Subject: news of the day 7/24/03
From: Rick Hasen
Date: 7/24/2003, 6:54 AM
To: election-law

Voting-Rights Suit Aims to Halt Santa Ana's 'Poll' on Barriers" The Los Angeles Times offers this report.
Lots of news coverage this morning of the recall certification and the questions surroundng the recall The New York Times offers articles here and here. The Washington Post article is here. The Los Angeles Times is here. The San Jose Mercury News is here. The San Francisco Chronicle is here. The Sacramento Bee is here and here (this second story mentions yet another lawsuit---this one on the question whether it is constitutional to prevent those who don't vote up or down on the recall to cast a vote that counts on the second part of the ballot). Dan Weintraub's Bee column is here. The Contra Costa Times is here.
"Bustamante Skirts Critical Decision About Election" See this A.P. report. See also this Bloomberg report.
Supreme Court denies application of McCain defendants to file a 100 page brief in BCRA case The Chief Justice has denied the McCain lawyers' motion to file a 100 page brief rather than the 75 pages that the Court had allotted to McCain. No word yet on the motions for divided oral argument.
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