| Subject: news of the day 11/10/04 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 11/10/2004, 9:23 AM |
| To: election-law |
The Washington Post offers this
report.
The Los Angeles Times offered this
report
last week, but I forgot to link to it. Note the 1.6% undervote rate for
president using these machines, compared to the 0.43% for users of the
county's electronic voting machines used for early voting (of course,
there may be fewer intentional undervoters using early voting).
John Harwood offers these
thoughts in the Wall Street Journal. Thanks to Steven Sholk
for the link.
Bob Bauer offers these
comments
on Michael Bailey's new article, "Two Sides of Money in Politics." 3
Election Law Journal 653 (2004). I highly recommend Bailey's article
for those interested in a broader theoretical discussion of campaign
finance regulation.
I have posted their letter here.
The letter requests an investigation into the efficacy of new voting
technology used in 2004, how election officials responded to voting
machine problems, and what can be done to improve election
administration.
A.P. offers this
report,
which begins: "A federal panel has decided that a list of conservative
activists given to President Bush's campaign appears to be an illegal
corporate contribution, but the roster isn't valuable enough to warrant
government action."
The Times-Picayune (La.) offers this
report, with the following subhead: "To comply with polling rules,
woman strips down to bra to cast vote."
The Christian Science Monitor offers this
report on the cert. denials in the Ninth and Second Circuit cases.
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