The following announcement arrived via email: Please join the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, Common Cause, the Center for American Progress Action Fund, and the Century Foundation for the first comprehensive review of problems that plagued voters in the 2006… Continue reading

John Myers has this post on his Capital Notes blog, which begins: “As talk heats up of a February 2008 presidential primary here in California, local elections officials from around the state say they will ask that all the ballots… Continue reading

Roll Call offers this report ($), which begins: “Despite the fact that several campaign finance bills were introduced recently, House Democratic leaders do not appear to be preparing to embrace an aggressive agenda for election reform this year. Democrats have… Continue reading

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You can find one of the two reply briefs in this case here. The other is too large to post. See also amicus briefs from the Asian American Bar Association, NAACP, and RNC. I’m still predicting… Continue reading

The Miami Herald offers this report. See also Voting reform needs more than paper trail, an oped by Lida Rodriguez-Taseff.

The LA Times offers this report.

Ed Felton has this very interesting post on his blog. A snippet: The second attempt [to investigate what happened in the FL-13] was by the Department of State (DOS) of the state of Florida, who commissioned a study by outside… Continue reading

Salon discovers Ackerman and Ayres.

The Philadelphia Inquirer offers this report, which begins: “A sudden move to undo Philadelphia’s caps on political donations in the middle of the mayoral race set off a furious argument yesterday in City Hall.”

The Supreme Court will hear Office of Dayton v. Hanson on April 24 and WRTL v. FEC on April 25, the last scheduled argument day of the term.

AP reports: “ORLANDO, Fla.–A judge has barred a television station from broadcasting news reports about what it found in 80 boxes of documents that belonged to a political consultant at the center of an election-law scandal.”