The Voting News Weekly: TVN Weekly December 26 2011 – January 1 2012

As we open a new year, Fareed Zakaria noted the many significant elections scheduled across the world in the coming year. Hackers have threatened to disrupt this week’s Iowa Caucuses. Rick Perry files a lawsuit after he failed to submit sufficient signatures to meet ballot access requirements for the Virginia primary. The Montana Supreme Court upheld the State’s ban on corporation spending on political campaigns, while the Indiana Supreme Court upheld a ban on robo-calls. The New York Times surveyed laws passed in 2011 that could make it difficult for students to vote. Jeffrey Toobin consider Attorney General Eric Holder’s legacy after the Department of Justice blocked South Carolina’s Voter ID law and Joshua Spivak considered the causes for the many recall elections over the past year.