“Legal Hurdle in Blagojevich Case: A Crime, or Just Talk?”
The NY Times offers this news analysis. Paging Dan Lowenstein.
Monthly Archives: December 2008
“One More Round of Voting, as Electors Do Their Duty “
The NY Times offers this report.
“Senate recount: Battle of the ballot disputes is set to begin”
The Star Tribune offers this interesting report. Particularly interesting is the newspaper’s reliance on 26,000 readers who judged questioned ballots on the newspaper’s website.
“A Ballot Buddy System”
Randall Lane has written this NY Times oped. The nub: “an electoral vote buddy system. Red and blue states of similar size should pair up and pass state laws to apportion their electoral votes by district.”
Presidential Electors Apparently Don’t Need Photo ID in Indiana
“Campaign Finance: A Victim of President-Elect Obama’s Success”
The Washington Post offers this editorial. Bob Bauer comments.
“Court Won’t Review Obama’s Eligibility to Serve”
It is deja vu all over again.
No ruling in Bartlett v. Strickland, meaning the decision won’t be out until after the Court comes back in January.
“Board of Elections: Voting machines missed votes”
The Dayton Daily News offers this report.
“Avoiding the Vote: A Theory and Field Experiment of the Social Costs of Public Political Participation”
Christian Grose and Carrie Russell have posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Citizen vote choice in modern democracies is almost always a private act, yet the act of turning out to vote is a social and public… Continue reading
“Toward a Better Registration System”
Eliza Newlin Carney’s Rules of the Game column is now available.
“Republicans Revive Voter ID Proposal”
The latest from Texas.
“A nasty bug emerges in the state election system”
The Star-Tribune offers this report, with the subhead: “Absentee ballots emerged as the biggest flaw in Minnesota’s election system and may hold the key to finally resolving the Senate contest.”
“One Student, One Vote? Equal Protection and Campus Elections”
Michael Zuckerman has written an article (available on westlaw at 35 JCUL 217) for the Journal of College and University Law. From the introduction: “In Part I, this Note discusses the history, scope, and current application of the ‘one person,… Continue reading
“Only fraction of Senate challenges will vex board”
AP offers this interesting report.