That's why you have a clea process ex-ante: each candidate who qualifies
for the balot gets access to this one-time on an equal basis. As it's
political speech, the rights of each candidate ought to be pretty powerful.
----- Original Message -----
From: Larry Levine <larrylevine@earthlink.net>
Date: Thursday, December 22, 2005 3:46 pm
Subject: Re: voter pamphlets as a source of election information
Who is to control the content of these landing pages. I suspect the
firsttime a candidate wants to do a negative piece he or she will
run into some
government official saying we can't use public resources for that.
Thus, we
will be controlling political speech.
That may be hypothetical. But does anyone doubt that it will happen.
Larry Levine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffrey MA Hauser" <jmh248@nyu.edu>
To: <election-law@majordomo.lls.edu>
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: voter pamphlets as a source of election information
How about this -- ask/require voters to provide an e-mail address
(if> required, they can sign something saying they don't have one)
and zip to
the government, either for general or election purposes (I'm
unsure, b/c
I like Ritchie's ideas about universal registration), and....
allow candidates to generate landing pages that would be included
in an
omnibus e-mail to voters in a manner similar to either how
ballots are
determined and/or current "inform the voters" materials.
e.g., every voter in appropriate zip codes would receive the landing
pages of every candidate for whom that voter could vote.
Essentially, virtual franking facilitated by the government.
----- Original Message -----
From: Larry Levine <larrylevine@earthlink.net>
Date: Thursday, December 22, 2005 1:38 pm
Subject: Re: voter pamphlets as a source of election information
Re: voter pamphlets as a source of election informationThat would
include not just those who are not registered, but also those who
are not citizens and addresses of vacant residences.
Larry Levine
----- Original Message -----
From: Levine, Lloyd
To: JeffE@atg.wa.gov ; election-law@majordomo.lls.edu
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: voter pamphlets as a source of election information
To flip it around, I find the Washington practice curious. While
I can see a small public policy argument in favor of doing
this, I
wonder how much money the state spends in printing and postage
costs to send the pamphlets to people who can't vote. How can the
secretary of state justify the expense?
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From: owner-election-law_gl@majordomo.lls.edu <owner-election-
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Sent: Thu Dec 22 09:09:12 2005
Subject: RE: voter pamphlets as a source of election information
I find it interesting that registration even matters for this
purpose. In Washington, the state constitution requires that the
Voters' Pamphlet
be delivered to every place of residence in the state.
Registration> > lists are not used for this purpose.
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 6:11 PM
To: WewerLacy@aol.com; jeff_hauser95@post.harvard.edu;
election-law@majordomo.lls.edu
Subject: Re: voter pamphlets as a source of election information
The voter pamphlet is always put on the internet by
the California Secretary of State, so it doesn't
follow that only people who have been registered to
vote for a few weeks before the election can see it.
As a greater and greater share of the population uses
the web for information, it may be that the need to
postally mail a voter pamphlet to every household will
diminish. What is needed is more publicity for the
web site that holds the voter pamphlet.
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