| Subject: news of the day 11/4/04 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 11/4/2004, 10:07 AM |
| To: election-law |
I have written this oped
for Law.com and The Recorder. It begins:
We came much too close for comfort this time around. If the Ohio margin had been around 36,000 votes instead of around 136,000 (a small difference in percentage terms), we would have seen a battle royal over the 130,000+ provisional and absentee ballots that were yet to be processed and counted in the next week and a half. It would have been Florida all over again, only with more lawyers and controversy.
Michael Hiltzik offers this
column in the Business section of the Los Angeles Times.
The Weekly Standard offers this
report.
The Wall Street Journal offers this report.
The New York Times offers this
report, the most recent in its Making
Votes Count editorial series. I have not always agreed with Adam
Cohen, author of these editorials, but I commend his and the Times'
efforts over the last year to focus public attention on issues of
election administration.
-- Rick Hasen Professor of Law and William M. Rains Fellow Loyola Law School 919 South Albany Street Los Angeles, CA 90015-1211 (213)736-1466 (213)380-3769 - fax rick.hasen@lls.edu http://www.lls.edu/academics/faculty/hasen.html http://electionlawblog.org