Monthly Archives: September 2014
“McDonnell Appeal Begs Question: What Is Corruption?”
Important piece from Eliza Newlin Carney.
“35 Groups Write to House Leadership for Debate/Vote on Democracy for All Amendment”
Read.
“With mayor’s race looming, Philly ethics board takes on big spenders”
“Five Signs the Dark-Money Apocalypse Is Upon Us”
Andy Kroll for Mother Jones:
A milestone passed in late August: According to the Center for Responsive Politics, dark-money groups—nonprofits created under the 501(c)(4) and (c)(6) sections of the US tax code—had by then surpassed $50 million on elections.… Continue reading
“5 States Put Voting Reform to the Voters”
“Native Voting Rights”
Matthew Fletcher has posted this draft on SSRN.
American Indians’ status as citizens of federal, state, and tribal nations has been riddled with ambiguity since the Founding of the American Republic. This short paper surveys the history and law of… Continue reading
“Amicus Brief: Public Citizen v. FEC In Support of the Defendant”
Read from CCP.
“McCutcheon v. FEC and the Supreme Court’s Return to Buckley”
Allen Dickerson has written this article for the Cato Supreme Court Review.
“Political Reform Act turns 40 amid burst of campaign finance changes”
“Sheldon Adelson cracks open checkbook for GOP”
Politico: “Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson has donated $10 million to a Karl Rove-backed outfit boosting Republican Senate candidates and promised a similar amount to an allied group focused on House races, POLITICO has learned.”
Chapin on Hasen on Uniformity in Election Administration
Doug Chapin comments on my new draft paper, When is Uniformity of People, Not Counties, Appropriate in Election Administration? The Cases of Early and Sunday Voting.
Doug writes:
This is both a timely and very important contribution to a… Continue reading
“Judge Edits ‘Independent’ From Ballot Proposition”
NY Law Journal:
A judge Wednesday ordered state elections officials to delete the word “independent” from the description and text of a proposition on November’s general election ballot that would create a new commission to oversee the redrawing of… Continue reading
“Under the Radar: State Associations and Election Administration”
David Kimball, Brady Baybeck, and Ray Deppen have posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
This paper is part of a larger project on the urban and rural dimensions of election administration. There is a dramatic skew in… Continue reading