[EL] ELB News and Commentary 9/7/12
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Fri Sep 7 08:14:21 PDT 2012
Blogging Over the Next Month <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=39804>
Posted on September 7, 2012 8:12 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=39804> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The next month I will be travelling extensively, with book tour
commitments <http://thevotingwars.com/book-tour/>, conference
<http://www.law.uci.edu/election_law_symposium_sept2012.html> and
workshopappearances <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=39801>, a scholar in
residence stint at William & Mary Law, and some personal/family commitments.
This is also obviously a very busy time for the blog, with the election
less than two months away and election disputes arising every day.
Please have patience with me if I seem slow to respond to emails or to
post information on the blog. Those receiving my blog postings via the
Election Law listserv
<http://department-lists.uci.edu/mailman/listinfo/law-election>should
expect that my daily email may come late or not at all on some days, or
at odd times.
Thanks for your patience!
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"Election Law: The State of the Republican Form of Government in the
States" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=39801>
Posted on September 7, 2012 7:55 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=39801> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Montana Law Review Symposium <http://mtlr.org/?p=847>:
THE MONTANA LAW REVIEW
presents
The Honorable James R. Browning Symposium on
*ELECTION LAW*
*/The State of the Republican Form of Government in the States/*
*September 27 & 28, 2012*
*University Center Ballroom*
*Thursday, September 27*
6:00 -- 7:00 p.m. | Keynote Address by
Professor Lawrence Lessig of Harvard Law School
*Friday, September 28*
8:30 a.m. | Introduction by Professor Anthony Johnstone
8:45 -- 10:30 a.m. | The Rules of a Republican Form of Government
10:45 -- 12:30 | The Administration of a Republican Form of Government
2:00 -- 3:45 p.m. | The Adjudication of a Republican Form of Government
4:00 -- 5:45 p.m. | Montana Panel
*Panelists*
Professor Bill Marshall (UNC) | Professor Richard Pildes (NYU)
Professor Richard Hasen (UC Irvine) | Professor Edward Foley (OSU)
Professor Michael Kang (Emory) | Professor Ciara Torres-Spelliscy
(Stetson)
Professor James Lopach (Montana) | Professor Jeff Wiltse (Montana)
Professor Robert Swartout (Carroll) | Allison Hayward (Center for
Competitive Politics)
Edwin Bender (Institute on Money in State Politics) | Andy Huff (MT
Asst. Attorney General)
Jim Brown (Doney, Crowley, Payne, Bloomquist, P.C.) | Laughlin
McDonald (ACLU)
Former Montana Supreme Court Justices Leaphart and Regnier
*All events are free and open to the public.*
*8 FREE General CLE credits. No registration required.*
*FOR MORE INFORMATION:*
(406) 243-2023
montanalawrev at umontana.edu
I'm looking forward to this!
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"Republicans Losing Election Law War As Campaign Ramps Up"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=39798>
Posted on September 7, 2012 7:51 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=39798> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bloomberg News reports.
<http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-09-07/republicans-losing-election-law-war-as-campaign-ramps-up>
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"How I Got Ejected From a Super PAC Reception"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=39796>
Posted on September 7, 2012 7:50 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=39796> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Noam Scheiber writes
<http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/106957/how-get-ejected-super-pac-reception#>
for TNR.
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"Florida, Colorado Voter Purges Net Few Noncitizens, So Far" and a
Note on von Spakovsky's Numbers <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=39792>
Posted on September 7, 2012 7:41 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=39792> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Important NPR
<http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/09/05/160624313/florida-colorado-voter-purges-net-few-noncitizens-so-far?sc=tw>
report: "States using a federal immigration database to purge
noncitizens from voter lists are starting to get results, which so far
include few illegal voters.' In Florida, which was first to gain access
to the database
<http://www.npr.org/2012/07/17/156880856/states-to-use-u-s-immigration-list-for-voter-purges>
after fighting the federal government in court, an initial run of
roughly 2,600 names has turned up "several" violators, according to a
spokesman for Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner."
