“McPherson to Seek Reelection to State Post”
The LA Times offers this report. And in an election-related editorial, the newspaper offers A Better Direct Democracy.
Monthly Archives: November 2005
“New Orleans Vote Near, but Who Will Go?”
The New York Times offers this report.
Internal DOJ Documents on Georgia Voter ID Requirements Leaked to Washington Post; Show Career Attorneys Opposed Preclearance
The Washington Post offers a front page report, Criticism of Voting Law Was Overruled; Justice Dept. Backed Georgia Measure Despite Fears of Discrimination. It begins: “A team of Justice Department lawyers and analysts who reviewed a Georgia voter-identification law… Continue reading
The NYT Editorial Page on Judge Alito and One Person, One Vote
In Ignore the Man Behind the Memo, the New York Times editorial page writes: “[Judge Alito] noted his ‘disagreement with Warren Court decisions’ in many important areas, including reapportionment. The reapportionment cases established the one-person-one-vote doctrine, which requires that… Continue reading
“Voter Disenfranchisement by Attrition; With friends like FEMA, who needs Jim Crow?”
In These Times offers this very important report, which begins: “When Hurricane Katrina came ashore in New Orleans, it destroyed half the city’s voting precincts and scattered 300,000 of the city’s residents, most of them black, across the country.… Continue reading
Court Invalidates Ballot Measure Where Chinese Translation of Measure was Faulty
See here.
“Recounting Ohio: Was Ohio stolen? You might not like the answer”
Mother Jones has published
Links to More WRtL Amicus Briefs
See here. One of the briefs, on behalf of Senator McConnell, was authored by Ted Olson.
More Commentaries on Lessons from the California and Ohio Election Reform Defeats
See Ned Foley’s commentary and Bob Bauer’s commentary, which offers a different view of the BC citizens’ assembly promoted by Heather Gerken.
Conservative Groups’ Amicus Brief in WRtL
Allison Hayward has posted it here. Allison reports that the brief was filed on behalf of the Center for Competitive Politics, the Cato Institute, the Institute for Justice, Reason, the Goldwater Institute, and the Claremont Institute. Who is CCP?… Continue reading
Some Evidence One Person, One Vote Will Get Some Play in Judge Alito Hearings
See this fact sheet from the Alliance for Justice. A snippet: “Judge Alito should say whether he continues to believe that the Constitution provides no right to abortion, contains no ‘one person-one vote’ principle, permits religious prayer in school and… Continue reading
Richie on Eilperin and Redistricting
See this post on Fairvote’s new blog.
“Initiatives’ defeats deal a blow to electoral reform”
The San Jose Mercury News has published my oped, which begins:
The cause of election reform took a serious blow Nov. 8, when voters in California and Ohio soundly rejected measures that would have reined in partisan redistricting and,… Continue reading
Alliance for Justice Amicus Brief in WRtL Case
You can find it here.