"
"Campaigners fined for illegal '08 votes"
Roll Call on the Reform Community Split Over FEC Nominee Sullivan
Bauer and Potter Agree on Something: The Democracy Index
"For GOP, It's Coleman or Bust"
Bauer Argues Emily's List Case BeforeD.C. Circuit Panel Likely to Be Sympathetic to His Position
Stunz Makes the Case for Karlan
Holtzman Vogel Law and Policy Update
Another FEC Decision on 527s, Incorporating WRTL Standard to 100.22(b)--This Time 4-0
"U.S. suit challenges Lake Park elections"
"Criminal charges filed against ACORN, two employees"
"Obama FEC Choice Draws Mixed Reviews"
Public Campaign Gives Strong Endorsement to FEC Nominee Sullivan
It's Sessions as Ranking Judiciary Committee Member, Through 2010
The FEC, the Times and the Post
"Franken's in limbo as the weeks grind on"
"A Bad Time To Cut Voting Rights Protections"
When Will the May 19 Special Election in California Be Over? Thanks to Early Voters, Perhaps Well Before Election Day
"Doubting Discrimination: The troubling case of conservative skepticism over voting rights violations"
"Feds Launch Investigation into Edwards Campaign"
President Obama Admits Voting Rights Decision by Justice O'Connor Incomprehensible
Vote by Mail and Postal Service Increases
"Why Tuesday?" Remembers Honorary Co-Chair Jack Kemp
Hebert Statement on FEC Nominee Sullivan
Greenhouse on Persily on Souter on NAMUDNO
Sessions as Judiciary Committee Ranking Republican, But Only Until 2010?
"From the Good Folks Who Brought You Rod Blagojevich"
"Mixed reviews for W.H.'s surprise FEC pick"
"Law Still Essential to Voters"
The Irrepressible Pam Karlan
Labor Lawyer John J. Sullivan Nominated for Weintraub Seat on FEC
Hearing Monday in Conduit Contributions Case
"Topic A: Obama's First Supreme Court Pick"
"Mayday, Mayday at the Federal Election Commission: A Report on the Unprecedented Campaign by the Republican FEC Commissioners to Shut Down Enforcement of the Campaign Finance Laws"
"RNC Wants Out of Consent Decree Prohibiting Them from Voter Caging"
Dorf on the Senate Judiciary Committee Rules
Election Law Journal 8:2 Now Available; Preview of ELJ 8:3
"The Voting Rights Act And Its Wrongs"
"Coleman's appeal asks for more counting"
"Reform Groups Call for Change at FEC, Citing Deadlocked Votes, Case Dismissals"
Justice Souter and Senator Specter
A Development That Could Be Good News for Real Bipartisan Support in the Senate for Election Reform
Could Congress Moot NAMUDNO By Passing the Proactive Bailout Amendment Now?
The New Electionline Weekly
The Banking Crisis, Lobbying, and Public Financing for Congressional Races
Initial Thoughts on the Coleman Brief
Just in Time for NAMUDNO?
Coleman-Franken: June 18 Decision?
Katz: NAMUDNO, Ricci and Bush v. Gore
Coleman-Franken: Today the Rubber Hits the Road
What's to Become of the FEC?
NAMUDNO: The Answer to My Question Appears to Be "Yes"
"Statements from CA Sec. of State Debra Bowen and Former U.S. EAC Chair Rosemary Rodriguez on the Passing of John Gideon"
Cox on NAMUDNO Argument
"Would a Pa. GOP Voter Have a Cause of Action Against Arlen Specter?"
Some Initial News Stories and Analyses of the NAMUDNO Oral Argument
NAMUDNO Transcript Now Available
Live-Blogging the Oral Argument in NAMUDNO: VRA in Trouble
NAMUDNO Oral Argument Link
The Prospect of a Federal Lawsuit Continues to Rear Its Head in Minnesota
"State Joins Electoral College Pact"
Republican FEC Commissioners and 100.22(b): It is Worse Than I Said
Final Pre-Argument NAMUDNO Roundup
"2nd Circuit Upholds Repeal of New York City's Term Limits"
"All Voters Welcome: The Voting Rights Act must still hold open the doors to the polling place."
"Weighty Considerations: Facial Challenges and the Right to Vote "
"Activists, bloggers rip DCCC, DSCC"
Gerken on NAMUDNO and Katz
More on the FEC, the 100.22(b) standard, and WRTL
"Washington's Best Kept Secret: McCain-Feingold Works"
"Sen. Arlen Specter quits GOP, upping stakes in Coleman-Franken dispute"
Katz: Reports of my transformation are greatly exaggerated
Breaking News: Stakes Raised Markedly in Coleman-Franken Election Dispute
NAMUDNO: Ellen Katz's Transformation?
"University study shows Americans favor early voting, voter ID"
Very Sad News: John Gideon has Died
Just in Time for NAMUDNO
"Sordid Business: Will the Supreme Court Kill the Voting Rights Act?"
Voter ID Compromise in Texas?
"Are Lobbyists Being Locked Out?"
"Minnesota Poll: Most want Coleman to call it quits"
"Perdue argues against law, says times and state have changed"
"Before Census, A Debate Over Prisoners"
Feasby Guest Post on New Canadian Campaign Finance Decision
More NAMUDNO Previews
More NAMUDNO Previews
"Election Commission Loosens Up on Some Groups"
"Supreme Court recount timeline called reasonable"
Murphy Wins
"Reformers File in Challenge to Election Ad Disclosure Laws"
Lessons from the FEC's 527 Decisions
"Campaign fund diversion angers state GOP"
"Tedisco May Concede Election Today"
The Fight to Keep Funding for Public Financing in Connecticut
Sec. Clinton Sells Her Presidential E-Mail List, for a Cool $2.6 Million, to Senator Clinton's Senate Campaign Committee
Better Late Than Never (?) Dept.
Briefing Schedule Set in Coleman-Franken Case
No "Day of Reckoning" for ALP, the Pro-Clinton 527
"House leaders give ground on Florida election law overhaul"
"Cheh to Seek Court Order in Elections Probe"
"Partisan shift reshapes face of election administration in Tennessee"
Looks Like There Will Be Two Justices Recused from the Minnesota Supreme Court in Coleman-Franken
A Huge Development in FEC 527 Enforcement?
"Better Parties, Better Government: A Realistic Program for Campaign Finance Reform"
"Coleman asks state Supreme Court to take it slow"
"NY Sets Its Sights on EDR"
"Money in Politics 2009: New Horizons for Reform
"Secretary Brunner Makes Elections Recommendations in New Report"
Coleman Requests Longer Briefing Schedule
"Latest in the 20th: Murphy up by 273; court wrangling but end may be near"
"Dems Hedge on Franken Seating"
Yet Another Partisan 3-3 Split at the FEC
"Voting Rights and the Beneficiaries of Selma"
"Small Donors, Large Donors and the Internet: The Case for Public Financing After Obama" [Corrected title]
Ned Foley's Tour de Force on the Equal Protection Issues in Coleman-Franken
Op-Ed Versions of Law Review Articles from Leading Law Reviews
Bauer Giving Up the Daily Blog
"South Carolina GOP Sues to Close Primaries to Dems"
"Groups accept Obama rules - for 1 night"
Franken Wants Expedited Hearing in Coleman Election Contest Appeal
Did Bad Legal Advice, or Politics, Keep Sen. McCain from Choosing Sen Lieberman as a Running Mate?
"Nonprofit Groups to Push for Exceptions to Lobby Rule"
My Review of Manfredi and Rush
Jeffrey Rosen on NAMUDNO
Coleman Appeals
"Derailing California's Money Train"
Jacob Weisberg on Why Pres. Obama's Lobbying Rules are a Mistake
"Election Administration Reform and the New Institutionalism"
NAMUDNO Oral Argument Audio To Be Released Right After Argument
WWCD?
California Supreme Court Decides Important Case Involving Government Support for Ballot Measures
"Minnesota Expenses Pile Up -- But Who's Counting?"
"Norton Calls for Action on D.C. Vote"
"It's Only a Flesh Wound"
"Minnesota Case Tests Court that Shuns Politics"
"Making the District More of a Democracy"
What Hertzberg Said...
"The Influence of Retention Politics on Judges' Voting"
"No Country for Close Calls"
"Suppressing the Vote in Florida"
"Voting Rights Act has passionate, strong advocate in Sensenbrenner"
"Time Nears for Pawlenty to Cast His Vote"
"GOP power grab is an affront to voters"
Did West Virginia's Sore Loser Law Prevent Sen. McCain from Choosing Sen. Lieberman as a Running Mate?
Scott Johnson of Powerline More Skeptical than WSJ of Coleman Equal Protection Argument
Tony Mauro on NAMUDNO, Etc.
Is Norm Coleman Delaying By Not Filing His Notice of Appeal Early?
Interesting Case Involving Party Loyalty Oath and Section 5 Preclearance in Mississippi
"Mr. Obama's Chance to Fix the F.E.C."
Norm Coleman in His Own Words on the Appeal to the State Supreme Court
In the Election Law Mailbag
Ellen Katz's NAMUDNO Preview for the ABA
Coleman Doesn't Rule Out Cert. Petition if He Loses in State Supreme Court
"Wash. Legislature OKs popular vote bill"
"Murphy gains as judge narrows challenges"
"Coleman Is the Real Comic in Contest With Franken: Ann Woolner"
"Texas Voting Rights Act Case Will Be Felt In Some California Counties"
"Overhaul of Florida Voting Rules is Proposed"
Controversy Over OMB Stimulus Lobbying Guidance
Cornell LII Preview of NAMUDNO Oral Argument
NAMUDNO Reply Brief Now Filed
"Coleman-Franken: new Bush v. Gore?"
More Governor Pawlenty on a Federal Lawsuit and a Delay in Senate Election Certification
"Voting Rights Act s 5: Leave It Up to Congress"
Jessica Leval on the Democracy Index
D.C. Circuit Finds Absolute Immunity for Rep. Murtha's Statement about Haditha Incident
"As Coleman's hope dims, pursuit of seat questioned"
More Minnesota
More on EAC Employee Dissatisfaction
The Coleman Opinion and the Precedential Value of Bush v. Gore
More News and Commentary on the Coleman-Franken Decision
Brad Smith and Bob Bauer on FEC Deadlocks
Katyal, Not Kagan, Will Argue NAMUDNO
Initial Thoughts on the Decision in the Coleman-Franken Dispute: Coleman's Chances on Appeal Appear Quite Small
Breaking News: Franken Wins 3-0 Before 3 Judge Court
"Voting Reform Gets New Life"
"Conflict at the FEC"
Some Dissatisfaction within the EAC
"The Battle Over Absentee Ballots"
After 3-3 Split, a 4-2 Split at FEC and Separate Statement of Reasons from Commissioners Bauerly and Weintraub
Bauer and Ginsberg on Election Litigation
Edward Blum Response to Ellen Katz on Obama's Election and the Constitutionality of Section 5
"MN-Sen: State Supreme Court Justice is a Norm Coleman Donor and Should Recuse Himself"
Coleman v. Franken
"Minnesota's High Court May Not Be the Last Word"
"FEC Split Over Its Openness"
A Deluge of (Genuine) Issue Ads
"Differing Views in GOP on Voting Rights Case"
"An Apology For Saying Asians Should Adopt Easier Names"
"Brunner wants local board to decide Husted residency"
"From Here to Theory in Election Law"
"Lawmaker defends comment on Asians"
"A Dot-Pol of Their Own"
"Reviving the Motor Voter Law"
"Deadlock: Rise of the Endless Election"
2008 Supplement to ABA "America Votes!" Book Now Available
"Runner files new initiative for stricter voting rules"
"Issa Asks Holder for D.C. Voting Rights Documents"
"Democrat in N.Y.-20 ups lead to 46 votes"
"GOP, DFL add dueling websites to the recount rhetoric"
Electionline Voter ID Roundup
Someone Should Tell Gov. Pawlenty...
"REPORT: Conservative media consistently scapegoat undocumented immigrants, ACORN"
Quote of the Day
Brennan Center Issues Final Report on 2008 Ohio Election and Avenues for Reform
"'Express Advocacy' Before the IRS"
"Proposed change to constitution would create early voting period, require photo ID"
"Franken No Joke as Coleman Needs Improbable Court Decision"
"Schumer Urges DOJ: Sue States that Flout Voter Registration Law"
"FEC Deadlocks on the Rise"
"Franken Exends Lead over Coleman"
Watch the Akhil Amar Lecture on Bush v. Gore
Now the Absentee Ballot Counting Begins in the NY-20
Eliza on NAMUDNO
Michael McDonald on the CPS and Latest Voter Turnout Figures
"Group Challenges IRS's Use of Political Activities Test to Intrude on Charities' First Amendment Rights"
"Senate recount down to 387 ballots - and almost certain appeal"
"Inventing the Right to Vote in Crawford v. Marion County Election Board"
"Canonizing the Civil Rights Revolution: The People and the Poll Tax"
Like a Candle in the Wind...
Another Voter ID Hearing in Texas
"Can the Democracy Index cause election reform?"
"Special 'Rerun' Alaska Senate Election Appears Highly Unlikely"
Who Will Be Ohio's Next Secretary of State?
Divided Argument Granted in NAMUDNO
"If Norm Coleman Makes a Federal Case of It, What Will Happen?"
More Vik Amar on the Constitutionality of the ELECT Act for Senate Vacancies
Andrew Gelman on Gerken's "Democracy Index"
"D.C. Vote Memo Called Informal"
No Oversized Reply Brief to Be Allowed in NAMUDNO
"Is Obama's Lobbying Rule Legal?"
"Expert on 'Sampling' Tapped to Lead Census"
"Fair Elections Now Act"
"The Shameful Disenfranchisement of the Military in New York's Congressional Race"
"D.C. Vote Backers Unfazed By Opinion"
"Lawyers, Votes and Money in House Fight"
"Voter ID Bill Heads to Governor's Desk"
LA Times Editorializes Against Feingold Proposed Senate Vacancy Amendment
"Franken Puts Pawlenty in a Jam"
"Breaking the Rule: How Politics, Privilege, and the Ten Percent Rule Are Obfuscating One Person, One Vote Claims - And What Should Be Done About It "
"NIST Issues Open and Transparent Methods for Testing Electronic Voting Systems"
Bauer, McCain Staff, Still Mixing It Up
How to Achieve Life/Work Balance, Politico-Style
"Fixing the U.S. Election System: Is a Democracy Index the Answer?"
"L.A. County to study using instant runoff elections"
"Situation Normal: Election Too Close to Call"
"High Court to Weigh Relevance Of Voting Law in Obama Era"
Two Different Views of the AG's Office and the DC Voting Rights Bill
Here We Go Again
"Public Interest Groups Decry Obama's Strict Lobbying Rules"
"A Split At Justice On D.C. Vote Bill; Holder Overrode Ruling That Measure Is Unconstitutional"
"Conyers Weighing Probe of ACORN"
"Senate recount trial: Judges' ruling is boon to Franken"
"Q and A on Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission Oral Argument With Richard L. Hasen"
"John McCain, Negative About Presidential Public Financing"
New Articles Dept.
Off to Cal Western
Does the First Amendment Require a Secret Ballot?
"Break the Link Between Earmarks, Contributions"
When Will Coleman-Franken End?
Beth Garrett to Obama Administration
"Our Elections Run Well. (Don't They?)
Interesting Stuff in the Latest Issue of the Harvard Journal on Legislation
"Registrar Thriller Plays Out in Lawsuit"
Bauer on the Citizens United Oral Argument
"After Initial Successes, Electoral College Foes Set Sights on Higher Peaks"
"Obama order worries speech groups"
"Republican seeks delay on Texas voter ID plan"
Want to Learn More about the Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District No. 1, and Why The District Wants to Overturn the Crown Jewel of the Voting Rights Act?
President Obama to Increase DOJ Civil Rights Enforcement
"Political Parties See Dramatic Decline in Fundraising"
"Military, Minority Voter Issues Still Need Attention"
AEI Pre-Oral Argument Forum on NAMUDNO
"Visualizing the Campaign Contributions to the 110th Congress; U.S. Senate TARP Edition"
Better than "Welfare for Politicians" Phrase?
Issacharoff and Miller on "Democracy and Electoral Processes"
Still More NAMUDNO Amicus Briefs
"Time to Revive Puerto Rican Voting Rights"
"New Presidential Guidance Restricts Lobbyist Communications Regarding Stimulus Funds"
"E-Voting: Something Broken in Need of Something New"
The Misguided Effort to Explain Obama to the Court--or--Why Obama Really Matters and What the Court Should Do About It
"The 2008 Election: A Look Back at What Went Right and What Went Wrong"
"Politicization Charges at DOJ over Brazile Appearance"
Divided Time in NAMUDNO?
"Coleman v. Franken: Will the ThreeJudges report to the Senate?"
Rebecca Kysar on Earmark Rules and Statutory Interpretation
Richard Painter Blogging on Government Ethics Reform At Volokh Conspiracy
Still More Mauro on Citizens United
More NAMUDNO Amicus Briefs
"FEC Turns Blind Eye to Thompson, Sets Awful Precedent"
"Court Focuses Skeptical Eye on McCain-Feingold"
New Demos Election Day Registration Proposals
NAMUDNO Amicus Briefs Supporting the Government
"Minnesota Senate Mess Could Get New Influx Of Money -- And Appeals"
"Most Electronic Voting Isn't Secure, CIA Expert Says"
Guilty Plea in St. Louis Voter Registration Fraud Case
Citizens United Roundup
Citizens United: Of Book Banning, Kindles, and the Corporate PAC Requirement
Citizens United Transcript Etc.
"Coleman Appeal Could Play Constitutional Wild Card"
Eagleton Event on Public Financing of Campaigns in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut
Anti-ACORN Provision in National Service Bill
Citizens United: The Early Word
Citizens United Argued Tuesday in the Supreme Court
New Voluntary Public Financing Proposal for Congressional Elections
Another 3-3 Partisan Split at the FEC
Democratic Party Commission to Consider Changes to Primary, Caucus System
"Newark campaign worker indicted on election fraud charges"
Wondering if This Map Says Anything Relevant in NAMUDNO
CS Monitor on Citizens United
"The Coleman-Franken Recount: Can It Be Over Soon?"
Two Student Pieces in the Latest Harvard Law Review
"Editorial: Vote-by-mail seems the way to go"
Two from the Plain Dealer
Common Cause Going Out of Business in Florida
More on Constitutional Amendment Regarding Senate Vacancies and a Legislative Alternative
More Previews of Citizens United
WaPo on the Minnesota Senate Race and the D.C. Vote
"Conyers Suggests Probe of ACORN"
AP Preview of Citizens United
Will New SG Elena Kagan Argue NAMUDNO As Her First Appellate Argument?
Norm Ornstein on the Minnesota Senate Battle
Coleman Lawyer Predicts Franken Win in Trial Court; Pushes Constitutional Argument to Be Raised in State Supreme Court
"Ky. Officials Accused of Election-Rigging Scheme"
Dave Douglas Named William and Mary Law Dean
Bauer on Redish v. Horwitz on Anonymous Political Speech
"Perdue says Obama proves Georgia doesn't need Voting Rights"
"Supreme Court Considers Anti-Clinton Movie"
DOJ Files Merits Brief in NAMUDNO
"America Goes to the Polls Released"
It "will be widely viewed as one of the most influential works in the history of election administration."
