Monthly Archives: December 2014
Bauer and Ginsberg Send Letter to New EAC Commissioners Re: PCEA Recommendations on Voting Tech
See the letters. [corrected link]
More from Matt Weil of Bipartisan Policy Center.
“Wisconsin’s partisans want to kill their own watchdog — the Government Accountability Board”
Andrea Kaminski oped in Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
(h/t James Rowen)
“In a Break From Partisan Rancor, Ohio Moves to Make Elections More Competitive”
Trip Gabriel reports for the NYT.
“GOP consultants have some fun and send out a doc-shredding Christmas card”
Miami Herald: “Data Targeting, the Republican political consulting firm that went to legal war for the last year to keep its redistricting documents shielded from the public record, has had some fun this holiday season at its own expense.”
“Inside look: How pols inked surprise redistricting deal”
“The writing is on the ballot and petition and envelope; Does penmanship — good or bad — affect elections?”
That’s the lead story in this week’s Electionline Weekly.
“Farewell to the Colbert Report”
“Can Incarcerated Felons Be (Re)integrated into the Political System? Results from a Field Experiment”
Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, Marc Meredith, Daniel R. Biggers and David J. Hendry have written this article for AJPS. Here is the abstract:
Funding for this research was provided by Yale University and the Institution for Social and… Continue reading
“Danielle Allen named to Harvard posts; Will direct Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, join FAS in government”
Coming on board when Larry Lessig’s term ends.
“Felons to Get Faster Voting Process”
News from VA: “Gov. Terry McAuliffe plans to announce today that he will shrink the time violent felons must wait to seek reinstatement of their voting rights and will remove some offenses from that list.”
“FCC Launches Political File Rulemaking for Cable, Satellite and Radio in Response to Reform Groups’ Petition”
“India’s Participatory Model”
Manoj Mate’s paper, “India’s Participatory Model,” was selected from a Call for Papers for the AALS Sections on Comparative Law and African Law panel entitled Comparative Law Expanded: Methodology and Public Law in Nontraditional Comparative Legal Systems, on Saturday January… Continue reading
“Pledge to Deter Outside Spending in Elections Made Strides in 2014”
Public Citizen press release:”The number of candidates proposing pledges to deter major election spending by outside groups increased dramatically in the 2014 elections, a new Public Citizen report shows.”