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1 Election L.J. 1 (2002)

handle is hein.journals/enlwjr1 and id is 1 raw text is: ELECTION LAW JOURNAL Volume 1, Number 1, 2002 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Editorial The Party Line DANIEL H. LOWENSTEIN and RICHARD L. HASEN WELCOME to the first issue of the Election Law Journal. ELJ is a quarterly peer-re- viewed publication that covers legal issues sur- rounding elections and voting rights, including redistricting, election monitoring, contested elections, election technology, political parties, ballot access, the initiative process, political bribery, and issues of campaign finance. Election law has become an area of special- ization and, especially in wake of the 2000 Florida election controversy, increased public scrutiny. We thank ELJ's publisher, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., for allowing us to create this forum for discussion of election law issues among gov- ernment officials, practicing lawyers, journalists, academics from various disciplines (including law, political science, public policy, history, and economics), and others with an interest in electoral institutions, law, and administration. We have assembled an editorial board drawn from among the leaders in the election law field. We appreciate their willingness to serve on the board and are confident that their ad- vice and assistance will help to strengthen this journal. This first issue happens to consist of articles focusing on elections in the United States, but we expect that future issues will include com- parative articles as well as articles dealing with other individual countries. The articles in this issue show the breadth in both contributors and content that we aim for in future volumes. Our authors include legal scholars, a political scientist, practicing election law attorneys, for- mer and current government officials, and the associate director of a campaign finance policy organization. The articles consider empirical and norma- tive questions at the heart of current election law controversies: Attorney Sam Hirsch, who just litigated Page v. Bartels, a significant Voting Rights Act case in New Jersey, explores the case's ramifications for the imminent redistricting litigation boom following the 2000 census. Former Federal Election Commission Chairman Trevor Potter and Daniel Man- natt, Associate Director of the Campaign Fi- nance Institute, consider how legal changes at the Federal Election Commission and the Department of Justice allowed for experi- mentation in the use of the Internet for the conduct of the 2000 election campaign. Professor Daniel H. Lowenstein of UCLA uncovers and criticizes a new trend in a number of state Supreme Courts to inter- pret the single subject rule for initiatives more aggressively. Professor James Gardner of Western New England College of Law contrasts the Supreme Court's view of voter compe- tence in the recently decided Cook v. Gra- like case to the Court's view in the 1976 campaign finance case, Buckley v. Valeo. Professor Stephen Ansolabehere of MIT considers whether there is a statistically significant relationship between race and voting technology, currently the subject of lawsuits in a number of jurisdictions, in- cluding California. Arkansas Secretary of State Sharon Priest, president of the National Association of Secretaries of State, examines the 16-point 1

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