| Subject: news of the day 7/28/05 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 7/28/2005, 7:18 AM |
| To: election-law |
The Columbus Dispatch offers this
report (subscription required). It begins: "A coalition of voter
advocates, led by the League of Women Voters of Ohio, today plans to
file what it calls a "historic, nonpartisan lawsuit" compelling the
state to fix its system of elections. The lawsuit, to be filed in
federal court in Toledo, alleges that Ohio Secretary of State J.
Kenneth Blackwell, Gov. Bob Taft and their predecessors failed to
ensure the right to vote in Ohio."
Tracy Westen and Bob Stern of the Center for Governmental Studies
offer this
article in the California Bar Journal regarding ways to
improve California's initiative process.
See this
letter in the Wall Street Journal. (Paid subscription
required.) Thanks to Steven Sholk for the pointer.
-- Rick Hasen William H. Hannon Distinguished Professor of Law Loyola Law School 919 Albany Street Los Angeles, CA 90015-1211 (213)736-1466 (213)380-3769 - fax rick.hasen@lls.edu http://www.lls.edu/academics/faculty/hasen.html http://electionlawblog.org