"Republicans charge campaign violations by ACORN"
Another Partisan 3-3 Split at the FEC
"Ohio GOP wants more input on redistricting"
Is Paul Ryan Taking "Crazy Pills?"
Notice the "but"
"Lessons Learned from the 2008 Election"
Bauerly and Weintraub Respond in Romney Case
"Franken's Monster: Will Bush v. Gore Bite Democrats in Coleman v. Franken?
Was Tom Saenz "Zinnied" from Appointment as Head of DOJ's Civil Rights Division?
Tova Wang on Lessons Learned from the 2008 Election
"Will Obama Take on the FEC?"
Malbin and Bauer on the Continuing Need for Contribution Limits
"Reluctance to Void Elections - Some Memorable Cases"
"Feds were involved in ACORN raid in Nevada, officials say"
"FEC to Eye Minnesota Recount Battle, Including Draft to End Donation Limits"
"Still Broken"
"Conservatives invoke Obama in Voting Rights Act challenge"
"Voter ID legislation clears major Texas Senate hurdle"
Amar on "Bush, Gore, Florida, and the Constitution"
"Electronic Voting"
"Voter Registration Databases: Initial Discussion on Reviewing HAVA Mandated Guidance"
"New York City Term Extension Approved by Justice Department"
"G.O.P. Eyes Bush v. Gore for Coleman"
KaufmanDowning Now Kaufman, Downing
"Will Obama Take on the FEC?"
Now Available for Ordering: The Glannon Guide to Torts
"Holder Asked to Overrule Donsanto, Open Criminal Probe of Chamber 527"
"Judges to Decide Minnesota Senate Election"
"Charaties Give to State Campaigns, Despite Law"
Another 3-3 Partisan Split on FEC
"Election Legislation 2009: Threats & Opportunities Assessment"
"Shut Out at the Polls; A registration system that disenfranchises millions needs judicious repair"
"Campaign Finance Reform Finds Unlikely Allies"
von Spakovsky on Ike Brown Case
"Recount Drama Moves into Judges' Chambers"
Political Fundraisers Still Attacking 'McCain-Feingold'"
"Gerrymandering on Trial"
"A 'Bailout' of Another Sort"
A Bartlett Challenge in New Jersey?
Tom Saenz Not Going to Be Head of DOJ Civil Rights Division, Apparently Because of Immigration Issues
"'Hillary the Movie to Get Supreme Court Screening"
Cornell LII Preview of Citizens United Oral Argument
Previewing the Supreme Court's Citizens United Case
Quote of the Day
Cross-over Districts and Shaw Claims
"New Leadership PACs Surface, as FEC Applies Bundling Rule to Them, Lobby PACs"
On Funding the Election Reform Project
Bauer on Lessig and Trippi's "Donor Strike"
"Senate trial closing arguments in sight"
When is a Secret Ballot Necessary?
"On Amending and Revising the Constitution: The Issues behind the Challenge to Proposition 8"
President Obama States Support for Continued Use of Section 5
Gerken's New Book
The Congressional Power Theory Supporting Congressional Legislation Regulating the Filling of Senate Vacancies
More Bauer on Ginsburg on Bartlett
"Coleman vs. Franken Senate contest drags on in Minnesota"
"After marathon session, Senate advances bill to toughen voter ID requirements"
President Obama on Earmarks and Signing Statements
"Illinois Scandal Spawns a Debate: Amendment Would End Appointments"
"New ACLU Report Highlights Florida's Failure to Address Continued Voter Disfranchisement Problems; Provides Solutions"
Read the Important Testimony in Today's Senate Rules Hearing on Voter Registration
"$1M withheld from candidates"
"Port Chester Attorneys See Link in Supreme Court Voting Rights Case"
"Dan Walters: Court ruling may shrink ranks of black politicians"
"Coleman warns donors after purported data breach"
"Leaders Strategize on How to Pass D.C. Vote Bill"
"Hurdles to Voting Persisted in 2008"
"Narrowing the Voting Rights Act"
You Don't See This Every Day
"Franken, in D.C., says he sees 'a light at the end of the tunnel'"
Advice to Congress from Justice Ginsburg in Bartlett
"Colorado's citizen initiative system gears up for another monster ballot"
President Obama Cautions Against Reliance on Bush Signing Statements
" Voter Registration System Needs to Be Modernized"
"McCain Fights an Old Battle with His Party"
"Gun Amendment Threatens D.C. Voting Bill"
Press Coverage of Bartlett v. Strickland
Another Major Loss for the LA Times
Why Did Voter ID Die in Mississippi?
80 Additional Ballots, Not 1,600, Now at Issue in Franken-Coleman Contest
Initial Thoughts on Bartlett v. Strickland: Narrowing the Voting Rights Act to Save It?
Breaking News: Supreme Court Decides Bartlett v. Strickland
"Voter ID fights takes new shape at Capitol"
"Nonprofits Wield Some Serious Campaign Cash"
Watch the New Jersey Electronic Voting Case
"Ballot measures' labels changed after complaints"
Eleventh Circuit Avoids Merits in Challenge to Judicial "Commit or Appear to Commit" Clause
"Franken may have won by losing at MN Supreme Court"
Valelly on Minesota Opinion
"2010 Census: Fundamental Building Blocks of a Successful Enumeration Face Challenges"
"State high court denies Franken bid for election certificate"
Quote of the Day
"Editorial: Texas GOP senators gain advantage on voter-ID bill"
"What About a 'Do-Over' in Minnesota?"
Mark Bell on Districting, Apportionment, and "Getting the Math Right"
"Long Litigation in Minnesota Senate Race Spurs Bid for FEC Approval of More Funding"
Agenda for 3/11 Senate Rules Committee Hearing on Registration Issues
"FEC: Obama Mortgage a Legal Deal"
"Documentary on Clinton Tests Campaign Finance Law"
Sen. Whitehouse Introduces Anti-Voter Caging Bill
"DOA: Voter ID, Early Voting and Sex Ed"
"Franken Pushes to Toss Senate Lawsuit"
"Gun Law Push Puts D.C. Vote Bill on Indefinite Hold"
"Voters would have to prove citizenship"
"RNC Lawsuit Seeks to Eviscerate Nation's Campaign Finance Laws and Bring Back Six and Seven-Figure Corrupting Soft Money Contributions to Political Parties"
Senate Hearing on Voter Registration Problems
"Only Skin Deep?: The Cost of Partisan Politics on Minority Diversity of the Federal Bench"
Justice O'Connor Briefly Discusses the Media Circus Surrounding Bush v. Gore in Daily Show Interview
Goldfeder on "The 17th Amendment and Vacant Senate Seats"
"Supporters Push to Save D.C. Vote Bill In U.S. House"
"Speech or Debate Clause May Have Been Violated in Prosecution of Ex-Rep. Rick Renzi"
"Senators Seek Line Item Veto for Obama"
"Alabama no longer needs voting rights supervision, Gov. Bob Riley says"
"Let's give instant run-off voting a chance at the polls in Chicago"
And in Jocelyn Benson News....
Caperton Post-Argument Roundup
Does the Minnesota Recount Court Have The Authority to Order a New Election?
More on Capterton
Is Justice Kennedy Looking for a "Judicially Manageable Standard" in Capterton?
"Is Coleman v. Franken headed for a re-do?"
Bauer on Caperton and Judicial Reform and "Independence"
Required Reading for the Minnesota Judges
"Ballot information omits Proposition 1A tax extensions"
"Olson Argues Against Campaign Spending In One Case, Sees It As Protected in Another"
Pre-Argument Opinion and Analysis in Caperton
Colbert the Key to DC Voting Rights?
"Culture of conspiracy: the Birthers"
"Corruption Bill's Bipartisan Moment May Be Coming"
"Despite what you may hear during the Senate contest, Minnesota isn't Florida"
More Capterton Stories
Citizens United: Constitutional Avoidance as a Way Out?
Coyle and Lithwick and Denniston on Capterton v. Massey
Jay Weiner on Week 5 of Coleman-Franken
"A Proposal for Redistricting Reform: A Model State Constitutional Amendment"
Will the Supreme Court Grant Cert. in an Arizona Ballot Access Case involving Ralph Nader?
"Roland Burris' attorney warns against special election"
Parnell and Bauer on Public Financing
National Popular Vote Passes Arkansas House
More NAMUDNO Amicus Briefs
Sam Hirsch to DOJ
The Latest from Minnesota
Persily, Ansolabehere and Stewart Brief
"D.C. Voting Measure Clears the Senate"
Sounds Like Electronic Disclosure Could Finally Be Coming to the Senate
"Bloggers Create PAC to Recruit Liberal Candidates"
"Sec. of State Brunner to decide Husted residency issue"
"Obama Pledge Could Hamper Dems"
Misleading Headlines Dept.
"IL AG Madigan Opinion Raises Questions"
NAMUDNO Amicus Briefs
"Liberal Groups Are Undermining Voter ID Laws, Say Conservative Election Experts"
Regular Blogging to Resume Monday
"Foes Fight D.C. Measure in Senate"
"Understanding the Prop 8 Litigation: The Scope of Direct Democracy and Role of Judicial Scrutiny"
Bauer, Ginsberg, and Toner on Election Litigation in the Courts
"Obama and the Line Item Veto"
"Allies Lieberman and McCain At Odds on D.C. Voting Bill"
"Illinois Has Much to Teach Pa."
"Court: Montana law violated church's rights"
"What are the FEC's Priorities?"
Sequoia v. Appel: Appel Fires Back
"Setbacks for Coleman Grow at Senate Recount Trial"
NYT on DC Vote
Sequoia v. Appel: The Latest Volley from Sequoia
Bauer on FEC Brief in Citizens United
"Soft Money Political Spending by 501(c) Nonprofits Tripled in 2008 Election"
Another Blow for the EAC
Government Side Amicus Briefs in Citizens United Case
"Assessing California's Hybrid Democracy"
Bauer on Evaluating Public Financing Plans
"19 Leading Financial Institutions Receiving TARP Funds Urged to Adopt Political Disclosure"
Coleman to Rest Case in Chief This Week in Recount Trial?
"Never Turn Away a Voter"
FEC Files Merits Briefs in Citizens United Case [corrected headline]
NAMUDNO to Be Heard on Last Regular Argument Day of the Term, April 29
"Voter Fraud or Voter Defrauded? Highlighting an Inconsistent Consideration of Election Fraud"
"District Voting-Rights Backers Hoping for Victory"
George Will Wants to Repeal the 17th Amendment
Toobin on NAMUDNO
von Spakovsky on DC Voting Rights Bill
Bauer on "Top Two" Primaries
Justice Scalia Issues Important Dissent from Denial of Cert. in Honest Services Case
Tom Goldstein on NAMDUNO
"Homeless candidate seeking court help to get back on ballot"
"National Popular Vote Measure Passes House"
"The Budget Crisis May Yield Sea Change in Election Politics"
"Don't Expect Senate to Expel Burris"
Guess Who Doesn't Like the Top Two Primary?
Election Law Journal 8:1 Now Available; Preview of ELJ 8:2
CGS Issues Report on Public Financing in Florida
"Judge Rules School Board Elections Violate Voting Rights Act"
"Courts Win in California Budget Deal"
ACS Briefing on Caperton v. Massey Case
The Beat Goes On
Bauer on "The Democracy Canon"
"Political GPS: ARE ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGES THE ANSWER FOR THE FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION?"
Two Views of Sen. Moldonado's Push for Top Two Primary
"Proposal Calls For Elections To Fill Senate Vacancies"
"Facial and As-Applied Challenges Under the Roberts Court"
Appellant's Brief in NAMUDNO Filed
Good News on the Top Two Primary Front
"Election Law Litigation Has Doubled Since 2000"
"An Extra 'Equal Protection' Thought: Local Policy or Local Mistakes?"
"Can Mathematics Map the Way Toward Less-Bizarre Elections?"
"New Study Finds Election Law Litigation Remains at More than Double Rate Before 2000 Election; More Cases Shift from State Court to Federal Court"
New Cert. Petition in Rep. Jefferson Speech or Debate Clause Case
"Simplistic media coverage of Caperton v. A. T. Massey Coal"
"State Representative Seeks to Repeal Arkansas Ban on Atheists Holding Public Office and Testifying in Court"
"The Effect of Campaign Contributions on Judicial Decisionmaking "
California Budget Approved with Open Primary Measure to Go on Ballot
The Form of an Open Primary Deal
"ACLU Sues South Dakota Secretary Of State Over Illegal Voter Disfranchisement"
"Judge Wins Right to Join Democratic Party"
"Alaska Concedes Travel Expense Reimbursements Are Taxable to Gov. Palin"
"Federal study says all touch-screen voting machines allow undetectable hacking"
"Historical Considerations and Congressional Representation for the District of Columbia: Constitutionality of the D.C. House Voting Rights Bill in Light of Section Two of the Fourteenth Amendment and the History of the Creation of the District"
"Tensions Rise as Judges Reject Coleman's Request"
"Stimulus Highlights Stakes of Minnesota Recount"
NYT Editorial Supporting DC Voting Rights Bill
Need to Comply with the FEC's New Bundling Rules?
Holtzman Vogel Issues Law and Policy Update
Front Page USA Today Story on Capterton v. Massey
Election Law Prof Spencer Overton Involved in Vetting U.S. Attorneys and Judges
Coleman Doubles Down on Equal Protection Argument
"The Democracy Canon"
" Reid Sets Votes on Solis, D.C. Voting Rights"
Powerline on Coleman's Equal Protection Claims
Colbert on the DC Voting Rights Bill
"Group of Alabama voters challenges state Constitution"
"A Victory for the Rule of Law"
"Coleman lawyers call on court to reconsider ballots"
"Remembering Democracy in the Debate over Election Reform"
"Will voting rights in DC open door for United States' colonies in Caribbean and Pacific?"
Open Primary the Price for a Budget Deal in California?
"Make Washington law consistent with top-two primary"
Jay Weiner on the Minnesota Trial, Week 4
Some Thoughts on Burris
"GOP dead set against 59th Dem"
"Political Donations Used for Overseas Travel"
Bauer Wants to Mend It, Not End It, at the FEC
"Taking Initiative: How corporate contributions to ballot measures pose a risk to shareholders, and why directors must oversee company political spending"
"Reports show Benjamin, Blankenship connections"
"Bill for D.C. Voting Member Advances"
High Budget Drama in California
"Would-Be Senators From Minn. Describe Life in Election Limbo"
"The Role of Randomness in California's Redistricting Process"
"Case May Alter Judge Elections Across Country"
Are there Really Still 3,500 Ballots in Play in the Minnesota Recount Trial?
"More than one in five military and overseas voters disenfranchised in 2008"
Minnesota Recount Court Issues Major Ruling on 19 Contested Absentee Ballot Categories
Hans von Spakovksy Doesn't Like (Democratic) Gerrymandering
"Photo ID Rejected, But Could Return"
"Minnesota Judges Expected to Rule Monday on Ballot Parameters"
"California's Napolitano Makes $220,000 From 1998 Campaign Loan"
Foley on Today's Minnesota Hearing
Sen. Gregg Out at Commerce, Citing Census Issues
A Change in Judicial Selection Mechanisms in Texas?
CCP Responds to Reform Group Letter to the FEC
"Redrawing the lines-- almost 200 years of gerrymandering"
"GOP senators in no hurry for Minn. seat to be filled"
Seven Campaign Finance Reform Groups Send FEC Letter Expressing Deep Concerns About Agency
"The Obama Factor: The Impact of the 2008 Presidential Election on Future Voting Rights Litigation"
" D.C. Voting Rights Bill Headed to Senate Floor"
"Voter ID, early voting bill passes"
"In the Coleman-Franken Contest, the Three-Judge Court Will Now Be Tested"
"Amendment Would Ban Appointed Senators"
"Campaign Finance Legislation Receives Senate Committee Approval for Third Time"
A Light at the End of the Tunnel?
"Election overseer calls vote 'boring'"
Nou on "Privatizing Democracy: Promoting Election Integrity through Procurement Contracts"
"Why Obama Wants Control of the Census"
" Statehood Advocates Decry Voting Act"
"Senate recount trial resumes: Judges ponder Franken objection"
"Obama Campaign Ended With $23 Million, Transferred $8.5 Million to Hill Committees"
"501(c)(4) Organizations and Campaign Activity: Analysis Under Tax and Campaign Finance Laws"
"2000-2006 in Election Law: The Pace of Change and the Phases of Reform"
"GOP seeks to end ban on some donation limits"
Goldfeder on Senate Gubernatorial Appointments
"Prop 8 Donor Web Site Shows Disclosure Law Is 2-Edged Sword "
"Senate Recount: How Much Longer?"
"D.A. considers 211 cases of possible voter fraud"
"In Senate recount, suddenly geography is crucial"
"Backers of Same-Sex Marriage Ban Continue To Pursue Lawsuit Against Donor Disclosure"
"Arizona Redistricting Has Been a Success"
Profs. Rotunda and Dimino File Brief in Massey Cases Against Mandatory Judicial Recusal
"Redistricting Reform and Legislative Partisanship"
"State Supreme Court weighs a temporary Sen. Franken"
"Lack of Yup'ik election help spurs suit"
"What About the Census?"
More Bauer on Bundling
"U.S. Attorney Scandal: Feds Probe Domenici for Obstruction of Justice In Iglesias Firing"
And I Thought Only Law Students Did That During Class
More Analyses of the Minnesota Recount Trial
Now that the Prop. 8 Donor Data Has Been Made Available...
Wertheimer: FEC Bundling E &J "Alice-in-Wonderland"
Center for Competitive Politics Files Amicus Brief in Massey (Judicial Recusal) Case
Possible Voter Fraud...in Iraq
"5,000 rejected Minn. Senate ballots reconsidered"
"How to Fill a Senate Seat"
Two Views of the FEC's Bundling E & J
About those 4,500 Absentee Ballots
Pam Karlan for the Supreme Court
"Recount trial: Judges rule thousands of ballots can be considered; The court order applies to about 4,800 rejected absentee ballots and indicates that any that complied with state law should be counted."
FEC Unanimously Passes Explanation and Justification for New Bundling Rules
"Will New SG Lead to Sharp Turn at Court?"
"Spending on Coleman-Franken race keeps rising"
P.S. Symposia on the Presidential Nominating Process and Voter ID
"WVa justice bows out of Massey cases amid scrutiny"
"Groups press FSSA to let clients register to vote"
Persily on the Roberts Court and Election Law
"To Some, Lobbyist Cleanup Is Clear As Mud"
"In Senate trial, Coleman turns to Bush v. Gore"
Super Bowl Tuesday?
"Withdrawal: The Roberts Court and the Retreat from Election Law"
Two from Politico
von Spakovsky Responds
Off to Miami
"Request to suppress Prop. 8 donors names denied"
Proposed Florida Redistricting Measures Survive Single Subject Challenge in State Supreme Court
"ACLU And Advancement Project Challenge Unlawful Disenfranchisement Of Michigan Resident"
Strange Bedfellows Dept.: Bob Bauer to Defend BCRA's Soft Money Ban
"Franken lawyer plays up shift in Coleman strategy"
"Groups Seek To Shield Gay-Marriage Ban Donations"
"California Secretary of State Urges EAC to Adopt Reforms....Already in Place"
Bauer Replaces Sandler as DNC Counsel
More on the Soros Suit from BNA and Bauer
Another 3-3 Split at the FEC, With Republicans Siding with George Soros (and Democrats Against), and with an Expansion of the Media Exemption Just Before the Citizens United Case
"A New Era Of Cooperation in Washington? Federal Election Commission Didn't Get The Memo"
Is UOCAVA Unconstitutional?
