Weekly Wrap Up
Voter fraud by the Chief Election Official?: Charlie White, the Indiana Secretary of State, is being investigated by a grand jury to determine if he committed voter fraud during the May 2010 primary....
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No more automatic restoration of rights: Governor Rick Scott and the Florida Cabinet have recently attempted to change how released felon regain the right to vote. Their proposal, which the NAACP Legal...
View ArticleInterview with Joan Mandle, Executive Director of Democracy Matters
Joan Mandle, executive director of Democracy Matters, was kind enough to share with us her thoughts on some of the important issues confronting the American election process at this time. Democracy...
View ArticleAttempts to shine light on the dark side of politics
by Jamel Rowe Corruption—the dark side of politics— is a problem that legislatures and the general public have been battling since the creation of the United States government. Recently, Pennsylvania...
View ArticleWhen judges take money: Campaign contributions in judicial elections
by Kevin Elliker On March 29, 2012, the William & Mary Election Law Society and Election Law Program held a symposium entitled, “More Money, More Problems: Money in Judicial Elections” in...
View ArticleU.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit Validates Iowa Judicial...
by Nick Mueller On April 9, 2012 the Eighth Circuit dismissed a case brought by four Iowa voters challenging the constitutionality of the process for the selection of members of the State Judicial...
View ArticleNew Mexico Supreme Court candidate disqualified
New Mexico Supreme Court Says Judicial Candidate was Properly Disqualified from Election and Fined for Violations of Public Campaign Financing Law On April 12, 2012, the New Mexico Supreme Court found...
View ArticlePolitics and courts in Oklahoma: Recipe for Accountability? Or Corruption?
by Grant McLoughlin Oklahoma Judicial elections have long been afterthoughts. Oklahoma has a two tiered system for selecting judges. Voters elect local trial judges directly through a non-partisan Top...
View ArticleExercise of Democracy or Destruction of Impartiality: Election of Judges in Ohio
By Chris Keslar: States select their judges in a couple different ways, but in thirty-nine states most or all judges are elected. Supporters of competitive elections for judges say that it is “the most...
View ArticleBalancing Nonpartisan Judicial Elections with Candidates’ First Amendment...
By: Carrie Mattingly In Kentucky, all state court judges are elected in nonpartisan elections. Kentucky’s Code of Judicial Conduct seeks to keep candidates on nonpartisan message. But the 6th Circuit...
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