| Subject: news of the day 3/9/05 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 3/9/2005, 8:20 AM |
| To: election-law |
A Sacramento Bee story is here.
Peter Overby for NPR is here.
Roll Call (paid subscription required) is here.
Bob Bauer is here.
Links to the Senate tesimony are here.
A three judge court in Texas heard
arguments in the Texas re-redistricting case on January 21. From this
report of the oral argument,
I expected a rather quick decision rejecting the plaintiffs' claims. I
wonder if there is any significance to the delay in the opinion issuing.
Following up on this post,
it appears that the race for the second spot on L.A.'s mayoral runoff
ballot won't be close enough to go to a recount. With about 24,000
(mainly absentee?) votes remaining to be counted, there is about a 5000
vote difference between candidates 2 and 3. (See here.)
Last night before I went to sleep there were no results available,
because of dense fog delaying the helicpoters delivering the votes to
be counted. (See here.)
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