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Initial Thoughts on Doe v. Reed
I have now had a chance to read the decision in Doe v. Reed. In broad brush strokes, the Court did what I predicted they would do: a broad majority voted that disclosure of the names of the signers of...
Posted in Election Law on June 24, 2010 11:22 AM
"You Don't Have to Be a Structuralist to Hate the Supreme Court's Dignitary Harm Election Law Cases"
I have posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This brief essay responds to an article by Professor James A. Gardner, The Dignity of Voters - A Dissent, appearing in a symposium in the University of Miami Law...
Posted in Election Law on October 6, 2009 01:11 PM
Determining Election Fraud without Smoking Gun Evidence: The Case of Iran
Josef Stalin is reputed to have said that it is not the people who vote that count, but the people who count the votes. Whether or not he actually made the statement, the statement points out the fundamental truth that...
Posted in Election Law on June 13, 2009 04:58 PM
Live Blogging the Coleman Franken Oral Argument
Now that the oral arguments have concluded, here are my tentative thoughts (you can find my earlier live blog below the fold): 1. It is always dangerous to guess how a court is going to come out based upon oral...
Posted in Election Law on June 1, 2009 07:02 AM
"St. Louis Election Board claims 50 people committed vote fraud"
This will be interesting to watch. As I understand it, there's been a lot of politics over this issue in St. Louis....
Posted in Election Law on May 20, 2009 12:37 PM
Sequoia v. Appel: Appel Fires Back
Following up on this post, I received the following from Andrew Appel, with a request to post on the blog: Response by Appel to Sequoia's characterization of his testimony by Andrew W. Appel, Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University Sequoia's...
Posted in Election Law on February 25, 2009 08:19 PM
"Remember 'voter fraud'? Scandal was Mickey Mouse"
The Palm Beach Post offers this editorial....
Posted in Election Law on November 20, 2008 07:44 AM
The majority and minority reports have some interesting discussions of voter fraud. A snippet from the majority opinion: The evidence shows that senior officials were apparently focused on the political impact of Federal prosecutions and whether Federal prosecutors were doing...
Posted in Election Law on November 18, 2008 08:34 AM
Elmendorf: Two Models for Building Public Confidence in the Electoral Process
Chris Elmendorf has written the following guest post for my Fixing Election Administration series: The 2008 election season witnessed an escalation in the now-familiar conflict between Democrats and Republicans over "access" versus "integrity" in the voting process. John McCain used...
Posted in Election Law on November 9, 2008 04:58 PM
Tokaji: Reforming Registration
Dan Tokaji offers this guest post: On Monday, I identified four problem areas to watch out for on Election Day: 1) lines at the polls, 2) voting equipment, 3) voter registration lists, and 4) provisional and absentee ballots. While machine...
Posted in Election Law on November 7, 2008 08:17 AM
Election Litigation Threat Level: Still Orange
It is a sign of how pathetic and dysfunctional our system of election administration is that once again news outlets are running their stories on armies of lawyers, potential election machine breakdowns, fear of voter fraud, and the potential of...
Posted in Election Law on October 31, 2008 09:27 AM
I'm usually not watching cable news in the morning, but I was watching MSNBC this morning and the lead story was ACORN and voter fraud (this was well before they turned to Michael McDonald's erudite analysis of the electoral map)....
Posted in Election Law on October 17, 2008 09:03 AM
"Voter fraud called a minor issue for November"
The SF Chronicle offers this report, which begins: "By focusing attention on false voter registration forms filed by the liberal group ACORN, Republicans and Arizona Sen. John McCain are raising alarm bells about the potential for widespread voter fraud this...
Posted in Election Law on October 16, 2008 07:36 AM
"Republicans slam group suspected of voter fraud"
AP offers this report from North Carolina....
Posted in Election Law on September 19, 2008 02:19 PM
"Democrats Sue Michigan G.O.P. on Voter Issue"
The NY Times offers this report on its "Caucus" blog about this complaint filed by the Obama campaign and the DNC. More in the Wall Street Journal. Given that the head of the McComb County Republican Party not only denied...
Posted in Election Law on September 16, 2008 08:43 PM
The McCain campaign has issued this press release, which begins: The McCain-Palin 2008 campaign today announced the formation of the Honest and Open Election Committee, with a mission to ensure that every qualified citizen has the opportunity to vote in...
