[EL] ELB News and Commentary 6/14/12

Thu Jun 14 09:30:39 PDT 2012

More basically, Professor Hasen’s solution raises a fundamental question that bedevils local politics across much of the West – the notion that making political matters “non-partisan” removes partisanship from the equation.  All it does is put partisanship below the surface, lessening the information available to voters about the persons running the show.

Disclosure of partisan affiliation of elected officials, especially those who run elections is at least as important as the identity of those sending them campaign money.

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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 Steve Hoersting
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 9:12 AM
To: JBoppjr at aol.com
Cc: law-election at UCI.EDU
Subject: Re: [EL] ELB News and Commentary 6/14/12

I see Jim is already ahead of me on this.

- Steve
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:59 AM, <JBoppjr at aol.com<mailto:JBoppjr at aol.com>> wrote:
Isn't this really a fantasy:  "Create an independent, nonpartisan agency to run our federal elections."

If the federal agency would be "independent," who would appoint them under our system other than the President.  Well, the President is a little partisan.  And how therefore would it then be "nonpartisan." And if all elections in every state were run by one federal agency, this federal agency would be the biggest prize to control for partisan ends ever devised.

Why isn't it better to, (1) acknowledge the reality than anyone who bubbles up in the political system to run elections are likely to be partisan, (2) therefore, create lots of checks and balances by involving both parties in election administration so they can watch over each other, and (3) disperse the control of elections as widely as possible - say at the county level.  As a result, it is true that there will be Republican control of elections in some counties and Democrat control of election in others, but this will balance out over the whole country.

If we have one federal agency in charge, I am sure the "reformers" will want one person in charge of that agency -- no more "tie" votes like at the FEC.  Well this is the biggest partisan prize ever.

Ok, lets test my theory.  Name me one, just one living breathing person, not some theoretical or dead person, who would be so "independent" and "nonpartisan" and that the President would nominate and the Senate would confirm who everyone would trust with this awesome power.  Just one.

Jim Bopp

In a message dated 6/14/2012 11:29:56 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, rhasen at law.uci.edu<mailto:rhasen at law.uci.edu> writes:

“End the Voting Wars: Take our elections out of the hands of the partisan and the incompetent.”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35724>
Posted on June 14, 2012 8:28 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35724> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

I have written this piece<http://hive.slate.com/hive/how-can-we-fix-constitution/article/end-the-voting-wars> for Slate, part of its ts “How to Fix the Constitution” Hive<http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_hive.html>.  It begins:

My field is election law, and in this area it’s really easy to come up with a sexy but risky fix that might improve the U.S. Constitution: Abolish<http://www.nationalpopularvote.com/> the Electoral College. Overturn<http://movetoamend.org/> Citizens United and the flood of corporate money in elections<http://hive.slate.com/hive/how-can-we-fix-constitution/article/the-once-and-for-all-solution-to-our-campaign-finance-problems>. Establish<http://ni4d.us/> a national initiative allowing voters to vote directly on legislation instead of going through Congress, making the United States more like California.  I have a change that will sound less sexy but is more needed than all of them: Create an independent, nonpartisan agency to run our federal elections.

The United States is one of the few mature democracies that leaves the rules for counting elections in local hands, and, in a majority of states, that means partisan officials are in charge.  Think about it: We have people running our elections whose ultimate allegiance is not to the integrity of the vote count but to the Republican Party or the Democratic Party.

So when Florida’s Republican Gov. Rick Scott defends<http://www.theledger.com/article/20120606/POLITICS/120609606/1004/news?p=1&tc=pghttp://www.theledger.com/article/20120606/POLITICS/120609606/1004/news?p=1&tc=pg> his latest purge of voters as necessary to keep illegal voters from voting, why should we believe<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35134> he is doing this in the best interest of the integrity of the elections rather than to give Romney and edge over Obama in the perennial swing state? And when Obama’s Justice Department objects to the purge, why should we believe<http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/301900/who-may-vote-florida-hans-von-spakovsky> it is acting to preserve voter access to the polls rather than trying to give that edge<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/07/us/florida-vows-to-continue-its-search-for-ineligible-voters.html?ref=politicshttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/07/us/florida-vows-to-continue-its-search-for-ineligible-voters.html?ref=politics> to Obama?

