Gov. Bill Richardson offers this op-ed in today’s The Hill, supporting the bill sponsored by Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) to require a “verifiable paper-ballot system.” Meanwhile, Computerworld reports here on the division over the Holt Bill among electronic voting skeptics.… Continue reading

The NY Times has this report on states grappling with the question of when, if ever, people with mental impairments should be disqualified from voting. This issue was addressed at a March symposium hosted by the ABA’s Commission on Law… Continue reading

Ellen Katz has this essay, forthcoming in the Ohio State Law Journal. From the abstract: Losers in partisan districting battles have long challenged the resulting districting plans under seemingly unrelated legal doctrines. They have filed lawsuits alleging malapportionment, racial… Continue reading

Timothy Canova of Chapman University’s School of Law has this article in the Nexus Journal. From the abstract: The Constitution protects the rights of Americans to participate in politics through assembly and membership in private interest groups. Yet the Founders… Continue reading

McClatchy News offers this story on allegations that Hans von Spakovsky blocked lawsuits to protect minority voting rights while at DOJ. The Houston Chronicle this one focusing on DOJ’s preclearance of the 2003 Texas redistricting. Meanwhile, Eliza Carney of the… Continue reading

The election administration issue of 2004 is back in the news in Texas and Tennessee. The Beaumont Enterprise has this report on the allegedly erroneous rejection of provisional ballots in a Jefferson County, TX election. Meanwhile, in Sweetwater, TN, a… Continue reading

The Charlotte Observer reports here on a controversy surrounding a same-day registration bill in North Carolina. The bill had already been passed by the state house and was slated to be considered by the state senate on June 6, when… Continue reading

The Supreme Court did not issue an opinion in WRTL today. The next possible day for opinions is Thursday, with more opinions issued next week. The Court is expected to issue 11 more sets of opinions (assuming it issues… Continue reading

This letter to the editor appears in the Dallas Morning News, in response to this June 10 oped [corrected link] that ran in that newspaper (a shortened version of this Slate piece). For the record, I still support a… Continue reading

The LA Daily News offers this report.

The NY Times offers this front page report. A snippet: “The twist is lost on no one: a candidate who has spent decades fighting to minimize the influence of money on politics is under extraordinary pressure to scare up… Continue reading

Marc Ambinder, now blogging at The Atlantic, has this post on WRTL, McCain, Romney and Bopp.

The Politico offers this report.