[EL] ELB News and Commentary 12/4/12
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Tue Dec 4 09:00:41 PST 2012
"State elections officials to investigate voting problems in
Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45046>
Posted on December 4, 2012 8:58 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45046>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Miami Herald
<http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/12/04/3126158/state-elections-officials-to-investigate.html>:
"Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner told a Senate committee Tuesday
morning that he plans to dispatch a team of experts to Miami-Dade next
week to investigate more fully the "problems" with the recent election,
including long lines at the polls and an overwhelming surge of
last-minute absentee ballots.
Steve Bosquet column:
<http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/elections/election-over-not-yet-insist-florida-democrats/1264464>
"As they gathered Monday in a caucus room in Tallahassee, Democrats had
one thing on their minds: how to maintain ownership of the hottest issue
in the state now. That is, protecting the right to vote and holding
Republicans accountable for long lines, delayed ballot counts and an
expansion of provisional ballots. The election may be over, but the
fight over how the election was managed has only just begun."
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"Just say 'no' to Kris Kobach, the secretary of distractions"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45043>
Posted on December 4, 2012 8:55 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45043>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Kansas City Star editorial
<http://www.kansascity.com/2012/12/03/3946973/the-stars-editorial-just-say-no.html>.
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"Two non-citizens charged with voter fraud in Austin, Minn."
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45040>
Posted on December 4, 2012 8:53 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45040>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
MinnPost reports.
<http://www.minnpost.com/political-agenda/2012/12/two-non-citizens-charged-voter-fraud-austin-minn>
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"Court Showdown Over Recess Appointments"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45037>
Posted on December 4, 2012 8:49 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45037>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Pete Williams:
<http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/04/15672809-court-showdown-over-recess-appointments>
"A federal appeals court on Wednesday takes up the issue of a
president's power to make appointments when the Senate is out of town,
one that has divided Congress and the White House for decades."
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Montana Recount <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45032>
Posted on December 4, 2012 8:33 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45032>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
AP
<http://helenair.com/news/state-and-regional/welch-seeks-recount-in-mont-but-faces-long-odds/article_8d5e1d2a-efe9-5f59-ba5c-ef91a31e960d.html>:
'Alleging widespread voting machine errors and other Election Day
problems, Republican Sandy Welch requested a manual vote recount Monday
in the race she narrowly lost for Montana schools superintendent."
Jim Bopp
<http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/welch-asks-for-recount-in-montana-school-superintendent-race-faces/article_3fa9a394-3d8b-11e2-9306-001a4bcf887a.html>is
leading the recount effort.
More
<http://www.dailyinterlake.com/news/local_montana/article_f9800e26-3dad-11e2-b0be-0019bb2963f4.html>:
Elections expert Rob Richie said Monday that Welch will be fighting
long odds in her bid to become Montana's next superintendent of
public instruction.
Richie, with the Maryland-based election research group FairVote,
said his group analyzed 18 statewide recounts in the United States
over the past decade. Those recounts on average shifted the vote
less than 0.03 percent, or by just a few hundred votes, he said.
By contrast, Welch lost by 0.48 percent. That's more than 17 times
the average shift found by FairVote.
Richie said "it would be extraordinarily unlikely" for a recount to
change the outcome.
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"Elections by the Numbers: Orange County, California"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45029>
Posted on December 4, 2012 8:26 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45029>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
A Pew Data Dispatch
<http://www.pewstates.org/research/analysis/elections-by-the-numbersorange-county-california-85899434237>.
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von Spakovsky Attacks New Hampshire Voting Rights Bailout; Adams
Responds on Merced Bailout <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45026>
Posted on December 4, 2012 8:20 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45026>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Following up from this post <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44984> and
this guest post <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45012> from Merced's
lawyers, see see here
<http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/334688/crooked-justice-hans-von-spakovsky>
and here
<http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/12/04/holder-con-on-voting-extends-to-new-hampshire/>.
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"Post-Campaign Super-PAC Cash Still Flowing to Consultants"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45022>
Posted on December 3, 2012 8:07 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45022>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bloomberg reports
<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-04/post-campaign-super-pac-cash-still-flowing-to-consultants.html>.
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"Exclusive: Dick Armey Quits Tea Party Group in Split Over
Direction" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45019>
Posted on December 3, 2012 8:03 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45019>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Mother Jones reports.
<http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/12/dick-armey-resigns-freedomworks-tea-party>
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"Clark County elections chief endorses voter ID proposal"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45016>
Posted on December 3, 2012 7:30 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45016>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
LVRJ
<http://www.lvrj.com/news/clark-county-elections-chief-endorses-voter-id-proposal-181936811.html>:
'The head of the Clark County Election Department on Monday supported
Secretary of State Ross Miller's proposal to use photos to verify
voters' identities at the polls, arguing a new system could make it
easier for election workers and cut down on intimidation."
