Subject: news of the day 10/17/04
From: Rick Hasen
Date: 10/17/2004, 1:27 PM
To: election-law

"This Office Should Be Spotless; Scandal Has Tarnished Secretary of State"

Tony Quinn offers this commentary in the Los Angeles Times.


Washington Post Reports on Vanity Fair's Bush v. Gore article

See here.


Conflict Between Instant Runoff Voting and Campaign Finance Law?

See this New York Times report.


"Legal Eagles Will Eye Voting; 'Armies of Voters' Tapped"

The Denver Post offers this report.


"Election to Be Scrutinized for Irregularities"

The Los Angeles Times offers this front-page report.


Still More Ohio Litigation

Ned Foley has the details here on how Ohio will enforce an identification requirement under HAVA.


"Our Electors, Ourselves"

Christopher Caldwell offers this opinion piece on the electoral college in the NY Times Magazine. Thanks to Doug Greene for the pointer.


Update on Michigan Provisional Ballot Litigation

See here. Thanks to Fred Huette for the pointer.


"Super Rich Step Into Political Vacuum; McCain-Feingold Paved Way for 527s"

The Washington Post offers this extensive and fascinating report. Thanks to Steven Sholk for the pointer.


Election Law Conference Announcement

"ELECTION LAW, VOTING RIGHTS, AND THE 2004 ELECTION"

Friday, October 22, 2004 at the University of Miami
1:00 PM TO 6:00 PM


CLE credit available (5.5 hours).

SCHEDULE

1:15-2:45 p.m. "VOTER (DIS)ENFRANCHISEMENT: ISSUES FOR THE 2004 ELECTION"
Doug Chapin, Director, electionline.org; Deborah Goldberg, Director, Brennan Center for Democracy; Janai Nelson, NAACP LDF; Tova Wang, Senior Program
Analyst, The Century Foundation.

3:00-4:30 p.m. "COUNTING EVERY VOTE: VOTING TECHNOLOGY AND THE LAW"
Kim Brace, Director, Election Data Services; David Kimball, Professor of Political Science, University of Missouri; Martha Mahoney, University of Miami Law School; Daniel Tokaji, Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law.

4:45-6:00 p.m. "FLORIDA ELECTION LAW: AVOIDING THE GHOSTS OF 2000"
Mitchell Berger, Berger Singerman and counsel in the 2000 recount litigation; Eric
Buermann, General Counsel to the Miami-Dade Republican Party, and former General Counsel to Bush-Cheney in 2000; Ion Sancho, Leon County Supervisor of Elections;Lida Rodriguez-Tassef, Miami-Dade Election Reform Coalition; Courtenay Strickland, Voting Rights Project, ACLU of Florida

Panels moderated by U.S. Circuit Judge Rosemary Barkett and U.S. District Judge Adalberto Jordan.


Cocktail reception with panelists will follow.


Location: Storer Auditorium, McLamore Executive Education Center
School of Business Administration, University of Miami
5250 University Drive, Coral Gables, Florida 33146
(Parking available on campus for $5 at Stanford Drive kiosk)


Sponsored by: Hogan & Hartson LLP, White & Case LLC, Podhurst Orseck, P.A.,
Stearns, Weaver, Miller, Weissler, Alhadeff & Sitterson, P.A., Devine Goodman
Pallot & Wells, P.A.

RSVP to SouthFlorida@ACSLaw.org. This event is free and open to the public.

-- 
Rick Hasen
Professor of Law and William M. Rains Fellow
Loyola Law School
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Los Angeles, CA  90015-1211
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