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Law professor; author of Free to Move: Foot Voting Migration and Political Freedom; Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government is Smarter; The Grasping Hand: Kelo v. New London and the Limits of Eminent Domain; Volokh Conspiracy blogger.
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Here are the first two pages of our proposed amicus brief (electionlawblog.org/wp-content/u...)
Show PostI especially agree with your second (main) point about the far bigger problem. I see so many candidate ads - especially the attack ads - that are intentionally misleading.
Show PostCreating voter confusion about candidates with similar names (as Democrats likely sought to do in Alaska) is bad. But important to remember voter ignorance about policy issues and exploitation thereof by parties and candidates is a far bigger problem: reason.com/volokh/2026/...
Show PostHave to abolish its objectives, too.
Show PostFun fact: when my mother was an IRS auditor in the 1980s, awhen anyone asked what she did for a living, she told the she worked at a fund raising organization for a large non profit.
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