So this is a good time to reprint this earlier blog post of mine:
How Many Non-Citizen Voters Actually Removed by Florida Vote
Purges? <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37015>
Posted on July 16, 2012 2:15 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37015> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Today on AirTalk
<http://www.scpr.org/programs/airtalk/2012/07/16/27430/feds-grant-florida-right-to-access-citizens-list-t/>
Hans von Spakovsky said that Florida officials had removed 50
non-citizen voters already from the voter rolls. I said that I was
not familiar with that statistic, and so I wondered about its
veracity. (Why would I wonder about the veracity of a claim of
election fraud made by von Spakvosky? See here
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=19560>, here
<http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/06/full_indictment_undermines_threat_of_voter_imperso.php>,
here <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=20953> and here
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=5012>.)
So I wrote to University of Florida professor Dan Smith, who has
been the go-to person on this issue. He posted his response
<http://wp.me/p1udrZ-av> on his blog:
*You Want Numbers? Florida Secretary of State Voter Purge Netted 10
"Potential Noncitizens" who may have Voted*
That's right.
10
Out of 11.2 million voters on the official statewide rolls as of
April 1, 2012.
Here's some quick analysis...
I'll be interested to know if there is a good source for the 50
person total claimed by von Spakovsky. There may well be.
Non-citizen voting (unlike voter impersonation fraud) is a real
(though small) problem. And there are national solutions we could
take to fix it. But it would be good to get a better handle on the
extent of the problem.
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"Voter registration drives adopting new methods"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=39790>
Posted on September 7, 2012 7:37 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=39790> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
APreports
<http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_268798/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=hmz6VnAo>.
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"Special Panel Hears Debate in Challenge To Overall Cap on Campaign
Contributions" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=39785>
Posted on September 7, 2012 7:37 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=39785> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bloomberg BNA reports
<http://news.bna.com/mpdm/display/link_res.adp?lt=email&fname=A0D4M2R6H2&lf=eml&emc=mpdm:mpdm:107>.
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Election Law Journal 11:3 Now Available; Preview of 11:4
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=39773>
Posted on September 7, 2012 7:35 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=39773> by Dan Tokaji
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=5>
The new issue of ELJ (11:3) is out now
<http://online.liebertpub.com/toc/elj/11/3>. Here's the table of contents:
The Party Line: The Shifting Electoral Landscape, by Paul Gronke and
Daniel P. Tokaji
ARTICLES
The Effect of Prepaid Postage on Turnout: A Cautionary Tale for Election
Administrators, byMelissa R. Michelson, Neil Malhotra, Andrew Healy,
Donald P. Green, Allison Carnegie, and Ali Adam Valenzuela
Effect of Election Day Vote Centers on Voter Participation, by Robert M.
Stein and Greg Vonnahme
Does Public Financing Chill Political Speech? Exploiting a Court
Injunction as a Natural Experiment, by Conor M. Dowling, Ryan D. Enos,
Anthony Fowler, and Costas Panagopoulos
Forcing Parliamentary Rollback: High Court Intervention in Australian
Electoral Legislative Reform, by Sarah Murray
FORUM
Souls to the Polls: Early Voting in Florida in the Shadow of House Bill
1355, by Michael C. Herron and Daniel A. Smith
BOOK REVIEWS
Advancing ''A Charter for a Vibrant Democracy, " by Daniel R. Ortiz
(reviewing Monica Youn, ed. /Money, Politics, and the Constitution:
Beyond/ Citizens United)
Bankrolling Parties, Bankrupting Democracy: Money in Australian
Politics, by Zim G. Nwokora (reviewing Joo-Cheong Tham, /Money and
Politics: The Democracy We Can't Afford/)
Our next issue (11:4) will feature articles on major developments in
redistricting. It will include contributions from James Gardner, Ellen
Katz, Todd Makse, and Bob Watt & Abdullah Al-Remaidhi, with articles on
other topics by Michael Herron and Daron Shaw, Brian Roberts & Abby
Blass. The issue will also feature a forum piece on state-funded
campaigns in Argentina by Julia Pomares and Maria Page with a prologue
by Sam Issacharoff, and Grant Hayden's review of Race, Reform, and the
Electoral Process(edited by Guy Charles, Heather Gerken, and Michael Kang).
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" Citizens United, Corporate Personhood, and Corporate Power: The
Tension between Constitutional Law and Corporate Law"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=39782>
Posted on September 7, 2012 7:26 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=39782> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Susanna Kim Ripken has postedthis draft
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2134465>on SSRN.