"Let Them Into the House: The D.C. Voting Rights Act is Probably Unconstitutional. Congress Should Pass It."
"The Constitutional Right to Listen: McCain-Feingold and the Fairness Doctrine Hurt More than Speakers' Rights"
2009 Law & Democracy Speakers Series at Cal Western
"Senate recount trial: Rejected voters have their day"
von Spakovsky on Civil Rights Division IG Report
"Only one voter fraud case found"
Schedule for Miami Election Law Conference
"Marks on Ballots Snag Minnesota Recount Trial"
"GOP lawmakers want photo ID law for voting"
"President Obama Issues Executive Order Imposing New Ethics Rules For Political Appointees"
"CA SoS Bowen sends proposals to EAC"
Time for a Constitutional Convention in California?
"Recount Trial Begins"
"Phoenix may merge polls, reduce election costs"
More Bauer on the Republican FEC Commissioner Statement in the November Fund Case
On the Obama Ethics Order and Other Disclosure Issues
"Q & A on Minn. Senate Recount"
"Uphold the Voting Rights Act"
Symposium on Electronic Voting and Other Voting Practices
"Supreme Court May Weigh Corruption Law"
"Voting Against Fairness: Virginia Republicans pursue a risky strategy in fending off redistricting and election reform."
"Don't Name That Senator"
"Jackson Browne v. John McCain et al.: Fully Briefed"
"New ethics board meets for first time"
California Court of Appeal Decides Which "Crimes" Count for Felon Disenfranchisement Purposes
"Good government agenda sails into headwinds"
"Senate recount: Coleman loses bid to check at least 4,500 ballots"
Tokaji on "Voter Registration and Institutional Reform: Lessons from a Historic Election"
"Taxpayers kept funding Biden's bid"
"California Adopts New Disclosure Rules For Ballot Committees Led by Candidates"
And in Election Administration Controversies in Canada
Republican Commissioners Respond in "November Fund" Case
"MN Court Contest Off to a Good Start"
"Franken Makes Case To Let Senate Decide"
"Lobbying Rules Surpass Those of Previous Presidents, Experts Say"
Bauer on Olson on Disclosure in Citizens United
"Waiting for Further Explanation from the FEC"
"Senate Recount: Franken Ratchets Up Legal Fight"
Jim Bopp Files Amicus Brief in Citizens United Case; Does Not Argue Austin Should Be Overruled
"The Inaugural Oath: Chief Justice Slip-Up"
The Obama White House Has Its Own Blog
Inauguration Day
Canadian Tie Vote to Be Resolved through New Election
Marty Lederman to OLC
"Coleman Makes a Dramatic Switch in His Strategy; The Republican wants to have all rejected absentee ballots reconsidered."
"Voter-ID issue brings back partisan struggle"
"An Even More Dysfunctional FEC"
"Garcia: State senators should tackle the real problems facing Texas"
"In D.C., Franken Courts Big Donors"
"Marriage Ban Donors Feel Exposed by List "
"The Donors Who Gave Big, and Often"
"Voting Rights Anachronism"
"Lobbyists Find Detour Around Latest Ethics Rules"
Polls on Support for National Popular Vote
"A Texas challenge to the Voting Rights Act"
"Watson: Senate fight will 'leave scars'"
"Recount: Trial on Coleman challenge to begin on Jan. 26"
"Policy group calls RSU 13 apportionment unconstitutional"
Rob and Bob's Excellent Adventure
Ted Olson's Vision of Campaign Finance Regulation: Unlimited Corporate Contributions in Candidate Elections and No Effective Disclosure
Thomas Saenz to Head DOJ Civil Rights Division?
"Recount: Coleman, Franken spar over trial details"
In Voter ID News
"FEC Delays Action on Bundling E&J; Walther Expects Vote in Late January"
"An Unconstitutional Recount?"
John Tanner Apology to Berry on "Black and Bitter" Remark
Court of Appeal Issues Nonpublished Opinion in Vernon Elections Matter
Center for Competittive Politics Files Amicus Brief in Citizens United Case
"Election Law Symposium: How Far Have We Come Since 2000?"
Three on Campaign Finance from Roll Call
"Electoral Reforms Must Include New Endgame"
"Instant-Runoff Voting Wins a Round"
"The Right to Vote, Part II (of Five Parts)"
"Campaign Finance Enters a New Era"
Is the Texas Senate Rule Voting Change Also Looking forward to the Next Redistricting Fight?
"The Minnesota Recount was Unconstitutional"
Minnesota Supreme Court Will Hear Franken Request to Have Certification of Election Issued Pending Resolution of Election Contest
"FEC holds unprecedented self-exam"
Eleventh Circuit, Following Crawford, Affirms District Court Decision Upholding Georgia Voter Identification Law
"Texas Senate at odds over voter ID legislation, two-thirds rule"
Bauer's Prepared Comments to FEC on Improvements to Process
"Franken Camp Makes Another Run at Election Certificate"
A Few Choice Tidbits from the DOJ Inspector General Report on Bradley Schlozman and Politicized Hiring at DOJ
"Burris Will Take His Seat as a Senator From Illinois"
"Jefferson to Seek Supreme Court Review Of Extent of Speech-or-Debate Protection"
"Detectives investigating potential voter fraud on Craigslist"
Everything You Wanted to Know About MUD But Were Afraid to Ask
"Judicial panel named to hear Minn. Senate lawsuit"
"Campaign Finance Reformer Christopher Shays Joins Legal Center Board"
"Minnesota, Not D.C., Should Choose Senator"
"Von Spakovsky: Will S.C. House keep elections legal?"
"FEC's Old Controversies Carry Over Into New Year"
"Coleman is Casting a Wider Net for Votes"
"A Threat to McCain-Feingold"
"Irony in Madera: A ruling that invalidated how elections were held for the Madera Unified School District's board may end up making Latino representation harder."
"Abolish the Electoral College"
News Roundup on NAMUDNO Note of Probable Jurisdiction
"What Will the Life of Riley v. Kennedy Mean for Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act?"
"Buying an Audience: Justifying the Regulation of Campaign Expenditures that Buy Access to Voters"
Breaking News: Court to Hear NAMUDNO Case
Important Voting Rights Case, NAMUDNO, Before the Supreme Court Today
"Prop. 8 Supporters Want Donors Anonymous"
"DOJ Official Asks for FEC Cooperation in Prosecuting Campaign Finance Crimes"
Rob Richie and John Samples Debate the Electoral College
A Summary of the Burris Legal Issues
"Settling Coleman-Franken contest: Lessons from 1962-63 recount "
Why Coleman's Chances Aren't Good, But He Has Every Right to Pursue Them
"FEC Chairman Outlines Priorities, Money Needs"
"The Constitutional Requirement to Seat the Senator from Illinois: Upholding the Rule of Law"
"Topic A: What About Minnesota?"
Jim Bopp Out in Citizens United Case
Looks Like Burris Will Be Seated
"Viewpoint: Voter Confidence in the Age of Post-HAVA Reform"
Still More Comments to the FEC
"Should Burris Be Seated?"
"Coleman says he's challenging Senate result"
Petitioners Brief on the Merits and Interesting Array of Amicus Briefs in Capterton v. Massey
More Comments to FEC
"New Life for 527s? FEC Deadlocks Over Chamber of Commerce Spin-Off "
"Burris Refused Seat in US Senate"
"Senate recount: Coleman challenge keeps Franken out of Congress"
"Ex-ACORN worker indicted in voter fraud case"
"The law is on Blagojevich's side"
Perkins Coie Comments on FEC Agency Issues
Larry Tribe on the Burris Controversy
"Recount results certified with Franken on top"
"Defiant Burris Says Senate Seat Is His"
Minnesota Supreme Court Stays Out of Franken-Coleman Dispute, for Now
"Reid Hints He Is Open to Discussion of Burris Nomination"
"'Patriot Dollars' to Reform Politics"
"Minnesota canvassing board expected to say that Democrat Al Franken is winner in Senate race"
"Smooth Vote Doesn't Quiet Critics"
"Reid Stands by Decision to Block Burris"
"Madera Unified case is changing elections throughout California"
"Coleman's Best Hope is in Court"
"Harry Reid v. the Constitution"
"Supreme Court asks to hear from Franken, counties before ruling on Coleman's suit"
"Senate Adjourns, Ends Standoff With Bush"
"GOP Members Deadlock FEC, Undermining Positions on 527s, Embezzlement, Disclosure"
"Senate GOP to block attempt to seat Franken early"
"Republicans criticize Iowa same-day voting laws"
Bauer on the Burris Controversy
"Senate Recount: Coleman Appeals to State's Highest Court"
"Roland Burris battles roadblocks to U.S. Senate; stall tactics likely by others"
"The Minnesota Recount Folly: We've Been Down That Road"
"Supreme Court Next for Rep. Jefferson"
"Canvassing Board nudges Franken's lead up to 49"
"Democrats Seek to Block Appointee to Obama's Seat"
HLR Student Note on NAMUDNO
"Could Senate seat Franken before he's certified as winner?"
More Reactions to FEC 527 Controversy
"Donor Disclosure Has Its Downsides"
"New Population Estimates Show Slight Changes For 2008 Congressional Apportionment"
"Is Double Voting a Problem?"
"Obama led first billion-dollar race"
"Next hurdle is count of 1,350 absentee ballots"
"ANDREW APPEL RESPONDS TO ACCUSATIONS BY SEQUOIA"
"Bush v. Gore Still Influencing Court Decisions"
"With most ballot challenges settled, Franken leads by 48"
More Evidence of the New Partisan FEC: Statement of Reasons of Commissioners Bauerly and Weintraub in 527 Case
Light Blogging Through the Holidays
"Franken pushes his lead over Coleman past 100, but ..."
"Counting Heads, Not Dollars: A New Campaign Finance Context"
ELJ 7:4 Now Available: Preview of ELJ 8:1
"Could Blago Do A Little Side-Step?"
Bob Bauer on the FEC's New Bundling Rule
Breaking News: Divided Minnesota Supreme Court Issues Ruling on Counting Erroneously Excluded Absentee Ballots
"10th Circuit Strikes Down Oklahoma Ban on Out-of-State Circulators"
Franken Should Soon Take the Lead in the Minnesota Ballot Challenge
Reform Community Unhappy with New FEC Bundling Rules
Dan Tokaji on the Ohio Election Reform Bill
"VIOLATION OF PROTECTIVE ORDER IN NJ BY PRINCETON'S ANDREW APPEL, AN APOLOGY AND PAYMENT OF LEGAL FEES TO SEQUOIA."
The Latest from Minnesota
"Putting Political Reform in a Public Policy Context: An Analysis of the Policy Goals of Political Reform Ballot Measures in California"
FEC Explains Its Backlog
"Obama's 'Debtors' Cabinet'"
Dean Edley, Obama Advisor, on Election Administration Reform
Appointment or Election for the Illinois Senate Seat?
"Canvassing board encounters some 'very odd' challenged ballots"
"Obama's e-mails raise cash, concerns"
"Attorney General Offers Proposals To Make Voting Easier, Laws Clearer"
"Gov. gets bill that would end same-day registration, voting"
Archived Webcast of ELJ/UCDC/AEI-Brookings "Making Elections Work" Now Available
Dan Lowenstein and Others on the Blago Scandal
Want to Improve the FEC?
Interested Just a Little Bit in Comparative Campaign Finance Law?
Leib on Legislation Courses
"Safe Voting Re-Enfranchises Domestic Violence Surviviors"
More Evidence of a New, Partisan FEC
What Could Be Verse?
"Federal Court Upholds Native American Voting Rights In South Dakota Lawsuit"
For Election Junkies Only
PDFs of Some of My More Requested Law Review Articles
"Editorial: Recount reveals an election weak spot"
Darn those Omaha Voters
"JEHT Foundation Shuts Its Doors"
Sen. Coleman's Bush v. Gore Style Complaint in Minnesota Supreme Court
"More money sought for publicly funded campaigns in Arizona"
"Election Lawsuit Payouts Reach $1 Million"
Sen. Schumer To Take Over Chairmanship of Senate Rules Committee; Big Shoes to Fill in Election Administration Reform
"Legal Hurdle in Blagojevich Case: A Crime, or Just Talk?"
"One More Round of Voting, as Electors Do Their Duty "
"Senate recount: Battle of the ballot disputes is set to begin"
"A Ballot Buddy System"
Presidential Electors Apparently Don't Need Photo ID in Indiana
"Campaign Finance: A Victim of President-Elect Obama's Success"
"Court Won't Review Obama's Eligibility to Serve"
"Board of Elections: Voting machines missed votes"
"Avoiding the Vote: A Theory and Field Experiment of the Social Costs of Public Political Participation"
"Toward a Better Registration System"
"Republicans Revive Voter ID Proposal"
"A nasty bug emerges in the state election system"
"One Student, One Vote? Equal Protection and Campus Elections"
"Only fraction of Senate challenges will vex board"
"Review finds no vote fraud in Dallas County"
"Coleman asks court to intervene in rejected absentee ballot count"
NAMUDNO Distributed for January 9 Conference
"Absentee vote issue headed for state Supreme Court"
"Today's mission: what to do about rejected absentee ballots"
"Senate's authority to reject potential Blagojevich appointee unclear"
"The Illinois Senate Seat: Let the Voters Decide"
"Reform, About the Voter"
"Election 2008 in Review"
A Clarification from Commissioner Weintraub
"Does the Rule of Law Trump the Right to Vote?"
"Reid Prefers Senate Appointment to Special Election"
"Persistent Attacks on Campaign Regulation on Track to Being Considered by Supreme Court"
"Auditing Obama: Will the FEC Examine the President-Elect's Finances"
Rod Blagojevich vs. Tony Soprano?
Center for Public Integrity Sees 3 Election-Related "Failures" of the Bush Administration
Blair Bobier on Instant Runoff Voting
"Case Not Closed: After Losing at the Supreme Court, the Obama Conspiracy Theorists Meet the Press"
New Campaign Finance Institute Report on Party Convention Fundraising
"Happy Safe Harbor Day" from Ned Foley
"The Internet at the COGEL Conference"
"Can Blagojevich Still Appoint a New Senator?"
"No End in Sight in Minnesota Senate Recount"
"Boehner Still Tries to Crack ACORN"
"Subverting the Constitution for a Senate Race"
"Obama's Numbers May Be Game Changers"
Who is Candidate 5?
A Very Big Thanks to Dan Tokaji
Virginia Found to Have Violated UOCAVA
"Critics call for more donor transparency"
"Romney paves way for possible '12 run"
"Why Is There No Partisan Competition in City Council Elections?"
"Franken retracts hundreds more ballot challenges"
"Blacks and the 2008 Elections: A Preliminary Analysis"
"FEC Drops Presidential Campaign Cases Amid Deep Backlog of Enforcement Matters"
"Canada's Conservatives Overreach"
Slides on Internet Fundraising and Campaigning
Stay Denied in Obama Citizenship Case
Why All Lawsuits on Obama Eligibility Are Misguided
The Rev. Wright Ad That McCain Wouldn't Run
Provisional Ballots Bring Victory for Two Ohio Democrats
Voting in America Summit
"A political season long on insanity"
"Veteran lawyers battle in Minn. Senate recount"
"Can Reformers Tell Fact from Fiction?"
The Race for RNC Chair
"Lawsuits targeting Obama likely to be denied again"
"Voters Oust Indicted Congressman in Louisiana"
The Return of Ken Blackwell?
"Campaign Spending in the Final Weeks"
This Week's EAC Meeting
DC GOP Challenges Election of "Independent" to City Council
More on Ohio Provisional Voting Decision
"2 Calif. groups file suit seeking voting records"
Ohio Supreme Court Orders That Certain Provisional Ballots Not Be Counted
"McCain lawyer: Obama bid like Nixon's"
"Tangled Web: Rangel son got campaign cash"
Data for Democracy
The Minnesota Recount: Is the Finish Line in Sight?
"Hillary Clinton asks supporters to help settle debt"
"Supreme Court today deliberates suit blocking Obama presidency"
"Obama Hauls in Record $750 Million for Campaign"
A Real Squeaker
Malbin Responds to Questions on CFI Study
"Ballot Boxed"
"2008's Shrinking Battleground"
"Disenfranchising Our Military: Shameful Behavior of Virginia Board of Elections"
More on Minnesota
Rove on Obama's Financial Advantage
Funding the Minnesota Recount
"Teachers union settles campaign finance lawsuit"
"Two Republican groups fend off election law complaint"
"GOP move to alter Ohio voting law in lame-duck session sparks criticism"
"De Facto Disenfranchisement"
Polling on California Initiatives
"Video the Vote" on Cleveland Voting Problems
"On Message: Voter Persuasion in the 2008 Election"
"Not Every Vote Counts"
WV's Vote Flipping Controversy
"Obama Raised $750 Million for Presidential Campaign, Aide Says"
Who's Winning Minnesota?
"McCain wins Missouri by 3,903 votes"
"Tax activist's ad challenges Obama's eligibility for office"
Ohio Election Summit
"Democrats file voting rights lawsuit as recount begins in Texas House race"
"Election Reform and the Right to Vote, Pt 1"
Off to DC, Chicago; Dan Tokaji Guest Blogging Through Monday
"Lawmakers Spar Over GOP Elections Proposal"
"Senate recount: Pendulum swings to Franken"
Revised Version of My Paper on Presidential Primary Fundraising Now Available
"Obama's Fundraising Obliterates Records"
Voter Fraud in Beverly Hills?
"Legislators Urge Gates to Reform Military's Absentee Ballot System "
Lawrence Norton Also Not Happy with FEC's Recent Non-Advisory Advisory Opinion
"Senate Democrats should abandon the gerrymander"
"Franken May Ask Senate to Intervene in Minn. Recount"
"Obama, the Billion-Dollar Man"
"Vote count drags on Election Day"
"Second Home Owners Prevail on Election Law Challenge"
Could President-Elect Obama Remain Senator and Become President?
"Claim on 'Myth' of Obama's Small Donor Base Challenged"
"For Franken, A Math Problem"
"Who are the New Voters? Look Closer"
More on Pres.-Elect Obama's "Micro-Donors"
"Obama's Army of E-Mail Backers Gives Him Clout to Sway Congress"
Blackberry test post
A Third Perspective on Obama and Small Donors
"Are Long Lines the 'New Poll Tax'?"
"'Unbelievable' sum of money in Ga. runoff"
Quote of the Day
Bauer Piles On
Law Professor Mark Alexander on Obama Transition Team Reviewing FEC
Guy Charles from Minnesota to Duke
Government's Motion to Affirm in NAMUDNO Now Available
FEC Cannot Give Advice on Anti-Obama Ad
Dec. 4 Making Elections Work Conference to Be Webcast
NAMUDNO Motion to Dismiss or Affirm Due Today
Minnesota Senate Race Update
"New Bush v. Gore Precedent"
"State court to decide ballot fight"
"Grand Jury to Look at Muncie Mayoral Election"
"Senate Recount: Lost, Found, Challenged"
"Obama Places Stringent Limits on Inaugural Contributions"
"Inquiry Set on Mormon Aid for California Marriage Vote"
"Recount wrinkle surfaces in Minnesota: missing ballots"
Another View of the CFI Report
"Voter Registration Should Be Automatic"
"Ex-ACORN worker gets home term in voter fraud case"
"Texas Congressional Clout DeLayed"
"From One Footnote, a Debate Over the Tangles of Law, Science and Money"
Bauer on the CFI Report
"Run-up in ballot challenges cloud Coleman-Franken recount "
"Despite uproar, just 2 votes questioned"
"Q&A with the Lizard People voter"
Another One-Vote Case
"REALITY CHECK: Obama Received About the Same Percentage from Small Donors in 2008 as Bush in 2004"
Are Patronage Appointments Better?