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"Response by Merced County's Section 5 Lawyers to J. Christian
Adams's Article" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45012>
Posted on December 3, 2012 5:38 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45012>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The following is a guest post from Chris Skinnell
<http://web.nmgovlaw.com/professionals/christopher-skinnell/>and
Marguerite Leoni
<http://web.nmgovlaw.com/professionals/marguerite-mary-leoni/>:
We write in response to Mr. J. Christian Adams's article
<http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2012/12/03/eric-holder-cons-the-courts-to-save-the-voting-rights-act/>,
"Eric Holder Cons the Courts to Save Voting Rights Act," to which
you linked <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44984> earlier in the
day. That article is misinformed on the facts and the law. Merced
County was qualified to bailout, and worked extremely hard to get
there. There was no "collusion" of any sort. At the time it sought
Attorney General Holder's consent, the County had been victorious in
the /Lopez/ litigation, was in full compliance with its preclearance
obligations, and satisfied the bailout requirements. The County
worked for over ten years to qualify for bailout before even
contacting the Attorney General. Even then, it took two more years
to convince the Attorney General to consent.
We have been counsel to the County of Merced for election and
preclearance matters for over a decade, and we represented the
County in the recent bailout action---Gerry Hebert was our
co-counsel in Washington. We also represented the County (without
Mr. Hebert's involvement) in the 2006 litigation brought by Joaquin
Avila and referred to in the article, /Lopez v. Merced County/.
First, Mr. Adams's implicit characterization of Merced County's
bailout as a sweetheart arrangement bears no relationship to the
actual facts. The County worked with USDOJ for more than two years
on the bailout negotiations, including two in-person meetings in
Washington, D.C., at which the County pleaded its case. USDOJ sent
a team of investigators to the County who combed through 10 years of
records pertaining to the County's Section 5 compliance, as well as
that of independent jurisdictions within the County's boundaries.
In addition, the County produced thousands of pages of documents at
DOJ's request, including 10 years worth of agendas and minutes for
the County, and for virtually every city, school district and
special district with territory in the County.
That process followed a long-running historical internal "audit" of
electoral practices conducted by the County itself and in which
USDOJ had no part. The audit was undertaken with a view toward
qualifying for bailout and long pre-dated the /NAMUDNO/ decision and
even the 2006 VRA renewal. The County's preclearance compliance
record at the time it requested the United States Attorney General's
consent to bailout was absolutely complete except for two matters
under California Proposition 218, which the County believed (and
still believes) did not require preclearance. The County submitted
them nevertheless in the spirit of the ongoing negotiations for
bailout. Every major minority group in the County wrote a letter to
the United States Attorney General in support of bailout.
Second, Mr. Adams is simply incorrect about the /Lopez/ litigation.
There was no "settlement"; the County won that lawsuit outright,
having summary judgment granted in its favor. /See/ /Lopez v. Merced
County/, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 3941 (E.D. Cal. Jan. 16, 2008).
Thus, the County was not disqualified from bailout by virtue of the
provision relating to consent decrees entered within the last 10
years. 42 U.S.C. § 1973b(a)(1)(B).
And finally, regarding the submission of a number of historical
voting changes for preclearance in connection with the bailout,
there are a number of points to be made:
* All of those submissions, except for the two mentioned above,
concerned independent subjurisdictions within the borders of the
County over which the County has no control. The County had
previously argued strenuously in the /Lopez/ litigation, an
enforcement action, that Section 5 was unconstitutional if the
County were liable for the actions of these independent
jurisdictions. That issue aside, Section 5 itself provides that
oversights in preclearance compliance may be forgiven in a
bailout action if they were "were trivial, were promptly
corrected, and were not repeated." 42 U.S.C. § 1973b(a)(3). In
other words, Mr. Adams's implication that Section 5 has a "no
tolerance" standard---and that the Attorney General is therefore
ignoring the command of Congress---is refuted by the text of
Section 5 itself. In fact, the vast majority of the submissions,
which the County made on behalf of these jurisdictions so that
the bailout negotiations could proceed, were "precautionary"
because they involved matters that the County did not believe
required preclearance, but submitted anyway to avoid disputes
that could harm negotiations.
* Merced County's approach is also consistent with case law under
Section 5, which holds that the preclearance obligation can be
retroactively satisfied. /See, e.g.,/ /Moore v. Caledonia
Natural Gas Dist./, 890 F. Supp. 547, 550 (N.D. Miss. 1995)
("'retroactive federal approval satisfies the preclearance
requirements of § 5.' Since the new procedures were eventually
approved, the court held that the changes did not violate the
prescription of § 5." (quoting /East Flatbush Elec. Comm. v.
