This has been (and continues to be) a wild ride. Election 2008 raised many interesting and difficult election law issues. I have done my best to track them and provide some perspective. But there is so much going on that… Continue reading

You should be able to listen here at 11 am Pacific (what else are you going to be doing while you wait for leaked exit polls?). I’m guessing that Doug Lewis won’t agree with some of my reform proposals.

Legal Times offers this report.

This post appears at the Am Law Daily.

Dan Tokaji blogs.

AP offers this report, which begins: “Four employees hired by a temporary staffing agency to encourage absentee voting for Sen. John McCain in Wisconsin say they were instructed to tell people they were Republican volunteers.”

The NY Times offers this report.

“The great impact that this election will have for the future is that it killed public financing for all time…That means the next Republican presidential campaign, hopefully a re-election for John McCain, will need to be a billion-dollar affair to… Continue reading

Paul Gronke has an interesting post at Election Updates. Actually, there’s a lot of great stuff there. And Charles Stewart has begun blogging there too. Be sure to check it often on Tuesday. I will.

Moritz notes: “After losing its request for relief this afternoon, according to this report in the Washington Post, the Virginia NAACP announced that it is prepared to go back to court tomorrow (Election Day) if lines at the polls… Continue reading

Yesterday I linked to this ProPublica report of an interview with McCain legal team advisor Ron Michaelson. Michaelson has now posted this letter to the editor, which states that the ProPublica reporter “made only selective use of [his] quotes… Continue reading

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Following up on this post, I’ve now had a chance to read the complaint and I think there’s a strong argument that because of the long delay the suit could well be barred by laches. More fundamentally, the suit… Continue reading

Bloomberg offers this report, which raises the issue under state law. I believe this violates federal law as well, as I’ve blogged. Gerry Hebert writes to say that the federal election prosecution guidelines would not apply to commercial inducements:… Continue reading