Supreme Court to Review Rules on Election Spending. The newly sworn-in Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts, will preside over a case involving how candidates will be regulated in what they can spend to win elections.
- The elections of 2000 and 2004, needless to say, raised enormous controversy. The Supreme Court settled the election of 2000, and George W. Bush was sworn in. Why was John Kerry not sworn in as president in 2004? This Harper's article is titled, "None Dare Call It Stolen." It is an excellent story that contains a very good overview of what happened in Ohio and other areas, and why the results that weren't appropriately challenged. Even the new election law of 2002 that became known as HAVA, the Help America Vote Act, had not been enough to secure a fair election in 2004.
- Now in 2005 advocates are still trying to make the needed reforms. The Huffington blog has a great post on the recent Carter-Baker Commission's recommendations for election reform, reinforcing the knowledge that there is still much to be done before the 2006 and 2008 swearing-in ceremonies.
- From the Austin newspaper, the local story about Tom DeLay, newly sworn-out U.S. House Majority Leader, who will go on trial there in the next few months. It is a case involving whether he was involved in a conspiracy to spend funds raised from corporations in Texas election races.
- In 2003, Congressman Rush Holt introduced legislation to require a voting machine paper trail. Electronic voting, and all the controversy surrounding that issue, will be the subject of my next in this series of posts on voting.
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