[EL] ELB Election Day Final Update

Wed Nov 7 23:52:22 PST 2012

Are there bills that were introduced in Congress in recent terms that some set of people would back, assuming there was sufficient pressure to get something trough a split congress? 

Doug

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From: Goldfeder, Jerry H. [mailto:jgoldfeder at stroock.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 2:20 AM
To: Rick Hasen
Cc: law-election at UCI.edu
Subject: Re: [EL] ELB Election Day Final Update

Rick is right. Unless there is a focused and sustained effort to address our very real voting issues, they will continue to fester and corrode our electoral process.

Jerry H. Goldfeder
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On Nov 7, 2012, at 1:49 AM, "Rick Hasen" <rhasen at law.uci.edu<mailto:rhasen at law.uci.edu>> wrote:

<http://electionlawblog.org/>
Quote of the Day<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43692>
Posted on November 6, 2012 10:44 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43692> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

“Whether you voted for the first time, or waited in line for a very long time—by the way, we have to fix that.”

—Barack Obama, in his acceptance speech.

We are ready with ideas to fix that, and it should start with congressional legislation.  Let’s put it on the agenda.

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Posted in election administration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60> | Comments Off Huge News: Voter ID Amendment Poised to Lose in Minnesota<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43689>
Posted on November 6, 2012 10:14 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43689> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

MPR reports<http://live.mprnews.org/Event/Election_2012_The_MPR_News_live_blog/56404593> the near concession. This is a huge deal.  Before this year, voter id had been supported in public by both Democratic and Republican voters (though opposed by Democratic elites).   This is the year that voter id and the voting wars more generally broke through as a major political issue on the Democratic side on the left.

The defeat of this amendment means that the dispute over ID in the public is now more likely to reflect the split among elites.

More on the backlash over Republican overreaching on ID, early voting, etc. to come.

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Posted in The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>, voter id<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9> | Comments Off “Apparent Obama victory makes major post-election legal challenges unlikely”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43686>
Posted on November 6, 2012 9:24 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43686> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

National Law Journal reports.<http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202577540832&Apparent_Obama_victory_makes_major_postelection_legal_challenges_unlikely&slreturn=20121007002245>

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Posted in election administration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60> | Comments Off OK People<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43683>
Posted on November 6, 2012 8:46 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43683> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

You can go back to ignoring the abysmal problems with our elections until 2016.

If you care please stick around this blog

Thanks for reading.

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Posted in The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60> | Comments Off “In swing states, voting is marked by heightened vigilance”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43680>
Posted on November 6, 2012 8:17 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43680> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The LA Times reports.<http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/la-pn-swing-state-voting-glitches-20121106,0,3903431.story>

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Posted in election administration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60> | Comments Off “Which State’s Voters Had To Wait the Longest, According to Their Tweets?”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43677>
Posted on November 6, 2012 8:07 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=43677> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Interesting<http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/11/06/voting_wait_times_which_state_s_voters_faced_the_longest_lines.html>.

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