Sen. Schumer: Rules Committee to Investigate Diebold Merger
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Monthly Archives: October 2009
Fred Wertheimer statement on FEC Coordination NPRM
“California 2010 ‘Top-Two’ Proposal Is More Restrictive for Voters than the California 2004 ‘Top-Two’ Initiative”
Richard Winger opines.
Mona Charen on Citizens United
Here at NRO.
“U.S. Term Limits Condemns CA Governor Schwarzenegger for Calling Term Limits ‘Crazy'”
This is currently the top item under “News” at the U.S. Term Limits home page.
“FEC Votes 6-0 to Advance New Proposals To Regulate ‘Coordinated Communications'”
BNA offers this important report.
A Question Answered
Here, as a separate document, is the draft coordination rule.
It must be nice for the FEC commissioners to know that no matter what they do they are likely to be sued by somebody over this, should they agree… Continue reading
New Jersey Public Advocate Releases Report on Close Elections in State
See here.
“SpeechNow.org Challenge to FEC Limits Set for Consideration by Full D.C. Circuit”
BNA reports ($).
FEC to Consider Post-Shays III Rulemaking, But Omits Any New Coordination Rules
See here. What’s going on with the coordination rules?
Thanks to a reader for passing this along.
Jonah Goldberg on Expanding the Size of the U.S. House
See here.
“Caplin & Drysdale Submits Comments to SEC on Proposed Pay to Play Law”
See here.
Ronald Dworkin on Citizens United
See this blog post at the NY Review of Books website.
In the Election Law Mailbag
Michael Hanmer, Discount Voting: Voter Registration Reform and Their Effects (Cambridge 2009)
William Josephson, Senate Election of the Vice President and House of Representatives Election of the President, 11 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 597 (2009) (not yet… Continue reading