[EL] ELB News and Commentary 11/5/12

JBoppjr at aol.com JBoppjr at aol.com
Mon Nov 5 11:29:09 PST 2012


Regarding this:
 
_“Controversial Arizona nonprofit releases name of contributors —  more 
nonprofits”_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43391)  
Posted on _November 5, 2012 9:32 am_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43391)  
by _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
_LA Times:_ 
(http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2012/11/arizona-group-releases-names.html)  ”In a stunning reversal, an obscure 
Arizona  nonprofit at the center of a legal battle over secret political 
contributions  released on Monday morning the identity of its contributors, which it 
had been  fighting tooth and nail to keep secret. But the disclosure did 
little to shed  light on who was behind the $11-million donation to a 
California campaign fund.  The Arizona group, Americans for Responsible Leadership, 
identified its  contributors only as other nonprofits. The money was passed 
from Americans  for Job Security to the Center to Protect Patient Rights to 
Americans for  Responsible Leadership, according to state authorities. From 
there, the money  was sent to a California campaign committee fighting Gov. 
Jerry Brown’s tax-hike  plan, Proposition 30, and pushing a separate ballot 
measure to curb unions’  political influence, Proposition 32.” 
_More from TPM._ 
(http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/11/americans_responsible_leadership_donors_revealed.php)  
This is a very important fight.  California’s disclosure law has been  
particularly effective in preventing the kind of shell game we see here.  It is 
crucial for California to continue to pursue this case aggressively  (kudos 
all around), otherwise this shell game model would become the norm in  CA. 


Apparently, Rick is not satisfied with this first level of "disclosure,"  
even though apparently Calif is (though I am not sure from reading the 
article),  so I assume he wants to go to the second level.  Let's play that game 
with  the following hypothetical:
 
Lets say that the Ariz group, which made the California ballot measure  
committee a $10 million dollar contribution (to keep it simple), had 10  
donors, nonprofits A through J, and each of these 10 nonprofits had1,000 donors  
each.  Lets say that each of these nonprofits, A through J, each gave the  
Ariz group $!,000,000, but each had total contributions of $10,000,000 from  
their 1,000 donors.  Thus, nonprofits A though J gave 10% of their money to  
the Arizona nonprofit. 
 
Now what possible relevance would it be force nonprofits A through J to  
disclose their 1,000 donors, assuming none of those contributions were 
earmarked  to contribute to the Ariz group or the Calif ballot measure committee?   
What is the "shell game" here that Rick wants to uncover?
 
What if each of these nonprofits, A through J, got one donation from  
another nonprofit who also had 1,000 donors.  Should this nonprofit also  reveal 
its donors?  What if it only gave 10% of its total contributions  during the 
year?
 
Since the federal government is the only one with a money tree, there is  
actually no original source of money -- everyone get it from someone else -- 
so  where does this end and at what point does it no longer become relevant? 
  Jim Bopp
 
 
 
In a message dated 11/5/2012 1:00:43 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
henryelliotweinstein at gmail.com writes:

To quote  the great Yogi Berra, ``Deja Vu, All Over Again.''

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Rick Hasen <_rhasen at law.uci.edu_ 
(mailto:rhasen at law.uci.edu) > wrote:


 
_Miami  Dade Again Shuts Down in Person Absentee Balloting._ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43409)  
Posted on _November 5, 2012 9:52 am_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43409)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
Even though Ohio is giving it a run for its money, Florida is doing  
whatever it can to be the next Florida. 
My prediction is that FL beats OH in the Election Incompetency Bowl,  
broadcast live tomorrow (all stations). 
A national embarassment. 
 
 
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_“This  Morning’s Ohio Provisional Ballot Counting Motions”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43407)  
Posted on _November 5, 2012 9:49 am_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43407)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
_The latest_ 
(http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/analysis/index.php?ID=10025)  from Ohio. 
 