One-Vote Margin in Indiana County Race
"Several Questionable Ballots Tossed Out"
"GOP Money Crisis"
"Sloppy Dems may spell Franken advantage"
The Latest from Minnesota
"Analyzing the Two Key Arguments in the California Supreme Court Case Regarding the Anti-Same-Sex-Marriage Proposition Eight"
Demos Has a Nicely Redesigned Website
"DC GOP: Independent Is Really A Democrat"
Issacharoff on "The Constitutional Logic of Campaign Finance Regulation"
"2008 Election Results Poster"
"The Slow and Contested Count for One Last Senate Seat"
"The Internet and the 2008 Election"
"There's Nothing Unusual About the Minnesota Recount "
"Obama Raised More than $500 Million Online"
"Provisional ballots could alter tight Ohio race"
"Ballot counting, the nitty-gritty of democracy, marches steadily on"
Tenth Circuit Reverses District Court, Upholds Albuquerque Voter ID Law Against Equal Protection Challenge
A Fantastic Exercise in Determining the Intent of the Voter in Minnesota Race
"Day 2 of Senate recount starts with narrowing margin"
"Flunking the Electoral College"
The American Spectator on the NAMUDNO Case
"Remember 'voter fraud'? Scandal was Mickey Mouse"
"Election board reports three fraud cases"
California Supreme Court To Decide if Propositon 8 is an Unconstitutional Revision of State Constitution
"The Morning After, Voting Problems Remain"
"McCain wins Missouri. Kind of. Two weeks later. Obama is still the prez, of course..."
"Minnesota's Senate recount is underway: 1 by 1 until 2.9 million"
"Begich topples Stevens in Senate race"
"Grand jury indicts man in voter-registration fraud"
"Recall specter hangs over high court as it considers Prop. 8 challenges"
Clinton's Debt
"Analysis: Obama won as more minorities, fewer whites voted"
Bauer on Lines at the Polls
"Edward B. Foley: In '62, Minnesota set the recount standard"
"Ousting Stevens: Senator Down the Tubes?"
"Think Tanks Present Policy Proposals to President-elect Obama"
"Seeking Closure the Hard Way in Undecided Senate and House Races"
Bush v. Gore Issues in Minnesota Recount?
"Begich lead over Stevens grows"
"Near Universal Agreement on the Need for Universal Registration: Experts and media call for sweeping reform of how voter registration is conducted in America"
Brawl on Voter Fraud Allegations Breaks Out in Senate Judiciary Committee Report on U.S. Attorney Firings
Former SG Clement Reflects on Oral Advocacy in McConnell Case
"Al Franken's vote-tally appeal blunted"
"GOP Lawmakers Seek End Of Vote Window"
More Bauer on Bopp and the RNC Suit
"Obama, McCain skip public-funding chat"
Foley: A Visible Reason that Precludes a Victory Lap
"Now the Hard Part: Can Obama Keep His Promises on Ethics and Transparency?"
"Alito's Way: Changes on the Court Usher in a Reversal of Course On Campaign Finance Reform"
'Hilary Movie:' Campaign Finance Victim?
Will the First Clash Between the Obama Administration and the Roberts Court Come over the Voting Rights Act (NAMUDNO)?
"Alaska voter turnout may set a record"
"What's the matter with Missouri?"
New Student Work on Election Law
"The $639 Million Loophole"
Georgia SOS Handel Responds to Cynthia Tucker Column
Don't Forget to RSVP for the ELJ/UCDC/AEI-Brookings Event on Dec. 4
Supreme Court Denies Cert. in Ohio Petition Circulator Case
"The RNC Attack on McCain-Feingold--in Association with Mr. Bopp "
Gerken: The Invisible Election
"Prof calls voter fraud charges overblown"
"Coleman vs. Franken: The Rematch"
"Justices Agree to Hear Case on Anti-Clinton Film"
"Begich lead over Stevens grows"
An Interesting Dual Role for An Election Law Scholar
"Provisional Ballot Use Increasing"
"SENATE RECOUNT: Franken sues for lists of voters whose absentee ballots were disqualified"
"Vote tally trend favors Begich for Senate"
Historical Quote of the Day
Breaking News: Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Two Election Law Cases This Term
More Minnesota Cries of Partisanship
Interesting Post-Vote Buying Story
"Santorums' absentee vote in Penn Hills challenged"
Citizens United Case on Supreme Court's Conference List Today
"Election Over, Workers Can Break Out the Campaign Buttons"
"Transition Team Chock Full of Bundlers"
The Politico on the Prospect of a 60-Seat Senate
"Put an end to election messes"
"Prop. 11 support signals voters' mood for reforms"
Bauer Sees Wertheimer Public Financing Proposal as Constructive
Chipman, Herron, and Lewis on "Residual Votes in the 2008 Minnesota Senate Race"
The RNC's Louisiana Coordinated Expenditure Complaint
"Alaska Senate Race on Hold"
"Election Day in America is record-breaking and mostly smooth"
"Beyond Red and Blue: 7 Ways to View the Presidential Election Map"
Read the Complaint in the New RNC v. FEC Case
"Franken seeks access to rejected absentee data"
"Proposition Overload: California needs to reform its system to cut back on increasingly numerous and costly ballot initiatives."
"BREAKING: Appeals court nullifies 2007 mayoral election"
About Those 32 "Lost" Ballots in Minnesota
Chapin: Enjoying the Unexpected - Or, the Virtue of a Victory Lap
"The $200 Campaign Finance Fix"
"Begich takes lead in latest vote count"
"Obama's Operation May Become the Model of Fundraising"
Voter ID Rules May Matter in an Indiana Race
More Bauer-Elmendorf
"Tainted Justice"
"A Senior Fellow at the Institute of Nonexistence"
Sen. Ben Nelson to Chair Rules Committee?
"Republican Party To Challenge Campaign Money Laws"
"Presidential Race Not Over in Missouri"
"Latest tally: Begich leads Stevens by 3 votes"
"Cavnassing Board Set for Senate Recount"
John Nichols: Dysfunctional election process needs to be repaired"
"That's Two for Me"
Unanimous 4th Circuit Panel Rejects "Speech or Debate Clause" Challenge to Rep. Jefferson Indictment
"Mischief in Minnesota?"
Just Wondering Dept.
"Open primaries another path to moderation?"
"Candidates await today's vote count"
"Senate Recount Puts State to the Test"
"Conference cuts funding for ACORN"
"New Colorado Panel Will Look At Election Reform"
Herron on Lott on Minnesota
What Happened to the Obama Push for the Deceptive Practices Act?
"Glory for Democrats -- Riding on a Single Vote"
Two from NPR
"GOP wants to protect right to vote-- for right people"
"What They Don't Want You to Know"
"Ohio election officials consider expanding early voting system"
"Could Sent Recount Referee's Resume Color the Result?
"Emory instructor recalls Obama the law teacher"
"Obama team announces new rules on lobbyists"
"ELECTION 2008: The Voting Problems Aren't Over"
Elmendorf: A Reply to Bob Bauer
"Obama likely to escape campaign audit"
"Hybrid Ads and Public Financing Reform"
"Most Uncounted Ballots Will Be Tallied Wednesday"
"Woman Who Voted Twice Says She Won't Be Charged"
"Still Some Undecided Races, But Obama Gets Electoral Grace Note in Nebraska"
The Latest on the Franken-Coleman Vote Counting
"Racial Gerrymandering is Unnecessary"
If You Are a Republican and You are Concerned About the Senate Recount in Minnesota...
"Reformers Try to Save Campaign Finance"
"Indiana's Deputy Secretary of State Quits"
And in Other Close Election News....
"Alaska's voting turnout puzzling"
"Minnesota Ripe for Election Fraud"
"After Citizenship Challenges, Ballots Thrown Out in Georgia"
Nate Silver on the Minnesota Recount and the Odds of Franken Catching Up
In the Election Law Mailbag
"From tight to tighter: Franken now just 206 votes behind"
"L.A. County election czar's to-do list includes reforms"
Interview on "In the Loop"
"Why exactly is the Senate permitted to expel a felon?"
"Alaska Race May Not Be Called for 2 Weeks"
"FEC Subpoenas Donors to 527 Groups to Bolster Its Court Case for Regulation"
"Voter registration process is under scrutiny"
"Election Reform Can't Wait"
"Early voting likely coming to Pa. by 2012"
"Election disputes offer new niche for lawyers"
"Voting in 2008: Lessons Learned"
No Ruling on Cert. Petitions in West Va. Judicial Recusal Case or Ohio Petition Circulators Case
"Backers Of Voting Rights Face Split Some in District Don't Want to Settle For Just House Seat"
"Under Obama, Web Would Be the Way"
"Big Political Donors Just Looking for Favors? Apparently Not."
Persily and Fougere: A Comparison of the Racial Composition of Support for Democratic Presidential Candidates in 2004 and 2008
Foley: Voting Next Time--and in 2020
"Fewer Paper Ballots Count"
Elmendorf: Two Models for Building Public Confidence in the Electoral Process
If. Sen Feinstein Goes to Chair Intelligence, Sen. Schumer Likely Will Chair the Senate Rules Committee
"A Better Vote"
"Uncounted Votes May Push Begich Past Stevens"
"Florida 2000, meet Minnesota 2008."
What Goes Around Comes Around Dept.
"Ohio Elections Chief Calls For Voting Summit"
Preliminary Findings of OSCE/ODIHR Observation of American Elections
"Obama wins electoral vote in Nebraska"
"Third-party voter-registration drives being investigated"
"Obama raising cash for administration"
Charles Stewart Offers Some Interesting Perspective on the Minnesota Undercount
"Tension Escalates as Recount Fluctuates"
"Prop. 11: 'Power Grab a Hard Sell'"
"Push to Expand Voter Rolls and Early Balloting in U.S."
Tokaji: Reforming Registration
"Obama campaign played unwitting role in phony polls flier"
"Reform Groups Push Revised Proposal To Revamp Presidential Campaign System"
"A Blowout? No, but a Clear-Cut Win, for a Change"
"Some House and Senate Seats May Take Weeks to Resolve"
"Liberal Lawyer's Group Wants Same-Day, Nationalized Voter Registration"
Franken Deficit Down to 236 Votes
"Making Elections Work: The Law and The Process After November"
More on Alaska Replacement Law, and Why the WSJ Washington Wire Was Right
"Voters' word may not be last in Minn. Senate race"
"Reply to Lindgren on 'Most Corrupt Election'"
"Reply to Lindgren on 'Most Corrupt Election'
Marty Lederman to Head OLC?
An Interesting Development in Minnesota
A Resurrection of Pres.-Elect Obama's Deceptive Practices Act?
A Constitutional Argument Against Stevens' Expulsion
Call for Papers---Election Law in the 2008 Election
Just Asking Dept.
"Franken says recount is needed; his deficit down to 438"
"Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are"
More from IssueLab on Election 2008
" A FIRST LOOK AT MONEY IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE ELECTIONS"
Bob Bauer on Administration of the Last Election and an Agenda for Reform
TPM, State By State, Looking at Voter Fraud Claims After the Fact
"Prop 8 Facing Uphill Legal Challenges"
What Will Happen to Senator Stevens' Seat? It is Complicated.
'Gov. Schwarzenegger declares win in Proposition 11"
What a Recount is Going to Look Like in Minnesota
"The Shape of Elections to Come"
Allegations of Impropriety in Minnesota Senate Race
"Voting Problems: 'Much Ado About Nothing'"
Expect Updates on California Ballot Totals from the SOS Friday and Tuesday
"Minor Party, Independent Presidential Candidates May Have Tipped 4 States"
Get Ready to Learn a Lot More About the Difference Between Constitutional Amendments and Revisions In California
Woocher on the Ballot Count and the Propositions in California
Gronke: Early Voting is Here. Now How Do We Manage It?"
Provisionals Could Widen Obama Lead in North Carolina
Revised Version of My Paper on Presidential Primary Fundraising is Now Available
"Races Yet to Be Called"
"Obama to take Internet army to Washington"
More Insightful Political Analysis from The Onion
"Alaskan Sunlight and Disclosure"
A Fight Over Provisional Ballots for the Missouri Electoral Votes?
Fixing Election Administration: The Way Forward
The Challenge for the Left Blogosphere---and An Opportunity for the Right
The Campaign Power of a Two-Letter Text
Right on the Money?-- In Part
Lindgren Responds on His Corruption Point
"Malfunctioning Machines, Ballot Glitches, Election-Law Litigation -- and a Busy Day for Lawyers"
"2008 campaign costliest in U.S. history"
"Minnesota Under the Microscope"
WaPo Review of Election Day Administration Issues
"First $5 Billion Federal Election Campaign Prompts Questions on Possible New Reforms"
Crotchety Spoilsport Featured in More Favorable Light
Anaylst Cries Over Messing Up Presidential Prediction
I'm Going Home: Election Administrator's Prayer Apparently Answered
Just in Case It Comes Down to Ohio...
"In Columbus, Ohio, an Honest Mistake Was Made"
All Eyes Now on Virginia Results
"Judge denies vote-counting suit vs. Philly"
"Shays' camp is looking into alleged voter fraud in Bridgeport"
Tom DeLay, in An Oped in Tomorrow's Washington Times, Seems to Call It For Obama, and Blame a Shadow Democratic Party
"Is Free Coffee Against the Law?"
This is Interesting
What is the "Maverick" and "Silver Bullet?"
"Election Day Irregularities in Battleground States"
When Will Pa. Emergency Ballots Be Counted?
"Glitches, machine breakdowns hamper voting in 5 states"
Let's Hope It's Not Close in Virginia
"At the Polls: Lines and Lawsuits"
"Easily the Most Corrupt Election" in Jim Lindgren's Lifetime?
"Poll problems and poll problem spin"
Excessive Use of Provisional Ballots in Hamilton County, Ohio?
Testy in Indiana
"Four Sub-Categories of Uncounted Ballots"
National Law Journal Interview with Ned Foley and Me on Dealing with Election 2008
"Election Watchers Report Problems Across Virginia"
My Universal Voter Registration Argument is Getting Some Play
Forum Shopping in the Ohio Election Day Litigation?
So Far, Lots of Lines, But No Major Voting Problems Reported
Sequoia Voting Machine Beats Obama, McCain at Polls
Amended Complaint in Ohio Republican Party v. Brunner Suit
Rob Richie NY Times Letter to the Editor on the Electoral College
"Milwaukee Puts a Vote-Fraud Cop Out of Business"
Republicans Are Claiming They Are Not Getting Access as Election Observers in Some Philly Precincts
Polling Place Blogging
Polling Place Blogging
"Electing the President in 2012: Three Predictions About How the Rules Might Differ Next Time Around"
In the Calm Before the Storm, A Tremendous Thank You
On Airtalk Tuesday with Doug Lewis
"Voter groups Unleash Lawyer Army"
"ELECTION 2008: ACORN Lawyer Says Nuts to You"
" A New Absentee Voting Directive in Ohio"
"Paid GOP workers say they misled Wisconsin voters"
"Networks May Call Race Before Voting is Complete"
Bonus Quote of the Day
"Why are we releasing exit poll data now?"
"Virginia NAACP says it's ready to go back to court"
Ron Michaelson Responds to ProPublica Report
Breaking News: Starbucks and Krispy Kreme Cave
A Few More Thoughts on the New Virginia Lawsuit
"Starbucks Free Java Violates Election Law, State Says (Update1)"
"Update: No charges in fake VA flyer case"
"Court leaves NC campaign finance law untouched"
Jim Morin Cartoon on the ACORN Controversy
"Judge Refuses Last-Minute Election Changes in Va."
Indiana Supreme Court in Marion County Absentee Ballot Case Reinstates Trial Court Order After COA Had Reversed It
"McCain sues to force Va. to count military ballots"
"Pennsylvania officials fear electoral flood tomorrow"
Prop. 11 Tanking
"Obama Lawyers Defend 'Vote Fraud' Efforts"
"Voter Groups Unleashing Lawyer Army"
"CRP Files Federal Complaint Against Barack Obama, Obama Campaign, Obama Victory Fund"
You Can Now Listen to My Brian Lehrer Interview
"Federal Judge to Hear Va. Election Suit Today"
"Mail-ins May Slow Results"
Plenty of Ballots in LA, but Try to Vote in the Middle of the Day
Marion County Case to Court of Appeal, or Perhaps Directly to State Supreme Court
"Van Hollen Calls For Voter Checks"
Upcoming Symposium Pieces, Just in Time for Election Day
Ruth Colker's Voting Odyssey
From Starbucks to Sex Toys
Quote of the Day
Cert. Denied in Duke v. Leake; No Ruling Yet in Capterton v. Massey
"Sequoia Voting Systems Failed to Deliver 18,000 Absentee Ballots to Colorado County"
"The State Of The Ballot Fight In Battleground States"
"VICTORY OF THE VOTING RIGHTS GROUPS"
"Get ready for a very long Tuesday night. Which could last until Friday."
"Courts, lawyers expect busy day; Election lawsuits play growing role"
"Officials confident Ohio voters won't see goofs like in '04"
Scheduled to Be on the Brian Lehrer Show in NYC in a Few Minutes
Rachel Maddow on Long Lines as a Poll Tax
"Both sides target voter fraud, abuse; army of lawyers on the go"
"Dead People Voting Throughout Florida"
"Dems' Firewall: Sec. of State Offices"
"What Happens to Public Financing, When Obama Thrived Without It?"
"Voting Experts Say High Turnout May Add to Problems at the Polls"
McCain Campaign's Rick Davis on Voter Suppression, Voter Fraud, and Potential Post-Election Litigation on Voter Fraud Grounds
"Tracking down election-law violators can be difficult"
"Legislators Using Law As Shield In Probes"
"Civil rights group renews Va. election lawsuit"
"Some Ohio voters receive multiple absentee ballots"
"McCain Camp Can't Give Example Of Registration Fraud Leading To Voter Fraud"
"First Let's Reserve All the Lawyers"
Et tu, Starbucks?
"Will this Election Be Stolen?"
"Judge orders Colorado to stop purging voter rolls"
Should It Be Easier to Qualify Referenda But Harder to Qualify Initiatives for the California Ballot
"Chaos Looms Over Pennsylvania Vote"
"Fight over absentee ballots heats up"
"Two-state two-step...Registered to vote in Indiana and Florida, thousands in Allen County could be doing the ..."
Read the Von Spakovsky et al. Letter to DOJ
Buy Some McCain Fine Gold
Early Voting Numbers Off the Charts in Some Places
An Interesting Sell on Prop. 11
"Absentee ballots emerging as a trouble area nationwide"
"Illegal Campaign Donations Spur Calls For Change"
"Will this election be decided by voters, not judges?"
