[EL] ELB News and Commentary 12/8/12
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Fri Dec 7 18:40:56 PST 2012
"Report: Schmidt tried, but failed to break election law"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45242>
Posted on December 7, 2012 6:38 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45242>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WKZO
<http://wkzo.com/news/articles/2012/dec/07/report-schmidt-tried-but-failed-to-break-election-law/>:
"State Representative Roy Schmidt tried but failed to actually break
state election law when he offered a man up to one-thousand dollars to
run against him as a phantom candidate."
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"Elections in NY: Time to Consider Reforms"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45240>
Posted on December 7, 2012 6:36 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45240>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Jerry Goldfeder's letter to the editor
<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/08/opinion/elections-in-new-york-time-to-consider-reforms.html>
of the NYT.
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"Sen. Mitch McConnell Filibusters His Own Bill"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45238>
Posted on December 7, 2012 6:34 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45238>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Real Clear Politics
<http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/12/06/mitch_mcconnell_filibusters_his_own_bill.html>:
"Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) may have made United
States Senate history today when he beat his filibustered his own bill
on allowing the president to increase the debt ceiling on his own."
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"Interest Groups Push to Fill Margins of Health Coverage"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45235>
Posted on December 7, 2012 6:32 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45235>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT:
<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/06/health/interest-groups-push-to-fill-margins-of-health-coverage.html?ref=politics>
"The chiropractors were out in force, lobbying for months to get their
services included in every state's package of essential health benefits
that will be guaranteed under the new health care law
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/health_insurance_and_managed_care/health_care_reform/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier>."
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"Obama committee to accept corporate cash for January inauguration
in Washington" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45232>
Posted on December 7, 2012 6:27 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45232>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WaPo reports.
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-committee-to-accept-corporate-cash-for-january-inauguration-in-washington/2012/12/07/04c6e49c-4099-11e2-bca3-aadc9b7e29c5_story.html>
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"UPDATED: Judge orders statewide recount in school superintendent
race" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45230>
Posted on December 7, 2012 6:26 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45230>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
/The Missoulian/ reports
<http://missoulian.com/news/local/updated-judge-orders-statewide-recount-in-school-superintendent-race/article_4bd58b48-40c8-11e2-9793-0019bb2963f4.html>.
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"Bad News for Campaign Finance" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45227>
Posted on December 7, 2012 4:37 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45227>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
David Firestone
<http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/07/bad-news-for-campaign-finance/>:
"The day overflowed with news about the inexorable influence of money in
politics, none of it good. Every aspect of the post-election financial
reports showed how this year's campaigns took an irreversible turn for
the worse."
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"The Unsexy Secret Behind Obama's Successful Ground Game"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45224>
Posted on December 7, 2012 4:22 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45224>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WSJ's Washington Wire reports.
<http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/12/07/the-unsexy-secret-behind-obamas-successful-ground-game/>
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"2012 Election Ended With Deluge of Donations and Spending"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45221>
Posted on December 7, 2012 4:07 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45221>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT's The Caucus reports.
<http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/07/2012-election-ended-with-deluge-of-donations-and-spending/?hp>
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"The Dick Morris/Newsmax Super PAC Boondoggle"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45217>
Posted on December 7, 2012 1:46 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45217>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Media Matters:
<http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/12/07/the-dick-morrisnewsmax-super-pac-boondoggle/191740>
"While the 2012 election may have severely damaged
<http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/11/07/its-official-dick-morris-is-through/191190> Dick
Morris' credibility as a pundit, leading to his temporary benching
<http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/12/05/how-to-get-in-trouble-at-fox-news/191690> at
Fox News, it appears to have been good for his wallet. The Fox News
contributor and columnist at /The Hill/ aggressively fundraised for a
super PAC he advised, which then apparently funneled money back to
Morris through rentals of his email list."
More
<http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2012/12/super-pac-for-america.html>from
the Center for Responsive Politics.
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"Last-minute mega-donations fueled super PAC attacks"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45214>
Posted on December 7, 2012 1:41 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45214>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The Center for Public Integrity reports.
<http://www.publicintegrity.org/2012/12/07/11893/last-minute-mega-donations-fueled-super-pac-attacks>
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"GOP Resurrects Plan to Rig Electoral College"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45212>
Posted on December 7, 2012 1:40 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45212>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Mother Jones:
<http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/after-romney-loss-gop-plan-recovery-change-rules>
"The states where Republicans have proposed changing Electoral College
rules---Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, where legislation has been
introduced, and Michigan and Ohio, where activists have pushed the idea
(see below)---went for Barack Obama in both 2008 and 2012. There are no
such GOP proposals, for example, in deep-red Texas."
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"Adelson: No Second Bite for Chamber of Commerce"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45209>
Posted on December 7, 2012 10:42 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45209> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WSJ reports.
<http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/12/07/adelson-no-second-bite-for-chamber-of-commerce/>
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"Republicans Spent Big on Akin in Missouri, Only to Lose"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45207>
Posted on December 7, 2012 10:41 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45207> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT:
<http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/07/republicans-spent-big-on-akin-in-missouri-only-to-lose/?partner=rss&emc=rss>
"To the bitter end, establishment Republicans maintained Representative
Todd Akin
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/a/todd_akin/index.html?inline=nyt-per>,
the Republican nominee challenging Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri,
was dead to them, cut off for his comment that women could not get
pregnant in the event of 'legitimate rape.' Turns out he was not so
dead. Newly released campaign finance documents show the National
Republican Senatorial Committee transferred $760,000 to the Missouri
State Republican Party in the first days of November as the state party
opened an ad blitz to try to close the gap with Ms. McCaskill."
