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Legal Services for Prisoners with Children v. Bowen
This is case is class action Equal Protection challenge to California’s disenfranchisement law, which bars persons with felony convictions from voting while they are in prison and on parole.
Decision in living wage enforcement litigation.
California ProLife Council PAC v. Scully
This case involved the defense of contributions and other restrictions on candidates for California office under Proposition 208.
Redistricting: Keeping California from reaching #1?
We’ve discussed again and again, the singular dysfunction of New York’s legislature. But California, with a $20 billion deficit contributing to the worst credit rating in the country, and a recent mess in which they either confirmed or did not confirm a lieutenant governor, is fighting for the #1 spot. Can better redistricting help?
Just one day before his arrest on corruption and bribery charges, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich confidently remarked at a press conference….
Help Vets Vote; They Deserve No Less
Update! You’d think it would be a matter of common sense that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), which is supposed to “help veterans get the services they have earned,” would do everything it could to help veterans vote….
BAD BALLOT DESIGN Results in Staggering Numbers of Lost Votes
Brennan Center Study shows 13 ballot problems that bedevil elections across the country—voting experts offer guidelines for improved ballot design in time for ‘08 election.
Election Protection Receives Over 2,600 Calls on Super Tuesday
Representing a coalition of organizations committed to protecting eligible voters’ right to cast a ballot, the hotline had over 500 legal volunteers on hand.
Hear ye, hear ye, Homeless Court is in session
Featuring the work of COD member Steve Binder
Letter to Secretaries of State re: Premier Voting Systems
Joint letter to 31 Secretaries of State where Premier voting systems are in use regarding product defect and recommending rigorous ballot accounting procedures.
Letter to Secretaries of States re: Potential “Vote Flipping” on DREs
Joint letter sent to Secretaries of State where DREs on how to address reports of “vote flipping.”
California’s Redistricting Process
This analyzes California's current redistricting process that was modified significantly by a 2008 ballot initiative.
Guidelines for choosing the state redistricting auditors for California. Process, Powerpoint presentation, and criteria….
Colorado residents have a right to know
Big money dominates the ballot-measure process in Colorado and California: what would it take to make the financing of statewide ballot measure campaigns more transparent?