| Subject: news of the day 8/29/05 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 8/29/2005, 8:23 AM |
| To: election-law |
See this
A.P. report. The agency issued this
press release.
The Tallahassee Democrat offers this
report, with the subhead: "Summary longer than 75 words."
The Chicago Sun-Times offers this
report. Dan Tokaji offers his
thoughts, and the ACLU issued this press release.
Monica Leas writes this
column in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette.
A.P. offers this
report, which begins: "SANTA FE, N.M. - The state's highest court
must decide if New Mexico wrongly handled a recount request from two
presidential candidates by requiring them to pay $1.4 million as a
security deposit."
NY Newsday offers this
editorial, with the subhead: "No hope for regulating contributions
until the election commission is out."
FEC Vice Chair Michael Toner had this
letter to the editor in yesterday's NY Times.
The NY Times offers this
editorial, which begins: "The United States stands virtually alone
among democracies in having laws that continue to disenfranchise former
prisoners even after they have paid their debts to society and finished
parole or probation. A vast majority of the nearly five million
citizens who were barred from voting in the last presidential election
would have been free to vote in Australia, Britain, France and Canada."
-- Rick Hasen William H. Hannon Distinguished Professor of Law Loyola Law School 919 Albany Street Los Angeles, CA 90015-1211 (213)736-1466 - voice (213)380-3769 - fax rick.hasen@lls.edu http://www.lls.edu/academics/faculty/hasen.html http://electionlawblog.org