| Subject: news of the day 7/19/04 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 7/19/2004, 6:51 AM |
| To: election-law |
See this
report from Florida.
Roll Call Heard on
the Hill
column begins: "Sen. John 'The Finance Reformer' McCain (R-Ariz.),
entered the ring with venom and vigor last week during an impromptu
Smack Down contest with Federal Election Commission Chairman Bradley
'the Bully' Smith."
Roll Call offers this report
(paid subscription required), which begins: "Election Assistance
Commission Chairman DeForest Soaries has a reputation for shaking
things up. But following his recent decision to prod Bush
administration officials to plan for the possibility that Election Day
might have to be postponed due to a terrorist attack, some on Capitol
Hill are wondering whether the Baptist minister-turned-Washington
bureaucrat has simply gone too far."
Professor Peter Shane offers this
Washington Post oped
which asks: "Suppose that some of the electors -- the people who under
our constitutional system conduct the real presidential election some
weeks after voters go to the polls -- aren't actually selected by the
voters. Impossible? Not if you give a close reading to the Supreme
Court's decision in the case of Bush v. Gore, which finally settled the
presidential election of 2000, if not to everyone's satisfaction. "
The New York Times offers this
editorial on the recent terrorism/elections issue.
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