Monthly Archives: February 2006
Voting Rights Symposium Today at NYU
The following information arrived via email:
The NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy will host its annual
Symposium, titled “Carter-Baker and Beyond: The Work of the Commission
on Federal Election Reform and Implications for Reauthorization of the
Voting Rights… Continue reading
“Election Reforms May Be Missing in 2006 Midterm”
FOX News offers this extensive report.
“Why renew Voting Rights Act? Ala. town provides answer”
DeWayne Wickham has written this oped for USA Today.
“Carl P. Leubsdorf: Supreme Court could shake up Texas political map”
See this interesting column in the Dallas Morning News.
“Integrity of E-Balloting System Still in Doubt”
Michael Hilzik offers this LA Times column.
“OH 6: Wilson’s Petition Blunder Makes Race a Toss-Up”
CQ Politics offers this report.
“Former congressmen press changes in presidential elections”
The Chicago Tribune offers this report. It begins: “A coalition of former congressmen is launching a campaign to change how Americans select their president by reforming the Electoral College system, saying campaigns for the White House should be reliant… Continue reading
“Reform didn’t end ‘soft money,’ just put it in different hands”
Rep. Pat Tiberi offers this commentary.
“Fraud Reform? How efforts to ID voting problems have become a partisan mess”
Slate has published my commentary on election reform. It begins:
With a meltdown in our election system in 2000 and a near meltdown again in 2004, one might think states would use the off-season to get their electoral rules in… Continue reading
Lowenstein and Pildes Enter the OSU Electronic Roundtable
You can find Dan Lowenstein’s first post and Rick Pildes’s first post at the OSU website. Here is my first post from yesterday and Brad Smith’s first post from yesterday. Meanwhile, at Legal Affairs, the Miller-Briffault debate on the Vermont… Continue reading
Reply Brief Day
“Campaign Finance’s Odd Coalition”
Forbes offers this report on last week’s petition for rulemaking for “grassroots lobbying” filed with the FEC.
“County hopes to escape election law Catch-22; Appeal filed. Pa. fighting ruling that appears to make federal requirement impossible to satisfy.”
NJ.com offers this report, which begins: “Pennsylvania attorneys will file an appeal today in a court case that has county officials wondering how they will conduct the May 16 primary elections. The Department of State is appealing a Commonwealth… Continue reading