| Subject: Electionlawblog news and commentary 11/12/05 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 11/12/2005, 8:29 PM |
| To: election-law |
The Sacramento Bee offers this
report.
The Washington Post offers this
report, which begins: "The Democratic National Committee under
Howard Dean is losing the fundraising race against Republicans by
nearly 2 to 1, a slow start that is stirring concern among strategists
who worry that a cash shortage could hinder the party's competitiveness
in next year's midterm elections."
The Washington Post offers this
report. A snippet: "The Bush administration has filed only three
lawsuits -- all of them this year -- under the section of the Voting
Rights Act that prohibits discrimination against minority voters, and
none of them involves discrimination against blacks. The initial case
was the Justice Department's first reverse-discrimination lawsuit,
accusing a majority-black county in Mississippi of discriminating
against white voters."
A.P. offers this
report, which begins: "The federal case against one of President
Bush's boosters in Ohio is a signal to political campaigns that they
will suffer more grief than usual if their biggest fundraisers run
afoul of campaign finance laws. Criminal provisions of the 2002
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, also known as 'McCain-Feingold,' were
invoked in the Oct. 27 arrest of coin dealer Tom Noe, a leading GOP
fundraiser in the Toledo area. The Justice Department says it's the
largest case of its kind under the law."
Roy Ulrich has written an oped, The
Initiative: A Force for Good or Evil for the San Diego Union
Tribune.
See here. The
headline of the accompanying
press release is "Racial Discrimination Lawsuits Indicate Voting
Rights Act Still Needed."
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