Posted in Election Law on September 15, 2008 08:51 PM
"Ohio county fires back at voting machine company"
The AP has this report on Cuyahoga County's breach of contract, fraud, and negligence claims against Premier Election Solutions Inc. (part of Diebold), filed in response to Premier's declaratory relief action last month....
Posted in Election Law on July 17, 2008 10:44 AM
"McCain Campaign On Voter Fraud And Other Reaction"
Backtracking by the McCain campaign on a commitment not to push the voter fraud line this election? Note also this page on voter fraud at the RNC website. Trevor Potter, who comments in the first linked story, is also mentioned...
Posted in Election Law on June 26, 2008 06:55 AM
R. Michael Alvarez, Thad E. Hall, and Susan D. Hyde, Election Fraud: Detecting and Deterring Electoral Manipulation (Brookings 2008) Steven Huefner, Daniel P. Tokaji, and Edward B. Foley, From Registration to Recounts: The Election Ecosystems of Five Midwestern States (2007)...
Posted in Election Law on June 2, 2008 11:36 AM
Initial Thoughts on the Supreme Court's Opinion in Crawford, the Indiana Voter Identification Case
Today's much anticipated decision in Crawford v. Marion County Election Board is a significant win for those who support stricter voter identification laws, even if they support such laws for partisan purposes. It will encourage further litigation, because it relegates...
Posted in Election Law on April 28, 2008 08:17 AM
A study on Military and Civilian overseas voters and a statement about the IG's report....
Posted in Election Law on March 21, 2008 08:59 AM
Tova Wang Issues Comment on EAC IG Report
Tova Wang asked me to post the following: While I have many issues with the way in which our work was characterized by the Inspector General in his report on the EAC study on fraud and intimidation, there is one...
Posted in Election Law on March 14, 2008 09:00 AM
EAC's Inspector General Report on Vote Fraud Investigation Released
You can find it here. It is a fascinating read, in which the cast of characters (once again) includes Hans von Spakovsky. The report found no evidence the report was changed for "political motivations," though there are plenty of allegations...
Posted in Election Law on March 12, 2008 01:37 PM
Bob Pastor Responds to My Carter-Baker Oped Criticism
Following up on this post, I received the following email from Bob Pastor which he asked me to post on my blog: The "Voter ID Study" that we recently published as a report (see www.american.edu/ia/cdem), and which Rick Hasen has...
Posted in Election Law on February 4, 2008 10:23 PM
New Carter-Baker Oped on Voter IDs
You can find the NY Times piece here. I share the sentiment that the Supreme Court should move beyond partisanship in the Crawford (Indiana voter ID) case. But I am troubled by a number of things about the oped, including...
Posted in Election Law on February 3, 2008 09:58 PM
My Amicus Brief in the Crawford Voter ID Case Now Available
Along with my co-counsel, Alan Glickman and Kristie Blase of Schulte Roth & Zabel, I've written this amicus brief (pro bono, on my own behalf) in Crawford v. Marion County Election Board, the Indiana Voter ID case. I've posted the...
Posted in Election Law on November 8, 2007 03:25 PM
"A million voters could be disenfranchised"
Big election administration news from Canada: "Recent changes to the federal Elections Act will wind up disenfranchising more than 1 million rural voters, Canada's elections watchdog warns. Just four months ago in a bid to clamp down on voter fraud,...
Posted in Election Law on October 23, 2007 09:30 PM
More News and Commentary on Supreme Court Voter ID Decision
Though the Court just granted cert. last week, the Indiana voter id case has become one of the most talked-about cases on the new October docket. Writing in the New York Times, Linda Greenhouse notes the danger of the cert...
Posted in Election Law on October 1, 2007 08:51 AM
Elmendorf on the Georgia Voter ID Decision and Burdick
Following up on my query about his views in connection with the Georgia voter id case decided last week, Chris Elmendorf sent a response to the Election Law List. With his permission, I reprint it below: Here is a rather...
Posted in Election Law on September 9, 2007 09:30 PM
Election Law Journal 6:3 Now Available; Preview of ELJ 6:4
You can find the table of contents for ELJ 6:3 here, and it is linked below. Look for ELJ 6:4 in October, featuring Erik Herron and Lauren Prather on re-enfranchising displaced voters, using lessons from Bosnia; Derek Muller on the...