 
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_A Few  Media Interviews_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43404)  
Posted on _November 5, 2012 9:47 am_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43404)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
You can listen to me on the _Diane Rehm Show_ 
(http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2012-11-05/casting-your-vote-2012)  (with Norm Ornstein and Michael  
McDonald) and on _Ian Masters._ 
(http://www.npr.org/2012/11/05/164335487/polls-put-race-within-the-margin-of-litigation?ft=1&f=1014&sc=tw)   A little 
later I’ll be on Bloomberg TV,  with Sirius XM, and a few more things coming 
up. 
Unfortunately, there’s lots of problems to talk about. 
 
 
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_“Polls  Put Race Within ‘The Margin Of Litigation’”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43402)  
Posted on _November 5, 2012 9:44 am_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43402)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
NPR’s “_Tell Me More._ 
(http://www.npr.org/2012/11/05/164335487/polls-put-race-within-the-margin-of-litigation?ft=1&f=1014&sc=tw) “ 
 
 
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_“Whose  votes count, whose don’t? The legal landscape before Election Day”
_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43399)  
Posted on _November 5, 2012 9:42 am_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43399)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
_The Christian Science Monitor reports._ 
(http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/2012/1105/Whose-votes-count-whose-don-t-The-legal-landscape-before-Ele
ction-Day)  
 
 
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_“Florida’s Early Voting Meltdown”_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43396)  
Posted on _November 5, 2012 9:40 am_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43396)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
_This item_ 
(http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/11/05/floridas-early-voting-meltdown/)  appears in Commentary. 
 
 
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_“McCain Strategist Admits Voter Fraud ‘Doesn’t Really  Exist’”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43393)  
Posted on _November 5, 2012 9:36 am_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43393)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
Steve Schmidt, John McCain’s former campaign manager, _told MSNBC_ 
(http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/11/05/1139141/mccain-strategist-admits-voter-
fraud-doesnt-really-exist/) : “I think that all of this stuff that has  
transpired over the last two years is in search of a solution to a problem,  
voting fraud, that doesn’t really exist when you look deeply at the  question. 
It’s part of the mythology now in the Republican Party that  there’s 
widespread voter fraud across the country.” 
Remember what John McCain said during the 2008 campaign at a debate: ”  “
We need to know the full extent of Senator Obama’s relationship with ACORN,  
who is now on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in  
voter history in this country, maybe destroying the fabric of  democracy.” 
 
 
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_“Controversial Arizona nonprofit releases name of contributors  — more 
nonprofits”_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43391)  
Posted on _November 5, 2012 9:32 am_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43391)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
_LA Times:_ 
(http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2012/11/arizona-group-releases-names.html)  ”In a stunning reversal, an obscure 
Arizona  nonprofit at the center of a legal battle over secret political  
contributions released on Monday morning the identity of its contributors,  which it 
had been fighting tooth and nail to keep secret. But the disclosure  did 
little to shed light on who was behind the $11-million donation to a  
California campaign fund. The Arizona group, Americans for Responsible  Leadership, 
identified its contributors only as other nonprofits. The  money was passed 
from Americans for Job Security to the Center to Protect  Patient Rights to 
Americans for Responsible Leadership, according to state  authorities. From 
there, the money was sent to a California campaign  committee fighting Gov. 
Jerry Brown’s tax-hike plan, Proposition 30, and  pushing a separate ballot 
measure to curb unions’ political influence,  Proposition 32.” 
_More from TPM._ 
(http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/11/americans_responsible_leadership_donors_revealed.php)  
This is a very important fight.  California’s disclosure law has  been 
particularly effective in preventing the kind of shell game we see  here.  It is 
crucial for California to continue to pursue this case  aggressively (kudos 
all around), otherwise this shell game model would  become the norm in CA. 
 
 
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_“Why  No One Should Have To Wait Two Hours To Vote”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43389)  
Posted on _November 5, 2012 9:29 am_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43389)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
Emily Bazelon _writes at Slate._ 
(http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/11/early_voting_republicans_have_tried_to_restrict_acces
s_to_voting_for_partisan.html)  
 
 
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_“Ohio  2012: What to Watch For”_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43386)  
Posted on _November 5, 2012 9:19 am_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43386)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
_Indispensable_ 
(http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/comments/index.php?ID=10023)  Dan Tokaji cheatsheet. 
 
