The New York Times offers this report, which begins: “If Florida’s five-week recount after the 2000 presidential election seemed endless, pity Puerto Rico. A recount is all but certain in the race for governor here, after the Election Night… Continue reading
The website of the new National Resarch Commission on Elections and Voting is here. The initial press release is here. The organization has assembled an impressive group of participating scholars. They also have an e-mail list, which someone… Continue reading
Check out this post by Paul Smith, part of this blog put together in advance of a conference by the Yale chapter of the American Constitution Society on the Constitution in 2020.
Volume 2, No. 3 (Sept. 2004) just arrived in my mailbox. The articles unfortunately are not on line, but here is a list of the articles from the Table of Contents:
Symposium: U.S. Elections–How the Rules You Choose and… Continue reading
Rick Pildes has written this Supreme Court Foreword in the Harvard Law Review (Volume 118, No. 1 (2004)). This is a very important piece that ties together some of Rick’s larger ideas about the role of courts in regulating the… Continue reading
Congratulations to Grant Hayden, who was recently awarded tenure by Hofstra University. Grant has written some very interesting articles on the one person, one vote rule. His article, Resolving the Dilemma of Minority Representation, will be published by the… Continue reading
You can find details about this very interesting conference on voting and campaign finance issues here. It is sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute, the Brookings Institution, the Campaign Legal Center and the Reform Institute.
Election Law Journal, a quarterly, peer reviewed publication edited by Daniel H. Lowenstein and Richard L. Hasen, will publish a special symposium issue in 2005 on the topic