Posted in Election Law on August 13, 2007 02:57 PM
EAC Chair Davidson's prepared testimony before the House Administration Committee (check out page 24, which puts the best face on the EAC's voter fraud/voter id research controversies) This media advisory, "EAC Will Post and Distribute State Reports on Voting Systems"...
Posted in Election Law on August 3, 2007 01:11 PM
Tova Wang is Now Free to Talk About Her Work on Voter Fraud for the EAC
You can find the letter written by the EAC's general counsel here. I for one will be very interested to hear what she has to say about the process which led to the EAC's suppression of the draft report and...
Posted in Election Law on July 12, 2007 10:04 AM
Hebert Finds Troubling Von Spakovsky Emails in EAC Released Documents
Gerry's been going through the EAC document dump, and found some troubling things related to FEC commissioner Hans von Spakovksy. Here's an excerpt from Gerry's post: I will continue to review the EAC documents to see if they shed any...
Posted in Election Law on July 4, 2007 07:43 AM
Updated Draft of "The Untimely Death of Bush v. Gore" Now Available
You can download the revised draft here. This includes information on the EAC/U.S. Attorneys/Voter Fraud controversies, as well as updated statistics on the amount of election law litigation in 2005 and 2006. The final version of the article is scheduled...
Posted in Election Law on June 13, 2007 09:21 PM
EAC Document Dump and Response to Congressional Inquiries about Suppressed Voter Fraud Report
This is big news. The EAC is releasing internal documents, 40,000 pages in all (via a 4 cd set if you request it). What's there? "[T]he information provided also includes EAC staff communications and draft documents created internally and by...
Posted in Election Law on June 13, 2007 01:49 PM
Has John Fund Toned Down His Allegations of Voter Fraud?
Here's what he's come up with in his latest column, that I linked to earlier this morning: One reason for such large public support is that the potential for fraud is real. Many people don't trust electronic voting machines. And...
Posted in Election Law on June 13, 2007 06:22 AM
"Bush to Nominate Gracia Hillman To Serve Full, Four-Year Term on EAC"
BNA Money and Politics Report offers this report. ($) Perhaps the Senate Rules Committee will use the opportunity to question Hillman about the Tova Wang gag order and the ongoing investigation at the EAC over its handling of the voter...
Posted in Election Law on June 13, 2007 05:58 AM
Sen. Obama Comes Out Against von Spakovsky Nomination
I just received a press release by email (no link yet) announcing a letter that Sen. Obama sent to Senate Rules Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein opposing the von Spakovksy nomination to the FEC. The letter reads: Dear Chairwoman Feinstein and...
Posted in Election Law on June 12, 2007 08:07 AM
Legal Times offers this report on this Senate Judiciary Committee hearing scheduled for Tuesday, which will also feature former U.S. Attorney Todd Graves, whom Schlozman temporarily replaced. Judiciary isn't the only committee that might be probing voter fraud/DOJ politicization/US Attorney...
Posted in Election Law on June 2, 2007 08:13 AM
The Crawford Voter ID Case, Empirical Presumptions, Bad Legislative Intent, and Political Markets
Marty Lederman has brought to my attention this very interesting student note in the Harvard Law Review on the 7th Circuit voter id case. I've only had a chance to glance at this note, but it uses the debate between...
Posted in Election Law on May 24, 2007 09:32 AM
Here is a follow up letter from Wang's attorney. Is Commissioner Rodriguez the only one who cares or has the courage at the EAC to take on this issue? Wang at least deserves a considered response....
Posted in Election Law on May 22, 2007 06:58 PM
More Blogospheric Reactions to My Slate Piece on the ACVR
Among others in the blogosphere linking and commenting on my recent Slate piece, The Fraudulent Fraud Squad: The Incredible, Disappearing American Center for Voting Rights, are Josh Marshall, Obsidian Wings, Bob Salladay (LA Times), Beyond the Beyond (Wired Magazine), The...
Posted in Election Law on May 22, 2007 09:24 AM
More Blogospheric Reactions to My Slate Piece on the ACVR
Among others in the blogosphere linking and commenting on my recent Slate piece, The Fraudulent Fraud Squad: The Incredible, Disappearing American Center for Voting Rights, are Josh Marshall, Obsidian Wings, Bob Salladay (LA Times), Beyond the Beyond (Wired Magazine), The...
