[EL] ELB News and Commentary 11/4/11

Fri Nov 4 08:18:02 PDT 2011

The FEC has a points systems that triggers audits.  Audit findings can lead
to enforcement.  The FEC also has internal enforcement procedures -- or did
when I was there.  Both should be publicly available, for the reasons
Congressman Rokita noted yesterday.

The best that can be said for the audit-points system is that it is a
workable substitute for the authority to conduct random audits.  You don't
want the FEC to have random audit authority.  It would make the commission
more "relevant" at the *worst* possible time: in September and October of
even-numbered years.  This would be a horror everyone seems to understand
and something almost no one wants.

Even as the points-system to trigger an audit (based upon red flags found
in the review of reports) is far, far a better than giving the FEC random
audit authority, those thresholds still should be made available to the
public.

Steve Hoersting

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 10:56 AM, <JBoppjr at aol.com> wrote:

> **
> FEC Commissioner McGahn says that the FEC has some "secret law" that the
> House Committee may subpoena. For all the government transparency buffs, is
> this something that needs to be made public?  It would also be helpful to
> know what is in these secret documents.  Could someone who worked at the
> FEC and saw these comment on that?  Jim Bopp
>
>  Click here: House Committee Threatens to Subpoena FEC Records : Roll
> Call Lobbying & Influence<http://www.rollcall.com/news/house_committee_threatens_to_subpoena_fec_records-210021-1.html?pos=hbtxt>
>
>  In a message dated 11/4/2011 10:46:08 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> rhasen at law.uci.edu writes:
>
>  The Ninety-Nine Percent <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=25035>
> Posted on November 4, 2011 7:43 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=25035>
> by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Yesterday I began the unit on campaign finance in my election law seminar,
> and many of the students’ reacton papers pointed with admiration to a quote
> from John S. Shockley, *Money in Politics: Judicial Roadblocks to
> Campaign Finance Reform*, 10 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 679
> (1983), which appears in an annotated footnote in *Buckley v. Valeo*.
> Here’s what John wrote:
>
> If one agrees with the Court that being able to spend only $25,000 to
> $50,000 annually on campaigning is in fact a substantial restraint upon
> constitutional expression, what does this say about the rights of the
> ninety-nine percent of the American electorate who cannot expend even this
> ‘substantially restrained’ amount? Since their ability to speak is
> presumably restrained even more, where are they to look for the protection
> of their First Amendment rights?
>
> It is good to know that John’s work has stood the test of time, and his
> 99% reference was entirely prescient!
>
>
>
>
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> Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10> | Comments
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>  Justice Stevens on Redistricting and Courts in the Political Thicket<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=25033>
> Posted on November 4, 2011 7:39 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=25033>
> by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> From the SCOTUSblog interview<http://www.scotusblog.com/2011/11/an-interview-with-justice-stevens/#more-131024>
> :
>
> *Question*: Let me ask you a more substantive question, arising from your
> discussion of *Reynolds v. Sims*and the voting rights cases that the
> Warren Court decided.  One thing that you have long urged is that the Court
> ought to care a lot more than it does about partisan gerrymandering.
>
> *Justice Stevens*: Absolutely.
>
> *Question*:   And at the same time, of course, you also have argued that
> the Court should stay out of politics in certain instances.  I wonder how
> you would envision the Court getting involved in something as crass and
> divisive as partisan gerrymandering while maintaining the public perception
> of political independence.
>
> *Justice Stevens*:  Well it goes back to the fundamental equal protection
> principle that government has the duty to be impartial.  When it’s engaged
> in districting it should be impartial.
>
> Nowadays, the political parties acknowledge that they are deliberately
> trying to gerrymander the districts in a way that will help the majority. I
> just read a newspaper article the other day about the Maryland
> redistricting, which is designed to help the Democrats.  That’s
> outrageously unconstitutional in my judgment.  The government cannot
> gerrymander for the purpose of helping the majority party; the government
> should be redistricting for the purpose of creating appropriate legislative
> districts.  And the government ought to start with the notion that
> districts should be compact and contiguous as statutes used to require.
>
> *Question*:   And you think that if the Court got involved in reviewing
> these kinds of redistricting plans that there would be a way to fend off
> accusations that the Court is choosing sides in political warfare?
>
> *Justice Stevens*:  Oh absolutely.  If the Court followed neutral
> principles in whatever rules they adopted, the rules would apply equally to
> the Republicans and Democrats.  I think that line of cases would generate a
> body of law such as the one-person, one-vote cases that would be
> administered in a neutral way.  This is one of my major disappointments in
> my entire career: that I was so totally unsuccessful in persuading the
> Court on something so obviously correct.  Indeed, I think that the Court’s
> failure to act in this area is one of the things that has contributed to
> the much greater partisanship in legislative bodies now that wasn’t true
> years ago when I worked on a sub-committee of the House Judiciary Committee.
