>From Subject Compilations of State Laws:
1990-91 Nyberg 1750.01
Bott, Alexander J. Handbook of United States Election Laws and Practices.
New York: Greenwood Press, 1990. 535 pp. KF4749.B625 1990. 342.73'07 or
347.3027. 90-32460.
Essay, tables, charts, and summaries. Cites to constitutions,
codes, attorney general opinions, and cases. Covers laws on the right to
vote and the right to a secret ballot (pp. 4-7), residency and voter
registration (pp. 9-12), primaries (pp. 22-24), voting rights of the
mentally ill (pp. 26-28), voting rights of criminals (pp. 30-35), the
purge of voter registration records for failure to vote (pp. 44-45),
reinstatement after purge (pp. 47-50), residency requirements for
candidates (pp. 63-67), the right of felons to hold office and the linkage
between voter qualification and candidate qualification (pp. 73-75),
access to the ballot (pp. 96-107), candidate requirements (pp. 114-38),
selection of party delegates to the national nominating convention (pp.
141-42), reapportionment (pp. 209-21), legislative redistricting (pp.
222-27), constitutional amendment process (pp. 271-74), direct legislation
(pp. 275-78), signature requirements for recall petitions (pp. 290-93),
deceptive campaign literature (pp. 333-35), freedom of information (pp.
385-98), open meetings (pp. 403-07), campaign finance (pp. 412-16),
personal finance disclosure (pp. 422-25), lobbying (pp. 429-37), political
literature disclosure (pp. 442-45), privacy (pp. 452-54), and political
activities of public employees (pp. 479-83).
1996-97 Nyberg 3091.01
Ahlers, Glen-Peter. Election Laws of the United States. New York: Oceana
Publications, 1995. 3 vols. Looseleaf. 94-191407.
Not available for annotation. Covers "constitutional provisions
pertaining to election laws from the fifty states and individual
state-by-state narrative." (Publisher's catalog)
1995-96 Nyberg 2840.03
U.S. Congress, Senate, Committee on Rules and Administration. Senate
Election Law Guidebook 1996: A Compilation of Senate Campaign Information,
Including Federal and State Laws Governing Election to the United States
Senate, 104th Cong., 1st Sess. Washington: U.S. Government Printing
Office, 1996. 291 pp. (S. Doc. 104-12) KF4913.A247. 342.73'055 or
347.30255. Y 1.1/3:104-12. CIS 1996 S680-1. 83-646464.
Pp. 163-236, "Part III, State Election Laws Relating to Candidates
for the United States Senate." Summaries. Cites to constitutions and
codes. Covers primaries, nominations, political conventions, independent
candidates, filing fees, subversive parties barred from the ballot,
write-ins, and procedure for filling a mid-term vacancy. Current as of
Jan. 1996. Prepared by Thomas M. Durbin, Margaret M. Lee, L. Paige
Whitaker, and M. Ann Wolfe, American Law Division, Congressional Research
Service.; Note: Published regularly since 1980. Previous editions
annotated at 1991-92 Nyberg 1974.03 (1992), 1988-90 Nyberg 1465.04 (1990),
and 1979-83 Nyberg/Boast 514.03 (1982).
Cheryl
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Cheryl Rae Nyberg
Reference Librarian
Gallagher Law Library
University of Washington
cnyberg@u.washington.edu
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On Mon, 29 Jun 1998 zamoral@CLASS.ORG wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> Would appreciate assistance in identifying the best sources for one-stop
> info on election laws in each of the fifty states. Have identified "The
> Executive Handbook on Political Contributions", published by State and
> Federal Associates. It provides Key Election Year Dates for each state, as
> well as a table providing "yes/no" answers to contribution limitation
> questions.
>
> If anyone knows of other works along this line, I would very much
> appreciate hearing about them.
>
> Thanks for any help you can provide.
>
> Larry at Litton
> zamoral@class.org
> 818/598-5942 (CA)
>
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