Tokaji [Ohio State]: Berkeley Report on Electronic Voting in Florida
Dan Tokaji, Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University:"Last week's conspiracy theory was that the election had been stolen in Florida counties using optical scan voting equipment, a paper-based system that functions like standardized tests. This week's may turn out...
The US Supreme Court has stayed the execution of a Texas man for the second time in five months. Troy Kunkle was convicted of murder for the 1984 killing of man during an armed robbery. Prior to his scheduled...
The Venezuelan government is investigating a car bomb that exploded in a suburb of Caracas, killing the driver, believed to be a senior government prosecutor who was investigating opposition groups allegedly involved in a 2002 coup against President Hugo...
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee have unanimously chosen Senator Arlen Specter to be chairman next year. Specter's chairmanship had been in doubt after the GOP moderate warned Bush against nominations based solely on a judge's conservatism or opposition...
The traditional British fox hunt is to be banned after the House of Commons Thursday invoked the rarely-used Parliament Act of 1949 to force through the ban over the opposition of the House of Lords. Labour party Ministers had...
EU, Iran downplay accord, while report says Pakistani scientist gave Iran nuclear material
Both the EU and Iran Wednesday sought to condition a tentative agreement on Iran's suspension of uranium enrichment on further cooperation between both sides. Iran warned that it would halt its suspension if further progress was not made when...
The Hungarian parliament has rejected a proposal to keep its 300 non-combat troops in Iraq until March 31, 2005. The troops were to stay in Iraq until December 31. The Socialist-led government wanted to extend the mission of the...
The Dutch parliament (official site in Dutch) Friday asked the government to draft laws restricting the employment of imams at Dutch mosques only to those who have studied Islam in the country. A vote on the new law was...
Michael Froomkin, University of Miami School of Law:"he White House may be thinking of White House counsel Alberto R. Gonzales as the next Attorney General.That would be the same Gonzales who is up to his eye teeth in not just...
Taiwan's High Court ended seven months of debate and controversy Thursday by refusing to nullify the country's March presidential election, rejecting opposition claims of fraud and complaints about a shooting that injured President Chen Shui-bian just one day before...