>
>
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> Stevens on Redistricting and Courts in the Political Thicket&description=]<http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http%3A%2F%2Felectionlawblog.org%2F%3Fp%3D25033&title=Justice%20Stevens%20on%20Redistricting%20and%20Courts%20in%20the%20Political%20Thicket&description=>
> Posted in redistricting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>, Supreme Court<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
> | Comments Off
>  “A coalition of voters file first N.C. redistricting lawsuit”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=25031>
> Posted on November 4, 2011 7:35 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=25031>
> by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Here<http://projects.newsobserver.com/under_the_dome/a_coalition_of_voters_file_first_nc_redistricting_lawsuit>
> .
>  [image:
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> coalition of voters file first N.C. redistricting lawsuitâ€ &description=]<http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http%3A%2F%2Felectionlawblog.org%2F%3Fp%3D25031&title=%E2%80%9CA%20coalition%20of%20voters%20file%20first%20N.C.%20redistricting%20lawsuit%E2%80%9D&description=>
> Posted in redistricting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>, Voting
> Rights Act <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15> | Comments Off
>  “Cain Has Long Ties To Koch Brothers-Linked Group”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=25028>
> Posted on November 4, 2011 7:32 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=25028>
> by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> NPR reports<http://www.npr.org/2011/11/04/142006513/cain-has-long-ties-to-koch-brothers-linked-group>
> .
>  [image:
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> Has Long Ties To Koch Brothers-Linked Groupâ€ &description=]<http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http%3A%2F%2Felectionlawblog.org%2F%3Fp%3D25028&title=%E2%80%9CCain%20Has%20Long%20Ties%20To%20Koch%20Brothers-Linked%20Group%E2%80%9D&description=>
> Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10> | Comments
> Off
>  “County in Colo. has high number on inactive voters”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=25025>
> Posted on November 4, 2011 7:27 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=25025>
> by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> The *Washington Independent* reports<http://washingtonindependent.com/115234/county-in-colo-has-high-number-on-inactive-voters>
> .
>  [image:
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> in Colo. has high number on inactive votersâ€ &description=]<http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http%3A%2F%2Felectionlawblog.org%2F%3Fp%3D25025&title=%E2%80%9CCounty%20in%20Colo.%20has%20high%20number%20on%20inactive%20voters%E2%80%9D&description=>
> Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18> | Comments
> Off
>  “Will Florida’s Dual Election System Breathe Life into Bush v. Gore?”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=25022>
> Posted on November 4, 2011 7:25 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=25022>
> by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Dan Smith blogs<http://electionsmith.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/will-floridas-dual-election-system-breathe-life-into-bush-v-gore/>
> .
>  [image:
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> Floridaâ€™s Dual Election System Breathe Life into Bush v. Gore?â€
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> Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18> | Comments
> Off
>  “Election Law as Elective of Choice”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=25019>
> Posted on November 4, 2011 7:24 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=25019>
> by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Kirsten Nussbaumer has posted this draft<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1950416>on SSRN (forthcoming,
> *St. Louis University Law Review* symposium on teaching election law).
> Here is the abstract:
>
> This article, an invited contribution to a symposium on teaching election
> law, presents election law as a field that is fundamentally, inescapably
> interdisciplinary in nature and, on that account, of special value for our
> students. The interplay of doctrinal reasoning, empirical political
> science, and humanistic inquiry that characterizes election law is
> well-suited for both the traditional law school classroom and a practicum
> in election law.
>
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> Law as Elective of Choiceâ€ &description=]<http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http%3A%2F%2Felectionlawblog.org%2F%3Fp%3D25019&title=%E2%80%9CElection%20Law%20as%20Elective%20of%20Choice%E2%80%9D&description=>
> Posted in pedagogy <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=23> | Comments Off
>  “GOP cries foul on winner-take-all bill”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=25016>
> Posted on November 4, 2011 7:12 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=25016>
> by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Republicans work hard<http://www.omaha.com/article/20111104/NEWS01/711049881/0>to eliminate congressional seat allocation of electoral votes in Nebraska
> just as they try to implement such a system in Pennsylvania.
>  [image:
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> cries foul on winner-take-all billâ€ &description=]<http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http%3A%2F%2Felectionlawblog.org%2F%3Fp%3D25016&title=%E2%80%9CGOP%20cries%20foul%20on%20winner-take-all%20bill%E2%80%9D&description=>
> Posted in electoral college <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=44> | Comments
> Off
>  “Congressional Democrats seek to curb tough state voter-screening laws”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=25012>