 
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_“Mystery firm is election’s top corporate donor at $5.3  million”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43383)  
Posted on _November 5, 2012 9:12 am_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43383)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
The Center for Public Integrity _reports_ 
(http://www.publicintegrity.org/2012/11/02/11689/mystery-firm-elections-top-corporate-donor-53-million) . 
 
 
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_State  of Elections Blog_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43380)  
Posted on _November 5, 2012 9:10 am_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43380)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
William & Mary Law’s student-run “_State of  Elections_ 
(http://www.stateofelections.com/) ” blog is running a two day series, “Battleground 2012,”  
featuring original analysis and reporting by W&M law students. Topics  range 
from shoehorning third party candidates onto ballots in Oklahoma, to  the 
finance free-for-all in Missouri, and the aftermath of September’s  
early-voting battle in Ohio. Click _here_ (http://www.stateofelections.com/)  to  
read. 
 
 
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_“Presidential Election Seen Spurring New Wave of Lawsuits”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43378)   
Posted on _November 5, 2012 9:09 am_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43378)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
_Bloomberg reports._ (http://www
.businessweek.com/news/2012-11-05/presidential-election-seen-spurring-new-wave-of-lawsuits)  
 
 
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_“No  One in America Should Have to Wait 7 Hours to Vote”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43376)  
Posted on _November 5, 2012 9:08 am_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43376)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
_Andrew Cohen’s latest_ (http://bit.ly/RKXCql)  in The Atlantic. 
 
 
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_Gronke  on the Oregon Insufficient Postage for Ballots Spat_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43373)  
Posted on _November 5, 2012 9:02 am_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43373)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
_Here_ 
(http://earlyvoting.net/commentary/the-vote-by-mail-and-insufficient-postage-spat-in-oregon-big-pot-money-signature-gathering-and-more/) , at 
his important Early Voting site. 
 
 
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_“Huge  turnout, long lines for early voting in Ohio”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43370)  
Posted on _November 4, 2012 8:36 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43370)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
_The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports._ 
(http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2012/11/huge_turnout_long_lines_for_ea.html#incart_river_default)  
It is worth recalling the words of Judge White, concurring in the _Sixth 
Circuit case  which forced the state of Ohio to restore_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=41187)  this final weekend of early  voting which the legislature 
had taken away from all except military voters:  “The key distinguishing 
factor here is that Ohio voters were granted the  statutory right to in-person 
absentee voting through the close of business  hours on the Monday before 
election day, and the election boards of the  largest counties broadly 
embraced and facilitated that right, in response to  the unacceptably burdensome 
situation at many Ohio polling sites during  the 2004 election where, in some 
counties, voters were required to stand in  line for long hours and until 
late at night.” 
 
 
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_“America Braces for Election Squeaker”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43365)  
Posted on _November 4, 2012 8:23 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43365)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
_RIA  Novosti reports._ (http://en.rian.ru/world/20121105/177156694.html)  
 
 
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_“Fraud, voting rights groups will keep vigil at polls”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43362)   
Posted on _November 4, 2012 8:14 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43362)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
_News from Minnesota_ 
(http://www.startribune.com/politics/177190921.html?refer=y) . 
 
 
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_“Five  things that could go wrong on Election Day in Florida”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43359)  
Posted on _November 4, 2012 8:12 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43359)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
_Only five_ 
(http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/national/five-things-that-could-go-wrong-on-election-day-in-florida/1260003) ?  Apparently newspaper 
was tight for  space. 
 
