[EL] more news 10/30/12
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Tue Oct 30 15:25:38 PDT 2012
"How Many More Near-Election Disasters Before Congress Wakes Up?"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=42781>
Posted on October 30, 2012 3:20 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=42781>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
I have written this piece
<http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/30/how-many-more-near-election-disasters-before-congress-wakes-up.html>
for /The Daily Beast. /It begins:
The destruction wrought by superstorm Sandy has been horrific
enough, but if there's anything to be grateful for, it's the storm's
timing. If Sandy had hit just one week later, we'd be facing a
constitutional crisis
<http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/could-a-hurricane-like-sandy-postpone-the-presidential-election/264254/>. As
it is, there is plenty
<http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/electionacademy/2012/10/hurricane_sandy_prompts_renewe.php> of
speculation
<http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/could-a-hurricane-like-sandy-postpone-the-presidential-election/264254/> on
the possible effects of the storm
<http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/109364/how-hurricane-sandy-could-spoil-election-day#> on
the Nov. 6 election
<http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/hurricanes-late-october-landfall-raises-election>.
There are multiple and conflicting answers to the concerns being
raised---from political to statutory to constitutional---but they
all obscure a larger and more troubling truth: There is absolutely
no reason for us to be in this situation in the first place.
It concludes:
Worst of all for disaster planning, legislatures are passing
election reforms on party-line votes. With the exception of Rhode
Island, the tough new voter-ID laws have been favored almost
exclusively by Republicans and opposed almost exclusively by
Democrats. Election Day Registration, which recently passed in
California, is supported by Democrats and opposed by Republicans. In
short, there has been no bipartisan space for election reform in the
state, and there's no reason to think Congress would do any better.
But bipartisanship is exactly what is needed now
<http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/comments/index.php?ID=9969>,
just like it is needed to deal with contingency plans if the House
of Representatives were hit by a terrorist attack
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/11/AR2007071102079.html> (another
issue Congress has irresponsibly ignored aside from holding hearings
<http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-108shrg96926/html/CHRG-108shrg96926.htm>).
Some things are just too big for partisan bickering.
At the end of my book /The Voting Wars/
<http://www.amazon.com/dp/0300182031/ref=as_at?tag=thedailybeast-autotag-20&linkCode=as2&>,
I point out how Japan's reaction to the devastating 2011
tsunami---raising its sea walls---was simply what humans often do:
responding to the last disaster. But Congress hasn't even done that
much. When it comes to planning for catastrophes near election time,
we've had at least two major disasters in the past decade, not to
mention the Florida debacle---and through it all Congress has sat on
its hands. Will it keep sitting until it's too late?
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"Could Voting Machines Steal the Election?"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=42778>
Posted on October 30, 2012 2:42 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=42778>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Today's "To the Point:"
Could Voting Machines Steal the Election? (1:07PM)
In the year 2000, "hanging chads" on Florida's paper ballots put the
presidential election in doubt. Two years later, Congress passed the
*Help America Vote Act*
<http://www.eac.gov/about_the_eac/help_america_vote_act.aspx>, or HAVA,
which provided federal subsidies for states to buy electronic voting
machines that don't use paper at all. Dispute is raging over what it
could mean for the integrity of next week's election. Both campaigns and
many political pundits say Ohio could decide the election. How secure
are its voting machines?
