Election Law http://electionlawblog.org/ Rick Hasen's web log]]> en-us 2008-09-05T14:56:29-08:00 Federal District Court Grants WRTL-Type As Applied Exemption from Ohio Law Banning Corp. Funds Spent on Elections; Court Says Disclosure Provision is Constitutional http://electionlawblog.org/archives/011481.html You can find the ruling here. See also this post at the Center for Competitive Politics blog.... Rick Hasen 2008-09-05T14:56:29-08:00 "Protecting Your Vote With Invisible Ink" http://electionlawblog.org/archives/011480.html Discover Magazine offers this report.... Rick Hasen 2008-09-05T14:08:48-08:00 "Libertarian ballot battle has its day in Pa. court" http://electionlawblog.org/archives/011479.html AP offers this report.... Rick Hasen 2008-09-05T13:53:24-08:00 NPR's "Science Friday" on Voting Machine Issues http://electionlawblog.org/archives/011478.html Listen here.... Rick Hasen 2008-09-05T13:15:44-08:00 von Spakovsky on Absentee Ballot Fraud http://electionlawblog.org/archives/011477.html Hans von Spakovsky has written Absentee Ballot Fraud: A Stolen Election in Greene County, Alabama, a legal report for the Heritage Foundation. The first time I heard Hans speak was at a Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project event at Caltech in... Rick Hasen 2008-09-05T09:52:16-08:00 Another Intellectual Property Dispute Over a Campaign's Use of Copyright Protected Material http://electionlawblog.org/archives/011476.html Barracuda. Who knew it was about the music business and how it treats women? Perhaps Democrats will latch on to these lines from the song: If the real thing don't do the trick You better make up something quick.... Rick Hasen 2008-09-05T08:54:02-08:00 Aprill on 501(C)(4)'s, With Special Reference to the American Issues Project Controversy http://electionlawblog.org/archives/011475.html I am no expert on tax law or the law of non-profits, but my colleague Ellen Aprill is, and I've been talking to her about the controversy over the American Issues Project ads. (My earlier post on the campaign finance... Rick Hasen 2008-09-05T08:43:12-08:00 "Phila Council Bill Could Eliminate 2 GOP Seats" http://electionlawblog.org/archives/011474.html This article appears at Philly.com.... Rick Hasen 2008-09-05T08:33:32-08:00 "Thousands of Americans Faced with New Polling Places in November" http://electionlawblog.org/archives/011473.html That's the lead story in this week's Electionline.org Weekly.... Rick Hasen 2008-09-05T08:30:55-08:00 "Hunt for missing ballots widens in Palm Beach County" http://electionlawblog.org/archives/011472.html The South-Florida Sun-Sentinel offers this report.... Rick Hasen 2008-09-05T08:28:11-08:00 "Much has changed in Wash. elections since 2004" http://electionlawblog.org/archives/011471.html AP offers this report.... Rick Hasen 2008-09-05T08:26:10-08:00 "whiny 'family man' wants to be Family Court judge -- and to copyright the slogan" http://electionlawblog.org/archives/011470.html See this post at f/k/a.... Rick Hasen 2008-09-05T08:17:36-08:00 My Neighborhood Middle School's Picture Featured in Sen. McCain's Speech http://electionlawblog.org/archives/011469.html This is odd. Could it indeed have been a search for Walter Reed Medical Center?... Rick Hasen 2008-09-05T08:10:58-08:00 Great Teaching Tool for WRTL Campaign Finance Case http://electionlawblog.org/archives/011468.html A few months ago on the election law listserv, Rick Pildes asked if the ads at issue in the Wisconsin Right to Life v. FEC litigation are available somewhere on the web. I checked with Jim Bopp, counsel for WRTL,... Rick Hasen 2008-09-04T15:00:52-08:00 "Using campaign finance law as an electoral sword" http://electionlawblog.org/archives/011467.html This post appears at the Center for Competitive Politics blog. It begins: "The American Leadership Project (ALP), an independent 527 organization once denounced by Barack Obama's presidential campaign when the group touted issues associated with Senator Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign,... Rick Hasen 2008-09-04T13:09:14-08:00