Ned Foley has written this comment, which begins: “Controversy currently rages in both Florida and Ohio over their new laws regulating voter registration efforts by third-party groups. Civil rights organizations and other non-partisan entities, like the League of Women Voters, have long engaged in voter registration drives in order to increase participation in the franchise by eligible citizens. The practice of recruiting new registrants, however, has intensified recently, especially during presidential elections in battleground states, and some of the newer groups involved in the process, like Moveon.org, clearly favor one political party and its candidates.”