[EL] ELB News and Commentary 7/26/12
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Thu Jul 26 09:05:07 PDT 2012
"Karl Rove: He's Back, Big Time" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37577>
Posted on July 26, 2012 9:03 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37577> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The cover story
<http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-07-26/karl-rove-hes-back-big-time>
of /Bloomberg Businessweek/.
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"Counting Votes" Looks at the State of Voting Technology Nationwide"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37574>
Posted on July 26, 2012 8:56 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37574> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Doug Chapin
<http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/electionacademy/2012/07/counting_votes_rates_state_vot.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HHHElections+%28The+Election+Aacdemy%29>:
Counting.Votes.USA.Today.jpg
[Image courtesy of USA Today
<http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2012-07-24/states-online-voting/56467106/1>]
Yesterday, a group of researchers from the Verified Voting
Foundation, Common Cause and the Rutgers School of Law released a
report entitled /COUNTING VOTES 2012: A State by State Look at
Voting Technology Preparedness/ <http://www.countingvotes.org/>.
The report is thoroughly researched and painstakingly sourced; it
checks in at a whopping 318 pages supported by over 2,400(!)
footnotes. Not surprisingly, it has already gotten significant
attention, based in part on the state by state rankings (summarized
in the above map) as well as on the report's deep skepticism about
the use of Internet voting.
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"Pinal County supervisor hopeful John Enright quits"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37571>
Posted on July 26, 2012 8:52 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37571> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Arizona Republic
<http://www.azcentral.com/community/pinal/articles/2012/07/25/20120725pinal-supervisor-hopeful-enright-quits.html#ixzz21kDHzK3h>;
"A Pinal County supervisor candidate has withdrawn from the race in the
wake of voter-fraud allegations involving a former companion who,
records show, has continued to vote by absentee ballot in the five years
since her death. John Enright, 66, had been seeking the Republican
nomination for county supervisor of District 5, an area that includes
Apache Junction and Gold Canyon."
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"Rep.'s Debt To Cozen Is Campaign Contribution, Judge Says"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37569>
Posted on July 26, 2012 8:49 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37569> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Law360.com
<http://www.law360.com/legalindustry/articles/363789/rep-s-debt-to-cozen-is-campaign-contribution-judge-says>:
" The $500,000 in legal expenses Rep. Bob Brady, D-Pa., owes Cozen
O'Connor for work on his unsuccessful 2007 Philadelphia mayoral bid is a
campaign expense under city election law that exceeds campaign
contribution limits, a Pennsylvania judge ruled in a decision made
available Monday."
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"Phantom Menace: The hunt for proof of voting fraud"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37566>
Posted on July 26, 2012 8:48 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37566> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Isaiah Thompson has written this piece
<http://www.citypaper.net/news/2012-07-26-phantom-menace-hunt-for-voting-fraud-proof.html>
for the /Philadelphia Citypaper/.
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"Super-PACs Can't Give $1 Million to a Congressman. But This One
Did." <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37564>
Posted on July 26, 2012 8:46 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37564> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Mother Jones reports
<http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/rga-super-pac-mike-pence-indiana>.
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Two from iWatch <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37561>
Posted on July 26, 2012 8:44 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37561> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Pro-Romney super PAC donor part of Olympic scandal
<http://www.iwatchnews.org/2012/07/26/10247/pro-romney-super-pac-donor-part-olympic-scandal>
<http://www.iwatchnews.org/2012/07/26/10229/million-dollar-donation-indiana-race-may-skirt-limits-corporate-giving>
Million-dollar donation in Indiana race may skirt limits on corporate
giving
<http://www.iwatchnews.org/2012/07/26/10229/million-dollar-donation-indiana-race-may-skirt-limits-corporate-giving>
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"A timely study of the Voting Rights Act's legacy in Congress and
the Supreme Court" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37558>
Posted on July 26, 2012 8:41 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37558> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The following book announcement arrived via email (use Code "CBC" to buy
book at 30% discount):
Both the U.S. Supreme Court and the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC)
claim to advocate minority political interests, yet they disagree over
the intent and scope of the Voting Rights Act (VRA), as well as the
interpretation of the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
Whereas the Court promotes color-blind policies, the CBC advocates
race-based remedies. Setting this debate in the context of the history
of black political thought, in //The Congressional Black Caucus,
Minority Voting Rights, and the U.S. Supreme Court
<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001rvqOChHxPrgB9UoApgFECZCyS5mTiq5KiqGVi9sCZeskDA2hJZxflI4ccwgCpE21NFqD2Yc-xS2OLOjhna0So0SDPYCfUOPxIfvd5zaRAPYk_JynAvX36VsheBqIOc_vd7ybmLDLHE9CkCm6Q-4W3k8j8aj3-Hl2>
Rivers examines a series of high-profile districting cases, from Rodgers
v. Lodge (1982) through NAMUDNO v. Holder (2009). She evaluates the
competing approaches to racial equality and concludes, surprisingly,
that an originalist, race-conscious interpretation of the 14th
Amendment, along with a revised states' rights position regarding
electoral districting, may better serve minority political interests.
