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Election-Campaign Law Posts (September 05, 2010)

Corporate Policies on Political Spending

NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has collected (and categorized) the political spending and disclosure policies of the 100 largest U.S. corporations, here. He's also doing a little advocacy of his own on the site; Holzman Vogel is not pleased....
Posted on Election Law on September 05, 2010 at 9:42 PM

"Political Science and Journalism: Some Thoughts"

The 2010 APSA annual meeting is now over. Associated with this roundtable, entitled "What Can Political Science Offer Journalists?", Marc Ambinder offers some interesting thoughts....
Posted on Election Law on September 05, 2010 at 8:48 PM

"Richmond councilman still paying off 19-year-old campaign debts"

I suspect that this is quite common....
Posted on Election Law on September 05, 2010 at 4:00 PM

California Redistricting Propositions

Dueling op-eds (including one by Dan Lowenstein) on the upcoming dueling initiatives to change California's redistricting procedure. I've described the status quo here....
Posted on Election Law on September 04, 2010 at 11:26 PM

"Instant Runoff coming in November" (to N.C.)

Speaking of ways to address spoilers, for the first time "in the modern era," instant-runoff voting will decide the winner of a statewide general election -- for NC Court of Appeals judge....
Posted on Election Law on September 04, 2010 at 11:17 PM

Gov. Brewer Participated in Debate Only Because She Had to Do It to Qualify for Public Financing

See here. We have a brief note in the election law casebook on this requirement, which is imposed by some states. It always struck me as constitutionally questionable, but I've not seen any extended analysis of the conditioning of public...
Posted on Election Law on September 04, 2010 at 11:12 PM

Disputes over "Third Party" Candidates

Ostensible third-party candidates with ties to major-party figures, seeking ballot lines allegedly to act as spoilers. "Tea Party" candidates were thrown off the ballot in Michigan (h/t: Brad Smith), and "Green" candidates are apparently on the ballot (so far) in...
Posted on Election Law on September 04, 2010 at 11:07 PM

Citizens United aftermath in Ohio

A repost (with permission) of an email from Brad Smith to the listserv follows. The point with respect to states that had prohibited corporate expenditures, and now have no structure for tracking them, is particularly important: "From Ohio, the Ohio...
Posted on Election Law on September 04, 2010 at 10:47 PM

Hey, Big Spender (non-Citizens United edition)

Los Angeles Times: "Whitman demonstrates the power of her money." A snippet: "With nine weeks left until election day, Whitman has donated $104 million of her own money to the campaign, more than any other candidate in California history and...
Posted on Election Law on September 04, 2010 at 2:28 AM

"Unions, corporations can pool money for political action committees, under latest decision"

Michigan has apparently entered into a consent decree permitting corporate contributions to independent expenditure committees, converting this preliminary injunction into a permanent one. This comes on the heels of Thalheimer v. City of San Diego and the FEC's Commonsense 10...
Posted on Election Law on September 04, 2010 at 2:10 AM

"Dems complain to 'Young Guns' publisher"

Politico reports on the campaign finance controversy caused by the marketing for Rep. Eric Cantor's new book. (Whether campaign finance controversies boost book sales, I suppose, remains to be seen). This video, on a corporate site, is what drew the...
Posted on Election Law on September 04, 2010 at 1:26 AM

"Dead in Ohio, but still voting"

The Washington Times weighs in on an Ohio investigative report. Among other things, the editorial mentions that ballots "may have been cast in the names of at least 16 Ohioans after their deaths," but doesn't mention the follow-up right in...
Posted on Election Law on September 04, 2010 at 1:07 AM

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