Roll Call offers this report (paid subscription required), which begins: “Senior Justice Department officials said Friday they do not intend to prosecute violations of federal campaign finance laws involving political speech, signalling that the more controversial and complex areas of… Continue reading

As I’ve been saying for months, it is rational for Republicans to threaten the filibuster but not follow through. See this Roll Call article (paid subscription required), which begins: “Despite nine months of assaults on Democratic filibusters, Senate Republicans are… Continue reading

Following up on this post, Laurel Elms and Samantha Luks have an explanation for the 0 turnout results in Alameda and Plumas counties (Kern’s figures are not available on their website). It is not a conspiracy but rather incompetence… Continue reading

The New York Times offers this Week in Review article about the public financing system.

As we know, exit polling showed a 2.6% intentional undervote rate on question 1 of the California recall. The average state final figures show an average undervote rate of 4.6%. I had been using the preliminary figures from the state… Continue reading

Schwarzenegger is certified as the next California governor, and Dan Weintraub reports a 4.6% final undervote on question 1 of the recall. Now social scientists can start to put together final statistics showing how abysmal the performance of punch cards… Continue reading

See this Washington Post report.

Marty Lederman has the news here.

The blogosphere has been debating judicial nominations (kicked off with this Solum post—linking to the later posts), as the Senate continues its marathon debate. From that debate comes the following interesting development. According to this Roll Call breaking news … Continue reading

California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley issued this press release, which begins: “Secretary of State Kevin Shelley announced today that he will seek an independent audit of all California voting systems. This audit was triggered when allegations surfaced that… Continue reading

The New York Times offers this front-page report, which begins: “It is an unusual charity brochure: a 13-page document, complete with pictures of fireworks and a golf course, that invites potential donors to give as much as $500,000 to… Continue reading

There has been a great deal of press coverage recently of the provision of BCRA requiring candidates for federal office to take responsibility for their television and radio ads. (For my earlier coverage see: here; here; and here… Continue reading

A.P. has this story on BCRA’s “Stand By Your Ad” provision.

Read Larry’s thoughtful post. I suppose I am one of the people Larry is referring to who believes, at least when it comes to constitutional adjudication of rights, that talk of formalist judging is just “pie in the sky.”… Continue reading