Election Law http://electionlawblog.org/ Rick Hasen's web log]]> en-us 2008-05-08T21:20:20-08:00 No Explanation Given to Commissioner Mason for Being Thrown Under the Bus http://electionlawblog.org/archives/010778.html CQ Politics reports that FEC Commissioner Mason "said the White House personnel office called him 'the day they withdrew the nomination to inform me about that. And that was a pretty routine process, just a courtesy call to me. And... Rick Hasen 2008-05-08T21:20:20-08:00 Trevor Potter's Comments on Election Law Listserv About the Dumping of Commissioner Mason Appear in Tomorrow's NY Times http://electionlawblog.org/archives/010777.html The Times article is here. Trevor's listserv comments were reposted on this blog here. And it started with the question I posed to Trevor at the beginning of that post.... Rick Hasen 2008-05-08T19:51:15-08:00 "Senators Feinstein and Kerry Express Concerns About Apparent Reversal in Department of Veterans' Affairs Policy in Providing Access to Voter Registration for Veterans" http://electionlawblog.org/archives/010776.html See this press release and this AlterNet story.... Rick Hasen 2008-05-08T15:25:37-08:00 Post-Crawford Movement on Voter ID in the States http://electionlawblog.org/archives/010775.html There's a nice summary paragraph in "Election Reform News This Week" in the new Electionline weekly. Note that the beginning of the newsletter provides details on how current and new subscribers can sign up under a new procedure to receive... Rick Hasen 2008-05-08T13:42:25-08:00 "McCain Lawyer: FEC Flap 'Manufactured'" http://electionlawblog.org/archives/010774.html The Politico offers this report.... Rick Hasen 2008-05-08T13:12:33-08:00 "Why Clinton Stands to Lose Millions" http://electionlawblog.org/archives/010773.html This interesting report in U.S. News notes a provision in McCain-Feingold that will be very important if Sen. Clinton wishes to recoup her campaign loan. See also this Explainer column from Slate.... Rick Hasen 2008-05-08T13:10:20-08:00 AEI-Brookings Task Force Report on EAC Voting Recommendations http://electionlawblog.org/archives/010772.html See here.... Rick Hasen 2008-05-08T13:06:54-08:00 "Did Rush Limbaugh Tilt the Vote in Indiana?" http://electionlawblog.org/archives/010771.html The Washington Post offers this report.... Rick Hasen 2008-05-08T08:39:40-08:00 More Commentary on Crawford http://electionlawblog.org/archives/010770.html Vik Amar has written this Findlaw piece. Key quote: "It doesn't take a genius to see that relegating plaintiffs to 'as applied' challenges in these kinds of cases doesn't really leave them with much." Tokaji on Elmendorf on Crawford on... Rick Hasen 2008-05-08T08:36:13-08:00 Steve Hoersting on Leake and SpeechNow.org http://electionlawblog.org/archives/010769.html See here.... Rick Hasen 2008-05-08T08:31:15-08:00 At Least a Bit of Confusion over Indiana's "Open" Primary http://electionlawblog.org/archives/010768.html Ed Still has the details.... Rick Hasen 2008-05-08T08:28:56-08:00 "Clinton-Obama cash gap looms large" http://electionlawblog.org/archives/010767.html Jeanne Cummings has written this article for The Politico.... Rick Hasen 2008-05-08T08:23:05-08:00 "Florida 2006: Can Statistics Tell Us Who Won Congressional District 13?" http://electionlawblog.org/archives/010766.html Alrene Ash and John Lamperti have written this article for Chance, a statistics magazine. The pdf includes responses by Joseph Hall and Walter Mebane.... Rick Hasen 2008-05-07T17:01:15-08:00 "Presidential Public Funding, Extreme Makeover Edition" http://electionlawblog.org/archives/010765.html Laura MacCleery and Andrew Stengel have written this post at The Huffington Post.... Rick Hasen 2008-05-07T16:57:09-08:00 "Questions abound over late vote tallies from Lake County" http://electionlawblog.org/archives/010764.html AP offers this report.... Rick Hasen 2008-05-07T16:53:08-08:00