WaPo: “A week before Election Day, Democrats have taken legal action to try to stop thousands of unsolicited text messages encouraging people in Northern Virginia to vote against their candidates.”
Monthly Archives: October 2011
“Herman Cain’s ties to Wisconsin nonprofit raise legal questions”
The LA Times reports.
“The Republican ‘voter fraud’ fraud”
Diane Roberts has written this column for The Guardian (U.K.).
“E-voting remains insecure, despite paper trail”
InfoWorld reports.
“Congressional hearing sought over voter ID laws sweeping states”
McClatchy reports.
“Election manual includes Voter ID law before it’s the law”
Houston Chronicle: “A manual being using to train election judges for next week’s elections contains inaccurate information, reflecting a new voter identification law that has not yet taken effect, Harris County Clerk Stan Stanart said Monday”
“GOP redistricting bill faltering”
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: “An effort to change state law that would make it tougher to recall Republican state senators faltered Monday, as one GOP senator said he wouldn’t go along with it and the chamber’s top leader said the measure was not on a fast track.”
“Court Sets January Date for Arguments On Beefing Up FEC’s Disclosure Rules”
BNA: “A federal judge will hear oral arguments in January over a challenge to the adequacy of Federal Election Commission disclosure rules for groups planning to spend millions of dollars to influence next year’s election campaigns (Van Hollen v. FEC, D.D.C., No. 11-766, scheduling order 10/28/2011).”
“Super PACs Rising to Key Role in Campaigns With No New Law or Rules, CRS Report Says”
BNA reports on a new CRS report on Super PACs.
“In Election Season, Legal Organization Warns Of Threat To Judicial Independence”
The Defense Research Institute has issued this press release.
“Court won’t get involved in fight over redistricting in Mississippi”
AP reports on today’s summary affirmance from the Supreme Court.
Must-Read Az. Capitol Times Report on Incumbents’ Efforts to Influence Independent Redistricting Commission
Here.
Quote of the Day
“It looks like a law school exam on potential campaign-finance violations,”
—Lawrence Norton on today’s Herman Cain campaign finance allegations
Does Herman Cain Support Campaign Finance Disclosure?
I wouldn’t bet on it, but I found it interesting that, according to this report in the NYT’s “The Caucus,” “He derided the report in Politico as being based on “anonymous sources.”
Doesn’t this mean that people should judge the credibility of a message in part based on the credibility of the messenger?