Monthly Archives: November 2013
“Koch Group Has Ambitions in Small Races”
“Here’s how to clean up messy voter rolls”
WaPo on ERIC.
DGA Gets “Pants on Fire” by Politifact for Claim Texas Voter ID Law Intended to Disenfranchise Women
“Report: IRS provided conservative groups’ confidential tax information to FEC”
Daily Caller:
A conservative government watchdog says it has obtained emails revealing that the Internal Revenue Service sent conservative groups’ private tax exemption application and tax return information to the Federal Elections Commission, in violation of federal law.
According to… Continue reading
Former House Speaker Jim Wright Has Trouble Getting Voter ID in Texas: The Lesson Behind It
This seems to me to be the key point—why Republicans like ID and Democrats fear it:
While Wright will be able to vote, Ritchson worried that others of his age may find the obstacles and inconvenience she and Wright encountered… Continue reading
Revised Version of My “Three Wrong Progressive Approaches (and One Right One) to Campaign Finance Reform” Now Posted
Here. (forthcoming Harvard Law and Policy Review)
“Picture This: Campaign Finance Law and the Question of Values”
Laurence Laufer has written this essay for the Seton Hall Law Review.
“Did Citizens United Corrupt Elections?”
Chuck Todd talks with Fred Wertheimer about McCain-Feingold.
“Everything That’s Happened Since Supreme Court Gutted the Voting Rights Act”
“From Two-Track to the Fast Track? Kansas, Arizona to Get Expedited Hearing on Proof of Citizenship”
“In Alabama Race, a Test of Business Efforts to Derail Tea Party”
Watching this to see if we’ll see corporate money go into some Super PACs in primary—as opposed to corporate PAC money, and corporate general treasury funds going into the Chamber and (c)(4)’s.
“Judge says no ‘shred of evidence’ of voter fraud in Tuscaloosa”
The latest from Alabama.