The July 19 New York Post has this editorial, which argues that the New York legislature should ban fusion, the ability of two or more parties to jointly nominate the same candidate.
In 1912, the New York State Court of Appeals, the highest state court in New York, ruled that the New York Constitution requires that the state permit fusion. However, the State Constitution is significantly different today than it was in 1912.
The Harvard Law Record has this detailed account of how corrupt officials in Pennsylvania were assisted by the prominent law firm Reed Smith, in the matter of Nader’s ejection from the Pennsylvania ballot in November 2004. Not only was Nader removed from the ballot, his bank account was seized for over $70,000 in court costs. Later evidence came out that the challengers themselves were illegally using state employees on state time, and state computers, but no Pennsylvania court would do anything about it.
On July 20, Fox News said it has changed the time for the second-tier Republican presidential candidate forum from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on August 6. The second-tier event is the consolation prize for the candidates who don’t make the top ten and who can’t appear in the 9 p.m. August 6 event.
The change in time for the second-tier event will increase the number of people who watch. See this story. Fox also shrunk the time for the second-tier event from 90 minutes to one hour, because there are only going to be six or seven candidates in the second-tier event.
Beth Clarkson is a Kansas mathematics professor who has been struggling for years to get the documents from various Kansas governments to test her theory that Kansas vote-counting machines yield faulty counts. See this story.
On July 20, a Canadian Appeals Court upheld a Canadian election law that bars Canadian citizens from voting if they have lived permanently outside Canada for more than five years. The lower court had struck the law down. The case will probably be appealed to the Canadian Supreme Court.
There is no such law in the United States, and some U.S. citizens have lived in foreign countries for up to fifty years or more and yet continue to vote absentee. But U.S. citizens can’t vote absentee if they move to a U.S. possession.
See this story. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link.
