| Subject: news of the day 4/12/04 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 4/12/2004, 7:23 AM |
| To: election-law |
See this
New York Times Book Review article.
A snippet: "But reading between the lines makes clear that he regards
the 2000 election as comparable to those previous national crises and
believes that the court, far from rushing in to short-circuit the
political and constitutional process, acted reluctantly. He seems as
certain as his predecessors were in 1876 that the justices'
participation saved the nation from ''a situation fraught with
combustible uncertainty.''
The St. Petersburg (Fla) Times offers this
report.
The Los Angeles Times offers this
report,
with the following subhead: "Riverside County counsel advises the
supervisors to hire outside legal help to fight a challenge to
electronic voting system."
Mike McKay offers this
Seattle Times commentary.
See this
report
by the Denver Channel, which begins, "Coors Brewing Co. is yanking
three televisions ads from the Colorado market that feature company
chairman Peter Coors because he plans to run for the U.S. Senate. The
Golden-based company doesn't want to run afoul of federal
communications law, which requires broadcasters to give equal time to
opponents when a political candidate appears in a broadcast."
Responding to this article
by David Corn that I linked to last week, Bob Bauer offers these
thoughts over on his website.
The Los Angeles Times offers this
report,
with the following subhead: "Electronic systems offer some major
advantages to the disabled and sight-impaired, experts say, but several
warn of potential glitches."
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