Bob Bauer posts here on the Club for Growth complaint at the FEC, noting that ethical and practical concerns (his client filed the complaint) limit what he can say.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution offers this report. Thanks to Ed Packard for the link.

The Christian Science Monitor offers this report on the “backlash” to Carter-Baker. The LA Times gives a somewhat positive endorsement to the proposals. See also more blogospheric reaction: Andrew Gumbel, Dan Tokaji (and his roundup); the Lonely Centrist… Continue reading

Get your “Shut Up and Vote” mechandise here. Makes a great holiday gift for that election law scholar in your life.

You can find the details here. FEC Commissioner Ellen Weintraub’s testimony is here. Mike Krempasky’s testimony is here. I’ll add links to other testimony as I receive them. Update: Here is Commissioner Thomas’s statement. Here is Commissioner… Continue reading

Paul Gronke has three interesting posts on Carter-Baker, including one on the Brennan Center question raised in relationto race and the use of absentee ballots. See here, here, and here.

I have uploaded here a federal district court decision rejecting Lenora Fulani’s case against the DNC for conspiring to keep Ralph Nader off the presidential ballot in NY. The opinion begins: “This is yet another in a long line of… Continue reading

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution offers this report, with the subhead: “Plaintiffs assail Ga. requirement as illegal ‘poll tax.'”

The Boston Globe offers this editorial on settlement of a Voting Rights Act controversy in Boston.

See CQ Today; this Roll Call report (paid subscription required); this Hartford Courant report; this Oakland Tribune report; this Washington Post editorial; and this New York Times editorial. Those wanting to hear more about Spencer… Continue reading

The NY Times offers this report, which begins: ” The Federal Election Commission filed suit Monday against the Club for Growth, a well-funded Republican group, in an effort to force the organization to comply with limits on political contributions.… Continue reading

Today the Commission on Federal Election Reform headed by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker issued its final report and recommendations on election reform. As a matter of disclosure, I served as an academic advisor… Continue reading

Prentice Hall has just published Clicker Politics: Essays on the California Recall, edited by Shaun Bowler and Bruce Cain. I have an essay in the volume entitled “The California Recall Punch Card Litigation: Why Bush v. Gore Does Not… Continue reading

Michael Waterstone has published Lane, Fundamental Rights and Voting, 56 Alabama Law Review 793 (2005). I read this article in draft and it is well worth the read for those interested in the intersection of voting law and disability rights.