[EL] more news 10/22/12

[Rick Hasen]

    "Will voter suppression and dirty tricks swing the election? The
    news is all about pre-election dirty tricks, but the efforts most
    likely to affect turnout happened long ago"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=42182>

Posted on October 22, 2012 10:31 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=42182> by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

I have written this piece 
<http://www.salon.com/2012/10/22/will_voter_suppression_and_dirty_tricks_swing_the_election/>for 
/Salon/.  it begins:

    On Thursday of last week, Virginia authorities charged a man working
    for the Republican Party
    <http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-voter-registration-gop-arrest-20121018,0,5352175.story?track=rss>
    with dumping the voter registration forms of Democrats. In Albertis,
    Pa., authorities arrested
    <http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/lehigh-county/index.ssf/2012/10/alburtis_teen_allegedly_drove.html>
    the town's 19-year-old Democratic city council member after he
    allegedly stole yard signs of his Republican opponent.  In minority
    urban areas of Ohio and Wisconsin, an anonymous group
    <http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/10/18/163158185/swing-state-billboards-warning-against-voter-fraud-stir-backlash>
    has paid Clear Channel (owned in part by Mitt Romney's former
    company Bain Capital) to put up billboards proclaiming that "Voter
    Fraud Is a Felony."  And a Tea Party-affiliated group, True the
    Vote, is promising to send observers
    <http://prospect.org/article/whats-truth-about-true-vote> into
    polling places in Democratic areas, leading Democrats to cry voter
    intimidation.

    Does this stuff matter? Or is it just a bunch of noise before our
    hyper-polarized and hyper-partisan election, as polls show
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=41796> both sides expect the other to
    try to steal the election? The answer is probably a little bit of
    both. But the real action when it comes to affecting election
    turnout probably happened months or even years ago

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    "Voter Fraud v. Voter Suppression: Author Explains That Neither Is
    Quite What We Think" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=42179>

Posted on October 22, 2012 10:29 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=42179> by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

/ABA Journal/ has postedthis podcast 
<http://www.abajournal.com/books/article/podcast_episode_014/>, in which 
I talk about /The Voting Wars. 
<http://www.amazon.com/Voting-Wars-Florida-Election-Meltdown/dp/0300182031/ref=sr_1_cc_2?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1329286945&sr=1-2-catcorr>/

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    "Absentee ballot still counts if voter dies before election"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=42177>

Posted on October 22, 2012 10:27 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=42177> by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The /Cleveland Plain Dealer/ reports. 
<http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2012/10/absentee_ballot_still_counts_i.html>

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    "The Campaign to Steal Ohio" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=42174>

Posted on October 22, 2012 8:21 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=42174> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Alec MacGillis 
<http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/magazine/108846/the-campaign-to-steal-ohio?page=0,0> 
on the battles over election administration in Ohio.

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