Several rights groups and two African-American registered Georgia voters have filed a lawsuit challenging a Georgia law that requires voters to show government-issued photo identification at the polls....
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States brief ~ NC appeals court rules promotional game not illegal lottery
Leading Tuesday's states brief, a North Carolina court of appeals has ruled that promotional game pieces packaged with telephone long-distance cards are not part of an illegal lottery. State officials claimed that Treasured Arts, Inc.'s long-distance telephone cards...
States brief ~ Opponents of GA voter ID law to file federal lawsuit
Leading Monday's states brief, opponents of a recently approved Georgia voter identification law are expected to announce the filing of a federal lawsuit this week. The bill calls for voters to have photo identification and was recently...
States brief ~ UT high court to hear case on child visitation if biological parent objects
Leading Monday's states brief, the Utah Supreme Court will hear oral arguments tomorrow on whether former lesbian Keri Lynn is legally entitled to a parental relationship with a child born to a former girlfriend, when the child's...
The US Department of Justice granted approval Friday to a Georgia law that would require photo identification to vote in elections. This approval, which is required of Georgia and other states with a...
British election officials demand postal vote safeguards after third Labour victory
Despite a low 61% turnout and an undisputed third-term victory for Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Labour Party in Thursday's UK election, officials from the UK Electoral Commission [official...
Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue Friday signed into law a bill that would require voters to show photo identification before being allowed to cast ballots. Supporters of the measure say that it will crack down on...
Forty-six members of the Palestinian election commission resigned en masse Saturday, claiming that they had been improperly pressured to change procedures in the midst of the January 9th presidential vote. Senior commission officials claimed that campaign and...
Elections officials will begin counting provisional ballots Thursday in Ohio and around the country. Due to John Kerry's concession speech Wednesday (reported here on JURIST's Paper Chase) and President Bush's acceptance speech (text from the White House), the ballots...
The most complicated bit of governmental machinery which the modern world has to exhibit is that which is employed in the selection of the chief executive officer...for the United States...It is almost marvelous that any people should have preserved political...