election-law_gl-digest Friday, July 27 2001 Volume 01 : Number 049
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Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 09:41:39 -0700
From: "George Waters" <George@olsonhagel.com>
Subject: fact is stranger than fiction, or
the nine lives of the blanket primary.
A federal district court judge in seattle, who had entered a preliminary injunction enjoining use of that state's blanket primary, lifted the preliminary injunction on Tuesday. the blanket primary will apparently be in effect in washington for the 2002 e
lections.
not having rick hasen's facility with email, i will simply put below what i hope is a link to a news article in the post-intelligencer. (they don't name newspapers like that anymore.) the link:
http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/local/32745_primary26.shtml
george waters
olson, hagel, waters & fishburn
555 capitol mall, suite 1425
sacramento, ca 95814
916/442-2952
916/442-1280 (fax)
george@olsonhagel.com
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Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 10:12:59 -0700
From: "Rick Hasen" <Rick.Hasen@lls.edu>
Subject: soft money, voting irregularities, list services
1. Some of you may have heard press reports about the new database
listing soft money contributions in the states. The database is
compiled by the Center for Public Integrity, Center for Responsive
Politics, and National Institute on Money in State Politics. You can
find the preliminary data from the study at:
http://www.public-i.org/Statesecrets_01_072601.htm
2. One of the stories that has resurfaced from the 2000 election
controversy is voting irregularities in St. Louis. Here's the link to
the report from the Missouri secretary of state:
http://mosl.sos.state.mo.us/sos-elec/reformmandate/reportintro.html
And the latest from an L.A. Times report:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-000061196jul27.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dnation
3. As mentioned in an e-mail sent by Dan Lowenstein a few weeks ago,
from 7/28 through 8/5, neither of us will be available to take care of
list problems. The list should still function normally during that
period, although no new subscriptions can be processed at that time.
Rick
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Rick Hasen
Professor of Law and William M. Rains Fellow
Loyola Law School
919 South Albany Street
Los Angeles, CA 90015-1211
(213)736-1466 - voice
(213)380-3769 - fax
rick.hasen@lls.edu
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Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 15:46:41 EDT
From: Holman@aol.com
Subject: Soft Money
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In the course of the Shays-Meehan debate, the Brennan Center compiled a
database on state and national party soft money spending in federal
elections. One of the more interesting findings of this study is that very
little soft money is spent on the activities normally associated with
party-building: get-out-the-vote activities, voter registration, abentee
ballot drives, phone banks, and voter mobilization efforts. Only eight cents
of every soft money dollar is spent on mobilizing voters. The parties' lack
of attention to voter mobilization activities has changed little over time.
Even with the dramatic influx of new soft money in 1996 and 2000, the amount
spent by parties on voter mobilization did not appreciably increase. Instead,
the new soft money was funneled directly into television electioneering
"issue" ads, designed to influence voters and affect elections.
The study---"The Purposes and Benficiaries of Party Soft Money
Spending"---can be located on the Brennan Web site at:
[www.brennancenter.org/resources/downloads/purposes_beneficiaries070301.pdf]
Craig Holman
Brennan Center for Justice
New York University
161 Avenue of the Americas
12th Floor
New York, NY 10013
TEL: 212.992.8642
FAX: 212.995.4550
Holman@aol.com
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<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In the course of the Shays-Meehan debate, the Brennan Center compiled a
<BR>database on state and national party soft money spending in federal
<BR>elections. One of the more interesting findings of this study is that very
<BR>little soft money is spent on the activities normally associated with
<BR>party-building: get-out-the-vote activities, voter registration, abentee
<BR>ballot drives, phone banks, and voter mobilization efforts. Only eight cents
<BR>of every soft money dollar is spent on mobilizing voters. The parties' lack
<BR>of attention to voter mobilization activities has changed little over time.
<BR>Even with the dramatic influx of new soft money in 1996 and 2000, the amount
<BR>spent by parties on voter mobilization did not appreciably increase. Instead,
<BR>the new soft money was funneled directly into television electioneering
<BR>"issue" ads, designed to influence voters and affect elections.
<BR>
<BR>The study---"The Purposes and Benficiaries of Party Soft Money
<BR>Spending"---can be located on the Brennan Web site at:
<BR>[www.brennancenter.org/resources/downloads/purposes_beneficiaries070301.pdf]
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Craig Holman
<BR>Brennan Center for Justice
<BR>New York University
<BR>161 Avenue of the Americas
<BR>12th Floor
<BR>New York, NY 10013
<BR>TEL: 212.992.8642
<BR>FAX: 212.995.4550
<BR>Holman@aol.com</FONT></HTML>
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