Subject: news of the day 8/30/05
From: Rick Hasen
Date: 8/30/2005, 7:32 AM
To: election-law


Light Blogging for the Rest of the Week

I'm off to APSA, presenting my paper on election administration reform Thursday (see here). Blogging will be light through Labor Day.


"It's About Fraud, Not Jim Crow"

Frank B. Strickland and Anne W. Lewis offer this Washington Post commentary, responding to David J. Becker's recent oped.


Bauer on the Georgia Voter I.D. Requirement and Fraud

See here.


"High court hears recount dispute"

A.P. offers this report from New Mexico.


"I.D. and Voting Rights"

Tova Wang offers this commentary in Mother Jones, with the subhead: "Laws requiring voters to present very specific forms of ID are becoming the voting rights barrier of the 21st Century."


"Andrew Gumbel: All I did was say they can't run a fair election"

Andrew Gumbel, whose book was the subject of Paul Krugman's column last week, has written these thoughts for The Independent Online Edition.


A Brief Mention of Voting Rights in Roberts' Papers released today

See page 2 of this pdf released by the National Archives.


Blog access problems

If you had trouble accessing the blog over the last few days, the problem was on this end. All should be working now.

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