> Posted on November 3, 2011 9:41 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=25012>
> by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> McClatchy reports<http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/11/03/2486155/congressional-democrats-seek-to.html>
> .
>  [image:
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> Democrats seek to curb tough state voter-screening lawsâ€ &description=]<http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http%3A%2F%2Felectionlawblog.org%2F%3Fp%3D25012&title=%E2%80%9CCongressional%20Democrats%20seek%20to%20curb%20tough%20state%20voter-screening%20laws%E2%80%9D&description=>
> Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, The
> Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60> | Comments Off
>  “When an Oversight Hearing Becomes an Oversight”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=25009>
> Posted on November 3, 2011 9:15 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=25009>
> by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Meredith McGehee blogs<http://www.clcblog.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=438:when-an-oversight-hearing-becomes-an-oversight-11-3-11>
> .
>  [image:
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> an Oversight Hearing Becomes an Oversightâ€ &description=]<http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http%3A%2F%2Felectionlawblog.org%2F%3Fp%3D25009&title=%E2%80%9CWhen%20an%20Oversight%20Hearing%20Becomes%20an%20Oversight%E2%80%9D&description=>
> Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10> | Comments
> Off
>  “What is the Justice Department doing about Southern voting rights?”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=25007>
> Posted on November 3, 2011 9:13 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=25007>
> by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> This item<http://www.southernstudies.org/2011/11/what-is-the-justice-department-doing-about-southern-voting-rights.html>appears at “Facing South.”
>  [image:
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> is the Justice Department doing about Southern voting rights?â€
> &description=]<http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http%3A%2F%2Felectionlawblog.org%2F%3Fp%3D25007&title=%E2%80%9CWhat%20is%20the%20Justice%20Department%20doing%20about%20Southern%20voting%20rights%3F%E2%80%9D&description=>
> Posted in Department of Justice <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=26>, Voting
> Rights Act <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15> | Comments Off
>  “Wisconsin: AG opinion says LG would not be automatically included in
> Gov recall” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=25005>
> Posted on November 3, 2011 9:12 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=25005>
> by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> The Recall Elections Blog reports<http://recallelections.blogspot.com/2011/11/wisconsin-ag-opinion-says-lg-would-not_03.html>
> .
>  [image:
> http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=25005&title=â€œWisconsin:
> AG opinion says LG would not be automatically included in Gov recallâ€
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> Posted in recall elections <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=11> | Comments
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>  “Rokita Questions FEC Bureaucrats on Refusal to Disclose Enforcement
> Rules” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=25002>
> Posted on November 3, 2011 9:09 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=25002>
> by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> See this press release<http://rokita.house.gov/press-release/rokita-questions-fec-bureaucrats-refusal-disclose-enforcement-rules>
> .
>  [image:
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> Questions FEC Bureaucrats on Refusal to Disclose Enforcement Rulesâ€
> &description=]<http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http%3A%2F%2Felectionlawblog.org%2F%3Fp%3D25002&title=%E2%80%9CRokita%20Questions%20FEC%20Bureaucrats%20on%20Refusal%20to%20Disclose%20Enforcement%20Rules%E2%80%9D&description=>
> Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10> | Comments
> Off
>  “FEC Urged to Reject Senator Lee’s Attempt to Create a ‘Super Leadership
> PAC’ in Comments Filed by Campaign Legal Center & Democracy 21″<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=24999>
> Posted on November 3, 2011 9:07 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=24999>
> by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> See this press release<http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1516:november-3-2011-fec-urged-to-reject-senator-lees-attempt-to-create-a-super-leadership-pac-in-comments-filed-campaign-legal-center-a-democracy-21&catid=63:legal-center-press-releases&Itemid=61>
> .
>  [image:
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> Urged to Reject Senator Leeâ€™s Attempt to Create a â€˜Super Leadership
> PACâ€™ in Comments Filed by Campaign Legal Center & Democracy
> 21â€³&description=]<http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http%3A%2F%2Felectionlawblog.org%2F%3Fp%3D24999&title=%E2%80%9CFEC%20Urged%20to%20Reject%20Senator%20Lee%E2%80%99s%20Attempt%20to%20Create%20a%20%E2%80%98Super%20Leadership%20PAC%E2%80%99%20in%20Comments%20Filed%20by%20Campaign%20Legal%20Center%20%26%20Democracy%2021%E2%80%B3&description=>
> Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10> | Comments
> Off
>  “House Panel’s Oversight Hearing on FEC Spotlights Divisions Among
> Commissioners” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=24996>
> Posted on November 3, 2011 9:04 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=24996>
> by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> BNA reports<http://news.bna.com/mpdm/MPDMWB/split_display.adp?fedfid=23324090&vname=mpebulallissues&fn=23324090&jd=a0c9q0j4a9&split=0>
