“Internet Voting — Not Ready for Prime Time?”
That’s the lead story in NCSL’s “The Canvass.” Coincidentally, the lead story in this week’s Electionline Weekly is: “Internet Voting: The Third-Rail in Elections.”
Monthly Archives: February 2013
“Supreme Court Could Create System of Legalized Bribery in Washington Depending on its Decision in McCutcheon Case”
“JAS, Brennan: Special Interest TV Spending Dominant in WI Primary”
This item appears at Gavel Grab.
“The Lawfulness of Section 5 — and Thus of Section 5”
Akhil Amar has written this VRA piece for the Harvard Law Review Forum.
“After Scalia: Don’t give up on campaign finance reform, however hopeless it seems now.”
I have written this Jurisprudence essay for Slate, which begins:
Things look pretty bleak for those who want to limit the role of money in politics. This week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case which could make it … Continue reading
“The partisan politics of election laws”
Guy Charles and Luis Fuentes-Rohwer have written this piece for the Reuters symposium on Shelby County. A snippet: “the Voting Rights Act must be amended in two ways. First, the statute would prohibit any voting qualification, proposed or applied by… Continue reading
“Ban on Corporate Campaign Contributions May Be Eyed by Supreme Court, Lawyers Say”
Bloomberg BNA on Danielczyk.
“EXCLUSIVE: Did nun vote for dead colleague?”
Cincinnati Enquirer: “A Greater Cincinnati nun is suspected of illegally casting a ballot for another nun who died before last November’s election, a new case of alleged vote fraud that emerged as local officials move to wrap up their… Continue reading
“First the Little Guy, Then the Big Guy: Campaign Finance Law and the ‘Outside Groups'”
You can read Bob Bauer’s remarks at a recent Penn symposium on Citizens United.
“Advocates Warn Of Dire Consequences If Voting Rights Act Loses In Supreme Court”
“McCutcheon case could give Citizens United a run for its money in Supreme Court”
“U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear GOP donor from Alabama’s lawsuit on campaign limits”
“Photo ID voting mandate passes in Virginia, heads to governor”
AP reports. “General Assembly Republicans muscled the most far-reaching of their polling place identification and voter vetting bills to final passage Wednesday with almost party-line House votes on Wednesday over the outcries of Democrats who likened the measures to… Continue reading
Linda Greenhouse on Shelby County
Her provocative piece ends: “Back to the puzzle I began with: how can it be that the Voting Rights Act is in such peril? The trouble isn’t really that I don’t know the answer. It’s that I’m afraid I do.”