| Subject: news of the day 10/30/03 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 10/30/2003, 8:26 AM |
| To: election-law |
Stuart Rothenberg offers this
oped in Roll Call (paid subscription required). He takes
the same position I took here
earlier this week: that re-redistricting in the same decade is bad
policy, but not unconstitutional. He adds: "I might feel differently if
I thought that Democrats really were standing on principle. But I
didn’t hear any Democrats in Georgia (or Washington, D.C., for that
matter) complaining about the state’s redistricting plan, which was
drawn by Democratic legislators primarily with partisanship in mind."
See this
A.P. report. The effect is dwarfed by the problems with punch
cards, as chronicled here.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is holding a
forum on this topic December 10 and 11 in Maryland. Details here.
California Assemblymember Mark Ridley-Thomas and law professor Erwin
Chemerinsky offer this
L.A. Times oped. My thoughts on Ridley-Thomas's proposals
are posted here.
The appellants in the touch screen case (noted here
yesterday) have announced their intention to seek en banc review of the
ruling.
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