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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

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