As I document<http://thevotingwars.com/> in my upcoming book, The Voting Wars: From Florida 2000 to the Next Election Meltdown<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300182031/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=slatmaga-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0300182031>, the fights over election rules, especially over controversial new voter identification rules, have gotten much worse since Bush v. Gore in 2000….
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“Money and the ‘Appearance of Corruption’”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35720>
Posted on June 14, 2012 8:22 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35720> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Paul Sherman WSJ oped<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303768104577462822206922422.html?mod=googlenews_wsj>: “But there is also a third possibility: The Supreme Court could double down on Citizens United and reject, once and for all, the flawed justification underlying much of America’s failed experiment with campaign-finance law—the so-called appearance-of-corruption standard.”

This is what I mean when I asked whether liberals were shooting themselves in the foot<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=34885> by seeking cert. in the Montana case.  The best way to win in the Roberts Court if you are a liberal is to stay out<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2009/09/how_liberals_can_win_by_losing_at_the_roberts_court.html>.
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“New Arizona election plea (UPDATE)”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35717>
Posted on June 14, 2012 8:19 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35717> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

SCOTUSBlog<http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/06/new-arizona-election-plea/>: “Arizona state officials asked the Supreme Court <http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/11A1189-AZ-applic.pdf> on Wednesday to allow election officials there to demand that all voters show proof of citizenship before they may register to vote   The divided en banc Ninth Circuit Court ruled in April<http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/9th-CA-ruling-on-voter-regist.-4-17-12.pdf> that the citizenship proof requirement conflicts with a 1993 federal law passed to make it easier for individuals to sign up to vote.  The state took its plea for a delay of that ruling, for the duration of this year’s election season, to Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who has the option of acting alone or referring the issue to his eight colleagues.  The application (11A1189) was filed in Arizona v. Gonzalez, et al.  The en banc Ninth Circuit, over three judges’ dissents, had denied a stay<http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/9th-CA-stay-denial-AZ-election-case-6-7-121.pdf> last week.”
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Pipe Dream Dept.<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35713>
Posted on June 14, 2012 8:00 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35713> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

“After one nuclear winter of an election, rich partisans could agree to mutual disarmament.”

–E.J. Dionne, Secret Money Fuels the 2012 Elections<http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/secret-money-fuels-the-2012-elections/2012/06/13/gJQAsZ4FaV_story.html>.

See also Adelson’s Donations Could Be “Limitless”<http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/06/14/adelsons_donations_could_be_limitless.html>
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“Aetna Hides $7 Million in Political Spending”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35710>
Posted on June 14, 2012 7:58 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35710> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

CREW has posted this release.<http://www.citizensforethics.org/press/entry/aetna-political-spending-american-action-network-chamber-of-commerce>
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An Inside Look at the Most Dysfunctional Appellate Court in the U.S.<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35707>
Posted on June 14, 2012 7:55 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35707> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The latest<http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/judicial-commissions-first-vote-on-prosser-complaint-was-unanimous-ci5p21t-158912155.html> from Wisconsin.
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Posted in ethics investigations<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=42>, judicial elections<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=19> | Comments Off
“The Money Crisis: How Citizens United Undermines Our Elections and the Supreme Court”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35704>
Posted on June 14, 2012 7:50 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35704> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Russ Feingold has written this piece <http://www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/money-crisis> for the Stanford Law Review Online.
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“Alaska Native Group Suing Division of Elections”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35701>
Posted on June 14, 2012 7:42 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35701> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

