Subject: news of the day 11/7/04
From: Rick Hasen
Date: 11/7/2004, 10:37 AM
To: election-law

"Campaign Financing Fight Will Resume"

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch offers this report.


Two from the Los Angeles Times

See Gifts Flow, as Does the Access, with the following subhead: "The governor's staff gets around limits on special-interest perks. The largess is routine."

Election Spending Put Millions in the Pockets of Private Firms, with the following subhead: "With an estimated total of $1.5 billion going into the costliest presidential election, media groups and political operatives reap financial benefits."


At Least One National Media Outlet Is Paying Attention to the Need for Fundamental Election Administration Reform

The New York Times offers Voting Problems in Ohio Set Off Alarm. A snippet: "Based on the Ohio experience, election law scholars advocate two types of broad reform: more uniformity within states - in registration lists, voting technologies and the distribution of voting machines - and replacing partisans with professionals in election administration."
UPDATE: See also this editorial, "New Standards for Elections." 
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