Since Congress gets around to reforming election law so rarely, it makes sense to include these.
Measures like a patients' bill of rights, liberalizing trade with China and reforming election law have largely languished.
The center-left's failure to reform election laws to encourage a two-bloc system hurt Mr. Rutelli's chances.
In a widely noted shift in tactics, the Muslim Brotherhood has joined forces with the secular opposition, taking charge of a petition drive to demand that the government lift the state of emergency and reform election rules.
Democrats have attempted to reform election finance, but are struggling to overcome Supreme Court law.
He was responsible for desegregating juries (Whitus v. Georgia), desegregating prisons (Lee v. Washington), and reforming election laws.
They talk about reform, elections, a new constitution, but not a word about their own people's suffering.
That legislation — part of a broader plan from the governor to reform elections — will have a hard time passing in the State Senate, which is controlled, in part, by Republicans opposed to public money being used for elections.
Six months after his state became a laughingstock for the 36-day stalemate in the 2000 presidential election, Gov. Jeb Bush declared that Florida would become a "model for the rest of the nation" in reforming elections.
But neither they nor any of the principal international actors harbor any illusion that the security steps, reform, elections or negotiations over provisional borders will yield anything like what Washington claims to have in mind.
It is expected that there are fewer reforms in election years and more reforms in the year after the election when a new government starts implementing its policies.
