Subject: news of the day 2/26/04
From: Rick Hasen
Date: 2/26/2004, 7:27 AM
To: election-law

New Nader Vote Trading Sites, and a Possible Convention Acceptance Speech by President Bush at Ground Zero

See these reports in The Hill.


"Green Party Candidate Sues Over Contributions"

See this story out of Alaska, which begins: "Jim Sykes, Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate, filed suit in federal court on Wednesday to stop his opponents from taking campaign contributions from people and organizations not based in Alaska."


"How Nader Could Help Bush"

David Broder offers this Washington Post column. The strategy Broder writes about is very much like Clinton's strategy of getting Ross Perot included in the 1992 debates.


"Falsified signature on form has Fumo's foes on the attack"

Will a state senator in Pennsylvania be kept off the ballot for failure to fill in some routine information on candidate papers? See here.


"Senators Stocks Beat the Market by 12 Percent"

See this report from FT.com.


"Soft Money Groups Cleared of Allegations"

A.P. offers this report. Thanks to David Ettinger for the pointer.


Transcript of ACS Panel on McConnell

The American Constitution Society has published this transcript of a December 18, 2003 forum on the McConnell v. FEC case. Thanks to Marty Lederman for the pointer.


Don't Rock the Vote

Urban Outfitters is now selling "Voting is for Old People" shirts. See here. Link via the Drudge Report. 
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