[EL] Check out New O'Keefe video: Obama campaign staffer caught helping activist v

[Benjamin Barr]

I hope that matters, but I'm not sure it does.

On the campaign finance side, there is empirical evidence to suggest our
government's obsession with bureaucratic busybodies intrusively poring over
the activities of small groups when they speak about candidates somehow
addresses a government interest in preventing corruption or "providing the
electorate with information"?  That's rich!

Forward,

First Amendment Ben


On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Kogan, Vladimir <kogan.18 at osu.edu> wrote:

>  Except there is little empirical evidence for assumption 2, that voter
> id “addresses this appearance of in-person fraud”:
> http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1099056****
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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 *Scott F.
> Bieniek
> *Sent:* Friday, October 12, 2012 10:24 AM
> *To:* law-election at uci.edu
> *Subject:* Re: [EL] Check out New O'Keefe video: Obama campaign staffer
> caught helping activist v****
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>    1. Assume a significant portion of the public believes that our polls
>    are insecure and that in-person voter fraud is a problem.****
>    2. Assume that voter id addresses this appearance of in-person voter
>    fraud.****
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>  Does Voter ID, which at least addresses this appearance of in-person
> voter fraud, not justify its enactment?****
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> After all, the appearance of corruption is a major argument in support of
> compelled campaign finance disclosure. I mean, if we say that all our
> elected officials are on the take, they must be on the take.****
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> -Scott F. Bieniek****
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