Cuomo,/ 643 F. Supp. 260, 264 (E.D.N.Y. 1986) (three-judge § 5
court))). /See also/ /Waide v. Waller/, 402 F. Supp. 902, 925
(N.D. Miss. 1975) (three-judge § 5 court) ("The belated
satisfaction of the Voting Rights Act requirements moots the
first prong of plaintiff's attack on § 25-31-1, and we therefore
certify that the challenged statute /is in full compliance/ with
the requirements of the Voting Rights Act." (emphasis added)).
* Reviewing the pleadings from prior bailout actions---including
ones granted well before the constitutionality of the 2006
renewal became an issue---shows that such "post hoc"
preclearances are typical in connection with bailout, seriously
undermining the notion that such an approach is part of a vast
conspiracy to save Section 5. As just a few examples, Roanoke
County, Virginia (bailed out 2001), Warren County, Virginia
(bailed out 2002), and Shenandoah County, Virginia (bailed out
1999), all acknowledged---in their bailout action complaints
filed with the D.C. District Court---having administered
multiple voting changes without preclearance. While these
changes were ultimately submitted by the jurisdictions prior to
filing the bailout suits, and each received preclearance, not
all the submissions were made before the policies were enforced.
Bottom line, Merced County's nearly 10-year quest to bailout from
Section 5 was fortuitously successful right after /NAMUNDO/ and
before /Shelby County v. Holder/, but appropriate and well-deserved
nonetheless.
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"What a Waste of Corporate Money" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45009>
Posted on December 3, 2012 4:55 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45009>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy has written this oped
<http://jurist.org/forum/2012/12/torres-spelliscy-campaign-finance.php>
for Jurist.
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"Pennsylvania Senate Leader Pileggi Wrong on Prescription for
Electoral College Reform" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45006>
Posted on December 3, 2012 4:52 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45006>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Important Rob Richie post
<http://www.fairvote.org/pennsylvania-senate-leader-pileggi-wrong-on-prescription-for-electoral-college-reform#.UL0xBYXOalg>.
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"Wisconsin: Senate Majority Leader proposes changing leadership of
the GAB to political appointees" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45003>
Posted on December 3, 2012 3:08 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45003>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Why not
<http://recallelections.blogspot.com/2012/12/wisconsin-senate-majority-leader.html>
take one of the only successful examples of statewide nonpartisan
election administration
<http://prospect.org/article/what-theres-nonpartisan-way-run-elections>
into the country and turn it into a polarized, political institution?
Oy.
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NV Supreme Court Upholds ACORN Employee Conviction, Law Barring
Payment Per Voter Registration Card
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44998>
Posted on December 3, 2012 2:58 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44998>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The decision of the Supreme Court of Nevada in Busefink v. State
<http://www.nevadajudiciary.us/images/advanceopinions/128nevadvopno49.pdf>
issued Oct. 4, but I just discovered it today while looking on the
website for something else. The Court rejected a First Amendment
challenge to Nevada's law barring payment per voter registration card
for voter registration efforts.
The opinion notes a split among the courts on the question whether laws
barring payments per voter registration card are subject to a
strict/heightened scrutiny or not, meaning this issue could potentially
be raised in a cert. petition to the U.S. Supreme Court.
I discuss the Busefink case, and ACORN's broken business model, in
Chapter 2 of /The Voting Wars
<http://www.amazon.com/Voting-Wars-Florida-Election-Meltdown/dp/0300182031/ref=sr_1_cc_2?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1329286945&sr=1-2-catcorr>./
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"What happens to @PaulRyanVP?" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44995>
Posted on December 3, 2012 2:02 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44995>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Politico
<http://www.politico.com/story/2012/12/what-happens-to-paulryanvp-84524.html?hp=l2>:
"Though it's not clear that Ryan would be violating campaign regulations
by adopting his own veep handle, lawyers are confused about whether Ryan
should go out and grab it anyway. While the political uses of technology
have matured, the legal framework around them is still in its infancy.
There are no legally binding rules or precedents governing Twitter or
Facebook accounts and simply handing them over to another candidate or
party committee could violate the existing laws. 'As the technology has
evolved, sometimes the [Federal Election Commission] rules don't keep
up,' said Michael Toner, a campaign finance attorney, who worked for
George W. Bush's 2000 campaign and served on the Federal Election
Commission."
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"McCain: Rand Paul Giving Democrats Filibuster Changes 'Credence'"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44992>
Posted on December 3, 2012 1:26 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44992>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Roll Call
<http://www.rollcall.com/news/mccain_rand_paul_giving_democrats_filibuster_changes_credence-219603-1.html>:
"Sen. John McCain <http://www.rollcall.com/members/26.html>, R-Ariz.,
blamed Sen. Rand Paul <http://www.rollcall.com/members/31236.html>,
R-Ky., for holding up on amendments to the defense authorization bill,
crippling the ability of senators to offer amendments in advance of a
Monday evening test vote."
