Subject: news of the day 11/13/03
From: Rick Hasen
Date: 11/13/2003, 7:31 AM
To: election-law

Note: No news of the day tomorrow.

Election law conference roundup

USC Post-Mortem on the Recall, Los Angeles, Nov. 13-14

Conference on Criminal Liability and Prosecution Under McCain-Feingold, Washington, D.C., Nov. 14

Symposium on North American Election Law, Washington, D.C., Nov. 15

Claiming Democracy Conference, Washington, D.C., Nov. 21-23

I'll be attending the North American Election Law conference. Blogging therefore will be light beginning tomorrow.


Roll Call articles

Roll call offers House Administration Sets Hearings on 527s and FEC Slaps SEIU with $260,000 Penalty. (Paid subscriptions required to access the articles.)


"Can Voting Machines Be Trusted?"

CBSNews offers this report.


"Dean: Opting Out..."

George Will offers this oped on Howard Dean's decision regarding public financing. See also this Washington Times commentary by Donald Lambro.


Voting by multiple property owners in special district elections

I sent a query regarding voting by multiple owners of the same property in special district elections and Steve Bainbridge posted a thoughtul response here. You can find my query reprinted in Bainbridge's post.


Initiative and Referendum Institute Moves to University of Southern California

See this press release, which begins: "The Initiative and Referendum Institute (IRI), the nation’s most prominent educational and research organization focused on direct democracy, will move to USC Jan. 1. IRI will join the USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics (CSLP) to form the nation’s leading center for the study of the initiative, referendum and recall." (Disclosure: I am a member of USC's Center for the Study of Law and Politics.)

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