As the Franken-Coleman recount drama continues, Minnesota Public Radio has this report on the campaigns efforts to raise money to fund their ongoing efforts. … Continue reading
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See this story on a $975,000 settlement between the Washington Education Association and the state attorney general’s office. … Continue reading
The Rocky Mountain News has this report on the rejection of a complaint by Colorado Ethics Watch against two 527s. … Continue reading
The Toledo Blade has this story on a bill that would, among other things, close the so-called “Golden Week” window during which voters may simultaneously register and cast an absentee ballot. … Continue reading
Jeffrey Zaino of the American Arbitration Association and Jeanne S. Zaino of Iona College have this paper, presented at the Northeastern Political Science Association’s annual meeting. Relying on a survey of state election officials, they find that only a small … Continue reading
The Sacramento Bee has this report and the San Jose Mercury News this one, on polling by the Public Policy Institute of California. The full report is available here. It includes polling on Proposition 11, the redistricting measure that appears … Continue reading
A report on problems in Cuyahoga County, Ohio may be found here. From the press release: A month after Election Day, filmmaker Sanford Lewis released a video report profiling the problems that numerous Cleveland area voters had casting their ballot. … Continue reading
The University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Center and FactCheck.org are hosting this conference on December 12, 2008 at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. Here’s the description: The candidates were not the only ones trying to sway voters in the 2008 presidential … Continue reading
The NY Times has this op-ed from Charles Seife on errors in Minnesota’s election and recount. He suggests that: “After all the counting and recounting, if the vote is statistically tied, the state should invoke the section of the law … Continue reading
The AP has this report. … Continue reading
Bloomberg has this report. … Continue reading
Almost a month after the election, there are conflicting views on this question. In this AP story from an hour ago, it’s estimated that Coleman still leads by 215 out of some 2.9 million votes cast, though some counties won’t … Continue reading
As the AP reports, this makes Obama “just the second president in more than 100 years to take office without winning Missouri.” … Continue reading
The Chicago Tribune has this report. I’ve written this comment on the justiciability of cases challenging the eligibility of Senators Obama and McCain to serve as President, as part of an online symposium published by the Michigan Law Review’s First … Continue reading
Election Law @ Moritz summarizes here yesterday’s summit convened by Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner. The Columbus Dispatch has this report, which also discusses a bill proposed by Republicans (SB 380). … Continue reading
The Dallas Morning news has this report on the battle for Texas House District 105. … Continue reading
The WSJ has this editorial on a union-backed reform initiative that the Journal characterizes as “a blatantly partisan effort to change the state political system to favor Democrats.” … Continue reading
See this report on the guilty plea of a 21-year old Ohio University student who voted in two different counties in the March primary. … Continue reading
The AP has this report on a directive issued by Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, which provides funding for but does not require counties to send all voters absentee voter applications. Republican legislators criticized the directive, saying that the … Continue reading
Reuters has this report on efforts to register by people who are homeless. … Continue reading
The Air Force Times reports here, with information for members of the military stationed overseas who wish to register and vote. … Continue reading
BNA has this report (subscription required). Agenda documents may be found here. … Continue reading
The AP has this report on Attorney General Mukasey’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, during which Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) complained that DOJ hasn’t been sufficiently cooperative with Congress on voting rights issues. … Continue reading
Paul Ryan has these thoughts on the Campaign Legal Center blog. … Continue reading
The House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties will hold a hearing on the topic tomorrow at 1:00 pm. Among those scheduled to testify are former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, Hans von Spakovsky … Continue reading
On the CCP blog, Michael Schrimpf talks here about the legal perils of using raffles as campaign fundraisers. … Continue reading
See this report on the latest in the ongoing controversy over voter registration at VA facilities. … Continue reading
The Miami Herald has this report. … Continue reading
You can find it here. … Continue reading
See this press release, reporting that 64% of HAVA funds have been used to acquire and administer voting technology with 17% going for statewide registration databases. … Continue reading
BNA has this report (subscription required) on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia’s decision rejecting a challenge to FEC rules requiring disclosure of those who pay for electioneering communiciations. The three-judge court’s opinion reportedly tracks its reasons … Continue reading
Politico reports here on new guidelines from the clerk of the House and secretary of the Senate on what expenditures lobbyists must disclose. … Continue reading
The LA Times reports here that Clinton donors gave as much as $1.6 mllion to the Obama campaign in June. … Continue reading
The Hill reports here. … Continue reading
USA Today has this report, based on the ballot design report released by the Brennan Center yesterday. … Continue reading
Demos, Common Cause, the League of Women Voters, and the American Association of People with Disabilities have issued this press release regarding their letters to VA Secretary James Peake and state chief election officials. … Continue reading
See this report on the U.S. House’s decision not to pass a bill that would provide money to replace direct record electronic voting machines with paper-based systems. … Continue reading
The NYT has this report. … Continue reading
From the press release announcing the lawsuit: The American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of Alabama filed a lawsuit today challenging the state’s voter disenfranchisement laws and practices as unconstitutional. According to its state constitution, Alabama may deny voting rights … Continue reading
The LA Times reports here that “more than a dozen elected state officials, including leaders of the Legislature and Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown, have been quietly let off the hook for some violations of campaign finance laws” since a shift … Continue reading
See here for a report on June fundraising by the major parties’ House and Senate campaign committees. … Continue reading
Politico reports here that June 30 was a very good day for the Obama campaign. … Continue reading
The NYT has this report, which begins: “With millions of new voters heading to the polls this November and many states introducing new voting technologies, election officials and voting monitors say they fear the combination is likely to create long … Continue reading
BNA reports here (subscription required) that: “The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation … asked both the Labor and Justice departments to investigate whether a constitutional amendment adopted last month by delegates to the Service Employees International Union’s international … Continue reading
The Brennan Center for Justice has released a new report on ballot design, by Lawrence Norden, David Kimball, Whitney Quesenbery, and Margaret Chen. From the summary: The notorious butterfly ballot that Palm Beach County, Florida election officials used in the … Continue reading
On the Tax Prof blog, Paul Caron has this post noting that, by writing off the $45 million in loans to his campaign, Mitt Romney must also “write off any tax deduction.” … Continue reading
See this NYT op-ed from Michael Meyerson, arguing that the “natural-born citizen” clause of the Constitution should be read to include Senator McCain. … Continue reading
The LA Times has this report on contributions to McCain’s joint fundraising committees with the RNC and state Republican parties. … Continue reading
The Herald-Tribune has this report, which begins: “As the state heads into what is expected to be a record-setting year for voter turnout, Florida law does not allow for every ballot to be counted in case of a close election.” … Continue reading
Today’s Detroit Free Press has this editorial supporting apportionment of Michigan’s electoral votes based on the state’s popular vote, and this op-ed supporting the national popular vote plan. … Continue reading