Monthly Archives: October 2013
“Taking Heat for Doing What’s Right”
Ruth Greenwood on Judge Posner.
“With ranked-choice voting, Minneapolis mayoral race becomes Battle to Be Nice”
“Democrats: It’s the states, stupid (Part 2)”
Herman Schwartz writes for Reuters Opinion.
“Third parties irate as Seitz bill passes Ohio Senate”
“Shareholders in the dark about ‘dark money'”
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy has written this LA Times oped.
“The Part that Judge Posner Got Right—the Perils of Forecasting in the Regulation of the Political Process”
Bob Bauer blogs. Interesting list contained therein of what Bob says are predictions about McCain-Feingold which have not proven true.
“N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper must declare election law unconstitutional”
Bob Geary writes this column for IndyWeek. The column discusses my lecture last week at North Carolina State University.
Don’t Have Faith in Poll Workers, Or Anyone Else for That Matter, To Distinguish Odd from Even Numbers
Back in 2012, I had a piece running in Slate on the Hunter case (which I talked about further in The Voting Wars), in which voters were disenfranchised because of poll worker error. Among the errors—a poll worker… Continue reading
“Judge Questions FEC Disclosure Rule Challenged by Rep. Van Hollen as Too Lax”
Bloomberg BNA:
A federal judge repeatedly questioned a Federal Election Commission disclosure rule during a two-hour court hearing, pressing an FEC attorney to explain why the agency’s rule provides enough information about who is funding political advertising (Van Hollen… Continue reading
“The political middle is dying. But it’s not redistricting’s fault.”
The Fix with some great illustrations from Alan Abramowitz.
“Arizona election referendum qualifies for 2014 ballot”
“When Judges Mouth Off Outside the Courtroom”
Michael McGough on Posner et al.