Monthly Archives: June 2013
Republican TX State Senator Says He Didn’t Vote Twice in 2004: It was Poll Worker Incompetence, Not Fraud
See here and here.
I have no specific information on these allegations, but time and again things which have been alleged to be fraud based upon voting or registration records turn out to be much less nefarious than political… Continue reading
Reminder: Election Law Blog Down Saturday for Maintenance
And Justin Levitt guest blogging next week.
Thanks for reading!
Republican FEC Nominee Argued for Overturning of Ban on Corporate Contributions to Federal Candidates
HuffPo:
But advocates may be disappointed to learn that Goodman, an attorney with LeClairRyan, has a record of opposing certain campaign finance reforms.
He argued — ultimately unsuccessfully — in United States v. Danielczyk to overturn the ban on… Continue reading
Limiting Pro-Hillary Super PAC Donations to $25K Per Person Intended to Give It a “Grass Roots Sheen”
What? Seems like the worst of both worlds: too high to count for most of America as grassroots, and too low to compete with the multimillion donations to other presidential super PACs.
Project Vote Issues New Paper on Same Day Voter Registration
Sen. McConnell and Norm Ornstein Have at It Over Campaign Finance and More
Breaking News: Ann Ravel and Lee Goodman Nominated to Federal Election Commission
CPI:
The White House today nominated two people to serve six-year terms on the Federal Election Commission.
The nominees are Lee E. Goodman, an attorney at law firm LeClairRyan, and Ann Ravel, chairwoman of the California Fair… Continue reading
“What’s Taking the Supreme Court So Long?”
I’ve written this piece for The Daily Beast. It begins:
With everyone anxiously awaiting potentially blockbuster decisions on issues from affirmative action to voting rights to same-sex marriage, it is easy to criticize the Supreme Court for being too… Continue reading
“Survey: Corporations still shun super PACs”
Politico: “Despite the fears of progressive activists in the post-Citizens United era, a new study finds that corporations are still very hesitant to embrace super PACs.”
This doesn’t surprise me. I expect the giving from for profit corporations which… Continue reading
“High Court Ruling Spells Trouble for 501(c)(3) Restrictions”
Ezra Reese (In the Arena): “Yesterday, the Supreme Court released its opinion in Agency for International Development v. Alliance for Open Society International, Inc. The Court’s opinion in AID v. Alliance spells trouble for the Internal Revenue Service’s longstanding… Continue reading
Bauer on Krotoszynski on the Petition Clause
Here.
“Election Administration: A Review of the Literature and a Strategy for Further Research”
If you care about election administration issues, you cannot miss these slides by Nate Persily, lawprof and Senior Research Director of the Bauer-Ginsberg Commission. These are for today’s meeting of the commission.