“Why Could Romney’s Father Run For President If He Was Born In Mexico?”
NPR explains.
Monthly Archives: January 2012
“Overseas Vote Foundation Announces New Domestic Initiative”
Press release: “Overseas Vote Foundation (OVF) today proudly launched its new domestic voter engagement initiative known as U.S. Vote Foundation (US Vote). ‘It’s time to provide U.S.-based voters with the same breadth and quality of online voter services that… Continue reading
“DEAD WRONG? Claims of widespread ‘zombie voters’ in South Carolina start to unravel”
Facing South has this post.
“Civil rights law on Supreme Court’s mind”
Reuters: “A recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that dealt with a narrow issue in a redistricting case from Texas suggests that the nation’s top court is ready to reconsider a key part of the Voting Rights Act,… Continue reading
“Support thin for voter ID bill; Secretary of state’s plan called unnecessary at best, misguided at worst”
The Des Moines Register reports.
Breaking News: CA Supreme Court Says 2012 Commission Maps Will Be Used Even if Referendum on Senate Districts Qualifies for the Ballot
You can find the opinion here. Justin told us it would be so. What is perhaps most worthy of interest in this case is the concurring opinion of Justice Goodwin Liu, counseling restraint in the area of redistricting. (This… Continue reading
“Messin’ with Texas; The Legal Wrangle over Redistricting”
Must-read Sam Issacharoff piece in the Boston Review:
Texas shows that asking the wrong question yields no good answer. So long as the question is how many seats Republican insiders should give to Democratic and Hispanic outsiders, the answer will… Continue reading
“Virginia Legislative Committee Passes Bill to Allow Write-in Votes in Primaries”
Winger: “It is ironic that at the same time Virginia is adding write-in space on some ballots, the California legislature is about to pass AB 1413, which eliminates write-in space on general election ballots for Congress and state office.”… Continue reading
NCSL Legislative Action Bulletin Now Available
Here.
The Big Campaign Finance Question Tuesday: 501c4 Contributions
January 31 is an important day for campaign finance reporting, including when a number of new super PACs will be reporting for the first time.
The issue I will be watching: how many of these groups will be reporting contributions… Continue reading
“New Pew Report Details Progress on Military, Overseas Voting”
Doug Chapin:
Today at the 2012 Overseas Vote Summit in Washington, DC the Pew Center on the States will release Democracy from Afar: States Show Progress on Military and Overseas Voting, a new report updating progress on the… Continue reading
“Why redistricting commissions aren’t immune from politics”
Stateline reports.
Council of Europe Calls for More Transparency in U.S. Election Financing
See here.
NYT Editorializes on the Shelby County Voting Rights Case
The Times:
When Congress nearly unanimously reauthorized the Voting Rights Act in 2006, it relied on abundant evidence that there is still pervasive, persistent, even Jim Crow-style voting discrimination in the South and elsewhere — including in Shelby County… Continue reading