"Dems, GOP Spar Over Absentee Votes"
" Election Watchdogs Gird for Problems Tuesday"
Colorado Continues to Be a Mess on the Voter Purge Issue
"New Voting Systems Could Cause Problems in Swing States"
"The Resolution of Election Disputes: Legal Principles that Control Election Challenges, 2nd Edition"
They're Going for the Punchy Headlines Over at the CLC Blog
"Lawyers: Justice Dept not enforcing election laws"
"Smoke of Registration Fraud Leads to Election Fires"
"NJ Public Advocate: Every Vote Counts, 10/31/08"
"Voting Developments: AG backs Denver plan to fix voter forms"
"Yes He Can; Barack Obama should be able to disclose his small-dollar donors pretty easily."
EAC Suspends Systest Labs
Breaking News: Indiana Appellate Court Unanimously Upholds Trial Court Decision in Lake County Early Voting Case
"Boehner calls Bush Justice Department partisan for Obama"
"Judge declines to interfere with voter ID law"
"Litigation Status Report"
Thanks to the Libertarian Candidate, A Potential Runoff in GA U.S. Senate Race
Is the Democratic Army of Lawyers Bigger than the Republican One?
"Are design issues to blame for vote 'flipping' in touch-screen machines?"
"Blind voter denied ballot, voting help"
Matthew Shugart on Prop. 11
Election Litigation Threat Level: Still Orange
What's Happening in Indiana
"Va. GOP Fights Election Lawsuit"
"Justice Dept. Will Send 800 Monitors to Polls"
"High court orders law followed on vote-counting"
"Lawyers eye Missouri on Tuesday"
"Legal volunteers hope to ensure a fair election"
"With Ambitious Campaign, Obama Is Both Big Spender and Penny Pincher"
"Election Matters: Doyle, Van Hollen fight about Election Day"
"Justice Dept. sides with Brunner on registrations"
"Voter Registration Smashes Records"
"Outside Soft Money Groups Approaching $400 Million in Targeted Spending in 2008 Election"
"Democrats sue to stop challenges to voters"
25% of Voters Still Undecided on Prop. 11
Pa. Discretion Apparently Remains in the Face of Machine Breakdown
"Campaigns exploit Calif loophole to make robocalls"
"Twelve States to Watch on Election Day"
"Judge rules on ACORN, voter-attire cases"
The Crotchety Spoilsport Gets Results!
Breaking News: New Lawsuit Filed in Indiana
"The Voting Rights Act and the 2008 Presidential Election"
"In Ohio, Provisional Ballots May Prove Pivotal"
"Albuquerque attorney denies violating law"
"Third Party Candidate Hurting Franken"
"Is Obama's Camp Throwing ACORN Under the Bus?"
More from Moritz
"Can the System Handle Huge Voter Turnout?"
"Jennifer Brunner cancels cross-checking of Ohio's new voters"
"DRE Spill on Aisle 12"
Better Ballot Design---It is So Important
"Voting machines could bring Election Day glitches"
Sixth Circuit, on 2-1 Vote Upholds Preliminary Injunction in Michigan NVRA Case
A Presidential Candidate's Decision to Take Public Financing: Who Cares?
"Beleaguered ACORN fighting back"
Exhaustion on the Campaign Trail for Journalists
Tomorrow's Indiana Election Law Litigation Today
"Stevens allowed to vote next week"
Finally, A Story on What's Happening with Election Administration in Missouri
"Mail ballot backlog poses problems for L.A. County voters"
"Election Law Litigation--Everyone's Doing It"
Ross and Raskin Debate the Electoral College
George Will on Senator McCain and Campaign Financing
"Democratic Party Spending Giving Big Boost to 10 Senate Candidates"
"Concern Mounts Over Expected Voting Surge"
"A Win for Purged Voters"
"In Ohio, Wary Eyes on Election Process; Fear of Fraud and Blocked Votes"
NY Times Editorial Praising Early Voting
"Waiting for a Presidential Winner: The Lessons of 1884 and 1916"
"Paper Ballot Has Md.'s, Va.'s Vote"
"Possible voter-fraud cases keep cropping up"
DOJ Responds to WSJ Editorial on Vote Fraud
"Voting-rights groups warn of election day fiascoes at the polls"
"Barack Obama's Slippery Fundraising Slope"
"Think tank debunks idea that Prop. 11 would hurt minority communities"
"State cannot add poll hours without approval"
"Judge stops Florida's law regulating political groups"
In Implementing Federal Court Decision, Is Pa. Secretary of State Breaking State Law?
"Feds must modernize voter registration to end fraud"
"Republican Voter Suppression: A Guide"
Federal District Court Denies Preliminary Injunction in Challenge to BCRA Disclosure Provisions and the FEC's PAC Definitions
More Breaking News: "Ohio Vote-Challenge Effort Hits Another Roadblock"
Breaking News: Federal District Court Requires Pa. to Provide Emergency Paper Ballots if At Least Half of the Voting Machines Break Down in Precinct
"Report shows no fraud in recent Nevada elections"
Guy Charles and Ned Foley on Minnesota Public Radio
"Night of the Living Dead: What if the Election Doesn't End on Election Day"
WSJ Profile of FEC Chair Don McGahn
Important Amicus Brief Filed by Campaign Legal Center and Democracy 21 in Real Truth About Obama 4th Circuit Case
"New Report Shows Five States' Dramatic Increase in Voter Registrations in Social Services Agencies After Reforms"
"DCCC Shock and Awe"
"Acorn Accuses Republicans of Voter Suppression in New Ad"
"Wealthy Interests Alter Calif's Initiative Process"
"Voter litigation appears over for now, Brunner tells local audience"
"Voting Snafus Rare But Worrisome"
Dog that Did Not Bark Dept.
Interview with Spencer Overton on Voter Fraud
"Parties recruit armies of lawyers to scrutinise vote"
Florida Early Voting and Provisional Ballots
Indiana Appellate Court Denies Request for Immediate Stay of Early Voting in Lake County, and Denies AG Motion to Intervene; Hearing to Be Webcast Tomorrow
"The Ohio Ballot Experiment of 2008"
"What Should Voters Expect At The Polls?"
"Obama donors get access to top advisers"
I Had Not Expected The Obama Campaign to Use Palin in Any of Its Advertising
"Campaign donor's contributions raise questions; Mystery man gives more than $120,000 to McCain and the GOP."
"Striving for a Smooth Election"
"Ohio Republicans Turn Voting Feud Into an Ad"
'Florida voting rolls contain dead people, duplicates, ineligible felons"
Florida Early Voting Extension Hours Now Uncertain
"Obama Accepting Prepaid Credit Cards; Contributions Untraceable to Donors"
A Small Point on California's Prop 11
"Wis. AG to Disptatch Cops to Polls"
Interview with CBC's "As It Happens"
Vik Amar on the Alaska Initiated Statute and the 17th Amendment
"FEC DEADLOCKS OVER PROPOSED ISSUE ADS: DOES THIS SIGNAL A SHIFT TO MORE PARTISANSHIP ON THE COMMISSION?"
"Federal Court Ruling: Ohio State Officials Responsible for Implementing National Voter Registration Law "
More on Rokita v. ACORN
A Trip Down Memory Lane: More Troubling Rokita Remarks
"Crist extends early voting hours"
"FEC fines Martinez $99,000 for breaking election law in 2004"
More on Alaska and the 17th Amendment
ACLU Letter to Senator Mukasey about Ohio Matching Issue
Supreme Court Cites Bush v. Gore, Issues Unanimous Election Law Opinion (not really)
"Legal War Rooms Prep for Election Battle"
"Senator Obama's $150-Million September and $600-Million Campaign: Signs that Our Campaign Finance Laws are Broken or Working?"
"Updated 10/28: Goldfish almost had right to vote"
"12,165 now on Florida's 'no match' vote list "
The Alaska Senate Vacancy Issue is Even More Interesting Than I Thought
"Federal judge will hear voter purge case Wednesday"
State AG Brief in Indiana Voting Case Now Available
Follow Up Order in Ohio Voter ID Case
Electoral College Predictions
"30 Florida counties won't follow state's voter ID suggestion"
Cleta Mitchell and "the professional vote-fraud deniers industry"
"Election Law Changes Likely to Increase Litigation"
"A Voting Rights Disaster?"
"Echoes of 2000? Fla. County Fears Voting Problems"
"Colbert Report" on the ACORN Controversy
"Conference Call: Judge Election Case Heads to High Court"
"Thurbert Baker to Democrats: Give up the voter ID fight, or else"
For Bush v. Gore Junkies Only
"Va. NAACP Sues Governor Over Election Readiness"
"Court: 'Flagged' Citizens May Vote"
More Rokita and ACORN
What Happens if Senator Stevens Resigns, Etc.?
"Registering Doubt: If We Can Nationalize Banks, Why Not Our Election Process?"
"Party Lawyers Ready to Keep an Eye on the Polls"
"ACLU Sues GOP Members to Protect Voter Privacy"
Indiana AG Wants To Get Involved in Lake County Early Voting Case
"Phony flier says Virginians vote on different days"
"A Guide to Election Year Activities of Section 501(c)(3) Organizations"
"Court: 'Flagged' citizens may vote"
"Block the Vote: Will the GOP's campaign to deter new voters and discard Democratic ballots determine the next president?"
Sec. Rokita and ACORN
"Some voters 'purged' from voter rolls"
"The ACORN Storm; From John McCain, Hyperbole About Potential Voter Fraud"
Where are Presidential Campaign Staffers Considered Residents for Purposes of Voting?
Read the Complaint Filed by Common Cause Against the Colorado Secretary of State
"PERSPECTIVE: Ohio GOP suit becomes sticky issue"
"Camps Lawyer Up For High-Pressure Election Day"
"Ballots picked up, then disappear"
"Court to hear suit on whether Michigan voters must remove political paraphernalia at polls"
"How to Steal the Election in a Few Simple Steps"
"More felons learning -- to their surprise -- that they can vote"
"Election fraud fears: the cure; States need better machinery and better registration procedures."
Gail Collins' "Quadrennial Rant" Against the Electoral College
"This Year's 'Butterfly Ballot'"
Bauer on Brad Smith on Obama's Fundraising and the Future of Campaign Finance Law
"New Study: Large Counties in Swing States May Face Election Day Problems"
"McCain's Warning About Voter Fraud Stokes a Fiery Campaign Even Further"
"FEC Rules Leave Loopholes for Online Donation Data"
"Early Voting Fraud: Rhetoric, or Reality?"
"Popularity of mail-in voting surges in California, elsewhere"
"Is Ohio Doomed to Ballot Battles?"
"Your Neighbors Could Find Out, So You'd Better Vote"
"Census Bureau's Counting of Prisoners Benefits Some Rural Voting Districts"
Justice and Vote Fraud: Lawyers Who Supervise Voting Rights are Obama Donors"
"White House Asks for Scrutiny; 200,000 Voter Registrations in Ohio Conflict With Other Records"
"Campaign Finance Gets New Scrutiny; Obama's Take Raises Questions About Web"
"Why We Need Wingtip Warriors; Both sides have elite lawyers on standby in case the election goes into constitutional overtime."
"Minority groups fear loss of power; They See Flaws in Plans to Revise Redistricting"
"Colo. secretary of state sued over voter purges"
"GOP challenges to new voters set back by courts"
"Exclusive: Dems: McCain broke own law"
"Judge Tosses Lawsuit Challenging Obama Citizenship"
The Latest on the Indiana Early Voting Controversy
Will the Indiana Intermediate Appellate Court Now Intervene and Stop Early Voting Two Days Before Election Day?
"What not to wear to the polls on Election Day"
"Computer error cited in Georgia's voter registration checks"
An Important Development in Ohio
"McCain Outspent 2-1 by Obama in First Half of October, but Appears Financially Competitive in the Last 20 Days of the Election"
"Police: Campaign Volunteer Lied, Injured Self"
" Bush, Boehner Want DOJ to Look Into Ohio Voting"
Breaking News: Indiana Supreme Court Won't Get Involved in Early Voting Dispute
"Obama fundraising drops as McCain's cash dwindles"
"Did New Mexico GOP Lawyer Hire P.I. To Intimidate Minority Voters?"
"State GOP reveals new witness in ACORN suit"
"Obama Spending Furiously Outpaces McCain's"
"10,000 absentee ballots in Gwinnett are flawed"
"7 Things that Could Go Wrong on Election Day"
"Everybody's Voting for the Weekend"
"Connecticut Hopefuls Flock to Public Financing "
"Was McCain volunteer attacked over bumper sticker?"
Sen. Obama's Campaign Spent $105 Million in 2 Weeks, and Raised $36 Million in First Half of October
"FEC Deadlocks Over Issue Ads"
Military Ballot Issue in Va Apparently Solved
"ACORN Battle Brews in State"
"Donor Patrol: Obama's Online Site Accepts More Fakes"
"Term Limits' Future Is in Court: Two Suits Now and More Expected "
"Michigan GOP Senate leader calls program to boost absentee voting illegal, asks Attorney General to investigate"
Indiana Early Voting Case Appealed to State Supreme Court
"If McCain Wins, A Constitutional Dispute May Follow: Why Arizona's Process to Pick a Senator to Temporarily Fill McCain's Seat Is Unconstitutional"
Electionline's Election Preview is Now Available
"Did Washington waste millions on faulty voting machines?"
Stand By (But Not Too Close to) Your Ad
More from the Washington Post on Small Donors/Small Donations
Wrong Precinct Issue in Maryland
"No on 11 Campaign Accused of Double-Speak"
"Protect This Election"
"Lawsuit is Filed Over Ballot Suit in Pennsylvania"
"ACORN Overstated Tally of Newly Registered Voters"
"Ohio SOS Draws Line on GOP Polling Place Challenges"
"Will the Tie Go to the Speaker"
"Judge Expected To Rule On Voter Lawsuit"
"Nevada Secretary of State Rebuffs Latest GOP Effort To Suppress Vote"
"Political spending races toward record $5.3 billion"
Some Evidence the ACORN Business Model for Voter Registration is Broken
"Congressional Leader Sends Letter to Attorney General"
"The Supreme Court Puts Ideology Aside in Deciding a Small But Important Ohio Election Case that Could Affect the 2008 Presidential Election"
Follow Up on Small Donations/Small Donors
"Voter fraud, suppression battle to intensify as election approaches"
Campaign Violence Update
"Gerrymandering Democratic Votes"
"Sorry, I Can't Find Your Name"
I, Apparently, Am a "Crotchety Spoilsport"
"Senators Feinstein and Kohl Urge Florida Secretary of State to Allow GAO Access to Florida Polling Places on Election Day"
Meanwhile, at the FEC....
Ned Foley Explains What's Going on the the Newly Revived Ohio Voter ID Suit
And in Reports of Violence Against McCain Supporters
Small Donations/Small Donor
"ACLU Calls for Criminal Investigation of Bernalillo County Clerk's Office, GOP"
"Vermont, Maine only states to let inmates vote"
Breaking News: Indiana Early Voting Upheld
"With two weeks to go, presidential candidates spoil six lucky states"
New Brennan Center Resource on Election Administration Issues Up To Election Day
For Those Who Gave Me Grief About My Palin Withdrawal Post
If the Election is Seen as Coming Down to Pennsylvania...
Bauer on Fixing Public Financing
NPR Talks with Tony Corrado About Public Financing
"Acorn Report Raises Issues of Legality"
The Big Story of Election 2008: The Irrelevance of 527s
Justice O'Connor Has "Stopped Losing Sleep" Over Bush v. Gore
"'Voters' flocking to Ohio; Prosecutor to campaign staffs: If you aren't staying, don't vote"
"Police prepare for unrest"
"Public campaign financing is dead"
"Secretary of state stands by registration check-box policy"
"Vice president: a split-ticket vote?"
"More Democrats Casting Early Ballots, Data Show "
A Potential McCain Electoral College Victory?
Legitimate Campaign Expenses
"Big Donors Drive Obama's Money Edge"
More on the Ohio State Mismatch Dismissal, and a Call for DOJ to Enforce HAVA Against Sec. Brunner
Senator McCain on Senator Obama's September Fundraising Numbers
"Obama's October Surprise: A 60-40 Democratic Financial Advantage?"
"GOP boss to SOS: Don't let certain voters cast ballots!"
"Early voting starts in 31 states; e-voting snag in W.Va. fixed"
CA Governor May Push Top Two Primary
"Voting Rights Groups Warn Prosecutors About Investigating Ohio Voters"
"Mich. Foreclosure-Based Voter Challenge Ends in Political, not Legal, Agreement"
"No Defense vs. Voter Fraud; Law Casts a Net that Catches the Wrong Fish"
"Voter-registration lawsuit against Brunner is dropped"
"Obama Entered October With Over $130 Million Cash On Hand"
"Dead Bear Found Wrapped In Obama Signs"
How Do We Know Whether Colorado is Still in Play?
"Naming Small Donors Can Be Tricky"
From the Perspective of Election Administration
"This Year's Hanging Chad"
"Election night may be a mess in Ohio"
Robocalls as a Substitute for Campaign Volunteers?
"Judge tours early voting sites, anticipates ruling today"
"Election Day Scenario Plays Out In Mock Court"
"Blackwell: Voter Fraud"
Bob Herbert on the ACORN Controversy
"Laws Allow Donors to Surpass Limits in Campaign"
"In Ohio, Charges Fly in Fight Over Absentee Ballots"
"Experts, Lawyers Prepare for Election Day Woes"
"Voting Rights Watch: Could confusing ballots swing the presidential election in NC?"
"Federal judge sends elections case back to Ohio Supreme Court"
"Supreme Court Ruling May Affect Wisconsin Suit"
"Democrats and Republicans settle foreclosed voter lawsuit"
Bauer Writes Another Letter to AG Mukasey
"Statement of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer On Presidential Public Financing System"
" Judge affirms block against campaign disclosure laws"
"Ohio governor accuses GOP of scare tactics"
"DEMOCRATIC PARTY'S INDEPENDENT SPENDING LEAD MAY DECIDE MARGINAL HOUSE RACES"
"This Election: Deceptive Practices 2.0?"
"Some early W.Va. voters angry over switched votes"
"New Report: Virginia Has Eight-Fold Increase in Voter Registration at Public Assistance Agencies after Reforming Procedures"
"Philly Official Scoffs at Voting Problems"
"Tires slashed during Obama rally"
"Eight Years After Bush v. Gore, Why is There Still So Much Election Litigation and What Does This Mean for Voter Confidence in the Electoral Process?"
Deters Update
No Ruling from Supreme Court Today on Cert. Petition in Capteron v. Massey
"Obama set to break fundraising records"
"Specter of voter fraud arises in election"
"McCain's old voter-fraud saw; His attack on ACORN undercuts real efforts to improve the system."
"Obama assembles United States' 'largest law firm' to monitor election"
"Ontario police arrest man in voter fraud case"
"Could the US election be stolen?"
"Heavy Voter Turn Out Nationwide Could Cause Delays at Polls"
"Changing Times Run Into Static Election Laws"
"Is public financing of presidential campaigns doomed? If so, so what?"
"Ex DOJ Voting Rights Chief: 'It's Going to Take a Long Time to Cleanse' Department"
"PERSPECTIVE: Signature challenges a political tool"
"New Study: Lack of Planning in Virginia May Cause Election Day Problems; Concerns Linger on Poll Booth Allocation Plans, Campus Polling Locations"
"Obama Raises More Than $150 Million in September"
"Voter registration controversy: Fraud or politics?"
"Are Voter Fraud Fears Overblown?"
