“NJ Nears Undermining Electoral College”
AP offers this report. See also this piece on the National Popular Vote in the magazine In These Times.
Monthly Archives: January 2008
“White House says it has not withdrawn von Spakovsky’s nomination for FEC”
See this post at one of the Politico’s blogs.
“U.S. Supreme Court Case on Merits of Photo ID Law Is Previewed in Election Law Journal”
The Election Law Journal has issued this press release about its release of the uncorrected page proofs of this must-read case preview of the Crawford Indiana voter id case written by Ned Foley. Information on subscribing to ELJ is here… Continue reading
The Iowa College Vote and Democratic Values
We’ve all seen the cry of “voter fraud” being used for political purposes in recent years, but this latest example would be amusing if it weren’t so pernicious: David Yepsen, a leading political reporter for The Des Moines Register, has… Continue reading
“Lott Successor Dispute Heads to Court”
AP offers this report.
“Hastert, the Untold Story”
This post at one of the Washington Post’s political blogs begins: “As if the Mark Foley page scandal hadn’t done enough damage to Republicans. Now we discover that legal bills arising from the tawdry affair landed former Speaker Dennis Hastert… Continue reading
“Von Spakovsky says good-bye to that job at the FEC”
See this post at one of the Atlanta Journal Constitution’s blogs. See also this BNA report ($) on the FEC shutdown and this Democracy 21 press release.… Continue reading
New Jersey Poised to Make Its Chief Elections Officer, More, Not Less, Partisan
This is troubling, and exactly the opposite of what I have long advocated.
More on Wilkinson Opinion in Virginia Open Primary Case
Ken Blackwell on Crawford, the Indiana Voter ID Case, and a Brennan Center Response to Fraud Allegations
The former controversial Ohio Secretary of State has penned this oped in the NY Sun. Among the statements made by Sec. Blackwell: “Briefs in the case show that the number of votes cast in Wisconsin in 2004 exceeded the number… Continue reading
“What Older Adults Can Teach Us About Designing Better Ballots”
Via Election Updates comes a link to this article in the journal Ergonomics in Design.
“Eager to vote but stuck in citizenship process”
The LA Times offers this report.
Judge Wilkinson Writes Extremely Important Dissent from Denial of Rehearing En Banc in Virginia Open Primary Case
Howard Bashman called to my attention this opinion by Fourth Circuit judge James Harvie Wilkinson III dissenting from rehearing en banc in Miller v. Cunningham, concerning some aspects of Virginia’s laws governing nomination of candidates in partisan elections. Judge Wilkinson’s… Continue reading
“Caucuses Give Iowa Influence, but Many Iowans Are Left Out”
The NY Times offers this report. See also this Jeff Greenfield column for Slate.