| Subject: news of the day 11/12/03 (no BCRA opinion today) |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 11/12/2003, 7:33 AM |
| To: election-law |
Alec Ewald sends along the following: "Jennifer Stromer-Galley has
published Voting and the Public Sphere: Conversations on Internet
Voting,
36 PS (Political Science and Politics) 727 (Oct. 2003). It's a short
article looking at what some discussion groups have been saying about
internet voting, particularly "whether or not it is valuable for people
to enter a physical public sphere to cast a ballot," applying Habermas'
concept of the public sphere." Unfortunately, PS has not put this
particular article online at its
website.
Robert Kuttner offers this
Boston Globe oped. And on the growing power of big money,
the Chicago Sun Times offers Hull
ups the ante in Senate bid,"
which begins: "He's the $40 million man. That's how much Democrat Blair
Hull intends to spend in his bid for the U.S. Senate seat that is being
vacated by one-term Republican Peter G. Fitzergald."
The Cleveland Plain Dealer offers this
report.
Paul Weyrich and Randall Robinson write this New
York Times oped criticizing the format of the presidential
debates run through the Commission on Presidential Debates.
Apparently the only opinion to be issued is in Barnhart v. Thomas.
See SCOTUSblog
with the news. The next chance apparently is Monday (we may know on
Friday if opinions will issue Monday), and after that the Court is in
recess until December 2.
Wired offers this
report on the Diebold controversy in Alameda, California. Wired
also has set up Machine
Politics, a page devoted to Wired stories on e-vote issues.
The Hill offers Campaign
Reform--Part II; Bid to Raise Cap on Spending and Add Money Multiplier,"
which begins: "Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Russ Feingold (D-Wis.)
and Reps. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.) and Marty Meehan (D-Mass.) are
drafting legislation to provide the presidential public financing
system with a major infusion of federal money. They want to raise the
spending cap substantially so that candidates who are successful
raising money do not opt out of the federal system, as President Bush
and Democratic front-runner Howard Dean have done. The lawmakers also
envisage a system in which private donations would be not simply be
matched but multiplied perhaps, several times, with federal dollars. "
Norm Ornstein offers this Roll
Call oped
(paid subcription required), making a point readers of this blog will
be quite familiar with: voting technology problems persist, and they
will only go away when money is spent to replace bad voting technology
such as punch cards with better technology.
The Center for Governmental Studies
has just issued this
report, "Political Reform tha Works: Public Campaign Financing
Blooms in Tuscon."
Nate Persily sends along this interesting link
on fundraising by presidential candidates.
The Wall Street Journal offers this report on the funding of Moveon.org. Thanks to Steven Sholk for the pointer.
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