| Subject: news of the day 1/4/05 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 1/4/2005, 8:09 AM |
| To: election-law |
I have written this oped for the Los Angeles Times. Interested readers can find extended constitutional and empirical analysis for the claims cited in the oped in my forthcoming Southern California Law Review article (most recent draft posted here). I'll be presenting the academic paper at the AALS Workshop on Democratic Governance on Thursday and at The Impact of Direct Democracy Conference on Jan. 15 in Irvine.
See this
news from New York about a dispute over the counting of votes cast
in the wrong district.
Peter S. Canellos offers this
Boston Globe column on gerrymandering. Thanks to Jeff Wice
for the link.
Roll Call offers this
editorial
(paid subscription required), which begins: "Every day, tens of
millions of people use ATMs in utter confidence that their bank
transactions will be accurately recorded. And as Bank of America brags
in its television ads, it processes 10 billion checks annually with an
error rate close to zero. This year, and the sooner the better,
Congress ought to make America’s voting system work like that."
Roll Call offers this
report
(paid subscription required), which begins: "The three Democratic House
Members who announced plans last weekend to protest the counting of
electoral votes indicated Monday that as many as three Senators may
join them. If even one Senator were to join the three lawmakers in a
formal written contest of the election, both chambers would be forced
to hold a two-hour debate during Thursday’s joint session."
The Washington Post offers this
report.
A snippet: "The proposal would have made it more difficult for
lawmakers to discipline a colleague for unethical behavior and would
have allowed Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) to keep his post if he
is indicted by a Texas grand jury that is looking into his campaign
finance practices."
Bob Bauer weighs in here
on his More Soft Money, Hard Law site regarding conflicting opinions
about the role of 527s in election 2004.
The Fall 2004 issue just arrived in the mail. Eventually, the online
version should be posted here.
-- Rick Hasen Professor of Law and William M. Rains Fellow Loyola Law School 919 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