"Glitches Fill Ohio Voter Rolls"
"Hate You Can Believe In: ACORN Deluged with Threatening and Racist Voicemails and Emails"
The Montana Voter Challenge Case from Last Week
"ACORN Followed Law on Suspect Voter Registrations"
"Deters subpoenas voter records"
Scheduled to Be on CNN Sunday at 9:15 AM Eastern
"Thousands Face Mix-Ups In Voter Registrations"
New Ohio Mismatch Suit One to Watch
"More tough election law talk"
"Voters contend they were duped into registering as Republicans"
ABC's "20/20" To Have Story on Campaign Finance Reform and Unintended Consequences"
"Judge Agrees with Challenge to W.Va. Political Ads"
"Death threat, vandalism hit ACORN after McCain comments"
More News and Commentary on the Supreme Court's Decision in ORP v. Brunner
Is Ben and Jerry's Inadvertently Breaking Federal Law?
Scheduled to be on News Hour Talking About Ballot Problems
"2008 National Voting Equipment Report"
"Trader Drove Up Price of McCain 'Stock' in Online Market"
Breaking News: Supreme Court Stays Sixth Circuit Decision
The ACORN Hysteria
The Latest on ORP v. Brunner
Nate Persily on "The Takeaway" Talking About the Possibility of Election Day Chaos
"Judge won't stop Georgia voter citizenship checks"
"Ohio Litigating Its Way Through Election Cycle"
"GOP vitriol rages over community activist group"
"Behind McCain's ACORN gambit: The fraud of voter 'fraud'"
The More Things Change Dept.
"Officials: FBI investigates ACORN for voter fraud"
Debate with John Eastman on Voter Fraud
"Rise in Voting by Mail Transforms Race in Colorado"
The Hill on Oral Argument in Bartlett Case
Follow the Docket in the ORP v. Brunner Case
Revised Version of My Paper on Presidential Public Financing Now Available
"Is ACORN Plotting a Coup?"
"ELECTION '08: ACORN, Stuck Between a Law and a Hard Place"
"Demos Publishes Election Primer for Journalists"
"States Get Mixed Reviews on Readiness for Voting Machine Problems"
"Obama's ties to voter registration group ACORN questioned"
Will "Joe the Plumber" Get Challenged at the Polls?
"Chaos Campaign: Will Ohio GOP Block Voters at Polls in 2008?"
Center for Public Integrity on Effects of WRTL on Election Ads
"28 Groups Report Over $50 Million to FEC In 'Electioneering Communications' This Fall"
"Union PAC fined 10G for attack fliers"
"New York Needs 21st Centry Voting"
"Voter fraud called a minor issue for November"
What's Keeping Sen. McCain from Being on Top in the Election?
The Acorn Comment of Senator McCain During the Debate
NY Times Reports that Ohio SOS Brunner Has Sought Stay of Sixth Circuit En Banc Decision From Justice Stevens
My Thoughts On Sen. McCain's Comments about ACORN and Voter Fraud
On the Radio
Senator McCain and Gov. Crist on Voter Fraud in Florida
"Ind. GOP warns disputed early votes may be tossed"
Morgan Kousser San Diego Union Tribune Editorial Against Prop. 11
"WOIO News In Cleveland Uncovers ACORN Voter Fraud"
"Matching funds OK for now, judge rules"
"Judge Rules in Favor of Exit Polling"
"GOP Deploys Squirrels"
"Experts warn of Nov. 4 voting meltdowns"
"Voting Rights and Free Elections in the U.S."
"In Case of Election Crisis, Congress Needs to Be Prepared"
Persily Wants the Presidential Candidates to Address Election Administration Reform
Server Issues
More News Reports on Bartlett v. Strickland Oral Argument
More on the ACORN Controversy
"Ind. Courts - Supreme Court rules in Lake County early voting dispute [Updated]"
More on Sixth Circuit Opinion
Both State Court Judges in Indiana Considering the Question Say Early Voting in Lake County, Indiana Should Continue
Lyle Denniston on Today's Oral Argument in Bartlett
"Judge seeks tighter security around N.J. voting machines"
Some Additional Thoughts on Ohio Republican Party v. Brunner
Breaking News: En Banc Sixth Circuit, By Divided Vote, Reverses 3 Judge Panel and Reinstates Trial Court TRO, in Ohio Matching Case
"Latest BCRA & FECA Challenge Amici Brief of Campaign Legal Center & Democracy 21"
"Republicans, ACORN Spar Over Voter Registration"
Abstention in Important Ninth Circuit Campaign Finance Case
Transcript of Oral Argument in Bartlett v. Strickland Now Available
"'Fraud' vs. 'Suppression'"
"Guest Commentary: Spoiled voters or a spoiled election?"
"Buckeye Institute Files State Rico Action Against ACORN"
"Justice Department Files Suit Against Vermont, Secretary of State Markowitz for Noncompliance with Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act"
"GOP Officials Assail Community Group; McCain Campaign Accuses ACORN of Voter Fraud, Highlights Ties to Obama"
"One Dollar for Every West Virginian"
"Quiet Political Shifts as More Blacks Are Elected"
"Voting forms ruled incomplete for lack of check mark"
"Ohio Voter Fraud Rare"
"1,245 Orange voters told they can't vote"
"McCain/Palin to YouTube: Get real"
"Nonprofit Groups and Politics: Tread Lightly"
"Obama and ACORN"
"Obama surges past McCain in fundraising race"
"Ind. Decisions - Status of: Remote voting sites at issue in Lake County [Updated]"
"Federal judge orders 1,438 names restored to Michigan voter rolls"
In the Election Law Mailbag
"Grofman selected as Peltason chair"
"Political groups playing reduced role in 2008 race"
"Groups' accounts enable lobbies to ante up millions for legislators"
"Voter Rolls Are A New Front In Battleground States"
" Reform the Electoral College (Keep It, but Reform It)"
"U.S. Supreme Court Is Asked to Fix Troubled West Virginia Justice System"
Lyle Denniston Previews Oral Argument in Bartlett v. Strickland
"Many convicted felons remain on voter rolls, according to Sun Sentinel investigation"
"SWAP MEET: INTRODUCING THE FRAMERS TO NADER'S TRADERS THROUGH PORTER V. BOWEN"
More on the ACORN Controversy
Attempted Vote Buying in Beverly Hills
Decision Expected as Early as Monday in Lake County, Indiana Remote Voting Controversy
Heated Sixth Circuit Opinion in Ohio Matching Case; En Banc Decision May Come Tomorrow
"The Purge Surge:Why the GOP is Nuts About ACORN"
"McCain Campaign Calls for Investigation of ACORN-Obama Ties"
"Candidates Meet 'Natural-Born' Test Despite Rumors"
"NY Election Mix-Up: 'Osama' on the Ballot"
"Ohio Sheriff Drops Request For Voter Information"
"Texas County Agrees to Stop Vote Suppression Efforts Against Black University Students"
" Democracy 21 Files Complaint Today Calling on FEC to Investigate Whether Two Outside Groups Illegally Spent Soft Money to Influence the 2008 Presidential Election"
"States' Actions to Block Voters Appear Illegal"
"Fictitious Donors Found in Obama Finance Records"
More Litigation and Police Activity over Voter Registration in Ohio
Electionline Weekly on 31 Million Ballots Expected by Mail
"The Swing States of America; Candidates Focus Their Times and Resources on a Handful of States and Follow Voting Patterns of 2004 Presidential Election"
"Local 2 Investigates Dead Voters"
"Voting Access In 10 Key States"
Regular Blogging to Resume Friday
"Reform Institute Endorses Redistricting Reform in California"
"Taking on Florida's Political Speech Police"
"Voter Fraud? Officials Raise Concerns About Thousands of Suspicious Voter Registrations"
More Info on Who Used the Five Day Window to Register and Vote in Ohio
"Palm Beach County commissioners worry about legal nightmare on Election Day"
Campaign Spending
"Dirty tricks claims as parties battle over voter registration"
"Marion Co. GOP: Clerk Beth White violated election law"
"ACORN Office in Vegas Raided in Voter Fraud Probe"
All Bush v. Gore All The Time
Lockheed Martin Has Contract to Staff DOJ Election Hotline
"Election 2008: Election Law (and How They Break It)"
"Report on voting machines at issue"
Reminder: Speaking Tonight at Hammer with Sec. Bowen
"Transgender Candidate Who Ran as Woman Did Not Mislead Voters, Court Says"
"G.O.P. Query Involves 1% of Giving to Obama"
"Window came as surprise to Ohio GOP"
Bauer on Bopp and Truth
Battles in State and Federal Courts over Early Voting Sites in Lake County, Indiana
Ninth Circuit Uphold's Alaska's Ability to Force Alaska Independence Party to Choose Its Nominees via Direct Primary
Columbia Journalism Review on Coverage of Election Registration and Administration Stories
"Worries About Voter Intimidation Run High"
"Legal Center Opposes Voter Roll Purges in Wisconsin Lawsuit"
"Judicial Ideology and the Transformation of Voting Rights Jurisprudence"
"Voter ID laws a GOP tactic of cynicism"
"The Winnebago Vote"
"FEC Queries McCain Campaign on 'Excessive Contributions'"
"Social Security Asks Six States to Review Voter Registration Verification Procedures to Ensure Compliance with Federal Law"
"Social Security Asks Six States to Review Voter Registration Verification Procedures to Ensure Compliance with Federal Law"
"Tracking Big Money In Small Amounts"
"In the Event of a Tie"
Gov. Palin Did Not Check Off for Presidential Public Financing System
John Fund's Latest on Voter Fraud
Deja Vu All Over Again
"'Tis the Season of Election Dirty Tricks: Scaring Student Voters"
"Pre-Election Fight Brings in Lawyers, Accusations"
"G.O.P. to File Complaint Over Donations"
"Ind. Decisions - Remote voting sites at issue in Lake County [Updated]"
NAMUDNO Supreme Court SG Response Delayed to Nov. 10
"Republicans Challenge 6,000 Voter Registrations in Montana"
All Bopp All the Time
"Colorado Officials Not Prepared for Anticipated Turnout"
"EAC Commissioners Confirmed by U.S. Senate"
"Bogus emails raise anxiety over voter ID law"
A New Open Primary Effort in California?
"Red Flag On Purging Voter Rolls"
Is the Republican Party of Wisconsin Considering a Suit Against ACORN?
A Petition to Ask the Presidential Candidates About Weekend Voting at the Next Debate
FEC May Consider NRLC Request for Advisory Opinion Soon
"Justice, Bush Style"
"GOP sound and fury about ACORN is a little bit nutty"
Two on SSRN
"McCain camp turns to Maine's Second District"
My Thoughts on Tonight's VP Debate
"Millionaire's Amendment to Be Erased"
The Latest Electionline Weekly
"What Happens If a Vice Presidential Candidate Drops Out?"
"ACLU Asks Court to Allow Rejected Absentee Ballot Applications"
"Homer Simpson" Tries to Vote for Obama But is Thwarted by Electronic Voting Machine
"Judge Suppresses Report on Voting Machine Security"
"Delegating Direct Democracy: Interparty Legislative Competition and the Adoption of the Initiative in the American States"
Sixth Circuit Sides with Ohio Secretary Brunner in 5 Day Window Case
"Lawsuit over Ohio Republican absentee-ballot applications thrown out"
"Secret, Foreign Money Floods Into Obama Campaign"
"Early Voting: Boon for Fraud, Bust for Deliberative Democracy"
" Next president can aid redistricting fix"
"Reports Show Widespread Confusion About The Voting Rights Of People With Criminal Records"
Bauer on the Firing of David Igelesias as U.S. Attorney for New Mexico
"Study Finds States Purging Millions of Voters in Secret, Often Erroneously"
"The Hidden Legacy of Holy Trinity Church: The National Narrative Canon"
Pildes and Garrett on "How the Financial Crisis is Reshaping Democratic Politics: Term Limits Reconsidered"
"An Online Symposium on Senator John McCain and Natural Born Citizenship"
"Defending Nancy Pelosi"
"Voting Goes to Court; Registration Lawsuits Could Shape Election"
Jim Bopp Files Request for Advisory Opinion with FEC on Obama-Abortion Related Ads to be Run by National Right to Life
Regular Blogging to Resume Thursday
"Counting Votes and Making Votes Count"
"Election Experts Release 'Ballot Accounting Checklist' for 2008 Election"
"The Myth of 'Voter Fraud' Drives Systemic Efforts to Suppress the Vote"
"Voting Rights in the 2008 Election: How Do We Ensure Every Vote Counts?"
TRO Issued in One of the Federal Cases on the Ohio Five Day Registration/Absentee Vote Window; One Federal Court Accuses Another of Acting "Unseemly" and with a "Lack of Comity"
"WV voter fraud concentrated in Kanawha County"
"On GOP Plans and Denials to Challenge Foreclosed Voters"
"Voter registration effort criticized"
"Paper ballots won't be the panacea Broward County hoped for"
Local Missouri Prosecutors as Part of Obama "Truth Squad"
"Count Every Vote: California's secretary of state says open-source software is needed to safeguard electronic voting systems."
"Kurita sues to get win restored"
"AFTER HOLDING FINANCIAL ADVANTAGE IN PRIMARIES, OBAMA LIKELY TO ACHIEVE ONLY PARITY WITH MCCAIN IN GENERAL ELECTION"
"New Voices in Politics: Justice Marshall's Jurisprudence on Law and Politics"
"Voting, Disputes Get Off to an Early Start in Ohio"
"Re-Seeding the Housing Mess"
"Another chance at redistricting in California"
"Experts: Wis. suit affects minimal post-election"
"Live, from New York...."
Pildes: The Bailout Bill and the Awkward Merger of Presidential and Independent Control
"Well, I don't know whether Senator McCain is a model of debate prep today."
"Charity Floods Swing States With Anti-Islam DVD"
"Ministers to Defy I.R.S. by Endorsing Candidates"
"2 Ohio justices step down in cases challenging early-voting procedure"
EAC Chair Rodriguez Sends Letter to Social Security Administration Re Shutdown
Appeal to 4th Circuit of "Real Truth Against Obama" Case
"Ohio's Battle Over Early Voting"
"What Does It Mean To Suspend a Campaign?"
California Appellate Court Rules that Los Angeles' "Measure R" (Increasing Term Limits) Does Not Come Under Single Subject Rule
"States, Territories, and the District Are Taking a Range of Important Steps to Manage Their Varied Voting System Environments"
"Obama seeks to take down NRA ad"
The New Electionline Weekly
Just Asking Dept.
Anonymous "Election Lawyer" is Concerned that Justice Department Will Criminally Prosecute Republicans for Exercising First Amendment Rights in Election
"Court Clears Voting Rights Act Bailout for Virginia County"
"Reading Between the Extremes of Obama Campaign v. Michigan GOP"
"Palin gets more time to detail personal finance"
New Lawsuit Filed Over Ohio 5 Day Registration/Absentee Window
Pastors, Elections, the Tax Man, and the Constitution
"Republicans, ACORN feud over suspicious voter cards"
"As Homes Are Lost, Fears That Votes Will Be, Too"
"DOJ Says It is Monitoring Michigan GOP"
"ELECTION 2008: Wisconsin Judge Rules AG Can Sue State's Election Board"
"Voter groups to hover over county Nov. 4"
"Confusing Voter Registration Laws Could Affect Presidential Election; Register at parents' home? At school? Students get conflicting advice"
MIT Conference on Electoral College Reform, Oct. 17
"Voter Registration Shut Down?"
"Newspapers in Swing States Are Delivering Anti-Islam DVDs to Voters"
Sen. McCain Wants Debate Postponed
"Campaign Finance Watchdog Group or Campaign Organization?"
More on Electoral College Tie
Profile of Sen. Obama as Law School Professor
"Democrats sue to make Rossi call himself 'Republican' instead of 'GOP'"
"Barr loses bid to keep Obama, McCain off Texas ballot"
"GOP criticizes advisory of Ohio elections chief"
'"Federal, State and Local Efforts to Prepare for the 2008 General Election"
"Wisconsin Republican Party chairman says he had contacts with Van Hollen's top aide"
"Feds Won't Send Prosecutors to the Polls"
"McCain v. Obama, a U.S. Supreme Court hypothetical (one hopes)"
"Palm Beach Ballots Down for the Count"
"Judge rules for injunction on Measure T"
"269 tie: An electoral college 'doomsday'"
Federalist Society Event in DC
"Fight Heats Up in Ohio Over Voting Procedures"
"Nader: Drawing Votes--From McCain"
In Conference Call with Reporters, Rudman and Danforth Try to Tie Obama to ACORN and Raise Claim of Illegal "Diluting" of Legal Votes
"It Will Always Be 1965...to the Voting Rights Activists"
EAC Commissioner Confirmation Hearing Thursday
" Panel of Election Officials to Discuss Voting System Integrity for November Elections"
"Acorn: Steps in place to prevent fraud"
"Appeals Court Gives FEC, DOJ Deadline To Answer Anti-Obama Group's Challenge"
Does Chesterfield County, Va Need Federal Supervision on Election Day?
"Voting system remains untested"
BCRA's "Stand By Your Ad" Provision Gets the Saturday Night Live Treatment
"Obama Led Opponent in Spending in August"
More on the Voter Fraud Controversy in Wisconsin
"Battle brewing in Ohio over voting-record discrepancies"
"A third of electorate could vote before Nov. 4"
"2 percent of Florida's vote can spark a battle"
"McCain's Camp Tests Fund-Raising Limits"
"Republicans slam group suspected of voter fraud"
"Online help for judges in election lawsuits"
A Thought on the 60-Day BCRA Window
More on the Michigan Voter Fraud Controversy
"Democracy 21 Calls on Attorney General to Remove Director of Election Crimes Branch from any Decision Making Role Regarding 527 Groups, After Director Makes Comments that Appear to Immunize 527 Groups from Justice Department Investigation or Prosecution"
Federal Court Challenge to Nevada Initiative Process Filed
Lots of Interesting Stuff in this Week's Electionline Weekly
"Nader, Barr muscle onto the Nov. ballots"
Bauer v. Potter on Voter Fraud Allegations in Michigan
"Law dean writes of regret over errors"
"Barr Loses Bid to Halt Mailing of Ballots"
"Early Voting for President Starts Today"
"Watch Out Donald McGahn II!!!"
"Miss. governor will move Senate race up on ballot"
"Barr Sues Texas for Excusing Late Filing by Republican and Democratic Presidential Candidates"
"Advancement Project and ACLU Sue Michigan Secretary of State Over Unlawful Voter Purging"
Another Virginia County Bails Out from Section 5 Coverage
Center for Competitive Politics v. NRCC
"FEC Tackles Rule on Bundling of Campaign Donations"
"Rep. Don Young Wins Alaska House Primary"
"Democrats, Florida elections officials criticize GOP mailing"
Interesting Data on Presidential TV Advertising from the Wisconsin Advertising Project and CMAG
"House Passes Veteran Voter Drive Bill"
"Nonpartisan task force will investigate voter fraud allegations"
"Obama Campaign Sues in Michigan Over Alleged Voter Fraud"
"2 voters sue Ohio elections chief"
"High Turnout, New Procedures May Mean an Election Day Mess"
"GOP Money Power Takes On Obama Fundraising"
Bauer on Whether Democratic Claims of Vote Suppression are Equivalent to Republican Claims of Voter Fraud
"Democrats Challenge Van Hollen's Voter Registration Lawsuit"
"Officials Challenge Senate Race Ballot"
"McCain Able to Skirt Limits of Federal Financing"
"Democrats Sue Michigan G.O.P. on Voter Issue"
"GOP-targeted group: 'Your complaint is frivolous'"
"Democrats Reject Kurita Win"
"Are They Really Safe?"
