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By Rachel Levinson-Waldman

Ronald Reagan famously said that the nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government and I'm here to help." These days, the mantra is more likely to be "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you think." When it comes...

By Adam Skaggs

Concerns about matching voter data with motor vehicle records were back in the news last week in New Jersey, Wisconsin and Florida — but for very different reasons. In one case, the matches were conducted in an attempt to add voters to the registration rolls; in the...

By Justin Levitt

It is early November, election night, and polls are closed around the country -- only in Florida, we are still not sure who won. Tens of thousands of ballots sit stacked, Republican and Democratic, and county officials feel the eyes of the nation on each and every...

By Laura MacCleery

Cross posted at the Brennan Center

Earlier this month, there was a quite a kerfluffle over the presidential public funding system and whether Senators McCain and Obama, if named their parties' nominee, would claim some $85 million in public money for the general election.

The Biggest Loser: James Madison
by Andrew Stengel

Cross Posted at The Brennan Center for Justice blog

Tuesday night's Democratic debate covered health care and the war in Iraq and jobs and the economy. In other words, the NBC News moderators asked mostly the same...

By Ciara Torres-Spelliscy

Like the Greeks mounting assault after assault on Troy, James Bopp ceaselessly assails federal campaign finance law in an attempt to destroy it. In the summer of 2007, Bopp delivered his Trojan horse: a clever attack on the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA also known as...

Good Tidings for the F.E.C.
By Maggie Barron

There's new reason to celebrate this holiday season, and it comes from an unlikely source of good tidings: the Senate floor. News has arrived last week that Hans von Spakovsky, the Ebenezer Scrooge of election administration, will no longer be a...

This piece was produced for HuffPost's OffTheBus by NYU School of Law's Brennan Center for Justice.

By Bethany Foster

You're way behind in fundraising for congressional races. The tide of public opinion is against you. What's a party to do? Recruit super-wealthy candidates, of course.

This piece was produced for HuffPost's OffTheBus by NYU School of Law's Brennan Center for Justice.

By Ciara Torres-Spelliscy

In New York City, we get used to sticker shock: $15 for a mojito: ok I'll nurse it all night. Try insuring a car or even...

By Andrew Stengel

This piece was produced for HuffPost's OffTheBus by NYU School of Law's Brennan Center for Justice.

You really have to hand it to Jonah Goldberg, the National Review's columnist and conservative policy stalking horse. In an op-ed column in Saturday's...

The following piece was produced for the Huffington Post's OffTheBus by NYU School of Law's Brennan Center for Justice.

By Andrew Stengel

As the presidential primary campaign season winds into the final furlong, candidates are honing their messages. Health care, the war in Iraq, the environment and conservation,...

The following piece was produced for the Huffington Post's OffTheBus by NYU School of Law's Brennan Center for Justice.

By Chisun Lee

You'd think that with a presidential election looming next year, people would pay more attention to the restrictive voter ID laws that keep popping up across...

The following piece was produced for the Huffington Post's OffTheBus by NYU School of Law's Brennan Center for Justice.

By Bethany Foster

After a month of controversy over Governor Spitzer's plan to issue driver's licenses to all qualified New Yorkers, regardless of citizenship status, the perennial voter...