| Subject: Re: [EL] Another election problem in New York |
| From: Douglas Johnson |
| Date: 11/6/2010, 5:21 PM |
| To: 'Rick Hasen' <rick.hasen@lls.edu>, 'Election Law' <election-law@mailman.lls.edu> |
The
predictions that election contest lawyers would be very busy after last Tuesday
is certainly providing accurate. The latest new controversy, from AP:
NEW YORK — A congressional election on eastern Long Island
that had appeared to end in victory for a four-term Democrat, U.S. Rep. Tim
Bishop, is now up for grabs after authorities discovered they had misreported
the result of the vote. Officials with the Suffolk County Board of Elections
said they discovered Friday that the unofficial tally released in the hours
after the polls closed was off by thousands. A routine check of voting machine
memory cards showed that instead of leading by about 3,500 votes, Bishop was
trailing Republican challenger Randy Altschuler by a little less than 400.
Board of Elections commissioner
Wayne Rogers said the original numbers were reported by telephone and relayed
through intermediaries before being entered into the county's computer system. "Somewhere
within that process, some of these numbers must have been transcribed
incorrectly," he told The Associated Press on Saturday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40044923/ns/politics-decision_2010/
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Behalf Of Rick Hasen
Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010
5:01 PM
To: Election Law
Subject: [EL] Electionlawblog news
and commentary 11/6/10
Posted by Rick Hasen at 04:59 PM
The
Connecticut Post offers this
report.
Posted by Rick Hasen at 04:55 PM
BNA
reports.
Posted by Rick Hasen at 04:31 PM
Following
up on at
this link. In addition to raising a somewhat unusual claim under section 5
of the VRA, the complaint also alleges a violation of the U.S. Constitution,
Article I, Section 4, which vests in each state legislature the power to choose the rules for selecting
members of Congress (subject to congressional override). I don't think that
argument is likely to succeed, for reasons I've explained in this article
on a related topic: the ability to use the ballot measure process for changing
the rules for choosing presidential electors.
Posted by Rick Hasen at 04:28 PM
The
NY Times offers this
report.
Posted by Rick Hasen at 01:11 PM
The
Washington Post offers this
report.
Posted by Rick Hasen at 01:05 PM
AP
offers this
report.
Posted by Rick Hasen at 03:41 PM
Another
interesting report
from the Campaign Finance Institute.
Posted by Rick Hasen at 03:36 PM
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