New section 5 suit<http://www.alaskapublic.org/2012/06/11/alaska-native-group-suing-division-of-elections/> in Alaska.
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“Top Two in California Primaries, June 2012: By the Numbers: High Rates of Invalid Ballots; Perverse Outcomes; Major Parties Dominate”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35698>
Posted on June 14, 2012 7:39 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35698> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

FairVote has issued this press release<http://www.fairvote.org/top-two-in-california-primaries-june-2012-by-the-numbers#.T9n3c1LNnTt>.
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“Ex-prosecutor George Holding defends John Edwards case”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35696>
Posted on June 14, 2012 7:37 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35696> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Must-read<http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2012/06/exprosecutor-george-holding-defends-john-edwards-case-126118.html> Gerstein.
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“Ex-lawmaker lobbyists more likely to put leftover campaign money to political use”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35694>
Posted on June 14, 2012 7:36 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35694> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo reports<http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ex-lawmaker-lobbyists-more-likely-to-put-leftover-campaign-money-to-political-use/2012/06/13/gJQApprNbV_story.html>.
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“No New Trial for John Edwards”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35691>
Posted on June 14, 2012 7:32 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35691> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT reports<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/14/us/politics/john-edwards-charges-dismissed.html?ref=politics>.
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“Beltway Bundlers Have Mitt Romney Sitting Pretty”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35689>
Posted on June 14, 2012 7:31 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35689> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Roll Call reports<http://www.rollcall.com/issues/57_151/Beltway_Bundlers_Have_Mitt_Romney_Sitting_Pretty-215368-1.html?pos=htmbtxt>.
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“The Anti-ALEC alliance: Group at heart of anti-conservative crusade is shadowy organization funded by leftwing millionaires and billionaires”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35687>
Posted on June 14, 2012 7:31 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35687> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The right wants disclosure <http://freebeacon.com/the-anti-alec-alliance/> of funding for issue advocacy.  Interesting. (h/t Eric Brown<http://politicalactivitylaw.com/2012/06/14/good-morning-here-are-todays-political-law-links-for-thurs-june-14th/>)
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“The Missing Right To Vote; What we’d get from amending the Constitution to guarantee it.”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35685>
Posted on June 14, 2012 7:29 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35685> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Heather Gerken has written this Slate contribution<http://hive.slate.com/hive/how-can-we-fix-constitution/article/the-missing-right-to-vote> to its “How to Fix the Constitution” Hive<http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_hive.html>.
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“Campaign Aid Is Now Surging Into 8 Figures”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35683>
Posted on June 14, 2012 7:27 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35683> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/14/us/politics/sheldon-adelson-sets-new-standard-as-campaign-aid-surges-into-8-figures.html?_r=1&smid=pl-share>: “Even in a political season marked by unprecedented levels of political spending, Sheldon Adelson<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/a/sheldon_g_adelson/index.html?inline=nyt-per> stands alone.”
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“Corporate Cash in State Elections Gets U.S. High Court Scrutiny”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35681>
Posted on June 14, 2012 7:25 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35681> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bloomberg reports<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-14/corporate-cash-in-state-elections-gets-u-s-high-court-scrutiny.html>.
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“Fla. Gov. Rick Scott Defends Noncitizen Voter Purges”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35678>
Posted on June 13, 2012 1:29 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35678> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NPR reports<http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/06/13/154935265/fla-gov-rick-scott-defends-noncitizen-voter-purges?ft=1&f=1014&sc=tw>.
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“Justice Department Is Dropping Case Against Edwards”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35675>
Posted on June 13, 2012 1:15 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35675> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Carrie Johnson reports<http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/06/13/154951540/justice-department-is-dropping-case-against-edwards> for NPR.
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“Angus King pledges to discourage super PAC money if his opponents do the same”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35673>
Posted on June 13, 2012 1:14 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35673> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

