Subject: news of the day 1/30/04
From: Rick Hasen
Date: 1/30/2004, 7:38 AM
To: election-law

"Eliot Spitzer's Surprising Donor List"

Businessweek offers this report.


Anderson v. Spears Appeal Not Dead Yet

See Stumbo seeks review of case on election law; U.S. court rejected state's campaign-finance limits. The article begins: "[Kentucky] Attorney General Greg Stumbo said yesterday that he'll ask a federal appeals court to reconsider its decision striking down Kentucky laws that ban candidates from taking contributions after an election and limit loans to their campaigns. Stumbo is stepping in where state campaign regulators wouldn't. The Kentucky Registry of Election Finance voted last weekend not to appeal the ruling of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which also struck down some lesser campaign-finance laws."

You can find links to my earlier posts on this case here.


More on FEC General Counsel's recommendations

The draft advisory opinion is here (via Political Money Online website---never expect to actually find FEC documents on the FEC website in a timely manner). Bob Bauer offers his thoughts here. More links later.


"Test of Electronic Balloting System Finds Major Security Flaws"

The New York Times offers this report.


Supreme Court denies Stay in Colorado Redistricting Case

A.P. offers this report (link via How Appealing).


"Bipartisan Request Seeks to Halt Internet Voting"

The Washington Post offers this report.

FEC Lawyers Recommend Treating 527s as Political Committees

See this AP report. See also this Washington Post report on the 527 issue and another issue before the FEC.

Publius on Gerrymandering

Publius of the Law and Politics blog posts these thoughts on gerrymandering.


 

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