Governor Matt Blunt yesterday signed legislation repealing the state’s contribution limits, which were enacted by Missouri voters in 1994 and upheld in Nixon v. Shrink Missouri. The AP has this report. For more background, see this post. (Thanks… Continue reading

Hans von Spakovsky has written this piece for the National Review and a longer memorandum on the same subject that appears on the Heritage Foundation site. Here’s an excerpt from the Heritage memo: Thousands of non-citizens are registered to vote… Continue reading

A Fulton County Superior Court judge has rejected an attempt to enjoin Georgia’s photo ID requirement, days before the state’s primary election. The AP has this report.

That’s the question posed by Joshua Douglas in this draft article, to be published in the Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy. From the abstract: The answer, surprisingly, is not always…. This article first identifies the inconsistent approaches… Continue reading

So argues this op-ed, citing ELJ articles by Derek Muller (Nov. 2007) and Jennifer Hendricks (forthcoming) on the constitutionality of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.

Steven Rosenfeld has this post, following up on yesterday’s letter from three U.S. Senators.

An African-American employee of the U.S. Department of Justice’s voting rights section has filed a lawsuit alleging employment discrimination, according to this report. Among the allegations in the complaint, filed on behalf of Joi Hyatte by the Georgetown… Continue reading

The Detroit News has this report on the Advancement Project’s claims that the State of Michigan has violated state and federal election laws by “canceling voter registrations of people who apply for and receive a driver’s license from another state,… Continue reading

The NYT has this story on Jack Chin’s argument that Senator McCain is ineligible to be pressident due to his birth in the Canal Zone. Here’s an excerpt from Prof. Chin’s draft essay, recently posted on SSRN: Senator McCain was… Continue reading

The NYT’s blog has this report on the AFL-CIO’s plans to run ads over the next three weeks in Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.

The AP reports here on a lawsuit by the Texas Democratic Party, alleging that electronic voting machines used in about 100 Texas counties are prone to undercounting votes.

The WSJ blog has this report. Republican Donald McGahn was named chairman and Democrat Steven Walther vice-chairman. For more, see stories from the AP, CQ Politics, and WaPo blog.

JURIST has this report on yesterday’s opinion from the Ninth Circuit in Nader v. Brewer. The unanimous opinion struck down Arizona’s early filing deadline for independent candidates to get on the ballot, as well as its prohibition on non-residents circulating… Continue reading

See this story from Gannett and this press release, which includes the text of the letter from Senators Akaka, Feinstein and Kerry. The letter opines that “the Hatch Act does not prohibit outside groups, partisan or otherwise, from registering… Continue reading