Bob Pastor of American University’s Center for Democracy and Election Management, who served as Executive Director of the Carter-Baker Commission, offers the following comments. (I’ve added links to sources he references).
After the Supreme Court decision on Crawford, there were… Continue reading
The Columbus Dispatch reports here on a pending Ohio election bill, which includes some but not all of the changes requested by Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner. The bill approved by a state senate committee reportedly would require bipartisan teams… Continue reading
The Fifth Circuit yesterday issued this opinion in Mississippi State Democratic Party v. Barbour, reversing a lower court opinion that had declared Mississippi’s semi-closed primary statute unconstitutional and had required both party identification and photo ID to vote in a… Continue reading
The transcript and other information from the Presidential Primaries Symposium at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, which took place on April 29, may be found here.
A federal court in Tampa has, not surprisingly, thrown out a lawsuit charging the Democratic National Committee with discriminating against Florida voters by refusing the seat the delegates from the state’s too-early primary. CNN has this report and the… Continue reading
Politico has published meeting materials for the Rules and Bylaws Committee Meeting this Saturday on the Michigan and Florida delegations. The materials include staff analyses of both the Florida and Michigan challenges.
Update: Taegan Goddard has this preview of Saturday’s… Continue reading
The New York Times has this story on allegations that local election officials failed to record students from the historically black Prairie View A&M University, when they tried to register in 2006. It also reports on a case in Marshall,… Continue reading
Over at the FairVote.blog, Rob Richie has this post on how the primary schedule has elevated the temperature of the Clinton-Obama race, and this one on the National Popular Vote plan and advance registration in Rhode Island.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports here on sparring between the campaigns over the transparency of fundraising efforts. For related stories, see the NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times Blog, AP, and MSNBC.
Roger Simon of Politico has this story on the upcoming meeting of the Rules and Bylaws Committee, which will consider what to do about the Michigan and Florida delegates. He reports that the committee’s co-chairs, Alexis Herman and James Roosevelt… Continue reading