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6 Election L.J. 1 (2007)

handle is hein.journals/enlwjr6 and id is 1 raw text is: ELECTION LAW JOURNAL Volume 6, Number 1, 2007 © Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. DOI: 10.1089/elj.2006.6001 Editorial The Party Line DANIEL H. LOWENSTEIN and RICHARD L. HASEN T HIS WILL BE a shortish Party Line for a longish issue of Election Law Journal. The reason is that much of the issue is devoted to the second installment of the symposium on campaign finance disclosure. Background on the symposium and a short description of the articles appearing in this issue are contained in the Introduction at page 36. As was the case with the first part of the dis- closure symposium, Lowenstein, who served as Principal Investigator for the Campaign Disclo- sure Project that commissioned the papers, re- cused himself from evaluation of the papers for the Election Law Journal. We thank Richard Brif- fault and Associate Editor Sam Hirsch for their time and effort in filling that gap. Information about the Campaign Disclosure Project can be found at <http://www.campaigndisclosure. org/about.html> Preceding the symposium is an article by Bernard Grofman and Gary King. In the Supreme Court's most recent case discussing partisan gerrymandering claims, LULAC v. Perry, various Justices on the Supreme Court ex- pressed some interest in the partisan symme- try standard for judging whether a redistricting plan should count as a partisan gerrymander. In their opinion in LULAC, Justices Souter and Ginsburg asked that further attention ... be de- voted to the administrability of such a criterion at all levels of redistricting and its review. Grof- man and King take up that call in this issue. Building on their previous scholarly work, on their amicus brief filed in the case (along with Andrew Gelman and Jonathan Katz), on the ob- servations of the Justices in LULAC, and on the academic literature, they offer a social science perspective on the conceptualization and mea- surement of partisan gerrymandering and the development of relevant legal rules. This issue also contains four book reviews. Wendy Tam Cho reviews The Election After Re- form: Money, Politics and the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, edited by Michael Malbin. Morgan Kousser reviews two recent books on felon dis- franchisement laws: Jeff Manza and Christopher Uggen, Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy; and Sasha Abramsky, Conned: How Millions Went to Prison, Lost the Vote, and Helped Send George W. Bush to the White House. Michael Pitts reviews Spencer Overton, Stealing Democracy: The New Politics of Voter Sup- pression. Dan Tokaji reviews Roy Saltman, The History and Politics of Voting Technology. 1

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