Subject: soft money/minnesota election challenge stories in NY Times
From: Rick Hasen
Date: 11/1/2002, 9:28 PM
To: "election-law@majordomo.lls.edu" <election-law@majordomo.lls.edu>

Here's one on how parties are already planning to circumvent BCRA:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/02/politics/campaigns/02MONE.html

And here's the latest on potential legal challenges to the absentee ballot system in Minnesota:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/02/politics/campaigns/02MINN.html

One obvious difference between Florida 2000 and Minn. 2002 is a laches issue---the DFL and Republicans had a chance to raise these issues now, before the election. After the election, perhaps it should simply be too late.
Rick

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