*Christina R. Rivers* is Associate Professor of Political Science at
DePaul University.
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"Earmark Ban Fails to Stop Lawmaker Requests for Spending"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37555>
Posted on July 26, 2012 8:39 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37555> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bloomberg reports <http://bloom.bg/Nwjjgw>.
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" TV Stations Charge 'Super-Gouge' Ad Rates for Super-PACS"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37553>
Posted on July 26, 2012 8:38 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37553> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bloomberg reports <http://bloom.bg/NvF2oU>.
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Question of the Night: Pa Voter ID
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37547>
Posted on July 25, 2012 9:13 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37547> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
We don't know what will happen in the state voter id challenge, going
against the new law on state constitutional grounds. If it is true that
the Pennsylvania voter identification law will disenfranchise so many
people who do not have the right photo id and are not likely to be able
to get it before November, is anyone contemplating a federal /as
applied/ challenge as left open by the Supreme Court in /Crawford/?
On the practical difficulties of bringing as applied challenges under
/Crawford/, see Julien Kern, As-Applied Constitutional Challenges, Class
Actions, and Other Strategies: Potential Solutions to Challenging Voter
Identification Laws After Crawford v. Marion County Election Board
<http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/llr/vol42/iss3/3/>.
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The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>, voter id
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Justice Scalia NPR Interview Touches on One Person, One Vote,
Campaign Finance Disclosure <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37544>
Posted on July 25, 2012 8:19 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37544> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Listen/read Nina Totenberg's report
<http://www.npr.org/2012/07/25/157319766/justice-scalia-disputes-accuracy-of-leak>.
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"The GOP's Self-Inflicted Wounds? Could Republican-sponsored voter
ID laws actually disenfranchise Republicans?"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37541>
Posted on July 25, 2012 7:58 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37541> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Emily Bazelon
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2012/07/pennsylvania_s_voter_id_law_bad_for_both_parties_.html>:
"But there is data floating around that suggests that both the 759,000
and the 185,000 numbers may be significantly inflated. I got access to
it only by promising not to say where it comes from, but the experts I
was talking to read me numbers that disputed the well-known public
figures. This data reportedly shows that between 60 and 65 percent of
eligible voters, and a similar percentage of people who actually voted
in 2008, don't have the right ID because their drivers' licenses have
expired. This expired-license group skews elderly and does not skew
African-American. Which suggests it may not be made up largely of
Democrats, since older voters are more likely to be Republicans. Also
noteworthy: While many of the voters without valid licenses live in
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, plenty also live in the suburbs---where the
GOP is strong. [*Update, 6:20 p.m., July 25*: I've now read for myself
an expert report for the plaintiffs filed in court, and it confirms much
of what I've writen above.]"
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Time for Chief Justice Roberts to Hit the Airwaves
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37538>
Posted on July 25, 2012 7:19 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37538> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
So argues
<http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/25/the-story-so-far/?hp>Linda
Greenhouse, in a piece discussing some research on public opinion and
the Supreme Court.
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"Influence Industry: IRS may consider tightening rules for
nonprofits that influence elections"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37536>
Posted on July 25, 2012 7:18 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37536> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WaPo
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-influence-industry-irs-says-it-will-consider-changes-to-nonprofit-politics-rules/2012/07/25/gJQArQtu9W_story.html>:
"Campaign watchdog groups see a glimmer of hope in a new letter from the
Internal Revenue Service, which suggests that the agency might consider
changes to the rules governing tax exemptions for politically active
groups. Some tax experts, however, aren't so sure that any reforms are
in the offing."
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Jim Greer Says Florida Republicans Discussed Suppression of
African-American Votes <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37531>
Posted on July 25, 2012 3:16 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37531> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Tampa Bay Times
<http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/national/jim-greer-denounces-florida-republican-party-officials-as-liars-and/1242157>:
Greer's animosity was evident on almost every page of the deposition
as he described the inner workings of a party that has controlled
Florida since 1998.