 
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_“As  Candidates Make Final Pleas, Legal Battles Begin”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43356)  
Posted on _November 4, 2012 8:09 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43356)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
_NYT reports._ 
(http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/05/us/politics/candidates-make-final-dash-as-race-winds-down.html?pagewanted=1)  
 
 
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_“Will  Election Day be a ‘perfect storm?’ Four nightmare scenarios for 
what could  go wrong”_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43352)  
Posted on _November 4, 2012 8:05 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43352)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
_NBC News reports._ 
(http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/04/14923543-will-election-day-be-a-perfect-storm-four-nightmare-scenarios-for-what-cou
ld-go-wrong?lite&ocid=msnhp&pos=1)  
 
 
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_VIDEO:  “Top Ohio Elections Official Accuses Critics Of ‘Trying To 
Introduce  Chaos’”_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43349)  
Posted on _November 4, 2012 8:03 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43349)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
_Don Lemon CNN interview_ 
(http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/top-ohio-elections-official-accuses-critics-of-tr) , via BuzzFeed. 
 
 
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_Las  Vegas Journal Rev. Ed Writer Says He Met with Noncitizens Registered 
by  Unions to Vote and Pressured to Vote_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43346)  
Posted on _November 4, 2012 7:53 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43346)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
_Glenn Cook_ 
(http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/how-many-noncitizens-are-registered-to-vote-177141441.html) : “Last week, I met with two immigrant  
noncitizens who are not eligible to vote, but who nonetheless are active  registered 
voters for Tuesday’s election. They said they were signed up by  Culinary 
Local 226. They speak and understand enough English to get by. But  they don’t 
read English especially well. They say the Culinary official who  
registered them to vote didn’t tell them what they were signing and didn’t  ask 
whether they were citizens. The immigrants said they trusted that the  union 
official’s request was routine, thought nothing of it and went about  their 
work. Then the election drew closer. Then the Culinary canvassers  started 
seeking them out and ordering them to go vote.” 
This definitely requires further investigation. 
 
 
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_“GOP’s  push to suppress vote threatens democracy”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43343)  
Posted on _November 4, 2012 7:49 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43343)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
Ilyse Hogue has written_ this opinion piece_ 
(http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/04/opinion/hogue-voter-suppression/index.html?npt=NP1)  for CNN. 
 
 
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_“Voter  fraud or voter supression? Party chairmen rattle sabres as 
Election Day  nears in Ohio”_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43340)  
Posted on _November 4, 2012 7:45 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43340)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
Unfortunately,_ the new normal._ 
(http://dispatchpolitics.dispatch.com/content/blogs/the-daily-briefing/2012/11/4-november-2012---chairman-battle.html) 
 
 
 
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_“Arizona Group Plans Appeal to U.S. Supreme Court in Funding  Case”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43337)  
Posted on _November 4, 2012 7:42 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43337)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
_Trying to run out the clock._ 
(http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2012/11/arizona-nonprofit-supreme-court.html)  
The group should be called Americans for Irresponsible  Leadership. 
 
 
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_“A  voting debacle in Doral causes chaos and confusion”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43334)  
Posted on _November 4, 2012 5:54 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43334)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
_Miami Herald_ 
(http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/11/04/3081614/florida-democratic-party-files.html) : 
On the surface, officials blamed technical  equipment and a lack of staff 
for the shutdown. But behind the scenes,  there was another issue: Miami-Dade 
Mayor Carlos Gimenez. 
The Republican had never signed off on the additional in-person  absentee 
voting hours in the first place. 
“That was counter to what I said on Friday, which was we were not going  to 
change the game mid-stream,” he said. “I said, ‘No, there’s no way we  
did this.’” 
But Gimenez, who is in a nonpartisan post, quickly realized it was  better 
to let the voting go on, and the voting resumed. 
The mayor said he found out early Sunday afternoon — from his  
daughter-in-law — about the extra voting hours.

 
 
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_“In  Ohio Vote, A Form-Checking Nightmare”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43331)  
Posted on _November 4, 2012 5:50 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43331)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
_BuzzFeed reports_ 
(http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/in-ohio-vote-a-form-checking-nightmare) . 
 