Posted in Election Law on May 22, 2007 09:22 AM
More Blogospheric Reactions to My Slate Piece on the ACVR
Among others in the blogosphere linking and commenting on my recent Slate piece, The Fraudulent Fraud Squad: The Incredible, Disappearing American Center for Voting Rights, are Josh Marshall, Obsidian Wings, Bob Salladay (LA Times), Beyond the Beyond (Wired Magazine), The...
Posted in Election Law on May 22, 2007 09:15 AM
"Efforts to stop 'voter fraud' may have curbed legitimate voting"
McClatchy Newspapers offers this report on Hans von Spakovsky and his role at DOJ and at the EAC. The article stays that an email indicates that von Spakovksy was instrumental in seeing to it that Paul Digregorio not get another...
Posted in Election Law on May 20, 2007 04:32 PM
John Fund on Bill Maher Talking About Voter Fraud
You can find the video, with some critical commentary, here. UPDATE: I have now had a chance to watch this video. When Maher confronts Fund with the NY Times reporting on DOJ statistics and the EAC draft report on vote...
Posted in Election Law on May 19, 2007 08:25 PM
Next week could see the passage of the Texas voter id bill, if Sen. Gallegos's health issues persist. In linking yesterday to this Houston Chronicle column by Kristen Mack, I neglected to highlight perhaps the most important sentence in the...
Posted in Election Law on May 19, 2007 10:07 AM
Via email comes news that the ACLU-represented plaintiffs, and the Indiana Democratic Party, will be filing separate but complementary cert petitions in the litigation challenging 7th Circuit opinion in the Indiana photo ID law. I recently posted on the election...
Posted in Election Law on May 16, 2007 03:26 PM
Slate catches up with the EAC voter fraud controversy by posting parts of the draft Wang/Seberov documents leaked last month to the NY Times....
Posted in Election Law on May 16, 2007 07:21 AM
The Extremely Weak Evidence of Voter Fraud in Crawford, the Indiana Voter ID Case
As I've been working on revisions to this article, I've gone back to look at the evidence of voter fraud presented by the state of Indiana in Crawford, the voter identification case that the Seventh Circuit, on a nearly party...
Posted in Election Law on May 2, 2007 08:45 AM
Should We Send EAC Commissioner Rodriguez a "Free Tova Wang" T-Shirt?
Following up on this post, new EAC Commissioner Rosemary Rodriguez has issued this statement. A snippet: "I cannot bind the Commission, as one member, but I believe that the EAC should immediately respond to Ms. Wang's request. I further believe...
Posted in Election Law on April 27, 2007 08:45 AM
Tova Wang on the EAC Gag Order
I have just received this press release via email: Contact James Joseph, Arnold & Porter -- (202) 942-5355, james_joseph@aporter.com Tova Andrea Wang, Co-Author of the Voter Fraud and Voter Intimidation Report for the Election Assistance Commission, Calls for an End...
Posted in Election Law on April 26, 2007 08:46 AM
The EAC press release and accompanying memo (along with congressional statements) is here. From the memo to the Inspector General: The actions taken by the Commission regarding both the voter identification and the vote fraud and voter intimidation research projects...
Posted in Election Law on April 16, 2007 12:58 PM
Voter Fraud/EAC/US Attorneys/Indiana Voter I.D. Case Roundup
A few additional commentaries and developments this weekend worth noting. Marty Lederman has written this must-read post on Balkinization trying to put the AG Gonzales controversy into the broader context of the voter fraud allegations. Marty writes: The biggest part...
Posted in Election Law on April 16, 2007 08:48 AM
Senate Fallout from EAC Controversy
The following press release just arrived via email from Senator Feinstein's office: Senators Feinstein and Durbin Seek Response from EAC Regarding Allegations of Altered or Delayed Studies - Request for Information Follows Troubling News Reports of Politically Motivated Actions by...
Posted in Election Law on April 13, 2007 12:06 PM
Others' Comments on The NY Times Articles on the EAC, DOJ, and Voter Fraud
Following up on NY Times articles here and here, here are some additional reflections: Doug Chapin Paul Gronke (on why peer review matters) Marcia Oddi My earlier comments on these stories are here and here. I know of other stories...
Posted in Election Law on April 13, 2007 08:56 AM
"In 5-Year Effort, Scant Evidence of Voter Fraud"
The New York Times offers this front page report, which follows up on this report about the EAC and voter fraud yesterday. Today's must-read report begins: "Five years after the Bush administration began a crackdown on voter fraud, the Justice...
