Election-Campaign Law

Supreme Court and Voter ID Case

Posted on January 09, 2008
Here are a set of links about the Crawford case.NPR Story this morning by Nina Totenberg.NPR Day to Day Coverage of the actual argument.A Panel Discussion from the Diane Rehm Show.A transcript of the case should be available here or here on Thursday or Friday.

E-Voting PhD position in Spain

Posted on January 09, 2008
And a final post for today. Jordi Barrat gave me note about a job offering for a PhD position on E-Voting. He is constitutional law professor at the University of Alicante. You don't need to be proficient in Spanish although it would definitely help a lot ;-)Read more here:Framework: The position is funded by the Spanish government within thefollowing research project: SEJ2007-64886 (Citizens, new technologies and decision process: the e-voting challenges)...

NDI publishes >Monitoring Electronic Technologies in Electoral Processes: An NDI Guide for Political Parties and Civic Organizations<

Posted on January 09, 2008
I had the chance to review an earlier version of the manuscript - it gives a good introduction on the tough job on how to observe and monitor implementations of technology in the electoral process. This overview can serve as a good starting point for looking into the interdisciplinary issues involved and gives an overview on the international legal instruments that can help doing so...

Springer Proceedings LNCS 4896 E-Voting and Identity

Posted on January 09, 2008
Following the successful VOTE-ID conference in Bochum last year, the conference chairs, Ammar Alkassar and Melanie Volkamer managed to accomplish very interesting post proceedings to appear the in the prestigious LNCS series from Springer publications...

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Update on DB.E-Voting.CC

Posted on January 09, 2008
In the past months we enhanced our e-voting database both visually and functionality wise.First of all we updated it to our CI and second also added the functionality to make accounts.If you wish changes and addendums to the database can now be attributed to your account soeverybody can who that smart-ass is to have added all the information on - maybe the US e-elections (especially any elections on the Internet)?We really need your support to add here more information so if you can spare some time and help us make this database more complete, do so! check it out at db...

The Primaries in the Semantic Web - US Election Monitor 2008

Posted on January 09, 2008
Now as the primaries heat up, I would like to point you to a project by my colleague Arno Scharl from the Modul University here in Vienna, Austria. It's the a follow up to the Election Monitor he did for the 2004 presidential elections.He uses semantic web technology to analyze both the attention and sentiments given to candidates in online media (news, blogs, etc...

Paper + Primaries + Snow = Chaos?

Posted on January 08, 2008
Matt Drudge is reporting that some areas of New Hampshire are running out of Democratic ballots.

Jeffrey Toobin on the Indiana Case

Posted on January 07, 2008
Jeffrey Toobin has an interesting analysis of the Indiana case in the Talk of the Town Section of the New Yorker.

Chapin and Martinez on Crawford

Posted on January 07, 2008
Doug Chapin of electionline.org and Ray Martinez, previously a commissioner at the EAC and now head of governmental affairs at Rice, weigh in on the Crawford case in Sunday's Washington Times.Doug and Ray point out that, for all the heated rhetoric over voter ID, there remains painfully sparse empirical evidence regarding the impact of voter ID on hindering the right to vote or on assuring the integrity of the electoral process...

Georgian Elections and What is Fraud

Posted on January 05, 2008
Here is a great story about what is considered fraud in other countries that we do not consider here. Georgia goes to the polling booths Saturday to elect the President amidst fears from the opposition that the authorities have planned to rig the vote...

Internet Voting for Overseas Dems in the Primaries

Posted on January 05, 2008
This from the International Herald Tribune. Internet voting....what a great idea. Thanks to the Internet, Americans who belong to the Democratic Party are getting a voice of their own in the presidential nomination, as the party has agreed to allow expatriates to choose 22 delegates to the national convention as part of the so-called Super Tuesday voting next month...

On Thad Hall on Jeff Greenfield and Christopher Hitchens

Posted on January 02, 2008
Thad blogs favorably on recent pieces by Jeff Greenfield and Chris Hitchens (see below).There are many kinds of "democratic" processes out there, and it isn't correct to presume that a secret ballot cast in private is the only set of voting institutions that merit the label "democratic...

More on statistical numeracy

Posted on January 02, 2008
Andrew Gelman's blog is a nice place to keep up to date on good ways to present and discuss statistical data. Some of the discussion can be complex, but Gelman has made it one of his missions to publicize simple and clear presentations of statistical material (and, watch out academics!, criticize bad presentations)...

A Plea for Statistical Numeracy

Posted on January 02, 2008
It's the end of the holidays and the beginning of the primary season. And this is the first, but sadly not the last, posting I'll make about examples of innumeracy among journalists. In yesterday's coverage, Judy was asked by Rey Suarez about the most recent Des Moines Register "Iowa Poll", which showed Barack Obama 7 points ahead of Hillary Clinton...

It is the Dems in Iowa, Not the Repubs Who Have a Democracy Problem?

Posted on January 02, 2008
Jeffrey Greenfield also has a piece in Slate and he notes that it is the Democrats who have the democratic election problem in Iowa, not the Republicans. The original purpose of the [Iowa] caucuses?to conduct party business and to talk over local concerns?became completely overwhelmed by the presidential frenzy for which they're so ill-suited...

Christopher Hitchen's on the Iowa Caucus Election Process

Posted on January 02, 2008
The fun of reading Christopher Hitchens is that he is so mild, so demur, so lacking in scathing prose (just as I sometimes lack sarcasm). Here is what he wrote today in Slate.com about the Iowa Caucuses (the whole story is linked above).It is quite astonishing to see with what deadpan and neutral a tone our press and television report the open corruption?and the flagrantly anti-democratic character?of the Iowa caucuses...

Kenyan Election Fiasco

Posted on January 02, 2008
The Kenyan elections have turned out to be quite a fiasco and a tragic one at that. The problems started when it looked as though the opposition leader would win, then that win dissipated.As the Telegraph initially reported: At noon yesterday, the electoral commission gave the challenger, Raila Odinga, a four per cent lead over the incumbent, Mwai Kibaki, after results from three-quarters of the 210 constituencies...

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