Monthly Archives: January 2014
“Four Years After Citizens United: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”
“FairVote’s Brief on Fair Representation Voting in Palmdale Case”
Election Assistance Commission Issues Controversial Decision Without Commissioners and Approaching Midnight Deadline
In an ongoing dispute between the federal government and the states of Arizona and Kansas over voter registration (which already earlier made it to the Supreme Court), the U.S. Election Assistance Commission issued a decision only minutes before a court-imposed… Continue reading
“Can the Government Exclude Lobbyists from Advisory Committees?”
Jonathan Adler blogs on today’s U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit opinion in Autor v. Pritzker.
Early Coverage and Commentary on PA Voter ID Decision
Ari Berman
AP
HuffPo
Weigel
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Politico
MSNBC
More links to come
Here is my initial analysis.
“Lawmakers want to repeal, then reenact, recent voting law changes”
News from Arizona: “State lawmakers are moving to repeal major changes in voting laws made last year — and then reenacting at least some of them in a way to thwart a referendum drive.”
I don’t know anything about Arizona… Continue reading
“Activists pushing for Voters Bill of Rights”
“The Excesses of Giving and Of Argument”
Bauer blogs on CRP/Sunlight McCutcheon analysis.
“‘Watchdogs’ Try to Commandeer FEC”
Wyoming Liberty Group opposes suit against FEC on Crossroads GPS.
“Voting Rights Institute to Train New Generation of Voting Rights Lawyers Expanding Nationally”
“Koch Network Backed Mysterious Group Pushing to Shift Allocation of PA Electoral Votes”
CREW on the case.
Initial Thoughts on Today’s Ruling Striking Down Pa’s Voter ID Law on State Grounds
I have now had a chance to skim the 103-page Pa. trial court ruling striking down Pa’s voter id law—I will have to give a closer reading later in the day when I have the time. But here are a… Continue reading
“Why Representative Democracies Can’t Write Off Transparency”
Alexander Furnas writes for The Atlantic.