| Subject: [EL] Electionlawblog news and commentary 11/19/10 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 11/18/2010, 8:06 PM |
| To: Election Law |
Dahlia Lithwick has written this column for Slate.
The Washington Post offers this
report.
AP offers this
report, which shows that Miller now appears to be
advancing the due process argument I had raised in my Slate
piece. AP: "Miller attorney Thomas Van Flein also said the
state's policy is a departure from past practices of rejecting
such write-in votes. Van Flein filed an affidavit from former
Lt. Gov. Loren Leman, who served under Murkowski's father,
former Gov. Frank Murkowski. Leman said he would not have
accepted misspelled names on write-in ballots." I'm not sure how
Miller's team would overcome a causation problem---namely that
Murkowski's margin appears to exceed the margin of challenged
ballots.
The LA Times has this
news update.
Richard Winger blogs.
The Washington Post offers this
report.
Meredith McGehee blogs.