News<http://bangordailynews.com/2012/06/13/politics/angus-king-pledges-to-discourage-pac-money-if-his-opponents-do-the-same/?ref=videos> from Maine.
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“New Wine Into Old Bottles: Adapting Text Messaging Proposal to 1970’s Era Rules Gains FEC Approval”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35671>
Posted on June 13, 2012 1:13 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35671> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Larry Norton blogs <http://www.politicallawbriefing.com/my-blog/2012/06/new-wine-into-old-bottles-adapting-text-messaging-proposal-to-1970s-era-rules-gains-fec-approval-.html> at Venable’s new Political Law Briefing blog.
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“Gingrich: Elections ‘rigged’ for the rich”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35668>
Posted on June 13, 2012 1:08 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35668> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Newt Gingrich, whose presidential campaign stayed alive as long as it did only because of his rich Super PAC benefactors, now complains<http://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-politics-elections/gingrich-elections-rigged-for-1457276.html>.
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“Dice Roll Decides Election in Texas Town”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35666>
Posted on June 13, 2012 1:07 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35666> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

ABC News reports<http://news.yahoo.com/dice-roll-decides-election-texas-town-165130275.html>.
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Larry Tribe Calls for Constitutional Amendment to Overturn Citizens United<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35662>
Posted on June 13, 2012 11:49 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35662> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Read his proposal<http://hive.slate.com/hive/how-can-we-fix-constitution/article/the-once-and-for-all-solution-to-our-campaign-finance-problems> here in Slate, part of their How to Fix the Constitution<http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_hive.html> “Hive” series.

Up in the Hive tomorrow: more election law-related proposals from Heather Gerken and from me.
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“Ex-Gov. White says state voter laws flawed”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35659>
Posted on June 13, 2012 10:21 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35659> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Houston Chronicle<http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Ex-Gov-White-says-state-voter-laws-flawed-3629126.php>: “Voter registration restrictions imposed by the Texas Legislature<http://www.chron.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=news%2Fhouston-texas&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Texas+Legislature%22> last session are unnecessary and make it more difficult to register voters, former Texas Gov. Mark White<http://www.chron.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=news%2Fhouston-texas&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Mark+White%22> testified Tuesday in Galveston federal court.”

See also this report<http://www.chron.com/default/article/Volunteer-says-Texas-voter-laws-cause-fear-of-3626148.php>.
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“New York Deal Near for Simplified Ballots”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35657>
Posted on June 13, 2012 10:19 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35657> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT’s “City Room” blog reports.<http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/12/deal-near-for-simplified-ballots/>
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“Appellate Lawyer of the Week: Anthony Johnstone”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35655>
Posted on June 13, 2012 10:18 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35655> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NLJ<http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleSCI.jsp?id=1202555936944&slreturn=1>: “In 2009, Anthony Johnstone and his home state of Montana played supporting roles in the legal drama surrounding the Citizens United campaign finance challenge. Today, the law professor and state officials stand center stage in a fight to save Montana’s law in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision.”

I’m looking forward to joining Anthony and a great crowd at the University of Montana at the end of the September for a conference on money and politics.

(h/t How Appealing<http://howappealing.law.com/061312.html#046115>)
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Quote of the Day<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35652>
Posted on June 13, 2012 9:41 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35652> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

“On both the left and the right, then, originalism is no longer a theory of judicial restraint, as it was once described by Black or Scalia, but a means of advancing partisan preferences.”

–Jeffrey Rosen, Constitution Avenue:Liberals discover a theory to crush conservative jurisprudence.<http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/103943/magazine/constitution-avenue-supreme-court?page=0,0>
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“Sen. Grassley demands re-vote on 9th Circuit judge nomination”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35649>
Posted on June 13, 2012 8:04 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=35649> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The Hill<http://thehill.com/video/senate/232395-grassley-demands-re-vote-on-9th-circuit-nominee>: “Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) late Tuesday demanded that the Senate vote again on the confirmation of Andrew Hurwitz to be a U.S. Circuit Judge for the 9th Circuit, and said he was not aware that Senate Democrats were planning to ask for a speedy voice vote on the nomination.”
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