“Wisconsin: Key thoughts on the primaries”
The Recall Elections Blog roundup.
Monthly Archives: May 2012
“Lugar’s Demise and the Constitutional Crisis”
Jonathan Chiat:
The most important and alarming facet of Lugar’s defeat, and a factor whose importance is being overlooked at the moment, is one of the things Mourdock cited against him: Lugar voted to confirm two of Obama’s Supreme Court… Continue reading
“The Power of the Petition; How the effort to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker could swing the 2012 presidential election.”
Sasha Issenberg at Slate: “But there’s a consolation for Republicans: They’re thrilled to get their hands on the petition documents, and the 900,039 names they believe will help them make sense of the state’s political geography on behalf of Mitt… Continue reading
“AE Speaks, Claims May 15 Ballot Now Canceled, Too”
AE Transparency explains. See also With Failures Rapidly Mounting, What Is Americans Elect’s End-Game?
“How the Felon Won”
Charlie Mahtesian on Kevin Judd: “Looking at the map, Judd’s strongest support came from southern West Virginia’s coal country, close by the Kentucky border.”
“Justice bars analyst from Mississippi cases after Facebook post calling state ‘disgusting'”
FOX News: “The Justice Department has blocked one of its civil rights analysts from dealing with all matters Mississippi after the employee apparently described the state as ‘disgusting and shameful’ on Facebook — comments that drew a rebuke Tuesday… Continue reading
Never Heard of Prison Inmate/Presidential Candidate Keith Judd?
You will.
Here are the WV results so far:
And BuzzFeed has a picture of Mr. Judd along with a story.
“Barrett wins Democratic primary, to face Walker in June”
News from the Wisconsin recall.
Moderate Lugar Issues Strong Statement on Way Out the Door
See the second statement here.
“What George Soros’ donations tell us about 2012”
The Fix reports.
MORE: NYT: “Senior leaders of the Democratic Party expressed alarm on Tuesday that a $100 million plan by liberal donors to increase voter turnout would duplicate a similar effort by President Obama’s campaign and squander… Continue reading
“Moderate Republicans Fall Away in the Senate”
538 reports. I’ll have more to say on this subject soon.
“State probes possible voting by foreigners in Florida”
Important Miami Herald report, and a serious test for election officials.
Let’s be clear about what the goal of election officials should be: to ensure that all eligible voters, and only eligible voters, get to cast a vote in November.
5th Edition of Election Law–Cases and Materials Off to Publisher
Dan Tokaji and I are thrilled to have sent off the files for the 5th edition of Lowenstein, Hasen, and Tokaji, Election Law–Cases and Materials, to the publisher today for typesetting.
It, and a revamped teacher’s manual, will be ready… Continue reading
“Repeal Of Contentious Election Law Heads To Gov.”
The latest from Ohio.
MORE: “Congressional Democrats bash voting law as state lawmakers eye appeal” and
Senate hearing in downtown Cleveland to discuss voting rights and State Bill 194
A snippet from the last article:
Although he did… Continue reading