| Subject: [EL] more news II 11/1/10 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 11/1/2010, 1:09 PM |
| To: Election Law |
Reply-to: "rick.hasen@lls.edu" |
Law.com's "Supreme Court Insider" reports.
You can read the judge's order here.
Though Senator Cornyn seems
to concede that Republicans will not take the Senate in
this election, if it is very close there are open questions
about whether Sen. Murkowski, if she is reelected, will
caucus with the Republicans. There is also some nervousness
expressed by Democrats that Sen. Lieberman could caucus with
Republicans.
More to the point for this blog, I think it is fairly likely we
won't know the results of the U.S. Senate races in Alaska or
Washington state by Wednesday morning, unless the polling of
those races has been way off. So things may up in the air for a
while.
interesting
item from Media Matters.
See this
press release.
In writing about the "dead voter" non-phenomenon a few days ago, I mentioned that despite a few real examples, "dead voters" far more often either aren't dead, aren't voters, or are different people altogether from those flagged in state records.
I should have added that even finding real deceased voters doesn't always reveal unlawful activity. For example, legitimate voters have died after election day. And a timely new Virginia Attorney General's opinion reminds me that early voting provides yet another category of "dead voters" without fraud: voters who cast legitimate ballots before election day but then pass away before the polls close. With the increase in non-polling-place voting more generally, I wouldn't be surprised to see a few more of these anecdotes cropping up.
The Conference Board has issued this
report.
The cert
denial press release.
Frightening news
from Iowa (via Wash
Wire).
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