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"Nevada Democratic leaders oppose voter photo"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44988>
Posted on December 3, 2012 1:01 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44988>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
AP
<http://elkodaily.com/news/nevada-democratic-leaders-oppose-voter-photo/article_d49b8e00-3d8a-11e2-bba2-001a4bcf887a.html?comment_form=true>:
"A proposal by Democratic Secretary of State Ross Miller to seek a voter
photo requirement in the upcoming Legislature appears dead before
arrival, with legislative leaders of his own party expressing opposition."
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Section 5 Opponents to Argue that DOJ Breaking Bailout Rules in
Order to Save the Constitutionality of Voting Rights Act section 5
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44984>
Posted on December 3, 2012 11:14 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44984> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
I expect this argumen
<http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2012/12/03/eric-holder-cons-the-courts-to-save-the-voting-rights-act/>t
to get a lot of play.
The great irony here, for those who don't follow this issue closely, is
that you have people who oppose section 5 of the VRA complaining that
DOJ is making it /too easy/ for those jurisdictions subject to its
preclearance provision to escape from the Act's coverage.
UPDATE: Adams says
<http://electionlawcenter.com/2012/12/03/hasen-gets-it-wrong-again.aspx>
he's not an opponent of section 5.
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"The Mystery of the Pro-Obama Dark-Money Group"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44981>
Posted on December 3, 2012 10:03 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44981> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Mother Jones
<http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/obama-dark-money-priorities-usa>:
"In the world of political money, Democrats like to cast themselves as
the defenders
<http://vanhollen.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=279166>
of transparency
<http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/238281-senate-launches-rare-all-nighter-to-protest-gop-on-disclose-act>
and crusaders against corruption. They've asked the IRS
<https://twitter.com/AndrewKroll/status/215485154662162432> to
investigate big-spending nonprofit groups such as Karl Rove's Crossroads
GPS
<http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/08/crossroads-gps-heidi-heitkamp-north-dakota-senate>,
and they've lead the effort in Congress to pass the DISCLOSE Act
<http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/237377-senate-dems-offer-new-version-of-disclose-act-to-fight-citizens-united-ruling>,
which would've forced politically active nonprofits to reveal their
major donors. Yet one of the most secretive dark-money groups of the
2012 campaign season was allied with the Democratic Party's
standard-bearer, President Obama."
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"Fighting the Filibuster" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44978>
Posted on December 3, 2012 9:45 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44978>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Ari Melber
<http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2012/12/03/fighting-the-filibuster/>has
written this oped for Reuters.
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"Defending The Voting Rights Act From Its Conservative Critics"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44975>
Posted on December 3, 2012 9:14 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44975>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Doug Kendall:
<https://theusconstitution.org/text-history/1716/defending-voting-rights-act-its-conservative-critics>
"In a condescending but shallow response
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324705104578149320741596526.html>
to a /Huffington Post/ piece
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/doug-kendall/the-voting-rights-act-the_b_2204541.html>
written last week by my colleague Emily Phelps and me, /Wall Street
Journal/ columnist James Taranto accuses us of appealing to 'emotion'
and wallowing in 'nostalgia for the heroism of the civil rights movement
half a century ago.' Our piece mourned the recent death of Lawrence
Guyot, a civil rights hero who was repeatedly "challenged, jailed and
beaten" in his efforts to register black voters in Mississippi in the
1960s, while making broader points about the continued need for the law
-- the Voting Rights Act of 1965 -- that represents one of the most
important accomplishments produced by the struggles of Mr. Guyot and his
civil rights movement compatriots."
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"Pennsylvania Proposal May Help Republicans Win Electoral Votes"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44972>
Posted on December 3, 2012 8:37 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44972>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bloomberg reports.
<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-03/pennsylvania-proposal-may-help-republicans-win-electoral-votes.html>
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"Report: Kellogg Foundation, SEIU funded attacks on voter ID laws"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44970>
Posted on December 3, 2012 8:35 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44970>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The /Daily Caller/ reports
<Report:%20Kellogg%20Foundation,%20SEIU%20funded%20attacks%20on%20voter%20ID%20laws%20%20Read%20more:%20http://dailycaller.com/2012/12/03/report-kellogg-foundation-seiu-funded-attacks-on-voter-id-laws/#ixzz2E0WDd4ot>
(based onthis report
<http://ohio.mediatrackers.org/2012/12/03/kellogg-foundation-arc-lead-voter-suppression-charge/>
from Media Trackers).
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