Category Archives: chicanery
“Senator Robert Menendez Indicted on Corruption Charges”
Here we go. Update: The indictment.
Among the allegations: corruption with large donor funneling money to supposedly independent Super PAC.
“2 top local officials call for state attorney general to investigate Bloomingburg voting”
News from NY:
Top officials of the Town of Mamakating and Village of Bloomingburg have called on state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to investigate what the officials call systemic examples of voter fraud in Bloomingburg over the past two years.… Continue reading
Study Finds Less Election Fraud in PR Systems
Fabrice Lehoucq and Kiril Kolev, Varying the Un-Variable: Structure, Electoral Formulae, and Election Quality (PRQ). Here is the abstract:
This paper assesses the hypothesis that election quality is worse under plurality voting systems than under proportional representation (PR). We use… Continue reading
“State high court won’t hear arguments in John Doe cases”
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday it would not hear arguments — in secret or in public — as it considers whether to allow an investigation to continue that has looked into whether Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign… Continue reading
“Applying Citizens United to Ordinary Corruption”
George Brown has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Notre Dame Law Review). Here is the abstract:
Federal criminal law frequently deals with the problem of corruption in the form of purchased political influence. There appear to be two distinct… Continue reading
“Judge: Democratic chairwoman took advantage of frail nursing home voters”
Gannett reports from NJ:
In a rare move, a Superior Court judge this week threw out the November election results for a City Council seat, ordering a new election after finding that the city’s Democratic chairwoman took advantage of elderly… Continue reading
“Why Isn’t Congress More Corrupt? A Preliminary Inquiry”
I have written this symposium draft (forthcoming Fordham Law Review) and posted it on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
In the aftermath of the indictment of New York state assembly speaker Sheldon Silver on corruption charges, law professor (and recent… Continue reading
“Protest targets voter fraud; Bloomingburg, Mamakating residents want justice”
Absolutely fascinating dispute in upstate New York.
“What New York Can Learn from Connecticut”
“AG to prosecute voter fraud case”
Texas case involving stealing and marking others’ absentee ballots.
No Election Law Video Games
Hartford Courant:
There are no video games about election law violations, that we know of, and the subject rarely comes up in television crime dramas. But clean elections are the bedrock of a representative democracy, and the laws that… Continue reading
“Rep. Aaron Schock announces resignation in wake of spending probe”
Videos of Full Fordham Corruption Symposium Now Posted
You can access each panel’s video through these links:
Fighting Corruption in America and Abroad | Panel 1: What is corruption?—How Should We Define It, and Why Is It Bad?
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Fighting Corruption in America and Abroad | Panel … Continue reading