> .
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> Panelâ€™s Oversight Hearing on FEC Spotlights Divisions Among
> Commissionersâ€ &description=]<http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http%3A%2F%2Felectionlawblog.org%2F%3Fp%3D24996&title=%E2%80%9CHouse%20Panel%E2%80%99s%20Oversight%20Hearing%20on%20FEC%20Spotlights%20Divisions%20Among%20Commissioners%E2%80%9D&description=>
> Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10> | Comments
> Off
>  “Creating the Voting Rights Act of 2012″<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=24993>
> Posted on November 3, 2011 9:56 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=24993>
> by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> *Why Tuesday?* is sponsoring this event<http://www.whytuesday.org/why-tuesday-2012-kickoff/>in D.C. on Tuesday.
>  [image:
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> the Voting Rights Act of 2012â€³&description=]<http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http%3A%2F%2Felectionlawblog.org%2F%3Fp%3D24993&title=%E2%80%9CCreating%20the%20Voting%20Rights%20Act%20of%202012%E2%80%B3&description=>
> Posted in Uncategorized <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1> | Comments Off
>  “Voter head to Polls to Vote on Voting”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=24991>
> Posted on November 3, 2011 9:55 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=24991>
> by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> That’s the lead story in this week’s Electionline Weekly<http://www.electionline.org/index.php/electionline-weekly>
> .
>  [image:
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> head to Polls to Vote on Votingâ€ &description=]<http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http%3A%2F%2Felectionlawblog.org%2F%3Fp%3D24991&title=%E2%80%9CVoter%20head%20to%20Polls%20to%20Vote%20on%20Voting%E2%80%9D&description=>
> Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18> | Comments
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>  “Legal Center Calls for FEC Overhaul, Submits Congressional Testimony on
> Dysfunctional Agency” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=24988>
> Posted on November 3, 2011 9:54 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=24988>
> by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> See this press release<http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1514:november-3-2011-legal-center-calls-for-fec-overhaul-submits-congressional-testimony-on-dysfunctional-agency&catid=63:legal-center-press-releases&Itemid=61>.
> See also this NYT editorial.<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/opinion/having-the-watchdogs-to-tea.html?src=tp>
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> Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, federal
> election commission <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=24> | Comments Off
>  CREW FOIA Request to FEC Republican Commissioners Leads to Claims of
> Improper Ex Parte Communications <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=24985>
> Posted on November 3, 2011 9:49 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=24985>
> by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> See this press release<http://www.citizensforethics.org/press/entry/report-reveals-republican-fec-commissioners-working-with-outside-allies>about this
> report <http://crew.3cdn.net/e96220a7af6a2d0143_eum6bx04c.pdf>.
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> FOIA Request to FEC Republican Commissioners Leads to Claims of Improper Ex
> Parte Communications&description=]<http://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http%3A%2F%2Felectionlawblog.org%2F%3Fp%3D24985&title=CREW%20FOIA%20Request%20to%20FEC%20Republican%20Commissioners%20Leads%20to%20Claims%20of%20Improper%20Ex%20Parte%20Communications&description=>
> Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, federal
> election commission <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=24> | Comments Off
>  Dan Backer Live Tweets FEC Congressional Hearing<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=24982>
> Posted on November 3, 2011 8:13 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=24982>
> by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Here <https://twitter.com/#%21/DBCapStrategies>.
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>  “Advocates Seek New Avenues for Corporate Accountability”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=24980>
> Posted on November 3, 2011 8:12 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=24980>
> by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Lisa Gilbert has written this oped<http://www.citizenvox.org/2011/11/03/advocates-seek-new-avenues-for-corporate-accountability-citizens-united-fec-sec/>
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>  “Arizona Democrats Threaten Recall Elections Over Redistricting”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=24977>
> Posted on November 3, 2011 8:07 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=24977>
> by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> The Fix reports<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/arizona-democrats-threaten-recall-elections-over-redistricting/2011/11/02/gIQA9x2FgM_blog.html>
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> Posted in recall elections <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=11>,
> redistricting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6> | Comments Off
> “Agency Nullification at the FEC” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=24975>
> Posted on November 3, 2011 8:06 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=24975>
> by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Craig Holman and Melanie Sloan have written this op-ed f<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/67505.html>or
> *Politico*.
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