Subject: news of the day 12/10/03 |
From: Rick Hasen |
Date: 12/10/2003, 6:41 AM |
To: election-law |
BNA
is reporting that the Senate is moving toward adjournment without
freeing $830 million in funding to upgrade election equipment for 2003
or approving an additional $1.5 billion (already approved by the House)
for 2004. The Senate may not meet again to do so until January.
See The Philadelphia Inquirer; A.P. The Dallas Morning News (on the effect in Texas); The Christian Science Monitor; The Boston Globe. The New York Times offers this editorial.
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