Guests:
* *Victoria Collier*
<http://www.kcrw.com/people/collier_victoria?role=guest>: writer and
election integrity activist, @Votescam <http://twitter.com/Votescam>
* *Steven Rosenfeld*
<http://www.kcrw.com/people/rosenfeld_steven?role=guest>: AlterNet,
@srose14 <http://twitter.com/srose14>
* *Dan Tokaji* <http://www.kcrw.com/people/tokaji_dan?role=guest>:
Ohio State University
* *Ion Sancho* <http://www.kcrw.com/people/sancho_ion?role=guest>:
Leon County Elections Division
Links:
* Collier on how to rig an election (Harper's)
<http://harpers.org/blog/2012/10/an-excerpt-from-how-to-rig-an-election/>
* Rosenfeld on voting machine activists are scaring people
unnecessarily
<http://www.alternet.org/election-2012/5-reasons-karl-rove-not-going-electronically-steal-election>
* Rosenfeld's 'Count My Vote: A Citizen's Guide to Voting'
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/external-search?tag=kcco04-20&keyword=978-0975272459>
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"Q&A: Could Sandy Postpone the Election?"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=42775>
Posted on October 30, 2012 2:24 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=42775>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
AP reports. <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49614239>
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"WaPo-ABC tracking poll: Popular vote > electoral college"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=42772>
Posted on October 30, 2012 2:17 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=42772>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The Fix:
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/10/30/wapo-abc-tracking-poll-most-want-popular-vote-to-trump-electoral-college/> "Most
likely voters --- including both Democrats and Republicans --- say the
winner of the presidential election should be decided by popular vote,
not the electoral college, according to the latest release of the
Washington Post-ABC News tracking poll
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/page/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2012/10/29/National-Politics/Polling/release_166.xml>."
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"Politics and Terrorism: What Happens When Money is Speech?"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=42769>
Posted on October 30, 2012 1:43 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=42769>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Deborah Hellman writes
<http://www.virginialawreview.org/inbrief.php?s=inbrief&p=2012/10/30/post_3>
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Ballot Cam <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=42767>
Posted on October 30, 2012 1:41 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=42767>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Hits Idaho
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"Storm's havoc might force polling places to move"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=42764>
Posted on October 30, 2012 12:49 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=42764> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NBC News reports
<http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/30/14808496-storms-havoc-might-force-polling-places-to-move#.UJAtyqZHgLg.twitter>.
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The Latest in the Moritz Colloquy on Sandy's Effects on the
Elections <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=42761>
Posted on October 30, 2012 10:24 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=42761> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
John Fortier picks it up again with "Unintended Consequences" here
<http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/comments/index.php?ID=9967>.
Josh Douglas weighs in with "Some Room for Compromise" here
<http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/comments/index.php?ID=9969>.
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"How Obama could be blown to victory by Superstorm Sandy"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=42758>
Posted on October 30, 2012 10:22 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=42758> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
David Lublin oped.
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/which-candidate-will-pass-muster-in-this-bluster/article4742152/>
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"Is The Voter Vigilante Group True The Vote Violating Ohio Law to
Intimidate Voters at the Polls?" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=42755>
Posted on October 30, 2012 10:20 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=42755> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
AlterNet reports
<http://www.alternet.org/election-2012/voter-vigilante-group-true-vote-violating-ohio-law-intimidate-voters-polls>.
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"Shashank Tripathi, Last Night's Twitter Villain"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=42752>
Posted on October 30, 2012 9:31 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=42752>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
BuzzFeed
<http://gofwd.tumblr.com/post/34640321762/shashank-tripathi-last-nights-twitter-villain>:
"During the storm last night, user @comfortablysmug
<https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug> was the source of a load of
frightening but false information about conditions in New York City that
spread wildly on Twitter and onto news broadcasts before ConEd, the MTA,
and Wall Street sources had to take time out of the crisis situation to
refute them....What @comfortablysmug didn't count on, apparently, was
losing that anonymity. Based on photos
<https://twitter.com/stuef/status/263166479820808193> he censored and
posted to the account but I found unedited elsewhere, @comfortablysmug
is Shashank Tripathi, a hedge-fund analyst and the campaign manager of
Christopher R. Wight, this year's Republican candidate for the U.S.
House from New York's 12th congressional district."