On voter suppression, Greer said he had just completed a December
2009 meeting with party general counsel Jason Gonzalez, political
consultant Jim Rimes and Eric Eikenberg, Crist's chief of staff,
when questions arose about fundraising.
"I was upset because the political consultants and staff were
talking about voter suppression and keeping blacks from voting. It
had been one of those days," he said.
Rimes said he recalls no discussion of suppressing votes at any
meeting. Eikenberg did not return phone calls.
Keep in mind that Greer is not the most credible witness. (H/t Dan Smith
<https://twitter.com/electionsmith/status/228250981522079744>)
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Big Election Law Scholar News: Cain to Stanford
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37529>
Posted on July 25, 2012 3:12 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37529> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bruce Cain, of the UC Berkeley Political Science Department
<http://polisci.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/person_detail.php?person=226>and
the UCDC Center <http://www.ucdc.edu/users/bcain>, is moving to Stanford
in 2013. He is the director designate for the Bill Lane Center for the
American West <http://west.stanford.edu/> and in the political science
department at Stanford. He will be at visitor at NYU's Straus Center in
the upcoming year.
What a coup for Stanford, and what a loss for UC. Good luck Bruce!
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Democratic Super PACs Looking to Affect Missouri, Wisconsin U.S.
Senate Races <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37526>
Posted on July 25, 2012 2:49 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37526> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
See this Roll Call report.
<http://atr.rollcall.com/democrats-seek-to-stir-gop-pot-in-missouri-wisconsin-senate-races/>
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Vote Buying in Eastern Kentucky <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37523>
Posted on July 25, 2012 2:27 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37523> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Pretty brazen
<http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07/25/drug-money-funds-voter-fraud-in-kentucky/>activities,
and unusual from what I've seen in that the vote buyers were paying for
in person, rather than absentee votes:
"When it comes to vote buying, it's an everyday thing. ... It's
pretty much like jaywalking," admits former Breathitt County
magistrate candidate Michael Salyers, who is now serving time in
jail for buying votes in his 2010 race. While the funds in his case
did not involve drug money, he describes how he was given $500 and
ended up buying about 10 votes. He would meet people seeking to sell
their votes in the back room of a local store.
"The sellers in this situation would come to me and ask how much was
I paying for votes, and ask me if I was buying votes or whatever,
and I told them the most I could pay is $25," Salyers described to
Fox News. "They would go into the machine and cast their vote...They
were supposed to vote for me. They would come back to me and I would
pay them for going to vote. I had one gentleman come to me and say
'Mike, I have four votes,' so he took them to vote and I gave him
$100, $25 a vote."
Salyers says vote buying has been so blatant that, "you used to be
able to go behind the voting machine with voters, to make sure that
if you bought their vote, that they would vote the way you wanted
to." But the laws were strengthened, and now vote buyers have to
trust that the people they pay to cast their ballots vote as they
say they will.
There is a long history of such vote buying in the Southeast/Appalachian
region. (See my earlier report <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=17668>on
these cases from March and see excerpts
<http://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/the-day-the-vote-buying-stopped/Content?oid=1837617>froma
new book
<http://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/memoir-of-an-election-crusader/Content?oid=1837624>by
Arkansas Supreme Court Justice Tom Glaze noted in my post
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=19901> from last year).
Notably, none of this has anything to do with a voter i.d. law.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>, election administration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, The Voting Wars
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=43>, voter id
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Democrats Fundraising Off Voting Wars in PA Voter ID Suit
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37520>
Posted on July 25, 2012 2:03 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37520> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Christian Adams reports
<http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/07/25/doj-voter-id-letter-generates-cash-for-dccc/>.
One of the main claims I make regarding voter i.d. in /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>/
is that the battle over voter i.d. is as much (if not more) about
motiviating the base and raising funds /by both parties/ than it is
about having a great effect on voter fraud or voter turnout.
Here's an example <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=30905> on the
Republican side (from the book):
Consider this quote ... from a Republican operative in New Mexico to
U.S. Attorney David Iglesias urging an indictment of an ACORN employee
before the next election:
I believe the [voter] ID issue should be used (now) at all
levels---federal, state legislative races and Heather [Wilson]'s
race. . . *. You are not going to find a better wedge issue.* . . .
I've got to believe the [voter] ID issue would do Heather more good
than another ad talking about how much federal taxpayer money she
has put into the (state) education system and social security. . . .
