| Subject: Electionlawblog news and commentary 6/12/06 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 6/12/2006, 6:38 AM |
| To: election-law |
See this
opinion piece by Kenneth Bunting in the Seattle Post
Intelligencer.
It begins: "The blogosphere has been abuzz. But in the days since
Rolling Stone magazine published a long piece that accused Republicans
of widespread and intentional cheating that affected the outcome of the
last presidential election, the silence in America's establishment
media has been deafening."
Matier and Ross have this
SF Chronicle column.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution offers this
editorial.
Paul Ryan has this
interesting post at the CLCblog.
Bob has posted The
"Modernizers" of the Voting Rights Act and Campaign
Finance and Product Promotion.
The NY Times offers ths
report,
which begins: "A group of black and Hispanic elected officials from
Brooklyn are scheduled to meet this morning to devise strategies to
keep a white candidate from winning a Congressional seat of historical
significance in black politics."
The Wall Street Journal offers this
editorial,
which begins: "We're not in the business of making predictions. But you
can be fairly certain that the coming debate over updating the Voting
Rights Act will sidestep what's really at stake, which isn't the right
to vote but rather the power of politicians to pick their voters
through gerrymandering."
Roll Call offers this
report
(paid subscription required), which begins: "The recently unveiled
group Unity08, which wants to put a bipartisan option on the 2008
presidential ballot, has asked the Federal Election Commission for
guidance on how the group should be treated under election law. It’s
not exactly a party committee. But is it a political committee?
Election law experts say the questions about the group could mark new
territory in their field."
Deborah Goldberg has written this Roll
Call oped,
which begins: "Contribution limits have been a core element of campaign
finance regulation for decades, and the Supreme Court has repeatedly
upheld them in the face of constitutional challenge. But opponents of
Vermont's limits are now asking the court to reconsider, arguing that
caps on contributions are an incumbent-protection device. However,
three new studies on campaign contribution limits-- one published in
Public Choice, a second forthcoming in Political Research Quarterly,
and the third to be published by the Brookings Institution in The
Marketplace of Democracy -- offer empirical evidence to quell that
familiar but flawed argument."
Dan Walters offers this
Sacramento Bee column. Thanks to Richard Winger for the pointer.
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