Subject: news of the day 3/28/05
From: Rick Hasen
Date: 3/28/2005, 9:00 AM
To: election-law

"Georgia congressmen watch their words in redistricting process"

A.P. offers this report.


Campaign Finance Disclosure Issues in Washington State

See here.


"Blog rolling? A new spin on Net rules"

Declan McCullagh offers this commentary at C|NET News.A snippet: "It's too early to know what the FEC will do. The regulatory process has just lurched to a start, and a final rule is not expected until the end of the year. We do know that thanks to the outcry from thousands of bloggers, the draft regulations released on March 23 are not nearly as onerous as the March 10 draft would have been." My reasons for disagreeing with that assessment are found here.

In other commentary on the FEC's internet rulemaking, see Bloggers Balk at Proposed FEC Rules, FEC Lays Out Timetable to Consider Possible Internet Regulations (Roll Call - paid subscription required) and this Roll Call oped, "BCRA and the Web."


"Campaign industry hits the jackpot; Is the blizzard of initiatives drowning out public's voice?"

The San Francisco Chronicle offers this report . On the same topic, see also news reports here, here , here, and here.

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