Programming Note
Bauer on Hasen on Presidential Primary Financing
DOJ Official Says Agency Won't Go After Contributors to 527s Who Are Clearly Breaking the Law...
"Judge: Barr will be on Pa.'s presidential ballot"
"Could Obama and Barbra break a record in Beverly Hills?"
"Helping vets vote should be law, senator says"
"Interest Groups Step Up Efforts in a Tight Race"
"McCain-Palin 2008 Launches 'Honest and Open Election Committee'"; Will It Make A Difference in the Election Administration Wars?
NRCC Files Complaint With FEC Against Group, Alleging It Must Register as Political Committee
"Voting in 2008: 10 Swing States"
"Liberal 527 Groups Target McCain With Ads"
"More Supply, More Demand: The Changing Nature of Campaign Financing for Presidential Primary Candidates"
"The Power of of Political Misinformation"
Move von Spakovsky on Absentee Ballot Fraud
"Hood Takes Gloves Off Over Barbour Ballot Scheme"
"Ohio Secretary of State Prevents Vote Caging"
"Critics: 'No Match, No Vote' Law Could Keep Voters From Polls"
"States Restore Voting Rights for Ex-Convicts"
"Va. Orders 200,000 Additional Voter Registration Forms"
AIP Gearing Up for More Anti-Obama Ads
"Bad voter applications found"
"In August, Obama Raised $66 Million"
And in Election Adminstration Controversies from Wisconsin....
"Democratic Party committee throws out state senator's victory"
Please, Please, Sens. Obama and McCain---One of You Make it a Blow Out in Florida
"Obama's Fundraising Machine Still Rolling as Campaign Stays Coy"
Dusting Off the Explainer
Ohio Election Administration Update
"In Palm Beach County it goes from missing ballots to too many ballots"
More on Political Cybersquatting: No Buyers....
The Election Administration Wars Continue in Ohio
"Judge Rules Against Mississippi GOP, Orders Special Senate Race Moved Up on Ballot"
New ACLU Lawsuit Regarding Felon Disenfranchisement in Mississippi
"Voter Registration for Wounded Warriors: S. 3308, the 'Veterans Voter Support Act.'"
"GOP 527 Must Show Us The Money"
"'Jim Crawford' Republicans; The GOP is working to keep eligible African-Americans from voting in several states"
"Editorial: Partisanship at work?"
"Foreclosures won't hinder voters; Macomb GOP chief denies plan to challenge votes in November"
Federal District Court Denies Preliminary Injunction in "Real Truth About Obama" Case
"Voter Registrations Could Face Legal Challenges"
"Ballot snafu endangers votes"
Did ABC News Bury the Lede?
Reply Brief in Bartlett v. Strickland
Garrett on "Direct Democracy and Public Choice"
Pildes on the "The Legal Structure of Democracy"
"Law Prof Presidential Campaign Contributions: 95% to Obama, 5% to McCain"
"Utah's Regulation of Issue Advocacy and Multipurpose Organizations Ruled Unconstitutional"
Two Ground Games
"State Justice Department sues election officials"
"MS-SEN: Even More Ballot Shenanigans"
"Lose Your House; Lose Your Vote"
Scheduled to Be on AirTalk This Morning
Attention Student Voters!
"State high court denies ballot measure"
"Dan Walters: Would redistricting reform make Capitol more collegial?"
"Across Country, New Challenges to Term Limits"
Why It is Marginally Less Likely We Will Have an Electoral College Tie This Election
"Obama Broke Fundraising Record"
The Florida No Match, No Vote Rule
"Judge blocks decision on Senate race"
More From Ellen Aprill on the AIP (c)(4) Controversy
More Corrections to Election Law Teacher Database
"Obama Signal to Dem 'Cavalry' May Be Too Late"
The Obama Money Situation
"It's Near the Campaign's End -- Send in the Lawyers"
Judge Calabresi Writes Interesting One Person, One Vote Decision for Second Circuit
"Concerns abound over voter access in November"
"Ministers want church out of politics"
"Anti-Obama Group's Future Spending Unclear; Others Spending on Issue Ads for Hill Races
Appeal Filed in the NAMUDNO Case
"V.A. to Allow Voter Signup for Veterans at Facilities"
"The Ground Game: The Campaigns Have Already Begun Fighting Over Ballots and Rules for Voter Registration"
Justice Breyer Talks About the Bush v. Gore Movie, "Recount"
"Ohio elections chief challenges registration law"
" EAC Chair Calls on Voters to Prepare and Confirm before November Election Register Early and Verify Registration Status"
"Yepsen: Do it yourself, Iowa: Improve the caucuses"
"Key Questions for Key States"
"Flawless Vote Counts"
"New 527 Group Plans Attack on Obama Themes"
"Georgia Democratic Party Sues over Voter ID"
"Clean Elections on Its Death Bed"
"Voter Registration by Students Raises Cloud of Consequences"
More Hayward v. Bauer on AIP
PR Coming to Cincinnati City Council?
"FEC Moves to Get Bundling Rule on Track with Hearing Set for Sept. 17"
"Too Generous"
"New Study: New Mexico Leads in On-Campus Polls, Equipment Uniformity"
Federal District Court Grants WRTL-Type As Applied Exemption from Ohio Law Banning Corp. Funds Spent on Elections; Court Says Disclosure Provision is Constitutional
"Protecting Your Vote With Invisible Ink"
"Libertarian ballot battle has its day in Pa. court"
NPR's "Science Friday" on Voting Machine Issues
von Spakovsky on Absentee Ballot Fraud
Another Intellectual Property Dispute Over a Campaign's Use of Copyright Protected Material
Aprill on 501(C)(4)'s, With Special Reference to the American Issues Project Controversy
"Phila Council Bill Could Eliminate 2 GOP Seats"
"Thousands of Americans Faced with New Polling Places in November"
"Hunt for missing ballots widens in Palm Beach County"
"Much has changed in Wash. elections since 2004"
"whiny 'family man' wants to be Family Court judge -- and to copyright the slogan"
My Neighborhood Middle School's Picture Featured in Sen. McCain's Speech
Great Teaching Tool for WRTL Campaign Finance Case
"Using campaign finance law as an electoral sword"
"The ballots are missing, so start finding answers"
David Primo Gets Tenure at Rochester
Updated Election Law Teacher Database
"Poizner May Be GOP Savior on Redistricting"
Natonal Center for State Courts Election Law Program Now Available
"Ruling possible today on putting reform issue on ballot"
"High court axes 3 key amendments; The Florida Supreme Court removed three high-profile constitutional amendments from the November ballot, including one calling for a tax-swap plan."
"New push to pick the president by popular vote"
"Alaska Party Official Says Palin Was Not a Member"
Federal District Court in Arizona Denies TRO Barring Matching Funds Portion of Arizona Public Financing System, But Legal Analysis Says Law is Unconstitutional*
"How to Replace a Vice Presidential Nominee"
Allison Hayward on the AIP Controversy
"Anti-Obama Nonprofit Group Relies On Obscure 'QNC' Waiver of FEC Rules"
GOP Primary Rules
"New Jersey 'Clean Elections' Program Dead--For Now"
A Palin Withdrawal Scenario
"Don't Like Palin's Wikipedia Story? Change It "
"Push for Poll Workers As Election Nears"
Stanford Law and Policy Review Publishes Symposium on Law of Lobbying
"McCain Gets $7 Million Bounce from Palin Pick"
"Victory in the voting rights battle"
"Ohio GOP in a needless lather over register-and-vote window -- editorial"
Political Commentary at the Huffington Post
"Misleading Web addresses lead to anti-Obama site"
If Sarah Palin is McCain's Harriet Miers, Can She Be Replaced by Sen McCain?
More on Humboldt's Measure T
Who Bought the Obama-Biden Domain Names? Two Stories Come Together
"Legal Controversy Erupts Over TV Ads Linking Obama to '60s Radical"
The Political Importance of the Post-Convention Bounce
Election Law Quote of the Day
More Problems Coming to Palm Beach County Election Administration?
"Democrats, Republicans Miss Texas Deadline to Certify Presidential Nominees"
"PLF LAWSUIT TARGETS HUMBOLDT COUNTY'S OUTRAGEOUS BAN ON ELECTION DONATIONS BY BUSINESSES"
PPIC Finds Prop. 11 Trailing But Majority of Californians Wanting Independent Redistricting
"Hanging chads in Alaska primary? Don Young waits"
"New Study: Missouri May Experience Long Lines on Election Day"
"Cuyahoga board investigating registration fraud"
More on AIP
WaPo on the Ayers Ad Controversy
"Some Clinton Fund-Raisers Are Still Simmering"
Is the American Issues Project Breaking Campaign Finance Law?
"Parties Subject to Myriad Rules"
"Obama Seeks To Silence Ad Tying Him To 60s Radical"
Armies of Lawyers, Cont'd
"How Design Can Save Democracy"
"Dems Move to Resolve Primary Scramble"
"Blacks Debate Civil Rights Risk in Obama's Rise "
"Convention donors often have business before lawmakers"
The Secret Money Project
"Warning on voting machines reveals oversight failure"
Look at the Obama-Biden Domain Names on Sale at eBay
For Political Junkies Only
Just for Fun
"GOP Wants Barr Barred From Pa. Ballot"
"Experts: Obama-Ayers Ad May Be Illegal"
Commissioner Criticizes von Spakovsky Appointment, Calling Him a "Retread"
"The Push for On-Campus Voting"
"CGS Releases New Reports on Public Campaign Financing"
"Ohio Voting Machines Contained Programming Error That Dropped Votes"
von Spakovsky Lands Temporary Full time Employment with U.S. Civil Rights Commission
"FEC Frees McCain from Spending Limits"
"U.S. District judge upholds Arizona's voter ID law"
"RNC Victory Fund Donors Stay Cloaked"
In the Election Law Mailbag
"SPECIAL REPORT: The Myth of Widespread Non-Citizen Voting; A Response to the Heritage Foundation"
"Obama Looking to Diminish Superdelegates"
Campaign Finance and Election Law Update
"UPDATE: Souter refuses to order ballot access"
Seach Inside the 4th Edition of Election Law--Cases and Materials
"DNC Pushes FEC on McCain Loans"
State of Maine and State's Democratic Party File Response in Ballot Access Case Before Justice Souter
"ACLU-NCLF Files Lawsuit Against North Carolina State Board of Elections Challenging Total Ban on Lobbyist Contributions"
"Conventions blend money, parties, ethics rules"
"FEC Cuts Clinton's Chances to Repay Loan"
U.S. Files Amicus Brief in Bartlett Case
"Ethics Thicket for Convention Parties Crimps Events"
"GOP Warns of Suit Over Voting Law"
"Will 'Armies of Lawyers' in Service to Political Parties Determine Election 2008?"
"Hack the Vote: Five Ways Internet Tricksters Could Tamper with the 2008 Elections"
"Statement by Commissioner Gracia M. Hillman In Response to August 16 New York Times Article on Voting System Flaws"
"Head of Foundation Bailed Out Nonprofit Group After Its Funds Were Embezzled"
"Souter probes Maine ballot access issue"
"Gridlock in the Forecast"
"States Still Struggling With Voting Machines"
"Voting and the Constitution"
"Sidestepping the electoral college"
Catching Up Department
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Blogging (and Classes) to Resume Monday
And When the Morning Light Comes Streaming In, He'll Get Up and Do It Again
Sen. McCain May Not Have Wayne and Garth, But Sen. Obama is Using a Steve Carrell Image and a Jay Leno Image in one of His Ads
"Paid Voter Registration Drive Causes Headaches for Louisiana Voter Registrars"
FEC to Consider McCain Withdrawal From Public Financing System at Aug 21 Meeting; Staff Recommends Vote in Favor of McCain Withdrawal
"City Blacklist Limits Giving by 12,000"
"As Donors, Lobbyists Often Favor One Party"
"Unions Seek Proble of Wal-Mart Over Election Law"
"John McCain and the Curse of Reform"
Time's Up. Please Stop Typing or Writing.
"Election Day Voter Protection Initiative Launched"
"The Judicialization of Mega-Politics and the Rise of Political Courts"
"Voting Rights Act Bailout Cleared for Virginia County"
"What Happens When Voters Don't 'Match'?"
"FEC Challenges Assignment of Judge to New Challenge by Anti-Obama Group"
No, It's Like Saying We Should Outlaw Driving Because Someone's Car Might Fly
"Ohio voting law may be a boon for Obama supporters"
"'Vote Fraud' and the Question of Denial"
My Loyola Email is Down Again
Interesting Gallup Posting on Polling Third Party Candidates and Parties for President
Wayne and Garth (or Perhaps Paramount) Not John McCain Fans?
Brilliant Quotes from Hasen on Obama's Texting Strategy
"Conservatives Plot on Campaign Finance"
"What's in a name? Brazil candidates seek Obama buzz"
"Voter Registration is the New Battleground"
The EAC Has Started Issuing Advisory Opinions and Posting Them
Bartlett v. Strickland Respondent's Brief
"HINDSIGHT IS 20/20: REVISITING THE REAPPORTIONMENT CASES TO GAIN PERSPECTIVE ON PARTISAN GERRYMANDERS"
Respondents Briefs Due Today in Bartlett v. Strickland
"Clinton to forfeit $13 mil loan, unless..."
"The Right to Vote"
"Social Initiatives on State Ballots Could Draw Attention to Presidential Race"
"Inquiry in Ohio Could Hurt Obama Vote"
Want to Follow a Move to Ranked Choice Voting in a Washington State County?
"Is Obama as Brave as His Black Memphis Supporters?"
"For Those Once Behind Bars, A Nudge to the Voting Booth"
Unanimous 9th Circuit Panel Denies Suit Seeking Access to Register Veterans at VA Hospitals
"Group Plans Campaign Against G.O.P. Donors"
"More on those Voting Machines in Ohio"
"Candidates Name Half-Million-Dollar Teams"
"Rattling the Vote Cage - Part I"
"Briefs: Federal judge upholds Texas law limiting ballot witnesses"
Not Exactly "When Harry Met Sally"...
"ACLU files lawsuit challenging South Carolina election rule"
"Preliminary Findings Regarding 2000 NJ 'Clean Elections' Contributors"
"McCain campaign to return money raised by foreign national"
"Some Homeless Citizens Face 'Roadblocks' When Registering"
"Family's Donations to McCain Raise Questions"
Bauer on Clark Muntean and Corporate Campaign Contributions After BRCA
"Justice Department Subpoenas Its Former Lawyers In Civil Rights Probe"
"Cleaning Up Connecticut"
"Record number of US voters may cast paper ballots"
"Average Joes struggle to be heard as campaign system favors the rich"
"Court Indicates FEC Did Not Appeal Decision Striking Coordination Rules"
Election Law Casebook Teacher's Manual Done
ElectionCrimes.org?
Interesting Presidential Campaign Financing Stories
Election Law Journal 7:3 Available; Preview of ELJ 7:4
"G.O.P. Drops in Voting Rolls in Many States"
"Denogean: 97-year-old voter can't prove she's a citizen"
The Latest on NJ Public Financing Reauthorization
"High Court Review Sought on Judicial Recusals; W.Va. case triggers key ethical query"
Contribution Reimbursement Allegations in the News Again
Bauer on Emily's List Decision
New Election Law Symposium
"Obama Asks Panel to Restore Votes"
BNA Report on Emily's List Case
"Fear Mongers: Virginia's GOP Tries to Scare New Voters Away from the Polls"
"Audit looks into possible voter fraud in N.C."
"Federal District Court Judge Kollar-Kotelly Upholds Important FEC Regulations Restricting Soft Money in Federal Campaigns"
"Wal-Mart Warns of Democratic Win"
"Federal Court Upholds Voting Rights Of Alaska Natives Who Need Language Assistance"
Sen. Obama Voting Rights Syllabus
Test post from Hasen
"Groups Push for Reform of Redistricting Process"
"A Tale of Three (Electronic Voting) Elections"
Bob Bauer, Sen. Obama's Lawyer, Responds to New Bopp Lawsuit
WSJ Profile of ACORN
Are You a Former Election Law Student of Sen. Obama?
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Jim Bopp's Latest Salvo
Pam Karlan's and Others' Reactions to Sen Obama's Teaching Materials
"Prop. 8 backers sue to change ballot wording"
"Bipartisanship in Election Administration: Is There Enough?"
"The Limbaugh Effect: A Rush to Judging Cross-Party Raiding in the 2008 Democratic Nomination Contests"
"Demos Praises Passage of Massachusetts Senate EDR Bill, Urges House to Act"
"GOP suffering from a lack of (ballot) initiative"
The Only Thing Missing Are Sen. Obama's Election Law Exams
Breaking News: Reuters Says Sen. Stevens About to Be Indicted
Eighth Circuit Decides Missouri NVRA Appeal
"Already Too Late to Act on 'Bundling' Rule Affecting 2008 Contest, FEC Chairman Says"
Senate Rules Committee Hearing Wednesday on S. 3212, the Bipartisan Electronic Voting Reform Act of 2008
"Redistricting Must Be Fixed Before Census"
"FEC Rejects Club's Bid to Tweak Disclosure Rules"
"Frederick Alleges Voter Fraud"
Davis and the Viability of Public Financing Programs
"FEC Issues Two Opinions, Plans to Pick Up the Pace "
"Campaign Finance Laws Under Seige"
The Tomnibus is Coming
"Democracy Group Gives Donors Access to McCain"
"Would Prop. 11 Help Minorities?"
"Special-interest lobbies pour cast into judicial races"
Bauer on Lessig on Campaign Finance Reform
"Voter-rights group cries foul in state"
"McCain, Obama Rake in Megachecks"
A Mess in Nevada
"FEC won't enforce 'Millionaire' rule "
In the Election Law Mailbag
"Nonprofits walk fine line on political activity"
"Three States Accused of Illegally Purging Voter Lists"
"Nick v. Bethel - Voting in Yup'ik"
"A Lesson Not Learned"
Cert. Petition Filed in Duke v. Leake Case
"Ellison Slams von Spakovsky Over Disenfranchised Nuns and U.S. Attorneys"
Election Law Professor Among Appointees to New House Ethics Office
"Clicking for Dollars"
"Primary 2008 Report: High Voter Turnout Led Problems at Polls"
"Voting Rights Advocates Challenge New Mexico's Voter Registration Law in State Court"
"They Fight But Can't Vote"
"Citizen McCain"
"Prof. Lawrence Lessig on Money and Politics, Clerking for J. Scalia, and the Death Penalty"
"CGS Releases Comparative Overview of California's 2008 Redistricting Reform Proposals"
A Tremendous Thank You
"Michigan Power Grab"
"College student accidently votes twice, pleads guilty to felony"
Voting Directives from Ohio Secretary of State
"As U.S. economic woes mount, homeless plan to vote"
"Time running out to vote absentee"
"New FEC Commissioners to Consider First Policy Matters in July 28 meeting"
"Justice Dept called uncooperative on voting rights"
Public Financing After Davis
"Lessons Learned from the 2004 Presidential Election"
"Beware of political raffles"
Nine Senators Introduce VA Registration Bill
"Voter-sign-up drive targets 16-year-olds"
CFI's Analysis of June FEC Reports
EAC Report on States' HAVA Spending
Summary Judgment in Citizens United
"Laxer rules a boon for lobbyists"
"Clinton supporters lend Obama a big fundraising hand"
"DSCC pushes the envelope with issue ads featuring candidates"
"Study: Poor ballot designs still affect U.S. elections"
"Voting Rights Groups Encourage Voter Registration at VA Facilities"
"House defeats paper ballot funding"
"Clinton Lends Her Campaign More Money as Its Debt Proves Stubborn"
ACLU Challenges Alabama Felon Disenfranchisement Laws
The California FPPC's Softer Enforcement Policy
"DSCC, DCCC Post Strong Fundraising Numbers"
"Obama roars with $25M one-day haul"
"Influx of Voters Expected to Test New Technology"
"Group Calls on Labor, Justice Departments To Investigate SEIU's Political Fundraising"
"Better Ballots" from the Brennan Center
Caron on Romney's Write-off
In Support of McCain's Eligibility
"McCain in a race to raise and spend money by Labor Day"
Manual Recounts Remain Elusive in Florida
Opinion on Electoral College Reform
"Feds probe possible racial bias in Lake Park voting"
What Happens When Voters Don't "Match"?
