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22 Sep 2017, 8:30 am
These actions include restoring the right to vote for people with prior criminal convictions; creating independent, nonpartisan redistricting commissions; enacting early voting periods; and implementing automatic voter registration, online voter registration, and Election Day registration. [read post]
9 Apr 2014, 7:51 am by crush
  The Citizens Redistricting Commission is another model for removing the districting process from self-interested legislators; Professor Ancheta published an article on the Commission in HLPR’s Volume 8.1. [read post]
30 Nov 2010, 8:31 am by Rick.Hasen@lls.edu
The Rose Institute and Target Book will sponsor this event Dec. 8.... [read post]
2 Aug 2015, 9:01 pm by Nathaniel Persily
First, as with a “citizen census,” the Constitution does not require voter registration. [read post]
27 Jun 2019, 10:17 am by Amy Howe
” But just because courts can’t review partisan-gerrymandering claims, he continued, does not mean that there are no other checks on the problem: Both the states and Congress can take action – for example, by establishing independent redistricting commissions to draw maps. [read post]
29 Aug 2012, 12:31 pm by Joe May
GOP: Redistricting commission’s existence illegal” by Howard Fischer in East Valley Tribune. [read post]
7 Feb 2018, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission (where it upheld under Article I’s definition of “legislature” the use of state initiatives and initiative-created commissions to draw congressional district lines): “Nothing in [Article I, Section 4] instructs, nor has this Court ever held, that a state legislature may prescribe regulations on the time, place, and manner of holding federal elections in defiance of provisions of the State’s… [read post]
9 Mar 2019, 8:56 am by Walter Olson
”) Tags: ACLU, campaign regulation, First Amendment, redistricting reform [read post]
3 May 2012, 10:54 am by Rick Hasen
Independent citizen commissions are the culmination of a reform effort focused heavily on limiting the conflict of interest implicit in legislative control over redistricting. [read post]
29 Sep 2020, 12:30 pm by Richard Hasen
Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, Ginsburg wrote that Arizona voters acting via initiative could remove the power to draw congressional districts from Arizona’s legislature and place it in the hands of a redistricting commission. [read post]
23 Dec 2014, 5:31 am by Lyle Denniston
Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission – constitutionality and legality under federal law of congressional redistricting done by an independent commission; case also raises issues over jurisdiction and standing to sue Ohio v. [read post]
13 Jun 2018, 9:01 pm by Jim Sedor
Campaign Finance Colorado: “Federal Judge Finds Portions of Colorado’s Campaign Finance Complaint Process Are Unconstitutional in Ruling Likely to Prompt Big Change” by Jesse Paul for Denver Post North Carolina: “Digital Ad Disclosure Bill Squeaks Past Key House Panel” by Laura Leslie for WRAL Elections National: “Republican Voters Embrace Trump-Style Candidates” by Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns (New York Times) for WRAL California: “Radical Plan… [read post]
13 Oct 2015, 6:13 am by Jim Sedor
” by Amber Phillips for Washington Post Procurement “Through Executive Orders, Obama Tests Power as Purchaser-in-Chief” by Gregory Korte for USA Today Redistricting Florida: “Judge Rejects House, Senate Redistricting Map, Recommends Challengers’ Plan” by Mary Ellen Klas for Miami Herald [read post]
7 Aug 2014, 8:46 am by Joe May
Redistricting “4 End-Game Scenarios for the Florida Map Chaos” by Bridget Bowman in Roll Call. [read post]
23 Feb 2015, 3:17 am by Amy Howe
Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission could have on California’s independent redistricting regime. [read post]
12 Aug 2013, 7:40 am by Joe May
Citizens United in November” by M.L. [read post]
11 Nov 2016, 9:31 am by Gerard N. Magliocca
Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, though, the Constitution's use of state "legislature" can be read to mean state "lawmaking power. [read post]
23 Apr 2010, 11:12 am by Lyle Denniston
Federal Election Commission, et al. [read post]
30 Jun 2015, 3:16 am by Lyle Denniston
   Apparently fed up with a series of redistricting debacles in the state, due – or so many thought – to partisanship, the voters yanked the congressional redistricting job away from the legislature and handed it to an independent, five-member commission. [read post]