| Subject: news of the day 1/24/05 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 1/24/2005, 7:38 AM |
| To: election-law |
The Sacramento Bee offers this
report on California's embattled Secretary of State.
Eliza Newlin Carney offers this National Journal
column (free access).
Stuart Rothenberg offers this
Roll Call column
(paid subscription required), which begins: "The calendar says it is
2005, but Congressional redistricting is or again could be on the table
in Georgia, Illinois and California, where Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
(R) is pushing to change the way redistricting is done. He wants to
take it out of the hands of the Legislature and give it to a panel of
retired judges."
Al Kamen offers this
column,
which begins: " As we begin the second Bush administration, let's take
a moment to reflect upon one of the most historic episodes of the 2000
battle for the White House -- the now-legendary "Brooks Brothers Riot"
at the Miami-Dade County polling headquarters. This was when dozens of
'local protesters,' actually mostly Republican House aides from
Washington, chanted 'Stop the fraud!' and 'Let us in!' when the local
election board tried to move the re-counting from an open conference
room to a smaller space.
The Seattle Times offers this
report, the latest in the saga of the Washington state
gubernatorial controversy.
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