Here is the abstract:
In Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court
invalidated strict federal campaign finance laws and upheld the
First Amendment right of corporations to use general treasury funds
to support or oppose candidates in political elections. Shortly
after the case was decided, a grassroots popular movement began
calling for an amendment to the Constitution to establish that money
is not speech and that human beings, not corporations, are the only
"persons" entitled to constitutional rights. The concept of
corporate personhood entered the national debate, causing many
average Americans to question the legitimacy of corporations' legal
personhood status. Federal and state lawmakers have introduced
several bills proposing a constitutional amendment to abolish
corporate personhood, and hundreds of cities nationwide have passed
municipal resolutions supporting such an amendment. Progressive
groups that oppose corporate influence in politics disagree on
whether the push for a constitutional amendment is a good idea. This
article identifies several problems with the amendment strategy and
suggests that the focus on personhood is misplaced. Legal history
shows that the personhood label has long been arbitrarily applied in
constitutional law cases, and, as a practical matter, personhood is
largely indeterminate and sometimes irrelevant. More significantly,
corporate personhood and power do not find their origin exclusively
in constitutional law, but in long-standing corporate law doctrines
and deeply entrenched norms. An attempt to curb corporate power in
the political realm through a constitutional amendment does not
address the systemic features of corporate law that allow corporate
entities to amass great economic and political power. To ignore the
tensions that corporate law raises in this regard is to miss the
deeper source of corporate ascendance in the modern world.
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Josh Douglas Lecture on Contested Elections at Xavier U. Sept. 18
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=39778>
Posted on September 7, 2012 7:23 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=39778> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
See this flyer
<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/XAVIER-CONSTITUTION-DAY-PRESS-RELEASE.pdf>
for information.
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"Why Partisans and Election Law Shouldn't Mix: See Ohio"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=39776>
Posted on September 7, 2012 7:22 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=39776> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
/The American Prospect/
<http://prospect.org/article/why-partisans-and-election-law-shouldnt-mix-see-ohio>
on Jon Husted.
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"New IG Report Sets Off Debate About MOVE Act Implementation"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=39774>
Posted on September 7, 2012 7:18 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=39774> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
A ChapinBlog.
<http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/electionacademy/2012/09/new_ig_report_sets_off_debate.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HHHElections+%28The+Election+Aacdemy%29>
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"Voting rights cases: Made simple"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=39769>
Posted on September 6, 2012 9:17 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=39769> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
SCOTUSBlog
<http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/09/voting-rights-cases-made-simple/>:
"/Editor's note: During the Supreme Court's summer recess, the blog is
publishing a series of posts that explain, in non-legal terms, some of
the most important cases that the Court will consider in the new Term
that starts October 1. This is another in that series. It explains the
cases of /Nix v. Holder
<http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/nix-v-holder/> /and/ Shelby
County v. Holder
<http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/shelby-county-v-holder/>.
/Beginning next Monday, the blog will be hosting a symposium on the
controversy over the law involved in those cases: the Voting Rights Act
of 1965./"
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"Court hearing held on Iowa new voter rules"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=39766>
Posted on September 6, 2012 8:50 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=39766> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
AP
<http://wcfcourier.com/news/state-and-regional/iowa/court-hearing-held-on-iowa-new-voter-rules/article_8c7b5dae-2ad2-5185-82eb-cbdeb4e977a8.html>:
" Polk County judge heard arguments Thursday in a lawsuit filed by two
civil rights organizations challenging new rules enacted by Iowa's
Republican secretary of state that would purge certain voters from
Iowa's voter registration list and make it easier to report fraud."
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"Voter Suppression, Then and Now" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=39763>
Posted on September 6, 2012 8:48 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=39763> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
David Blight has written this piece
<http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/06/voter-suppression-then-and-now/>for
the NYT Campaign Stops blog.
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"Texas AG wins round in battle over tougher voter signup rules"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=39760>
Posted on September 6, 2012 8:21 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=39760> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bloomberg reports.
<http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Texas-AG-wins-round-in-battle-over-tougher-voter-3846125.php>
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LA Times on Early Voting Decision from Ohio
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=39757>
Posted on September 6, 2012 8:00 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=39757> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
I missed this story
<http://articles.latimes.com/2012/aug/31/nation/la-na-voting-rights-20120901>
over the weekend.
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