Subject: electionlawblog news and commentary 12/8/05
From: Rick Hasen
Date: 12/8/2005, 11:57 AM
To: election-law

"Court reviewing dispute over Florida's system of voting"

A.P. offers this report, which begins: "An unsettled legal fight smoldering since Florida's hotly disputed 2000 presidential election rekindled Wednesday in a Miami federal appellate court Three members of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments on whether the state's current system of voting violates the Constitution because some Floridians vote on electronic touch-screen machines and others on optical scan ballots."


More coverage of Prop. 77 hearing

Sacramento Bee and Los Angeles Daily Journal (paid subscription required).


"Voting Machines Under Scrutiny; States Face a Jan. 1 Deadline to Meet Reliability Standards"

The Washington Post offers this report.


Photo ID Issues in Alabama

Ed Packard offers these thoughts.


"Modernizing the presidential public financing system"

The Hill has published this oped by FEC commissioners Thomas and Toner.

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