Bob Bauer offers comments here on Tony Corrado’s recent paper on BCRA and party fundraising. I’ll be interested to read Bauer’s thoughts on Michael Malbin’s fascinating article on the same topic in the new symposium issue of the Election Law… Continue reading
I received the following from the Brookings Institution:
Dear Colleague:
Please join us for a conference on congressional redistricting, jointly hosted by the Brookings Institution and the Institute of Governmental Studies. The conference,
BNA’s Money and Politics Report offers this article (paid subscription required), with the following description: “Federal Election Commission Chairman Bradley Smith said March 19 that Democratic-leaning groups criticizing President Bush are ‘operating in accordance’ with the nation’s new campaign finance… Continue reading
Adam Cohen offers this Editorial Observer column on Chief Justice Rehnquist’s new book. Like others (see Eric Foner’s review in The Nation), Cohen sees the book more about Bush v. Gore than about the Hayes-Tilden contest of 1876.
Cohen argues… Continue reading
Wired offers this report, which begins: “After recounting more than 13,000 absentee paper ballots, Northern California’s Napa County reported Thursday that an electronic voting machine used in the March 2 primary election missed more than 6,000 votes.”
You can access the table of contents here. In addition, you can access without charge the introduction to the issue (“The Party Line”), and commentaries by Senator John McCain, Senator Mitch McConnell, FEC Chair Brad Smith, and Brookings’ Tom… Continue reading
See this report in The Olympian, which begins: “Just when the future of voting in Washington’s primary election couldn’t get anymore confusing, it has.”
I’m all for disclosure of major contributors and spenders in federal campaigns, but every once and a while I’m reminded of the privacy costs that come from disclosing the identity of small contributors. The last time was when I read… Continue reading