Posted in Election Law on April 12, 2007 09:01 AM
Indiana Secretary of State Rokita , the EAC Controversy, and the Incidence of Voter Fraud
At a recent AEI-Brookings Election reform project event, I tangled a bit with Indiana Sec. of State Todd Rokita, including over the question whether the National Association of Secretaries of State will continue to take its unfortunate position that the...
Posted in Election Law on April 11, 2007 11:07 AM
"Panel Said to Alter Finding on Voter Fraud"
The NY Times offers this front page report, which begins: "A federal panel responsible for conducting election research played down the findings of experts who concluded last year that there was little voter fraud around the nation, according to a...
Posted in Election Law on April 10, 2007 09:27 PM
Is The EAC Being Appropriately Cautious or Cowardly on Voter Identification Research?
Today the EAC issued a press release, "EAC to Launch Comprehensive Study of Voter ID Laws." The release begins: "The U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) has voted unanimously to launch a comprehensive study focused on voter identification laws after concluding...
Posted in Election Law on March 30, 2007 02:00 PM
Initial Thoughts on the Seventh Circuit Indiana Voter Identification Decision
There has already been some very thoughtful commentary, particularly on the election law listserv, regarding this new 7th Circuit opinion by Judge Posner upholding Indiana's voter identification law over Judge Evans' dissent. I just want to throw out a few...
Posted in Election Law on January 5, 2007 03:19 PM
Two Views of the EAC's Report on Fraud
Following up on this post, I received the following email from Jeannie Layson, Director of Communications at the EAC: I write to point out incorrect information you posted on your website on December 11, 2006. You wrote: "Note what's missing...
Posted in Election Law on December 13, 2006 01:09 PM
More on FL-13, and a Role for the EAC?
When I saw this headline on the Sarasota Herald Tribune web page, I thought it must have been about the FL-13 race. Over on the election law listserv, Doug Johnson, responding to my commentary calling for the House to investigate...
Posted in Election Law on December 11, 2006 08:53 AM
EAC Issues Report on Voter Fraud: An Important First Step
The long-awaited report is here. On the last page of the pdf you will find links to four appendices, including a 197-page appendix of cases involving possible voter fraud. As I read the report, it finds not only no systematic...
Posted in Election Law on December 8, 2006 09:38 AM
"It's Time for the House to Pick Up the Pieces in Florida's 13th District"
Roll Call has published my guest commentary (reprinted with permission to be available without a subscription here). It begins: Remember the infamous 'butterfly ballot' of Palm Beach County, Fla., in the 2000 presidential election? Back then, poor ballot design appeared...
Posted in Election Law on December 6, 2006 06:49 AM
Missouri State Supreme Court Affirms Order Barring Implementation of State Voter ID System
The court's opinion is here. Though this is decided on state constitutional grounds (which insulates it to a great extent from U.S. Supreme Court review), the court's decision has the same structure of those other court decisions that have struck...
Posted in Election Law on October 17, 2006 09:10 AM
"Independent Verification: Essential Action to Assure Integrity in the Voting Process"
Roy Salman has written this report for NIST. Here is the abstract: Audit trails are needed for direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting systems. The widely used, current method of providing an audit trail with printouts is evaluated, and several disadvantages are...
Posted in Election Law on August 22, 2006 03:19 PM
EAC Advisory and Standards Board Meetings
Yesterday and today, the Election Assistance Commission's Board of Advisors and Standards Board are meeting in Washington, DC. On the agenda are status reports on a number of research projects that the EAC has commissioned, on such issues as vote...
Posted in Election Law on May 24, 2006 07:21 AM
John B. Anderson of Fairvote and US EAC Commissioner Ray Martinez III have written this NY Times oped, which calls for, among other things, automatic voter registration by the government of graduating high school seniors. It is a terrific idea,...
Posted in Election Law on April 6, 2006 08:15 AM
Ninth Circuit Upholds Ban on Paying Initiative Petition Signature Gatherers on a Per-Signature Basis
The case is Prete v. Wiliams. The Eighth circuit had reached the same conclusion in 2001. Both courts relied upon an anti-fraud interest of the state. For a discussion, see Lowenstein & Hasen at 437. comment after the fold...
