The following announcement arrived via email: We are making this announcement on behalf of the Creighton Law Review. As Lead Articles Editors, we are responsible for selecting articles for the 2007-2008 editions. Every year the Creighton Law Review publishes four… Continue reading

Jeffrey Birnbaum has written this piece for the Washington Post, which begins: “Congress just completed ethics legislation designed to put distance between lawmakers and the interests that seek favors from them. But the people in charge of next summer’s presidential… Continue reading

This year’s panel on “Election Law Reform: Theory, Law, Practice” will be on August 31 at 4:15 pm. Here is the lineup: Chair: John S. Shockley Augsburg College Author(s): The Supreme Court and Campaign Finance after Wisconsin Right to Life… Continue reading

See this Democracy 21 press release. Do others agree?

Tom Spencer has written this Salt Lake City Tribune oped. I expect many people knowledgeable on the issue of voter fraud will have much to disagree with here.

AP offers this business report (link via Election Updates).

See this interesting post by Marc Ambinder.

Following up on this report, The Center for Responsive Politics has issued this analysis, with a chart of Democratic v. Republican giving on college campuses you won’t want to miss.

Indian Country Today offers this report.

Dan Rather Reports will be focusing on electronic voting. Via the link you can watch a preview of the program, which should be available in full on Tuesday.

AP offers this report.

You can find the table of contents for ELJ 6:3 here, and it is linked below. Look for ELJ 6:4 in October, featuring Erik Herron and Lauren Prather on re-enfranchising displaced voters, using lessons from Bosnia; Derek Muller on… Continue reading

Eliza Newlin Carney’s latest “Rules of the Game” column begins: “The costly and fast-paced 2008 presidential race has attracted legitimate scrutiny to an area that’s emerging as a political danger zone: charities and nonprofits run by presidential candidates.”

The Politico offers this report, which begins: “Barack Obama appears to be winning the faculty lounge straw poll — his presidential campaign is cultivating academics and pacing the field in collecting cash from them.”