BNA Money & Politics Report offers this report ($), which begins: “Democratic lawmakers trying to advance legislation dealing with voting machine problems and deceptive election practices have run into major objections from Republican colleagues and others, raising doubts that action… Continue reading

Congratulations Dan!

Doug Chapin has these thoughts in this week’s Electionline newsletter.

See here. The complainant should get a lawyer to advise him that such an appeal has virtually no chance of success.

The AJC blog reports the news, and provides links to the judge’s decision in two parts (here and here). I have not had a chance to look at this in any detail yet, but apparently the judge… Continue reading

The newspaper offers this report on the electoral college initiative, which begins: “A GOP-backed initiative to toss out California’s winner-take-all system of assigning electoral votes was approved for circulation Wednesday, and Democrats immediately slammed it as a backdoor attempt to… Continue reading

The NY Times offers this editorial on the Holt bill.

The NY Times offers this report.

The EAC has issued this press release.

Bob Bauer offers these thoughts.

The Reform Institute has issued this press release about this new report.

Lloyd Mayer has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: obbying is both an essential part of our democratic process and a source of some of our greatest fears about dangers to that process. Yet when Congress, the… Continue reading

So says ($) BNA Money and Politics Report.

See this news from California.