 
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_“Florida Early Voting Fiasco: Voters Wait For Hours At Polls  As Rick 
Scott Refuses To Budge”_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43327)  
Posted on _November 4, 2012 4:12 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43327)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
_Huffington Post reports_ 
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/04/florida-early-voting_n_2073119.html) . 
 
 
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_CA  Supreme Court Orders Arizona Group Making Prop. 32 Donations to Submit 
to  Audit Immediately_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43324)  
Posted on _November 4, 2012 4:03 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43324)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
So reports _John Myers_ 
(https://twitter.com/johnmyers/status/265238681009418240) .  Details to come. 
 
 
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_“Democrats Sue to Extend Florida’s Early Voting”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43321)  
Posted on _November 4, 2012 2:17 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43321)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
_NYT’s “The Caucus” reports_ 
(http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/democrats-sue-to-extend-floridas-early-voting/?partner=rss&emc=rss) . 
 
 
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_“New  Jersey to Allow Voting by E-mail and Fax”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43318)  
Posted on _November 4, 2012 2:15 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43318)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
_Politico reports._ 
(http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83282.html?hp=l10)  
 
 
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_“Legal  arms race begins as both sides prepare to do battle in court”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43315)  
Posted on _November 4, 2012 2:13 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43315)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
_The Independent reports_ (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americ
as/us-elections/legal-arms-race-begins-as-both-sides-prepare-to-do-battle-in-co
urt-8281279.html) . 
 
 
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_“Miami-Dade to resume in-person absentee voting after  temporarily 
shutting it down”_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43312)  
Posted on _November 4, 2012 2:07 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43312)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
_Florida reverting_ 
(http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/11/04/3081614/florida-democratic-party-files.html)  to its normal position as election  
laughingstock. 
 
 
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_“New  Dispute over Ohio’s Provisional Voting Procedures”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43309)  
Posted on _November 4, 2012 1:49 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43309)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
_Ned Foley_ 
(http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/comments/index.php?ID=10019)  [corrected link]: “For all three of these  reasons, it seems 
problematic for the federal court to grant the relief the  plaintiffs now request, 
even if it were appropriate for the court to reach  the merits of plaintiffs’ 
new claim. Ordinarily, I am hesitant to evaluate  the merits of a pending 
issue before a court until I’ve had the opportunity  to read and reflect upon 
the full briefing of the issue, from all sides to  the litigation. In the 
present situation, there are more briefs to come this  week from both 
plaintiffs and the Secretary of State (and perhaps others),  according to a 
_schedule_ 
(http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/documents/BriefingSchedule_001.pdf)  set by the court. But because there has been  considerable 
_media attention_ 
(http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/ohios-provisional-ballot-order-the-biggest-legal-story-of-the-weekend/264498/)  to 
this issue over the weekend, I  thought it might be helpful (for members of the 
public trying to understand  what is going on) to offer this preliminary 
analysis of the issue—even  though it is necessarily tentative in light of the 
still-unfolding nature of  litigation.” 
 
 
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_Thought for Today_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43306)  
Posted on _November 4, 2012 1:33 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43306)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
What if Sandy hit Florida or Ohio, and it was up to election officials  
there to decide what do to about voters who cannot reach their polling  places? 
 What if a Democrat election official allowed voting by email  for 
displaced voters? 
We need a national emergency plan for our elections. 
 
 
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_“N.J.,  N.Y. make more voting changes due to Sandy”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43303)  
Posted on _November 4, 2012 12:29 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43303) 
 by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
_CBS News reports._ 
(http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-34222_162-57544864/n.j-n.y-make-more-voting-changes-due-to-sandy/)  
 
 
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_Legal  Quirk in NJ E-Voting for Sandy Victims_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43300)  
Posted on _November 4, 2012 11:55 am_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43300) 
 by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
_Andrew Appel explains_ 
(https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/appel/nj-lt-governor-invites-voters-to-submit-invalid-ballots/) .  Sounds like officials 
are  working on it. 
 