"How Big Are Those Bundles?"
More on the Libertarian Party of Ohio Decision
More on Weekend Voting
EAC Meetings on Preparing for Election Day 2008
"VA Ban on Voter Registration Drives for Injured Vets Becomes National Fight"
"A Shadow Sheds Light on Redistricting"
Parties and Their Candidates
Weekend Voting by 2010?
Obama's $52 Million June
"Romney's Loans to Campaigns Now Gifts"
Injunction for Libertarian Party of Ohio and Barr
"Ohio county fires back at voting machine company"
"Immigrants Eager to Vote Sue to Hasten Citizenship"
Cal. Supreme Court Declines to Hear Gay Marriage Case
"A New Electorate in the Making?"
EDR Before the Mass. Senate
"Congressional Democrats oppose Proposition 11"
"Donors to Party Conventions Have Spent Over $1 Billion on Federal Lobbying Since 2005"
Swing Vote: The Movie
Court Orders Missouri to Comply with NVRA
Lowenstein on Presidential Nomination Reform
NAMUDNO Notice of Appeal
More on McCain the Reformer
"NAACP Convention Inspires Voter Registration"
"McCain Uses Fund to Raise $62.3 Million"
"Fannie, Freddie spent $200M to buy influence"
Turnout in Georgia Primary Below Projections
Bauer on the Repeal of Missouri's Contribution Limits
Nader's Ballot Access Efforts
"McCain and Obama court Latinos, carefully"
Georgia State Court Order in Photo ID Case
Minnite on Non-Citizen Voting
Turnout in the 2008 Presidential Primary
"FedEx, voter group hope to ease ballot shipping woes"
Smith on McCain's Campaign Finance Role
"Democrats Look to Lobbyist to Finance Convention"
Florida's Dip in Voter Registrations
"5 presidential campaign cash myths"
"Americans face hurdles voting abroad in upcoming election"
"McCain takes lead in transparency race"
Repeal of Missouri Contribution Limits
von Spakovsky on Non-Citizen Voting
"Judge upholds Georgia voter ID requirement"
Is the Right to Vote Really Fundamental?
"National popular vote faces a bumpy road"
More on VA Voter Registration Ban
Lawsuit Alleges Race Discrimination in Voting Rights Section
"Mich. election officials reject claims of illegally barring voters"
"A Hint of New Life to a McCain Birth Issue"
"Union Veterans' Group Starts Ad Campaign Against McCain"
"Appeals court hears Texas electronic voting case"
"Impasse Over, FEC Is Back in Business"
"Federal court strikes down Arizona election law in Nader challenge appeal"
Senators Urge End to Voter Registration Ban at V.A. Facilities
DOJ Says It Will "Vigorously Pursue" Violations by 527 Groups
Mass. House Backs National Popular Vote Plan
Blogging Reminder
"Do Ads that Feature Merkley Promote Merkley?"
HLOGA Rules Up for Discussion
"A Promising Exchange with Hasen: One More Note on Davis and Public Financing "
"Civil rights groups worried about effects of remap proposal"
"Liberal, Conservative Groups Vie For Vets' Interests"
"Just Democracy"
Gerken on Fong on Popular Monitoring of Elections
EAC Chair Rodriguez Issues Statement on Florida Voter Registration
More on Public Financing Post Davis v. FEC
"Courtside: With Footnote, Souter Causes Stir; What did the justice mean with brief reference to Exxon paying for studies?"
"Florida Voting: Third Time's a Charm?"
"About Face: A tool of the civil rights movement is increasingly unwelcome in the high court"
Hebert on Washington Post on Campaign Legal Center
"Cashing In on Obama and McCain"
"Delays and Rising Costs for Convention Raise Worries for Democrats"
Doonesbury on Voter ID and Voter Fraud
"Risks involved with public financing"
"Fundraising Ruling Prompts a Scramble; Opponents of Self-Financers Seek Advice"
"Tempest in an Empty Teapot: Why the Constitution Does Not Regulate Gerrymandering"
"Economic View: Untying a Knot in Campaign Finance"
"Michigan judges could be asked to decide legality of ballot initiative that reduces number of judges"
"Courts asked to halt voter ID requirement for July 15"
Interesting Development in Eleventh Circuit VRA Section 2 Case
July Preview
"Future of Clean Elections program in limbo"
"Court orders change to German election law by 2011"
"McCain Allies Find Finance-Law Holes"
"Secretary of Veterans Affairs asked to grant elections officials access to veterans facilities"
AG Mukasey's Encouraging Remarks on Ballot Access and Voting Integrity
"High Court's Campaign Finance Ruling Poses Threat to State Laws"
"Justice Department Says Criminal Prosecution for Knowing and Willful Campaign Finance Violations Will Be One of the 'Priorities' for Department, in Response to Democracy 21 Letter about 527 Groups"
Bauer and Hebert on SpeechNow
"Gerrymandering is the real threat to fair elections"
Michigan Measure to Cut Legislative Pay, Change Legislative Redistricting"
"Registration Bottlenecks: Will They Be a Problem in '08?"
Federal District Court Denies Preliminary Injunction in SpeechNow case
"Greg Abbott: Attorney general's office working hard to fight vote rigging"
"Senators Feinstein & Bennett Introduce Bipartisan Electronic Voting Reform Act "
"Obama's Money Class"
"Lobbying Loophole Funds Conventions"
von Spakovsky on Millionaire's Amendment Case
Hellman, Pildes and Bauer on Campaign Finance, Money, Speech, and Incumbency Protection
American Politics Research Special Issue on Election Administration and Voting Technology
This is Getting Tiresome
Bruce Fein on Davis v. FEC, and Other SCOTUS Cases This Term
"Firm gets big cut of campaign donations; GOP candidates see little of funds raised; Some clients, donors unaware of numbers"
Cristina Rodriguez Review of Landsberg VRA in Alabama Book
" Davis: Leveling rich candidates' speech unjustified"
"Obama's Fundraising Success May Herald a Whole New Model"
Roll Call on Questions Over How End of Millionaire's Amendment Will be Implemented
Debating the Latest California Redistricting Initiative
"'527' groups keep low profile - so far this year"
More Bauer on Alito on Davis
NY Sun (And Jim Bopp) on Davis's Implications for Lawsuit Against NYC Campaign Finance System
"Millionaires Win"
Hayward, Ryan, and Tucker on Election Law Issues in Harvard Journal on Legislation
Lyle Denniston of Scotusblog on Davis v. FEC
"Utahn joins Federal Election Commission"
"Justices for Free Speech"
"Priests barred from donations to candidates"
Election Law in the NY Times
More Davis v. FEC Links
News and Roundup on Davis v. FEC
"Revitalized FEC To Confront Big Agenda, But Action On McCain Question Unlikely"
Initial Thoughts on FEC v. Davis: The Court Primes the Pump for Striking Down Corporate and Union Campaign Spending Limits and Blows a Hole in Effective Public Financing Plans
FEC v. Davis Reversed and Remanded on 5-4 Vote
"McCain Campaign On Voter Fraud And Other Reaction"
"Court Declines to Block Florida's No-Match No-Vote Law"
Just How Tangential is the U.S. Election Assistance Commission?
"Groups ask greater disclosure from McCain, Obama "
"GOP Prepares To Scale Back Aggressive Anti-Voter Fraud Campaigns"
Reform Institute Responds to Chicago Tribune Article
A Warning About Litigant-Funded Research in Supreme Court Cases
Campaign Legal Center Statement on FEC Confirmations
"Voter ID Law Sequels?"
No Opinion in FEC v. Davis Today; What Should We Expect Tomorrow?
"Obama, McCain sacrifice reform credibility"
"Telecom Donations Tied to FISA Vote"
Breaking News: Senate Confirms 5 FEC Nominees by Sequential Voice Vote
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"Busloads" of Out of Staters Voting in Indana?
"Harry Reid's Glass Slipper"
CLC Responds to von Spakovksy on FEC Reform
Speaking at Lunch on Presidential Campaign Financing
"AG criticizes Justice Dept. in voter fraud probe"
"Reid Asks for More Time on FEC Picks"
"DNC Files Suit Over McCain Financing"
"Obama's Fundraising Slowdown: Will It Cause Him to Look More toward Large Donors? "
No Opinions in FEC v. Davis Today
Confirmation of FEC Nominees Close But Party Leaders Spar Over Exact Timing"
"Obama Alienates the Editors"
527s MIA this Year?
"Obama Move Irks Reform Allies"
"New Voter ID Suit Filed"
"FEC Nominees To Face Senate Confirmation Vote Next Week"
News and Opinion on the Obama Public Financing Decision
DRE Voting Use Goes Down for First Time in Eight Years
von Spakovsky on Reforming the FEC
Fourteen States File Amicus Brief Supporting Petitioners in Bartlett
Sen. Obama Opts Out of Public Financing
"California is branded among a 'Dirty Dozen' on gerrymandering"
"Statement by Chair Rodriguez Regarding EAC Voting System Certification Program"
Indiana Sec. Rokita Wants Voter IDs Used More Widely
No Ruling from Supreme Court in FEC v. Davis Today
Another Bartlett Brief
"Federal Court to FEC: 'Strike III, You're Out!'"
"Group Files Climate Change Ad Disclosures After Delay"
Two Noteworthy Amicus Briefs in the Bartlett v. Strickland Case
Welcome to the blogosphere...
"The State of Election Reform and the Sources of Legal Conflict: Old Assumptions and Hopes for the Way Forward"
"Donors to Party Conventions Have Spent Over $800 Million on Federal Campaign Contributions and Lobbying Since 2005 "
Voter ID in Rhode Island?
Oral Argument in Glades County, Fla. VRA Case
"DNC heads back to court over McCain"
Controversy over Reform Institute, Senator McCain, and Tax Law
"Groups Push to Restore Va. Felons' Voting Rights"
"Two Years Later, DeLay Wants Day in Court"
Bob Bauer on Term Limits for FEC Commissioners
"Researchers: Underage teens voted in primary"
Quote of the Day
"The Endless FEC Fight"
Ellen Katz: Response to Adam Cox
Federal Grand Jury Investigating Bradley Schlozman for Possible Perjury
"Newspaper: more votes cast than voters in Bridgeport primary"
Bauer on the Shays Case
"Obama Risks 'Pristine' Image in Question of Public Financing "
"Democrats' Vote Drive in Louisiana Stirs Concern"
"The New 'I Do'"
"Court Deems Campaign Finance Rules Too Weak"
"The FEC: Lots of Work Ahead for a Full Commission"
D.C. Circuit Rejects FEC BCRA Rules in Latest Iteration of the Shays Case
"Petersen Nomination Sent to Senate; Vote on FEC Nominations Could Follow"
"V.A. Ban on Voter Drives Is Criticized"
The Opening on Exiting Public Financing that Sen. Obama Has Been Waiting For?
"HRC's reward: Bundle of campaign cash?"
"Let the Attack Ads Roll!"
Adam Cox: NAMUDNO, Section 2 litigation, and the Constitutionality of Section 5
Thor Hearne has a New Gig
FEC Nominations Vote (including Petersen) Could Come by Early Next Week
"John Baer: It's time to rethink primaries and let democracy rise"
"Determining Legacy and Influence in the Appraisal of Justice O'Connor"
In the Election Law Mailbag
"Lessons from Voting Rights Activists' Big Win in Missouri"
"Criminalizing the Lawyers"
"Supreme Court justices should know by now -- money is not speech"
"Woman, 97, Battles Voter ID Law"
Whew!
"O'Connor's Legacy Fading on Reshaped Court"
"The Complexity of the 'Equalization Objective' of the Millionaire's Amendment"
"For Clinton, Millions in Debt and Few Options"
"Group files complaint against McCain campaign"
"Chance of Chaos Still on the Ballot"
Timing of NAMUNDO Appeal to Supreme Court
MIles and Cox, Katz and Baldwin
Bob Bauer on Ansolabehere and Persily on Voter ID and Voter Confidence
"Obama-DNC deal may have little impact"
"How Different Will the 2008 White House Map Look From '04 and '00?"
If this Ad Were Broadcast in November, Would It Get the WRTL Exemption if Run By a Corporate or Union Entity?
"Supreme Court could hear challenge to Voting Rights Act"
"Primary Reforms"
"Candidates Forgo Soft Money, but Conventions Rake It In"
Senate Rules Committee to Hold July 9 Hearing on Fixing the Primary Process
"Fixing the Vote: How to Keep New Voters from Falling Off the Rolls"
CREW Wants Another Hearing for Don McGahn
The Latest on Sen. Obama and Public Financing
"$21.5 Million is Record for McCain"
"DeLay PAC Treasurer Faults McGahn; Lawyer Predicts Dismissal of Claims"
"Long Race Puts Convention Plans in Flux"
"Clinton expected to look to Obama for help on debt"
"Obama Bans DNC from Taking Lobbyists' Money"
"Writing His Own Ticket: Nominee for FEC to Complete Questionnaire He Helped Draft"
Rick Hills Responds to Pam Karlan on Riley
"Voter ID dispute created a hassle"
Pildes: Statutory Interpretation and American History
Doug Chapin Hears the Dog that Doesn't Bark in Election 2008 So Far
"Exposing the GOP's Voter Suppression Campaign"
"Obama has cash advantage over McCain"
"Campaign Finance 'Reformers' Open the Floodgates"
"Presentations Before NCSL's Redistricting and Elections Committee in April 2008"
"Can Campaign Finance Reform Actually Work?"
Fox on Dead Voters, and News Hounds on Fox
"Why the Rules Mattered In the Nomination Race"
Two on Balkinization
"Thomas Brunell: When competition is bad for voters and democracy"
"The Constitutionality of Requiring Photo Identification for Voting: An Analysis of Crawford v. Marion County Election Board"
"Inside Fundraising for the 2008 Party Conventions: Party Surrogates Gather Soft Money While Federal Regulators Turn a Blind Eye"
"Obama's Boon: Givers Who Keep on Giving"
"Diebold unit Premier Election Solutions sues Cuyahoga County in voting-machine dispute"
"Return of the FEC"
"Are We Condemned to Repeat It?"
Elmendorf on Carter-Baker and Crawford
MUD Looking "Very Closely" at Appeal in NAMUDNO
MUD Looking "Very Closely" at Appeal in NAMUDNO
"Lobbyists gear up for push to get voting rights for D.C."
"Supreme Court Won't Hear Election Case"
"Independent Electoral Management Bodies and International Election Observer Missions - Any Impact on the Observed Level of Democracy? A Conceptual Framework"
"Money, Politics and the Supreme Court"
What Could Bring Hans von Spakovsky and Dan Tokaji Together?
A New (Possibly Major) Hiccup in Breaking the FEC Impasse
Pitts on Hills on Riley and the VRA
"Gauging Fallout From Rules Committee's Decisions"
In the Election Law Mailbag
"The Congressional Record Underlying the 2006 Reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act"
"The ID Divide: Addressing the Challenges of Identification and Authentication in American Society"
"VA rejects directive to help vets register to vote"
"The 'Mischief Rule' Rule and the VRA in Riley v. Kennedy"
"Outside Groups in Decline?"
"Libertarians Dream of Being the Tie-Breaker"
More Bauer on Carter-Baker and Pastor
Thanks to Dan Tokaji
Lobbyists in the McCain and Obama Campaigns
A Half Vote for the Michigan and Florida Delegates
"Feinstein wants limits on automated phoning"
"The Carter-Baker Commission on Voter I.D.: Bauer and Gerken Respond"
"Ga. Democracts sue over voter ID law"
NAMUDNO Roundup
"Return to paper ballots? Not so fast."
"As election nears, some states fail to meet mandates to help voters register"
A Few Jet Lagged Thoughts on NAMUDNO
Breaking News: NAMUDNO Decided, Challenge to VRA Rejected
"Civil Rights Lawyers' Ignorance of Local Government Law"
Previews of the Michigan-Florida Meeting
"Obama Campaign Used Party Rules to Foil Clinton"
The EAC's New Open Meeting Policy
Colorado's Voter Registration Database
"Arkansas Election Officials Baffled by Machines that Flipped Race"
"Chipping Away at the VRA One Court Decision at a Time"
"EAC Awards Five States $10 Million to Improve Election Data Collection"
"Tell Speaker Pelosi We Need a Strong Global Warming Bill Now"
"Democratic panel set to resolve Clinton-Obama delegate dispute"
Pastor Comments on the Carter-Baker Commission and Crawford
Ohio Election Bill
Fifth Circuit Reverses Party Identification & Voter ID Ruling
Harvard Presidential Primaries Symposium Documents
Florida Lawsuit Against DNC Dismissed
DNC Papers on Michigan and Florida
"2 Voter Rights Cases, One Gripping a College Town, Stir Texas"
"Electoral College Bias Probe"
Two from Richie
"Obama, McCain clash over cash"
"Clinton gets deep-pockets boost from loyalists"
"Dems Seek to Avoid Meltdown"
"Bush v. Gore Rears Its Head: The Politicization of Voting Rights"
"Is the Tax-Funded Presidential Campaign System Really Broken?"
Report on Virginia Voting Snafu
"Will changes cause more nightmares this Election Day?"
"Signing election petitions goes high-tech"
"FBI Interviews Arizona Staffers"
Riley Roundup
Senator Obama and the Decision to Opt Out of Public Financing
Pildes on Riley Decision
Breaking News: Riley v. Kennedy Decided; Court Ducks CJ Roberts View of Section 5
The Veepstakes Tournament
"Obama, McCain are dueling out West"
"Awash in Contributions, Campaigns Offer Tempting Targets for Thieves"
"Judge sides with Texas Democratic Party"
von Spakovsky and Rich Spar on DOJ's Voting Section
"FEC, media can't handle Obama jackpot"
"Panhandle county offers Web vote to military abroad"
"AZ to seek dismissal of challenge to voter ID law"
Cuyahoga County's Voting Machines
Just Wondering Dept.
"Rendering Justice, With One Eye on Re-Election"
"Disarming Our Demons: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of Election-Stealing"
"Senators: No need for paper e-voting trails, 'electronic' ones are OK"
"Campaign Reports Reveal More Mishandled Money"
Slate Pans HBO's "Recount"
"An intriguing institutional design question: shadow re