| Subject: [EL] Electionlawbllog news and commentary 4/11/11 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 4/11/2011, 8:22 AM |
| To: Election Law |
Reply-to: "rhasen@law.uci.edu" |
The Denver Post offers this
editorial, with the subhead: "In a Wisconsin election and
in a flap over voter registration in Colorado, it seems many are
too quick to jump to conclusions."
Dan Tokaji and Allison Hayward are having a debate
over at PENNumbra on "The Role of Judges in Election Law." Dan's
opening statement is up. Allison's should appear next week,
followed by closing statements over the next few weeks. Grab the
popcorn!
The NYT editorial page asks:
What happened to the Rep. Maxine Waters investigation?
Roll Call offers Campaign
Lawyers Reject Idea FEC is Broken.
Nicholas Stephanopoulos has written this
oped for the Sun Sentinel. It raises the
interesting question of the constitutionality of using direct
democracy to control congressional redistricting, an issue I've
touched upon here.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel offers this
report, which includes what I view as an hysterical call
by U.S. Rep. Baldwin for a federal criminal investigation of the
vote snafu in Waukesha County.
In the same paper, Eugene Kane's column
observes: "It was interesting to note how quickly so many
right-wing types who were raising concerns about widespread
voter fraud when Kloppenburg was winning suddenly went mute
after their guy took the lead." But John Fund now takes a refleshingly
bipartisan position on the need to investigate and reform
Wisconsin elections. (It's an interesting contrast to his tone
before Justice Prosser was back in the lead.)
James Huffman has written this
oped in the WSJ. Jonathan Adler ponders.
The Charlotte Observer offers this
report, which begins: "Ralph Gingles is a judge in Gaston
County. Ruth Shaw lives in a retirement home in upstate New
York. Dwight Strickland runs a country store near Wilmington.
The three have little in common except for one thing: They lent
their names to landmark voting cases that will help guide how
voting districts are drawn this year in North Carolina and
around the county."
AP offers this
report.