[EL] Findthedata.org

Thu Jul 5 10:52:05 PDT 2012

No knock on the sponsors of this site, which might well be useful for some purposes.  But this appears to track only administrative fines, which are issued essentially automatically for failure to file reports timely.  It does not appear to include any of the cases that the FEC actually investigates and settles, or pursues through litigation.  The "compare" function is neat, but not really illuminating.  If a committee's fine was bigger, it's usually because their report showed more activity, or was filed later.  It's all a matter of formula.

It's a little like having America's Most Wanted maintain a searchable "convictions" web site that only turns up traffic violations.

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From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Rick Hasen
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 12:34 PM
To: law-election at UCI.edu
Subject: [EL] ELB News and Commentary 7/5/12

“Judge threatens gag order; Suit involves election officials, ballot secrecy in 6 counties”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36506>
Posted on July 5, 2012 9:30 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36506> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The latest<http://www.chieftain.com/news/region/judge-threatens-gag-order/article_201011b0-c592-11e1-8284-001a4bcf887a.html> from Colorado.
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Posted in election administration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60> | Comments Off
“A Crack in the GOP’s Support for Voter-ID Laws”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36503>
Posted on July 5, 2012 9:27 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36503> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The American Prospect reports.<http://prospect.org/article/crack-gops-support-voter-id-laws>
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Posted in election administration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60> | Comments Off
“Rangel opponent files for re-vote in increasingly tight primary”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36500>
Posted on July 5, 2012 9:25 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36500> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The Fix reports<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/rangel-opponent-files-for-re-vote-in-increasingly-tight-primary/2012/07/05/gJQAkTJVPW_blog.html>.
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Posted in election administration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18> | Comments Off
“The Other Big Case the Supreme Court Got Right”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36497>
Posted on July 5, 2012 9:18 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36497> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Michael Kinsley<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-04/the-other-big-case-the-supreme-court-got-right.html>: “Bush v. Gore is indefensible. Citizens United<http://topics.bloomberg.com/citizens-united/> is not. In fact, it was correctly decided, however deplorable the consequences. Liberals ought to show the chief justice that we too can acknowledge a principle even when we don’t agree with the result.”
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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, Supreme Court<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29> | Comments Off
“A Case Study in How Kris Kobach’s Cabal Aims to Remake Election Law”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36495>
Posted on July 5, 2012 9:16 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36495> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

This item <http://www.thenation.com/blog/168733/case-study-how-kris-kobachs-cabal-aims-remake-election-law> appears at The Nation‘s “Voting Rights Watch 2012″ blog.
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“Another Troubled Election Raises Eyebrows, Temperatures in NYC”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36493>
Posted on July 5, 2012 9:15 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36493> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Doug Chapin<http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/electionacademy/2012/07/another_troubled_election_rais.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HHHElections+%28The+Election+Aacdemy%29>: “The Rangel-Espaillat race will eventually be resolved, one way or another. But the ongoing problems at the Board of Elections - which seem to be uniting most of New York in a sense of incredulity - are going to need attention immediately if not sooner.”
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“GOP winning race for funds; Super PACs backing Democrats lag badly in multimillion gifts”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36491>
Posted on July 5, 2012 9:13 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36491> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Boston Globe<http://www.boston.com/news/politics/articles/2012/07/05/democrats_lag_in_super_pac_race_for_million_dollar_contributions/>: “The top ‘super PACs’ supporting Republicans in the fall elections have raised more than three times as much money as super PACs aligned with Democrats, $158 million to $47 million, a Globe analysis shows. The imbalance comes as well-to-do Republicans have been far more generous than their Democratic counterparts, more frequently tossing as much as $1 million or more into the GOP cause.”
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“Can the Democrats Catch Up in the Super-PAC Game?”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36489>
Posted on July 5, 2012 9:12 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36489> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Robert Draper has written this article <http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/magazine/can-the-democrats-catch-up-in-the-super-pac-game.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all> for the New York Times Magazine.
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“Liberals fear the John Roberts rebound”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36487>
Posted on July 5, 2012 9:09 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36487> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Politico<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0712/78084.html> with extensive quotes from the Shelby County challenger to the Voting Rights Act, in a case that should reach the Court around the time of the election.
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Posted in Supreme Court<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>, Voting Rights Act<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15> | Comments Off
“Presidential fundraising down; congressional soars”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36485>
Posted on July 5, 2012 9:07 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36485> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Important WaPo report<http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-influence-industry-presidential-fundraising-down-congressional-soars/2012/07/04/gJQAHS6GOW_story.html>.
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“Roberts Faces Shot at Republican Redemption in Race Cases”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36483>
Posted on July 5, 2012 9:06 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36483> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bloomberg<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-05/roberts-faces-shot-at-republican-redemption-in-race-cases.html>: “Chief Justice John Roberts<http://topics.bloomberg.com/john-roberts/>, whose deciding vote upheld President Barack Obama<http://topics.bloomberg.com/barack-obama/>’s health-care law, won’t have to wait long for a chance to reassert his conservative credentials. In the nine-month term that starts in October, the U.S. Supreme Court<http://topics.bloomberg.com/supreme-court/> will consider rolling back university affirmative action and may take up same-sex marriage and the Voting Rights Act, the 1965 law that protects minorities at the polling place.”

I offered a similar assessment<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36309> on the day of the health care decision.
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Election Geek Advice: Stay Cool<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36481>
Posted on July 5, 2012 9:04 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36481> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Doug Chapin’s commentary leads this week’s Electionline Weekly.<http://www.electionline.org/index.php/electionline-weekly>
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A New Resource to See and Rank FEC Fines<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36478>
Posted on July 5, 2012 9:02 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36478> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here<http://fec-election-fines.findthedata.org/>, at Find the Data.
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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, chicanery<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>, federal election commission<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=24> | Comments Off
A Very Big Thank You….<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36475>
Posted on July 5, 2012 9:00 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=36475> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

to Dan Tokaji and Justin Levitt, who guest blogged while I was travelling out of the country.  It is good to know that my blog readers were in such good hands.

And now back to our regularly scheduled programming….
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