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ff%0A%E2%80%9CQ%26A%3A%20Could%20Sandy%20Postpone%20the%20Election%3F%E2%80%9D%0APosted%20on%20October%2030%2C%202012%202%3A24%20pm%20by%20Rick%20Hasen%0A%0AAP%20reports.%0AShare%0APosted%20in%20election%20administration%09%7C%20Comments%20Off%0A%E2%80%9CWaPo-ABC%20tracking%20poll%3A%20Popular%20vote%20%3E%20electoral%20college%E2%80%9D%0APosted%20on%20October%2030%2C%202012%202%3A17%20pm%20by%20Rick%20Hasen%0A%0AThe%20Fix%3A%20%E2%80%9DMost%20likely%20voters%20%E2%80%94%20including%20both%20Democrats%20and%20Republicans%20%E2%80%94%20say%20the%20winner%20of%20the%20presidential%20election%20should%20be%20decided%20by%20popular%20vote%2C%20not%20the%20electoral%20college%2C%20according%20to%20the%20latest%20release%20of%20the%20Washington%20Post-ABC%20News%20tracking%20poll.%E2%80%9D%0AShare%0APosted%20in%20electoral%20college%09%7C%20Comments%20Off%0A%E2%80%9CPolitics%20and%20Terrorism%3A%20What%20Happens%20When%20Money%20is%20Speech%3F%E2%80%9D%0APosted%20on%20October%2030%2C%202012%201%3A43%20pm%20by%20Rick%20Hasen%0A%0ADeborah%20Hellman%20writes%20for%20Virginia%20Law%20Review%E2%80%98s%20%E2%80%9CIn%20Brief.%E2%80%9D%0AShare%0APosted%20in%20campaign%20finance%09%7C%20Comments%20Off%0ABallot%20Cam%0APosted%20on%20October%2030%2C%202012%201%3A41%20pm%20by%20Rick%20Hasen%0A%0AHits%20Idaho.%0AShare%0APosted%20in%20election%20administration%2C%20voting%20technology%09%7C%20Comments%20Off%0A%E2%80%9CStorm%E2%80%99s%20havoc%20might%20force%20polling%20places%20to%20move%E2%80%9D%0APosted%20on%20October%2030%2C%202012%2012%3A49%20pm%20by%20Rick%20Hasen%0A%0ANBC%20News%20reports.%0AShare%0APosted%20in%20election%20administration%09%7C%20Comments%20Off%0AThe%20Latest%20in%20the%20Moritz%20Colloquy%20on%20Sandy%E2%80%99s%20Effects%20on%20the%20Elections%0APosted%20on%20October%2030%2C%202012%2010%3A24%20am%20by%20Rick%20Hasen%0A%0AJohn%20Fortier%20picks%20it%20up%20again%20with%20%E2%80%9CUnintended%20Consequences%E2%80%9D%20here.%0A%0AJosh%20Douglas%20weighs%20in%20with%20%E2%80%9CSome%20Room%20for%20Compromise%E2%80%9D%20here.%0AShare%0APosted%20in%20election%20administration%09%7C%20Comments%20Off%0A%E2%80%9CHow%20Obama%20could%20be%20blown%20to%20victory%20by%20Superstorm%20Sandy%E2%80%9D%0APosted%20on%20October%2030%2C%202012%2010%3A22%20am%20by%20Rick%20Hasen%0A%0ADavid%20Lublin%20oped.%0AShare%0APosted%20in%20campaigns%09%7C%20Comments%20Off%0A%E2%80%9CIs%20The%20Voter%20Vigilante%20Group%20True%20The%20Vote%20Violating%20Ohio%20Law%20to%20Intimidate%20Voters%20at%20the%20Polls%3F%E2%80%9D%0APosted%20on%20October%2030%2C%202012%2010%3A20%20am%20by%20Rick%20Hasen%0A%0AAlterNet%20reports.%0AShare%0APosted%20in%20election%20administration%2C%20The%20Voting%20Wars%2C%20voting%09%7C%20Comments%20Off%0A%E2%80%9CShashank%20Trip>
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12> | Comments Off
"Will new voter ID laws swing the U.S. election?"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=42749>
Posted on October 30, 2012 8:39 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=42749>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
CBC News reports.
<http://ca.news.yahoo.com/voter-suppression-affect-u-election-093059052.html>
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Rick Hasen
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UC Irvine School of Law
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