Subject: Electionlawblog news and commentary 6/5/06
From: Rick Hasen
Date: 6/5/2006, 6:34 AM
To: election-law

"527 Groups Mostly Breathe Sigh of Relief"

Roll Call offers this report (paid subscription required), which begins: "Now that the Federal Election Commission last week opted not to take its rules on 527 political groups back to the drawing table, most of these groups are expressing satisfaction with the decision. And, some say, they can move ahead with activities without fear of having the FEC rules change on them as the 2006 election approaches."


"Burns Wants Reapportionment Study"

Roll Call offers this report (paid subcription required) on a proposal by Sen. Conrad Burns, tucked in the Senate immigration bill, that would require "the Census Bureau to issue a report to Congress on the impact of illegal immigrants in the reapportionment process. In addition, the Census Bureau would be compelled to establish a plan to exclude those individuals from the population counts used to determine the allocation of House seats."


"Robert Kennedy Jr.'s Gift to the Republican Party; or Why the Republicans Don't Mind Rehashing the 2004 Election in Ohio"

See this post from Bob Bauer.


Feingold on McCain-Feingold

See this interview in the Washington Post. A snippet:

Victorious Tories face call for a poll rerun after fraud allegations"

The Times (UK) offers this report.


"Voter registration drives targeted"

The Miami Herald offers this editorial, which begins: "Filing a lawsuit is usually not the optimal remedy to a problem, but the League of Women Voters of Florida was right to challenge the constitutionality of a truly objectionable provision in an election law approved by the Legislature in 2005." 
-- 
Rick Hasen
William H. Hannon Distinguished Professor of Law
Loyola Law School
919 Albany Street
Los Angeles, CA  90015-1211
(213)736-1466
(213)380-3769 - fax
rick.hasen@lls.edu
http://www.lls.edu/academics/faculty/hasen.html
http://electionlawblog.org