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Cagle Cartoons Tackles Florida's Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45204>
Posted on December 7, 2012 10:36 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45204> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Here.
<http://www.caglecartoons.com/viewimage.asp?ID=%7B9688EB7F-CB48-4A27-86F6-5D3591E6BE6F%7D>
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"Progressive Groups Branch Out To Tackle Filibuster, Big Money,
Voting" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45202>
Posted on December 7, 2012 10:35 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45202> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
I missedthis /Roll Call /piece
<http://www.rollcall.com/news/progressive_groups_branch_out_to_tackle_filibuster_big_money_voting-219538-1.html>
from Nov. 29.
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"Super Pacs: 2012's Bond Villains or a Giant Waste of Money?"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45199>
Posted on December 7, 2012 10:31 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45199> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Robert Schlesinger has written this opinion piece
<http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/robert-schlesinger/2012/12/07/inside-the-2012-super-pacs>
for US News.
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"Lobbying: The italian regulatory framework under the comparative
perspective" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45196>
Posted on December 7, 2012 10:22 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45196> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
**Andrea Bortoluzzi has posted this draft
<http://works.bepress.com/andrea_bortoluzzi/8/> on BePress. Here is the
abstract:
The intention of the Author is to examine all the rules that the
Italian legal system imposes on lobbying, in part for the purpose of
limiting certain lobbying practices and in part to promote access to
public decision-makers by establishing the requirement for
transparency and trustworthiness in the relations between the
lobbyist and the decision-maker. Lobbying is heavily dependent on
the opportunities for the lobbyist to access the public
decision-maker. The issue of access, however, viewed in terms of
lobbying, relates not to the right to know the content of
administrative documents but to the right to provide information to
the public decision-maker relating to its legislative or regulatory
activity, where this may influence its decisions. The primary source
of that power in the political system in Italy is the Constitutional
Charter, within the limits that the power is recognised in the
Charter. Taking a further look at the system of sources, in the
absence of State laws regulating this issue, the only current law
that, in regulating access, contains a definition of lobbying is the
one issued by the Region of Abruzzo (Law 61 of 22 December 2011, in
Bollettino Ufficiale della Regione Abruzzo no. 2 of 12 January
2011). While a review of the sources offers little food for thought
on the discipline of lobbying, the review of legal formants is even
more meagre. While case-law as a legal formant amounts to just a few
sparse judgments of the Constitutional Court, the formant based on
jurisprudence consists of only a few monographs on the subject. The
essay puts under scrutiny the rules of lobbying in other legal
systems and points out that whatever the legal systems may be, they
react to the phenomenon of lobbying by pressure groups by treating
them as an ineluctable feature of democratic systems. This leads to
the issue of representation, in other words the legitimisation -- in
some cases explicit through written laws or case-law decisions, in
other cases cryptic, by recourse to implicit models -- of the fact
that the sovereign interest of the people may be manifested and may
seek satisfaction not only through elected political institutions
but also through free associations.. And this principle, despite the
tortuous paths inevitably taken in any legal system laying down the
procedures for and limits of representation of interest groups, is
common to all the legal systems considered in the essay. Two legal
systems are subject to accurate analysis in the essay : the
regulation of lobbying in United States and within the European
Union. This regulation is compared to the Italian one. The Author
ends up considering the criticalities of all the legal systems taken
into consideration when they address the regulation of lobbying.
This is true both of the systems that rely on custom alone and of
those that have acted by enacting legislative measures and within
which doctrine-based and jurisprudential formants are applied to the
issue. It is in fact hard to reconcile the constitutional guarantees
as to the exercise of fundamental rights and at the same time to
ensure that the political scene is immune to groups aiming to
preserve their rent-seeking positions to the detriment of the community.
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"Tea Party Gains Control Over Republican Policy Incubators"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45193>
Posted on December 7, 2012 10:18 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45193> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bloomberg reports
<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-07/tea-party-gins-control-over-republican-policy-incubators.html?alcmpid=politics>.
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"You've Got Mail, Mr. President: Two New Letters Weigh In on Voting
Technology Issues" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45190>
Posted on December 7, 2012 9:57 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45190>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Doug Chapin:
<http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/electionacademy/2012/12/youve_got_mail_mr_president_tw.php>
For the past month, the election community has been focused to
different degrees on President Obama's Election Night observation
<http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/electionacademy/2012/11/we_have_to_fix_that_will_long.php>
that "we need to fix" problems that caused long lines at the polls
on Election Day.
Recently, the President received two separate letters from computer
scientists and advocates concerned about the role of technology in
elections.
The first
<http://www.calvoter.org/issues/votingtech/pub/Election_verification_letter_to_Obama_11-20-12.pdf>,
from California Voter Foundation founder and President Kim Alexander
and 28 co-signers, focuses heavily on the concept of verifiable
voting systems and urges the Administration to put a federal stamp
on the problem....
The second letter
<http://www.verifiedvoting.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/PresidentLetter.pdf>,
signed by computer scientist Barbara Simons and 49 co-signers (many
of whom appear on the first letter but also including some election
officials), covers much of the same territory but contains stronger
language on the perceived danger of Internet voting...
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