| Subject: news of the day 5/18/05 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 5/18/2005, 7:46 AM |
| To: election-law |
The San Francisco Chronicle offers this
report,
which begins: "Secretary of State Bruce McPherson distanced himself
Tuesday from the political agenda of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who
nominated him for the office just three months ago, saying the
governor's proposal to redraw the state's political map next year would
be impossible to carry out under the short time frame. 'There is no way
we'd be able to do it by 2006,' McPherson told the Sacramento Press
Club. 'Maybe 2008, but that's a question mark.'"
George Howland has written The
Monkey Wrench Trial for the Seattle Weekly,
with the subhead: "Dino Rossi's challenge of the 2004 election is on
shaky legal ground. But if he prevails, watch litigation become an
option in close races everywhere." See also this
Seattle Times report,
which begins: "When the governor's-election lawsuit goes to trial next
week in Wenatchee, Republicans will claim that someone stuffed ballot
boxes or stole valid ballots."
The Toledo Blade says no.
A.P. offers this
very interesting report, which begins:
The grand jury "included purported victims of the alleged scheme - Democrats," said a motion filed by James Tobin, who at the time was the Northeast political director of the national Republican Senatorial Committee. He was indicted in December.
"The government must demonstrate that it properly screened the grand jury to prevent bias, and if it cannot or will not do so, the indictment must be dismissed," the motion said.
Alec
Ewald has published: "An 'Agenda for Demolition': The Fallacy and the
Danger of the 'Subversive Voting' Argument for Felony
Disenfranchisement," 36 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 109 (2004).
>From the introduction:
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