"Another Fine Mess?"

U.S. News and World Report offers this article on the potential for post-election litigation.

"Republicans Make Gains in Voting Disputes"

A.P. offers this report.

"Republicans Threaten Lawsuit Over Voter Registration Issue"

The Des Moines Register offers this report, which begins: "Controversy over Iowa's election laws heated up this morning when Republicans threatened to file a lawsuit and called for Iowa Secretary of State Chet Culver's resignation, just eight days before Election Day. At issue is the requirement that voters registering by mail check a box confirming U.S. citizenship. Republicans allege Culver, a Democrat, is violating state and federal election laws by deciding last week that he'll allow Iowa voters to bypass that requirement."

Lithwick on the Possibility of Post-Election Litigation

In this article on the Chief Justice's illnesss, Slate's Dahlia Lithwick writes:

What would happen if the Supreme Court were asked to intervene again on any of the inevitable and innumerable Election Day lawsuits, any of which might ooze its way up to the high court? Would the Bush v. Gore court collapse into an elderly ball of scratching, biting, hair-pulling 4-4 indecision? Bearing in mind that a 4-4 tie would mean affirming whatever decision came up from below, this adds yet more credence to my argument that the Supreme Court will not take another presidential election case this year; not an equal protection fight, not a statutory interpretation fight; not a hanging chad dispute; and not a battle over provisional ballots. But more on this tomorrow.

For now, we wish the chief justice a speedy and full recovery.

"The Return of Vote-Pairing"

Jamin Raskin offers this commentary on Slate, with the following subhead: "Vote-pairing nearly saved Al Gore in 2000. Could it give Kerry a decisive boost this year?"

"Should Colorado Be Allowed to Split Its Electoral Votes?"

Richard Epstein and Sandy Levinson debate this question at Legal Affairs Debate Club.

More briefs in the Nader Ohio litigation in the U.S. Supreme Court now posted

See here.

Gerken on the Political Thicket

Heather Gerken has written Lost in the Political Thicket in the current issue of Legal Affairs.

"Ohio GOP Drops Registration Challenges"

A.P. offers this report, which begins: "State Republicans withdrew thousands of more than 35,000 challenges to new voter registrations because of errors in their filings apparently caused by a computer glitch." Another snippet: "But the largest single batch of challenges, some 17,000 in Cuyahoga County, is still being processed because there were no errors, said Jane Platten, elections board spokeswoman."

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