[EL] U.S.C., Title 52 - Voting and Elections

[Daniel Tokaji]

*Our Very Own Title of the U.S. Code (from the “Be Careful What You Wish
For” Department)* <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64512>
Posted on August 21, 2014 1:51 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64512> by *Dan
Tokaji* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=5>

Get ready, election lawyers, Title 52 of the U.S. Code will be coming your
way in a few days.  From Steve Kolbert (quoted with permission):

Covington’s political law blog
<http://www.insidepoliticallaw.com/2014/08/21/surprise-feca-will-be-moving-across-town-to-title-52-on-september-1/>
mentions that federal election-related statutes will be getting their own
title in the U.S. Code — title 52 — starting Sept. 1.

In 2009, Rick wrote about <http://www.electionlawblog.org/?p=12654> a bill
prepared by the House’s Office of Law Revision Counsel to codify into
positive law all the election statutes under title 52.

Congress never acted, but now the Office of Law Revision Counsel is acting
unilaterally
<http://uscode.house.gov/editorialreclassification/t52/index.html>using its
editorial control over the U.S. Code to reclassify all the election
statutes (currently codified in both title 2 and title 42, and probably
some other places) to a new title 52.

Of course, all of this means a whole lot of trouble for those of us
electiongeeks who have — intentionally or not — committed to memory the
codified section numbers of various and sundry provisions of the VRA, NVRA,
HAVA, UOCAVA, VAEHA, and FECA … all of which will soon be changing.  The
Office of Law the Law Revision Counsel has an overview of the new Title 52
<http://uscode.house.gov/editorialreclassification/t52/Overview_of_Title_52.pdf>
and
a table
<http://uscode.house.gov/editorialreclassification/t52/Reclassifications_Title_52.html>
showing the old and new classifications.
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Daniel P. Tokaji

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