Adam Cox has posted this article (from the (forthcoming?) Supreme Court Review) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Courts and scholars have long struggled over whether and how to police partisan gerrymandering. For all the disagreement about how to resolve… Continue reading
You can find the trial court’s opinion striking down the California law here. I’ve only had a chance to glance at this but some of the reasoning appears quite odd. Expect an appeal.
Here are some edited versions of some postings I’ve recently made to the election law listserv:
Steve Ansolabehere and Mike Alvarez made the following observations in
a 2002 Demos report: “
The New York Times offers this report. A question for the campaign finance reform community: can contributions to DeLay’s charity be regulated (either disclosure or contribution limits) on grounds of potential benefit to candidate and close relationship to candidate… Continue reading
Following up on this post, see this Seattle Times article. Michael McDonald also questions whether the GOP-expert statistical report has failed to include measures of statistical uncertainty in the calculations. UPDATE: McDonald provides more information here. Update… Continue reading
See this report. A snippet:
Two political science professors — Jonathan Katz of the California Institute of Technology and Anthony Gill of the University of Washington — broke down the data for the GOP.
Both subtracted improper votes from… Continue reading