Subject: news of the day 5/3/04
From: Rick Hasen
Date: 5/3/2004, 7:31 AM
To: election-law

Programming note: I'll be out of e-mail and internet contact from Tuesday through Thursday.  News of the day will resume on Friday.

Sholk on 501(c)(3)s

Steven Sholk has published "A Guide To Election Year Activities of Section 501(c)(3) Organizations," the May 3, 2004 issue of Tax Notes Today (electronic version). Readers interested in a copy can e-mail the author at .


"Who Hacked the Voting System? The Teacher"

The New York Times offers this report.


More Vieth opeds

Fred Hiatt writes Time to Draw the Line.. The Christian Science Monitor offers Gerry-Meandering.


"Small Donors Grow Into a Big Political Force"

The Washington Post offers this report.


"FEC Members Seek to Break 527 Deadlock"

Roll Call offers this report (paid subscription required), which begins: "In a last-ditch effort to craft a compromise for the increasingly rancorous debate over 527 groups, one Republican and one Democrat on the Federal Election Commission have unveiled a new proposal to regulate the controversial organizations that are poised to spend millions of largely unregulated dollars on this fall’s elections."
One other snippet: "Left unclear, however, is whether the commission can cobble together the four votes to enact this proposal — or any other."


"Supreme Court Got It Right in Pa. Redistricting Case"

I have an oped in Monday's Roll Call with this title. You can view it (even as a nonsubscriber) here (reprinted with permission).


Palast on Voter Purges following HAVA

See this report by Greg Palast in The Nation.


"Business Enlists Charities for Events at Conventions"

The New York Times offers this report, which begins: "Never mind that the new campaign finance law was intended to keep big-ticket donors from buying access to federal officials. At least one company has figured out how to let corporate donors buy their way into high-dollar events that honor members of Congress at the political conventions. And the contributors receive tax deductions, too."
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