See this AP report. The article apparently incorrectly indicates that a 30 day limit will kick in for the D.C. primary. Because it is a non-binding primary with no delegates as stake, that appears to be wrong. That means… Continue reading

See this CBSNews report, blaming McCain-Feingold in part for negative campaigning, as groups like Club for Growth try to get their issue ads in before the 30 day limit applies.

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The Washington Post offers this report.

My commentary in the Legal Times is available here. It begins: “On Dec. 10, the Supreme Court will consider the invitation of some Pennsylvania Democrats to impose a new set of constitutional rules to police claims of partisan gerrymandering.… Continue reading

The Ninth Circuit has decided Arizona Libertarian Party v. Bayless. At issue is the constitutionality of Arizona’s primary system in which “voters who are unaffiliated, registered as independents or geistered as members of parties that are not on the… Continue reading

See here. Thanks to Douglas Kellner’s post to the Votingtech list for bringing this to my attention.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette offers this report.

Robert X. Cringely offers these thoughts.

See this Des Moines Register report. Thanks to Kieran Williams who called this to my attention, and asks: “I’d be curious to know whether the list’s readers agree that Iowa NBC’s lawyers indeed ‘must not have finished law school,’… Continue reading

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Frequent readers of this blog know that one of the more interesting and troubling aspects of campaign finance regulation is the exemption to otherwise applicable limits on corporations for the institutional media. The issue may well be discussed in at… Continue reading

More on the new 527 organizations in this Seattle Times report. See also Money, Votes, Pursued for Democrats in the Washington Post.