Monthly Archives: July 2013
“Why Nearly Everyone in Congress Has a Leadership PAC These Days”
“Congress, Justice Department Eye Changes to Voting Rights Act”
“The STOCK Act and the Political Intelligence Industry”
“Native rights group sues state over elections”
ADN:
Two elderly Yup’ik speakers and two tribal organizations from Southwest Alaska filed a federal lawsuit Friday against state election officials, accusing them of failing to provide language assistance at the polls as required by federal law.
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Minnesota Law Review Symposium on Ballot Initiatives
Foreword, Minnesota Law Review Symposium
by Tom Pryor
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When Common Wisdom Is Neither Common nor Wisdom: Exploring Voters’ Limited Use of Endorsements on Three Ballot Measures
by Craig M. Burnett and Mathew D. McCubbins
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“Inside the Counting Room: Oregon County Details Steps After Ballot Tampering Conviction”
The Voting Wars…Now in Paperback
Roadmap to Attack the Constitutionality of Section 2 of the VRA
Courtesy of Will Baude (who says this is not part of a “hidden agenda to undermine the Voting Rights Act”).
“Free Speech, Fair Elections, and Campaign Finance Laws: Can They Co-Exist?”
Joel Gora has posted this draft on SSRN (Howard Law Journal). Here is the abstract:
A prominent politician once observed that, “You can either have free speech or fair elections, but you can’t have both.” In the view of this… Continue reading
“Virginia Is Corrupt: It’s shocking what Gov. McDonnell and attorney general Cuccinelli get away with, thanks to the state’s lax ethics laws.”
Dahlia Lithwick writes for Slate.
“Election officials: Group behind anti-DiCiccio ads may have violated campaign-finance laws”
News from AZ:
State elections officials have determined there is “reasonable cause” to suspect that a left-leaning advocacy group behind a series of attack ads directed at Phoenix Councilman Sal DiCiccio is violating campaign-finance laws.
“Why Cities Are So Poorly Governed”
Matt Yglesias:
Conservatives are eager to blame Detroit’s problems hazily on “Democrats,” and in most respects I think that’s wildly misleading. But I do think there’s an important sense in which they’re correct. American cities across the board suffer… Continue reading