| Subject: news of the day 5/17/05 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 5/17/2005, 7:44 AM |
| To: election-law |
You can find my Roll Call oped from today at this link
(reprinted with permission). It begins:
DeForest Soaries, a member and former chairman of the federal Election Assistance Commission, has resigned in protest over what he termed the lack of a “commitment to real reform from the federal government.” The resignation was barely or not even mentioned in most of the nation’s major newspapers. Only the Boston Globe chose to editorialize on what the resignation means for election reform prospects.
The Los Angeles Times offers this
report.
See here.
Note the irony of Bob's believing it is "obligatory" for him to
disclose his relationship with CDT.
See this
commentary.
A snippet: "The debate over the propriety of judicial filibusters would
not matter so much if the appointment of judges were inconsequential.
But because the appointment of new Supreme Court Justices potentially
amounts to amending the Constitution, the current debate over the
judicial filibuster is tantamount to a debate over the proper procedure
for constitutional amendments. Yet because Framers of the Constitution
never originally intended the Advice and Consent role of the Senate to
serve as a surrogate method of ratifying (or blocking) proposed
constitutional changes, the Constitution itself is silent on whether it
is appropriate for the Senate to use its usual filibuster rules when
engaging in this extraordinary Constitution-amending function."
The following announcement arrived via e-mail:
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with an additional presentation by Leo Glickman, Esq. on compliance with New York City Campaign Finance Board issues.
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Petitioning starts June 7th.
All are invited to this Annual Free Seminar.
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Compare Adam Bonin's comments from today with this earlier
post on Daily Kos (and my earlier coverage here).
Election Science (formerly "Votewatch") has issued this
report. From the press
release:
Exit polls estimated that Senator John Kerry was leading for Ohio’s electoral votes, but not by a large enough margin to be called the winner. Had he won Ohio, he would have won the Presidency. However, the official result was a victory for President George W. Bush. The discrepancy between the polls and the results gave rise to widespread accusations of systematic election fraud.
The new study, commissioned by the Election Science Institute (ESI), was presented on Saturday at the annual conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research in Miami. It looked at the results of the exit polls, which were conducted by Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International, and compared them to official results from 2004 and 2000.
The research team, led by Dr. Fritz Scheuren, used more detailed information from the exit polls than previous studies. The team was able to use this precinct-level information while preserving ballot secrecy at a local level.
“The more detailed information allowed us to see that voting patterns were consistent with past results and consistent with exit poll results across precincts. It looks more like Bush voters were refusing to participate and less like systematic fraud,” Dr. Scheuren said.
Dr. Scheuren is the current President of the American Statistical Association, and Vice President for Statistics at NORC, a research institute based at the University of Chicago.
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