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"Have the Media 'Falsely Framed' ACORN?"
Don't miss this extensive report by Christopher Martin and Peter Dreier in Editor & Publisher....
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Thanksgiving Blogging Break
Back on Monday. Happy Thanksgiving to my readers and their families!...
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von Spakovsky: Bob Bauer Wants To Criminalize Talk About Voter Fraud
von Spakovsky: "The spurious claims made in the [Bauer] letter were pretty outrageous at the time, but what is even scarier is that we now have a White House counsel who has asserted that anyone who talks about voter fraud,...
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"Louisiana Redistricting: An Ugly Post-Katrina Partisan Mess (The Complete Analysis)"
The Rose Report gives this very detailed analysis....
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Hoffman Concedes; Speaks More on Election Controversy
Watertown Daily Times: "[In his statement,] Mr. Hoffman makes clear he won't ask for a recount because he doesn't think it will change the outcome. ...He apologizes for an 'unfortunate and poorly worded fundraising e-mail' that implied that 'election commissioners...
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"Making Sense of Facial and As-Applied Challenges
"Making Sense of Facial and As-Applied Challenges Posted by Rick Hasen at November 25, 2009 08:10 AM
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"Public Advocate releases review of voting machine contracts, 11/24/09"
From the New Jersey Public Advocate....
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CA Gov. Nominates "Top Two" Advocate Abel Moldonado for Lt. Gov.
The story is here. Blog readers will recall that putting the top two primary on next spring's CA ballot was the price to get Maldonado's vote for a package of budget reforms (a package that the voters later voted down,...
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Sandy Levinson on Tom Friedman on Gerrymandering Etc.
Here, at Balkinization....
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No Lawn Mowers in the Park
Courtesy of the Georgia Supreme Court, a variation on the Legislation chestnut, "No vehicles in the park." I prefer the food stays in the kitchen....
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"Are Mapmakers Able to Target and Protect Congressional Incumbents?"
Chad Murphy and Antoine Yoshinaka have written this article for American Politics Research. Here is the abstract: Can those in charge of redistricting foster electoral competitiveness by targeting some congressional incumbents while protecting others from potent competition? We provide an...
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Who is Behind the Anti-Robocall FEC Preemption Argument?
TPM digs in....
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"CAMPAIGN FINANCE AND THE 2008 ELECTIONS: HOW SMALL CHANGE(S) CAN REALLY ADD UP"
FEC Commissioner Ellen Weintraub and her Counsel/Executive Assistant Jason K. Levine have written this article for the St. John's Journal of Legal Commentary....
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"Chevron as a Canon, not a Precedent: An Empirical Test of what Motivates Judges in Agency Deference Cases"
Bill Eskridge and Connor Raso have posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Legal scholars almost universally believe that federal judges defer to agency interpretations of statutes. The debate has therefore focused on when judges should defer and...
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"Loophole.com: How the FEC's Failure to Fully Regulate the Internet Undermines Campaign Finance Law"
Daniel W. Butrymowicz has written this student comment for the Columbia Law Review....
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Election Law in the Harvard Law Review Supreme Court Issue
Pam Karlan, Larry Lessig, and Penny White write about Caperton v. Massey. Students cover NAMUDNO and Bartlett v. Strickland....
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Holtzman Vogel Law & Policy Update Now Available
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Read Amicus Briefs in Indiana state supreme court voter id case
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