“Fairfax Shows Transparency Done Right in #VAAG Recount”
Open Virginia Law blogs.
Monthly Archives: December 2013
Lessig Distances Himself from Represent.Us on “Corruption” and Campaign Finance Reform
Regular readers know of my concerns about how Represent.Us is trying to both sell its campaign finance reform plan as “anti-corruption” and confusion over whether the group means old style corruption or Lessig’s “dependence corruption” (which I see as a… Continue reading
“Special elections: They mostly just waste money”
Great sense from Jessica Levinson in the LA Times.
Payment by the Signature Figures into Nassau County Police Scandal
Hey, I’m Now a Member of the Scholars Strategy Network
“Tempers Flare as New Rules Strain Senate”
NYT on the post-nuclear Senate.
It actually does not seem as bad to me as the apocalyptic predictions, but we are only at the beginning.
And who knows if Republicans will blow up the rest of the filibuster when they… Continue reading
“SEC’s Non-Decision Decision on Corporate Political Activity a Policy and Political Mistake”
John Coates:
The SEC’s recent decision to take disclosure of political activities off the SEC’s agenda is a policy mistake, as it ignores the best research on the point, described below, and perpetuates a key loophole in the investor-relevant… Continue reading
Election Law Journal 12:4 — The Law of Deliberative Democracy
The new issue of Election Law Journal is now out. It features a symposium on the Law of Deliberative Democracy, guest co-edited by Ron Levy and Graeme Orr. The table of contents appears below:
The Party Line: Crossing Boundaries,… Continue reading
“North Carolina voting changes to go on trial in 2015”
“New Obama Advisor Brings Corporate Ties”
NYT: “Mr. Podesta, named a senior adviser to President Obama, is not currently a lobbyist and therefore does not have to worry about the Obama administration’s self-imposed ban on hiring lobbyists to administration jobs. But he will nonetheless arrive… Continue reading
#VAAG: “Republican campaign for Va. attorney general raises new questions about Fairfax ballots”
WaPo: “Republican Mark D. Obenshain’s campaign for attorney general raised new questions Wednesday about how Fairfax County ballots were handled while also dismissing the idea that he has already decided to ask the General Assembly to step into the… Continue reading
“Kill the Election Assistance Commission? Two commissioner nominees languish as Congress mulls axing bedraggled body”
“Campaign contribution limits would double under bill headed to Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder”
The latest from Michigan.
Secretary of State Project 2.0?
In The Voting Wars, I talk about a group called the “Secretary of State Project,” whose goal was to raise money to elect Democratic Secretaries of State to offices to fight Republicans in the battles over election administration. The… Continue reading