It apparently deters money laundering. See Judge Is Charged in Money-Laundering Case in the NY Times.

You can find the text of the letter here. It follows up on my letter sent to the Committee on this topic last week.

The San Francisco Chronicle offers this report, which begins: “Business associates of San Francisco real estate agent and political fundraiser Julie Lee say it was their desire to maintain good relations with the local powerbroker that led them to become players in a campaign finance scandal that drove former Secretary of State Kevin Shelley from office and led to Lee’s arrest on state and federal fraud charges.”

See here.

A.P. offers this report, which begins: “COLUMBUS, Ohio – Three proposals to change election law have tentatively exceeded the number of signatures needed to be placed on the Nov. 8 ballot, leaving it up to an appeals court to decide whether backers legally collected the signatures.”

The Cleveland Plain Dealer offers this report. It begins: “Two Cuyahoga County elections officials were indicted Tuesday on charges of not handling ballots correctly during the recount of the 2004 presidential election.”

you might consider stamps commemorating the Voting Rights Act and other civil rights milestones.

I have posted the document here. The opinion addresses an important legal question about the ability of federal officeholders to raise funds for state initiative contests, including those (as in the Berman-Doolittle case) involving proposed changes to the redistricting process. The Mason-Toner opinion begins:

We joined the Commission’s ruling today because the activities presented by the requestors do not implicate the ban on soft-money fundraising under Section 441i(e).
The threshold legal question in deciding whether Section 441i(e)
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You can find the report here. The portion dealing with the Voting Rights act appears on pages 36-40 of the report.

On the right hand side of the blog, I have added links to the following blogs under

I’m off to APSA, presenting my paper on election administration reform Thursday (see here). Blogging will be light through Labor Day.

Frank B. Strickland and Anne W. Lewis offer this Washington Post commentary, responding to David J. Becker’s recent oped.

See here.

A.P. offers this report from New Mexico.