 
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_“Eleventh-Hour GOP Voter Suppression Could Swing Ohio”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43297)   
Posted on _November 4, 2012 11:05 am_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43297) 
 by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
_Ari Berman writes_ 
(http://www.thenation.com/blog/171011/eleventh-hour-gop-voter-suppression-could-swing-ohio)  for The Nation. 
 
 
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_“Recount Roulette”_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43294)  
Posted on _November 4, 2012 11:02 am_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43294) 
 by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
Barbara Simons and Mark Halverson _blog._ 
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barbara-simons/voting-ballots-recount_b_2069192.html)  
 
 
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_Face  the Nation Flashback: Bush v. Gore_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43291)  
Posted on _November 4, 2012 10:49 am_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43291) 
 by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
_Enough_ (http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50134472n)  to turn your 
stomach if you are old enough to  remember 2000. 
 
 
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_“Behind the voting wars, a clash of philosophies”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43289)  
Posted on _November 4, 2012 10:02 am_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43289) 
 by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
I have written _this cover piece_ 
(http://www.sacbee.com/2012/11/03/4958430/republicans-have-pursued-election.html)  for the Sacramento Bee’s  Sunday 
Forum section.  It begins: 
On Tuesday, voters will go to the polls in what is expected to be a  
nail-bitingly close presidential election. Indeed, we may wake up  Wednesday 
morning, as voters did in 2000 and 2004, not knowing who won. If  we are 
extremely unlucky, the election will be so close that it will go to  a recount and 
possibly to the courts. The state whose votes are pivotal to  the election 
outcome – Ohio, Florida, who knows? – will see its election  process go under 
a microscope with full dissection in real time over  Twitter and Facebook. 
It would get very ugly very quickly. 
If the election comes down to the wire in this way, and if _Mitt Romney_ 
(http://topics.sacbee.com/Mitt+Romney/)  ekes out a win, then a series of  
election changes and administrative actions pursued by Republican  legislatures 
and election officials, as well as challenges pursued by tea  party 
activists, may prove to have given him the winning margin. While  crass political 
calculation is part of the explanation for Republican  pursuit of these tough 
new voting rules, there is also a deeper  philosophical divide between 
Republicans and Democrats over the nature of  voting and democracy, a divide 
that the most recent skirmishes in the  voting wars have laid bare.
Another snippet: 
Whether or not Republicans are genuinely concerned about _voter fraud_ 
(http://topics.sacbee.com/voter+fraud/)  – and if they were, the first thing  
they should do is get rid of _absentee ballots,_ 
(http://topics.sacbee.com/absentee+ballots/)  which would eliminate the lion’s  share of_voter fraud_ 
(http://topics.sacbee.com/voter+fraud/)  issues – a _voter fraud_ 
(http://topics.sacbee.com/voter+fraud/)  rationale cannot explain recent  Republican 
cutbacks on early voting. 
In Ohio, Doug Preisse, chair of the Franklin County Republican Party  and 
elections board member, offered the Columbus Dispatch a different  
explanation for his vote against extended weekend early voting: “I guess I  really 
actually feel we shouldn’t contort the voting process to  accommodate the urban 
– read African American – voter-turnout machine. …  Let’s be fair and 
reasonable.” 
But Republican cutbacks on voting go beyond the naked political  
calculation to a philosophical divide with Democrats over the nature of  voting and 
elections. To many Republicans, voting is an exercise in  choosing the best 
candidate. Under that philosophy, it makes sense to make  voting harder to 
weed out those who might care less, or be less tied to  the community, or be 
less educated or intelligent.
And: 
The Democrats’ philosophy about voting and elections could not be more  
different. Democrats tend to see elections as about the allocation of power  
among political equals, and it is not the state’s job to decide who is smart  
enough or motivated enough to vote. Indeed, Democrats’ concerns about these  
new Republican laws is not really that they literally will disenfranchise  
many voters; it is that by adding additional effort to the requirements to  
cast a ballot, these new Republican restrictions will deter casual voters  
from bothering to take the steps necessary to cast a ballot that will  count. 
As with Republicans, the Democrats’ philosophy on voting neatly ties in  
with the party’s self-interest. These casual voters are going to be more  
likely to vote Democratic. Thus, proclaiming a high-minded commitment to  
universal enfranchisement also is good for Democratic candidates. It is no  
surprise that states which have adopted Election Day registration – as  California 
recently did for future elections – tend to be states with  
Democratic-dominated legislatures. Nor have Democrats shown any interest  in removing 
noncitizens from the rolls in the off-season, although  noncitizen voting remains 
a real, if small, problem. 
The latest skirmishes in the voting wars have laid bare the underlying  
voting philosophies of the two major parties, and the connection of those  
philosophies to each party’s self- interest. This is a fight that’s taken  
place at the margin, in technical changes to voting rules. Perhaps these  
changes will have no effect at all on the identity of the next president.  Or 
perhaps they will be the difference between four more years of Barack  Obama and 
a new presidency under Mitt Romney. 


