On December 18, U.S. District Court Judge Robert Holmes Bell struck down Michigan election law 168.957, which says that circulators of recall petitions must be registered voters who live in the electoral district of the official sought to be recalled. … Continue reading
Bradley Smith, a former chair of the Federal Election Commission, has this op-ed in the December 19 issue of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Smith explains that public funding laws, to be constitutional, must avoid provisions that gives extra funding for publicly-funded … Continue reading
On March 9, 2010, oral argument will be held in Striving Towards a New Daytona v City of Daytona Beach, in Florida circuit court, 7th judicial district. One of the issues is whether it is legal for a group to … Continue reading
Applications for the new California Citizens Redistricting Commission have been coming in since December 15. The deadline is February 12. So far, tentatively-valid applications have come in from several thousand Californians. By party registration, the breakdown is: 1,045 Democrats; 969 … Continue reading
On December 18, the 5th circuit issued an opinion in Moore v Hosemann, 09-60272, the case filed by Socialist Party presidential candidate Brian Moore last year, when the Mississippi Secretary of State refused to accept his presidential elector paperwork because … Continue reading
