The NY Times offers this report. A snippet: “After chafing for years under what they saw as flagrant Republican abuse of Congressional power and procedures, the incoming majority has promised to restore House and Senate practices to those more… Continue reading
Following up on this post, Brett Kappel emails to explain the difference between the FEC’s treatment of the Swift Boat Veterans and Moveon.org on the one hand, and the Leadership Forum on the other:
The Leadership Forum found a… Continue reading
Paul Moke and Richard B. Saphire have written this article for the Hastings Law Journal. Here is the abstract:
Recent presidential and gubernatorial elections have exposed serious flaws in the process by which American voters participate in the democratic franchise.… Continue reading
Sam Issacharoff sends along this link to a report of the British House of Commons Constitutional Affairs Committee on Party Funding. Here is the summary:
Our inquiry into the funding of political parties took place against a backdrop of significant… Continue reading
The LA Times offers this report, with the subhead: “Oakland will use such a system. Davis, Calif., has opted for ‘proportional representation.’ Backers believe the systems make races more competitive.”… Continue reading
James Sample and Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr. have written this oped in the Albany Times Union. It begins: “New York’s Constitution requires that the voters — not unelected political party leaders — select the state’s principal trial court judges. In… Continue reading
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel offers this report, which begins: “The 2008 campaign begins this winter amid the ruins of the presidential public finance system, which for 30 years has offered candidates public money if they agree to limit their own… Continue reading
The Journal News has this report on the propects for incoming Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s proposal to overhaul the way that campaigns are financed in New York
Election Updates has this post on a proposal by Secretary of State Trey Grayson, as reported by the AP and editorialized on by the Cincinnati Enquirer with reference to Ohio’s experience.