This is the single best wedge issue, ever in NM. We will not have
this opportunity again. . . . Today, we expect to file a new Public
Records lawsuit, by 3 Republican legislators, demanding the
Bernalillo county clerk locate and produce (before Oct 15) ALL of
the registrations signed by the ACORN employee.
Iglesias did not bring that indictment as was sacked for his failure to
pursue bogus voter fraud claims.
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Justice O'Connor Suggests Bush v. Gore Was "Tipping Point" on SCOTUS
Legitimacy <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37517>
Posted on July 25, 2012 1:44 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37517> by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
BLT
<http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2012/07/oconnor-faults-supreme-court-critics-with-a-lack-of-understanding.html>:
Grassley pointed out that many Americans now disapprove of the
Supreme Court's performance, and the healthcare decision did not
improve its popularity. He cited a news account that showed
Americans believe the decision was based mainly on the justices'
personal or political views, and only about 30 percent of Americans
say the decision was made mainly on legal analysis.
When asked about the cause of that decline in public's approval,
O'Connor said: "I wish I knew."
She speculated the Bush v. Gore decision was a tipping point. "It is
conceivable because that was a very tense case that involved the
holdovers from a very close election," O'Connor said.
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"Fifty Small, Local Nonprofits, Tea Party Groups Granted 501(c)(4)
Tax Exemption by IRS, Miller Says"
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Posted on July 25, 2012 11:58 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37514>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bloomberg BNA: "The Internal Revenue Service has approved more than 50
small, locally based organizations seeking tax-exemption under tax code
Section 501(c)(4), including some tea party groups, Steven Miller,
Deputy Commissioner for Services and Enforcement told a House
subcommittee hearing July 25."
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"Will Florida's Voter Purge Cost Obama the Election?"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37511>
Posted on July 25, 2012 11:49 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37511>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The Atlantic reports
<http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/07/will-floridas-voter-purge-cost-obama-the-election/260225/#>.
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" Pennsylvania Voter Law Is 'Harassment,' Lawyer Says"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37508>
Posted on July 25, 2012 11:39 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37508>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bloomberg reports
<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-25/pennsylvania-voter-law-put-to-test-in-grandmother-s-suit.html>.
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"Pennsylvania voter ID case opens in state court"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37505>
Posted on July 25, 2012 11:29 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37505>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WaPo reports
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pa-voter-id-case-opens-in-state-court/2012/07/25/gJQAt28A9W_story_1.html>.
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"No, Democrats Aren't Trying To Register Kids And Dogs To Vote"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37502>
Posted on July 25, 2012 11:02 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37502>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
This TPM report
<http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/07/romney_cries_fraud_on_virginia_voter_registration_campaign.php?ref=fpblg>
follows up on the story I flagged earlier
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37449> about the Voter Participation
Center and the forms sent to Virginia households.
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"Romney's Small Donor Pace Picked Up in June, But Still Has a Long
Way to Catch Obama's" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37499>
Posted on July 25, 2012 10:49 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37499>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The latest report
<http://cfinst.org/Press/PReleases/12-07-25/Romney%E2%80%99s_Small_Donor_Pace_Picked_Up_in_June_But_Still_Has_a_Long_Way_to_Catch_Obama%E2%80%99s.aspx>
from CFI. I consider these CFI reports essential reading for anyone who
wants to keep up with campaign financing in the presidential election.
A snippet:
In June, the Romney campaign raised $9.9 million in unitemized
contributions of $200 or less. The campaign's staff had reported a
surge in small contributions at the end of the month, after the
Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act on June 28. The monthly
haul more than doubled Romney's unitemized contributions of $4.1
million in May, which in turn nearly doubled its $2.4 million in
April. The June figure represented 29% of the Romney campaign's
$33.8 million in receipts for the month (up from 17.4% in May and
20.3% in April).
Even so, President Obama's raised nearly twice as much in unitemized
contributions as Gov. Romney in June -- $18.6 million to $9.9
million. These figures include unitemized contributions transferred
to the campaigns by the candidates' joint fundraising committees.
They therefore are higher than ones reported in some early press
accounts. They also were slightly higher than the Obama campaign's
combined $15.1 million in unitemized contributions in May and $11.2
million in April. Unitemized contributions made up 38% of the Obama
campaign's $49.2 million in receipts for June.
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"Kathleen Clyde: Two visions of voting, here and across Ohio"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37496>
Posted on July 25, 2012 10:47 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37496>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
See this column
<http://www.ohio.com/editorial/kathleen-clyde-two-visions-of-voting-here-and-across-ohio-1.322368>
at Ohio.com.
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