Election Administration
News & Commentary | Archive After the 2000 elections, election administration become a leading item on the agenda of election law reform. Congress enacted the Help America Vote Act: the implementation of that Act, scheduled in phases, presents a continuing series of issues such as voter eligibility, access and voting technology. The role of elected officials in the administration of elections has given rise to calls for the professionalization—and depoliticization—of state and local election administration. More from CCP on (Against) Public FinancingCCP continues its hard questioning of the public financing system. In its latest white paper, it challenges the assumption that female candidates for public office, having less access to political money networks, will benefit from public funding alternatives. It studies Maine and Arizona and concludes that the women did not capture a larger share of state elected offices after public funds became available. CCP argues, in fact, that women politicians in those states experienced on average a “slight” decline in political market share.
(9/2/08) Read More The Right to Vote in a Change ElectionNotes on the Occasion of a Program on Voting Rights and Administration at the Democratic National Convention This is the election to choose the successor to an incumbent who took office by order of the Supreme Court. In these eight years, the resolve has strengthened, in our party, to stop this from happening again, to have elections decided by the free choice of voters. Much has been done to match this resolve; much has not.
(8/25/08) Read More Ballots and the Problem of Intelligent DesignThe Brennan Center has published a superb report on the problems with ballot design, and it has produced recommendations for addressing them. The Center maintains, correctly, that these problems have not been given the attention they deserve; and what they have offered here is a major step forward in guidance to states and local jurisidictions, and to nonprofit and other organizations, in identifying ballot design issues before it is too late--that is, before the ballots have been cast. (7/22/08) Read More Shadow Institutions and the Question of Guidance on What is "Reasonable" : A Reply by Gerken and Bauer to ElmendorfHeather Gerken and I have posted this further set of comments on "shadow institutions" and their potential contribution, focusing again on where Carter-Baker fell short. It is a reply to views previously provided by Chris Elmendorf.
(6/4/08) Read More More on the Politics of ID, the Politics of Carter-BakerHeather Gerken and I have commented on Bob Pastor’s recent defense of the Carter-Baker Commission’s work, particularly its endorsement of voter ID as a measure linked to enhanced state voter registration programs. We suggest that political compromise may have its virtues in a host of contexts, but in this instance, on the ID issue, political bargaining did not serve the public well.
(6/2/08) Read More Also...Voter ID Politics as “Force” 5/13/08 Presidential Public Funding Reform: Letting Go of "Watergate" 3/13/08 What To Do—or, as Some Would Have It, NOT To Do—about Election Day Issues 3/6/08 A Difference an Election Makes, in Election Law 2/12/08 Voter Protection and Its Sources 2/7/08 Voter ID: Op-Eds and Their Uses 2/5/08 Carter and Baker, Marketing Nonpartisanship on Voter ID 2/4/08 Politics and First Principles in Voter ID Argument 1/9/08 Voter ID: "much ado about nothing"? 1/8/08 Impersonation Fraud: The Real Thing 1/7/08 |