Posted in Election Law on February 23, 2006 09:11 AM
ACORN has put out this press release, which begins: "Today, ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) announced that the last of three politically-motivated lawsuits filed against the group in the wake of its successful 2004 voter outreach drive...
Posted in Election Law on December 19, 2005 10:34 AM
"No Exit? The Roberts Court and the Future of Election Law"
I have posted this draft article on SSRN. This is still a work in progress, and comments are welcome. Here is the abstract: This article, prepared for a symposium on voting rights in the South Carolina Law Review, examines the...
Posted in Election Law on November 18, 2005 08:06 AM
This Atlanta Journal-Constitution report, following up on a Washington Post report that I covered yesterday, begins: "The chief sponsor of Georgia's voter identification law told the Justice Department that if black people in her district 'are not paid to vote,...
Posted in Election Law on November 18, 2005 08:01 AM
Breaking News: Court Issues Preliminary Injunction Barring Georgia's Voter Identification Law
I have received only the fourth (and final) portion of the court's 123 page opinion and order. It is too large to post. In the part I have seen, the court holds that the Georgia plan constitutes an unconstitutional poll...
Posted in Election Law on October 18, 2005 08:40 AM
My Thoughts on the Carter-Baker Election Reform Report
Today the Commission on Federal Election Reform headed by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker issued its final report and recommendations on election reform. As a matter of disclosure, I served as an academic advisor...
Posted in Election Law on September 19, 2005 08:54 AM
Constitutional Attacks on Voter I.D. Requirements
Now that the Indiana Legislature has passed and the governor signed a voter identification bill, the ACLU has filed suit (complaint here; news story here) against the program. I am interested in the constitutional argument against such requirements. (The complaint...
Posted in Election Law on May 2, 2005 09:52 PM
"Bill Would Alter Election Procedures"
The Los Angeles Times offers this report, with the subhead: "Democrats' measure would make sweeping changes in the national voting process to ease task of balloting. A GOP version focuses on fraud." Senator Clinton issued this press release. I have...
Posted in Election Law on February 18, 2005 08:16 AM
In response to this post and this post, Matthew Shugart emails: The whole idea of trying to prevent this sort of packaging troubles me. I fully understand the logic of the "single-subject" requirement, like not tying the sale of state...
Posted in Election Law on January 31, 2005 09:12 PM
"Step Toward Election Standards"
The Los Angeles Times offers this editorial, which calls on Congress to "set basic certification and oversight procedures" for electronic voting. The Times does not seem to be aware of the existence of the Election Assistance Commission, created after the...
Posted in Election Law on November 29, 2004 07:47 AM
"As Fast as Blogs See Vote Fraud, Web Is Proving Rumors Wrong"
The New York Times offers this report; see also Mostly Good Reviews for Electronic Voting. See also this A.P. report (link via Ed Still)....
Posted in Election Law on November 11, 2004 08:48 PM
I have just received in the mail a copy of William M. Evan, Voting Technology, Political Institutions, Legal Institutions and Civil Society: A Study of the Hypothesis of Cultural Lag in Reverse, History & Technology, Vol. 20, No. 2 (June...
Posted in Election Law on November 10, 2004 11:19 AM
Breaking News from Ohio: Federal Court Limits Challengers at Ohio Polls
The order granting the TRO is here. A snippet from a discussion of the legal analysis: Ohio argues that in light of the huge numbers of newly registered voters and reports of fraudulent registration, a system allowing private challengers to...
Posted in Election Law on November 1, 2004 05:48 AM
Roll Call offers this editorial, which begins: Amid all the debate over the numerous shortcomings in the nation’s electoral system — the flawed voting machines, the continuing influence of big money, the allegations of voter fraud — too little attention...
Posted in Election Law on October 19, 2004 07:31 AM
A defense of touchscreen security in Georgia
I received the following e-mail message from Bobby Kahn: By way of introduction, I served as Chief of Staff for Georgia Governor Roy Barnes from 1999 – 2003. Governor Barnes was upset in the 2002 election. Recent articles have suggested...
Posted in Election Law on October 23, 2003 09:52 PM
The First Circuit has decided Perez-Guzman v. Gracia. The opinion strikes down a provision of Puerto Rico law requiring that each person signing a petition endorsing a new political party wishing access to the ballot must do so with a...
Posted in Election Law on October 9, 2003 04:51 PM