| Subject: news of the day 10/20/03 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 10/20/2003, 7:49 AM |
| To: election-law |
The San Francisco Chronicle offers this
report,
which begins: "Seven years after its debut, California's motor-voter
program has yet to work out all the bugs -- leaving some voters
stranded and fuming when their DMV voter registrations never make it to
the precinct on election day." Thanks to Electionline.org for the
pointer.
Linda Seebach writes this
oped on the BCRA. See also this
critical editorial in the Las Vegas Review Journal.
Today's Roll Call features House Admin Requests BCRA Symposium (which includes information on Friday's House hearing on FEC enforcement, a hearing that reform advocates claim they were excluded from) and NRCC Jumps at Chance to Use Earmarking PAC. Readers of this blog know about the FEC's recent approval of earmarking program of the Democratic group, WE LEAD, to raise money for an eventual presidential nominee. The opinion may have broader implications for fundraising. The article begins: "Though it was ostensibly about the presidential contest, a recent advisory opinion from the Federal Election Commission could significantly alter the way party committees inject themselves into competitive House and Senate primaries." It explains that the NRCC has already set up such a fund for a Kentucky House race.
As always with Roll Call, paid registration is required to
read the articles.
The New York Times today features this
extensive article on the politics of changing the voting machinery
for New York elections.
Thanks to Larry Solum of the Legal
Theory blog, for featuring my new book, The
Supreme Court and Election Law: Judging Equality from Baker v. Carr
to Bush v. Gore, as the selection for this week's Legal
Theory Bookworm.
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