[EL] ELB News and Commentary 11/16/12
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Thu Nov 15 21:04:30 PST 2012
"Elections, Still Not Over in Arizona, a Hot Topic"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44404>
Posted on November 15, 2012 9:02 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44404> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT reports.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/16/us/politics/arizona-still-awaiting-some-election-results.html?ref=politics&_r=0>
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"I Play Basketball Every Sunday with a Black Guy"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44401>
Posted on November 15, 2012 9:00 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44401> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Maine's GOP Chair Charlie Webster explaining some comments
<http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/11/charlie_webster_black_voter_fraud.php?ref=fpb>to
TPM about his claims of voter fraud involving "dozens of Black people
<http://bangordailynews.com/2012/11/14/politics/gop-chairman-charlie-webster-to-investigate-black-people-voting-as-potential-fraud/>"
coming to Maine to vote.
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Posted in The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60> |
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"Watchdog group files FEC complaint against Crossroads GPS"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44399>
Posted on November 15, 2012 8:57 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44399> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WaPo reports
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/watchdog-group-files-fec-complaint-against-crossroads-gps/2012/11/15/9bab8f02-2f5f-11e2-a30e-5ca76eeec857_story.html>.
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10> |
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"Primary Issues in the 2012 Election"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44391>
Posted on November 15, 2012 8:51 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44391> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Here are Bob Bauer's thought
<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/GW17-12.doc>s, reprinted
here with permission, for our GW panel
<http://www.law.gwu.edu/News/2012-2013Events/Pages/2012LawReviewSymposium.aspx>
in the morning.
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,
election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, The Voting
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"Democrats Propose Speeding Up Voting"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44388>
Posted on November 15, 2012 8:36 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44388> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Roll Call reports
<http://www.rollcall.com/news/democrats_propose_speeding_up_voting-219234-1.html?pos=hbtxt>.
The big question: Will Republicans get aboard?
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The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60> | Comments Off
"Not Gerrymandering, but Districting: More Evidence on How Democrats
Won the Popular Vote but Lost the Congress"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44385>
Posted on November 15, 2012 8:33 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44385> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
More
<http://themonkeycage.org/blog/2012/11/15/not-gerrymandering-but-districting-more-evidence-on-how-democrats-won-the-popular-vote-but-lost-the-congress/#comment-40049>,
at the Monkey Cage.
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"New Legislation Would Help Shorten Voting Lines, Strengthen
People's Ability to Vote" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44382>
Posted on November 15, 2012 8:30 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44382> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Congressman George Miller blogs
<http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/15/1161979/-New-Legislation-Would-Help-Shorten-Voting-Lines-Strengthen-People-s-Ability-to-Vote>.
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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,
The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60> | Comments Off
Bailout King Goes for First Statewide Voting Rights Bailout: New
Hampshire <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44380>
Posted on November 15, 2012 8:29 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44380> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
See this blog post
<http://www.clcblog.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=494:the-shelby-county-alabama-case-and-bailouts->
linking to the complaint
<http://www.clcblog.org/assets/attachments/NH_v_Holder_Complaint_11-15-12.pdf>.
And in case the connection to the /Shelby County /case (in which the
Supreme Court will consider the constitutionality of section 5) is lost
on anyone, Gerry Hebert explains: "It should be important to the Court,
in considering Section 5's constitutionality, that not a single
jurisdiction seeking a bailout has been turned down, and that States and
political subdivisions are pursuing bailouts with ease in greater
numbers than ever before."
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Posted in Supreme Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>, Voting
Rights Act <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15> | Comments Off
"How to Fix the Vote" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44378>
Posted on November 15, 2012 8:25 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44378> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
This editorial <http://forward.com/articles/166054/how-to-fix-the-vote/>
appears in theJewish Daily Forward.
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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18> |
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"Director's Note: Ten Things I Learned On (and Around) Election Day
2012? <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44375>
Posted on November 15, 2012 8:21 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44375> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
That's the lead story in this week's Electionline Weekly.
<http://www.electionline.org/index.php/electionline-weekly>
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"Outside Group Spending Controlled the 2012 Election Conversation"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44371>
Posted on November 15, 2012 8:19 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44371> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Meredith McGehee and David Vance blog.
<http://www.clcblog.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=493:outside-group-spending-controlled-the-2012-election-conversation>
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"Many Reasons for Lines at the Polls"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44369>
Posted on November 15, 2012 8:18 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44369> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Pew Data Dispatch
<http://www.pewstates.org/research/analysis/many-reasons-for-lines-at-the-polls-85899430661>.
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"Democrats complain GOP contributed to long waits to vote in
Fairfax" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44366>
Posted on November 15, 2012 8:15 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44366> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Robert McCartney WaPo column:
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/gop-electoral-ploy-might-have-led-to-long-lines-to-vote-in-fairfax/2012/11/14/c0682e44-2ea7-11e2-9ac2-1c61452669c3_story.html?hpid=z5>
When long lines forced some Fairfax voters to wait until 10:30 p.m.
to cast their ballots on Election Day, county elections chief
Cameron Quinn said the delays arose
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/long-voting-lines-blamed-on-high-turnout-too-few-poll-workers-and-voting-machines/2012/11/07/c1057972-291d-11e2-b4e0-346287b7e56c_story.html>partly
because she had had huge problems recruiting poll workers.
That explanation enraged some Fairfax Democrats. They complained
that they'd proposed appointments of hundreds of elections officials
whom Quinn and others in the Republican-controlled Fairfax elections
apparatus had failed to approve in time.
It might be a coincidence. Hans von Spakovsky, the GOP-appointed
vice chairman of the Fairfax Electoral Board, said the board
approved "every single individual" who filled out the necessary
paperwork.
But, sad to say, it's also possible the GOP appointees laid the
groundwork for such delays to occur. They might have hoped the long
lines would discourage voting in the county that is the Democrats'
most important electoral bastion, by far, in a major swing state.
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"The 2012 Elections and the Vanishing Congressional Moderate"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44362>
Posted on November 15, 2012 8:06 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44362> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
FairVote
<http://www.fairvote.org/the-2012-elections-and-the-vanishing-congressional-moderate#.UKW6k4XOalh>:
*Key Stats:*
* Number of 20 most "centrist" Members from 112^th Congress
returning in 2013: *8*
* Number of House districts leaning more than 52% to 48% for one
party that in 2011 were represented by a Member of another
party: 26. Number of such districts in 2013: *10*
* Number of non-incumbent Republicans who won seats in the 177
most Democratic districts: *0 *
* Number of non-incumbent Democrats who won seats in the 177 most
Republican districts: *0*
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Posted in alternative voting systems
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"Partisan bias in U.S. House elections"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44360>
Posted on November 15, 2012 8:01 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44360> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Rob Richie has written this WaPo oped
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/wiping-out-partisan-bias-in-us-house-elections/2012/11/15/bb8279be-2d2d-11e2-a99d-5c4203af7b7a_story.html/>.
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"What Effect, if Any, Did Voter ID Laws Have on the Election?"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44358>
Posted on November 15, 2012 7:56 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44358> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
ProPublica reports
<http://www.propublica.org/article/what-effect-if-any-did-voter-id-laws-have-on-the-election>.
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