You can access a five-page analysis, “How Conflicts Over Poll Challengers and Provisional Ballots May Impact the 2004 Election” by Spencer Overton on his web page.

Elizabeth Vallet offers this oped (English translation), which originally appeared in Le Figaro.

A.P. reports here that the Chief Justice was not on the bench today, as he had originally planned to be, following cancer surgery. On NPR, Nina Totenberg was asked how, if at all, this could affect any post-election litigation that… Continue reading

The New York Times offers this report. The article quotes A.P. (as I did a few posts below) stating that Republicans planned to appeal to the Sixth Circuit. It is hard to see how the Sixth Circuit gets what… Continue reading

See here.

See this commentary posted at National Review Online. A snippet: “If the presidential election of 2004 is indeed close, federal and state judges should stay their hand absent intentional discrimination contrary to the Constitution or a disregard of directly applicable… Continue reading

In the National Law Journal, Marcia Coyle writes Close Vote to Turn on ‘Bush v. Gore’? The New York Law Journal offers N.Y. Judge Says Speech Limits on Judicial Candidates Deprive Voters of Information.

I should be on NPR’s Day-to-Day today with a commentary on two fundamental changes we need to avoid a permanent threat of post-election litigation: universal voter registration with a voter i.d. card and elimination of partisan election administration, beginning with… Continue reading

The St. Petersburg Times offers this report.

See this A.P. report. See also this order issued by a second judge in Ohio. I’m off to tape a radio commentary. More in a few hours.

The order granting the TRO is here. A snippet from a discussion of the legal analysis: Ohio argues that in light of the huge numbers of newly registered voters and reports of fraudulent registration, a system allowing private challengers… Continue reading