Subject: Electionlawblog news and commentary 7/19/06
From: Rick Hasen
Date: 7/19/2006, 6:48 AM
To: election-law

Listen to Senate Judiciary Committee VRA Markup Today at 2 PM Easten

It looks like we'll be able to listen to the markup here (scroll down to 2 pm meeting of Senate Judiciary Committee, then click on SD226).


"Austin leaders consider redistricting options"

The Austin Business Journal offers this report. See also TX 23: A Statistical Look at the Remap Proposals at CQpolitics.com.


Patten on New Vallely-edited Voting Rights Act Book

At the Law and Politics Book Review, Joseph Patten has reviewed THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT: SECURING THE BALLOT, by Richard M. Valelly (ed). Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2005. 400pp. Cloth. $105.00. ISBN: 1-56802-989-6.


"Not Just About Candidates and Parties: 527s and the Vermont Case"

Bob Bauer has this new post at Moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com.


Pildes Supplemental Testimony for Senate Judiciary Committee

You can find it here. No student of VRA renewal can go without reading these comments, which are relevant for both the question of constitutionality of section 5 and the Georgia v. Ashcroft fix.


Jeff Wice on the VRA and NYC

See here.


"Thinking About Democracy: Justice Stevens and the Roberts Court"

Dan Tokaji has written this weekly comment for the OSU election law site. 
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