The Washington Post offers this report on yesterday’s problems in Maryland. With a few important races too close to call, the potential for litigation is definitely there. See also this post from Dan Tokaji.

See Football Fumble in Missouri over at the new NY Times political blog, The Caucus. The blog has a very interesting blog roll (though a number of blogs categorized as “campaign cash” probably belong in different categories. Also it would… Continue reading

Lyle Denniston has this post on SCOTUSBlog.

Chris Elmendorf has this interesting guest comment on the OSU website.

Here is the court’s order, from the same court that will be hearing the separate vote/single subject challenge on October 3 to Measure R, the LA city council term limits ballot measure. A somewhat surprising win for the city on… Continue reading

On Sept. 2, I linked to this editorial on McCain-Feingold that I labeled “incredible” “misinformation. Sen. Feingold has written this letter in response to the editorial (to which the editors appended an unfair “editor’s note”). Brad Smith responds to Sen.… Continue reading

This interesting panel will take place on October 26 in DC.

I’m going to start referring to the case (complaint) as the NAMUDNO case for shorthand (plaintiff is Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District Number One). A three judge court has been named: district judge Paul Friedman, district judge Emmet… Continue reading

Though the problems are with electronic voting machines, at least a major part of the problem was human error: the failure to deliver cards to precincts needed to run the machines. See this Washington Post report and this post from… Continue reading

The Arizona Daily Star offers this report, which begins: “So you think you know who will win today’s election? Don’t bet on it. It could get you into trouble. A little known law makes it a crime to even… Continue reading

The LA Times offers this must-read extensive report. A snippet: A spokesman for the Republican National Committee, Danny Diaz, said the party was closely monitoring the cases across the country but was not directly involved in coordinating strategy. Still,… Continue reading

Sandy Levinson has this provocative post on Balkanization. It begins: Already articles are appearing suggesting that widely predicted Democratic gains in the forthcoming elections may be vanishing, not least because of the success of the Bush Administration in terrifying the… Continue reading

I have posted it here. This is the case involving voter registration in Ohio.

A.P. offers this report. Regular readers of this blog will not be surprised.