 
 
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_“Democrats, Republicans lawyer-up for US election”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43286)  
Posted on _November 4, 2012 9:53 am_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43286)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
_AFP reports._ 
(http://www.citizen.co.za/citizen/content/en/citizen/world-news?oid=343723&sn=Detail&pid=40&Democrats--Republicans-lawyer-up-for-US-elect
ion)  
 
 
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_“Al  Benn’s Alabama: One person, seven votes? Chilton County voting is  
different”_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43283)  
Posted on _November 4, 2012 9:50 am_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43283)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
_Cumulative voting_ 
(http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/20121104/NEWS02/311040019/Al-Benn-s-Alabama-One-person-seven-votes-Chilton-County-votin
g-different)  in Alabama. 
 
 
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_“Voting by Email in New Jersey”_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43280)  
Posted on _November 4, 2012 9:43 am_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43280)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
_Computer security  analyst:_ (http://www.crypto.com/blog/njvoting/)  “I 
hope all goes well.” 
 
 
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_“Mail-in ballots: the hanging chads of 2012?”_ 
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43277)  
Posted on _November 4, 2012 9:14 am_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43277)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
_Reuters reports_ 
(http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/04/us-usa-campaign-mailin-idUSBRE8A308I20121104?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews&utm_source=
feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Reuters/PoliticsNews+(Reuters+
Politics+News)) .  So processing mail-in ballots are  trying to dethrone 
processing provisional ballots as the worse feature of  the current election 
system? 
 
 
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_“Ohio’s Provisional Ballot Order: The Biggest Legal Story of  the Weekend”
_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43274)  
Posted on _November 3, 2012 10:05 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43274) 
 by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
_Andrew Cohen writes_ 
(http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/ohios-provisional-ballot-order-the-biggest-legal-story-of-the-weekend/264498/
)  at The Atlantic. 
 
 
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_Diane  Rehm Show_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43271)  
Posted on _November 3, 2012 9:47 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43271)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
Scheduled to be on _Diane Rehm Monday_ 
(http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2012-11-05/casting-your-vote-2012)  at 10 am Eastern talking about election  
and voting issues before Tuesday. 
 
 
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_“In  Ohio, a Study in Contrasts as 2 Campaigns Get Out Vote”_ 
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Posted on _November 3, 2012 9:42 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43268)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
_Extensive NYT report._ 
(http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/us/politics/in-ohio-2-campaigns-offer-a-study-in-contrasts.html)  
 
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_“Minorities Donating Little to Presidential Races”_ 
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Posted on _November 3, 2012 9:38 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43265)  
by  _Rick  Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)  
 
_AP:_ 
(http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2012/11/03/us/politics/ap-us-campaign-minority-contributions.html?ref=politics)  ” Americans living in 
predominantly wealthy,  white neighborhoods account for nearly all the sizable 
campaign  contributions in this year’s presidential election, according to an  
Associated Press analysis, even as the presidential candidates have  
aggressively courted Hispanics. Latino voters are widely viewed as pivotal  for 
victories in some battleground states Tuesday.” 
 
 
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