[EL] ELB News and Commentary 9/14/12

Rick Hasen rhasen at law.uci.edu
Thu Sep 13 21:12:04 PDT 2012


    Link to Live Webcast of UCI Election Law Symposium
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40204>

Posted on September 13, 2012 9:10 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40204> by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

You'll be able to watch a webcast of Foxes, Henhouses, and Commissions: 
Assessing the Nonpartisan Model in Election Administration, 
Redistricting, and Campaign Finance 
<http://law.uci.edu/election_law_symposium_sept2012.html> beginning 
Friday at 9 am Pacific at this link 
<http://msweb.merage.uci.edu/Mediasite/Play/42473c5e3dd746659934e3642cf63add1d>.  
This same link will have an archived version of this event.

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    "Fossil Fuel Ads Dominate TV in Campaign"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40202>

Posted on September 13, 2012 9:07 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40202> by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/us/politics/fossil-fuel-industry-opens-wallet-to-defeat-obama.html?_r=1&ref=politics>:

    With nearly two months before Election Day on Nov. 6, estimated
    spending on television ads promoting coal and more oil and gas
    drilling or criticizing clean energy has exceeded $153 million this
    year, according to an analysis by The New York Times of 138 ads on
    energy issues broadcast this year by the presidential campaigns,
    political parties, energy companies, trade associations and
    third-party spenders.

    That tally is nearly four times the $41 million spent by
    clean-energy advocates, the Obama campaign and Democratic groups to
    defend the president's energy record or raise concerns about global
    warming and air pollution. The Times rated presidential campaign and
    national policy ads by whether they promoted fossil fuels or pushed
    clean energy and conservation, regardless of their sponsors, using
    ad and spending data compiled by Kantar Media
    <http://www.kantarmedia.com/>, a company that tracks television
    advertising.

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    "Court Approves Schedule for Florida Early Voting"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40200>

Posted on September 13, 2012 9:05 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40200> by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT reports. 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/us/politics/court-approves-early-voting-schedule-in-florida.html?ref=politics>

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    "Who Can Vote? And How Will They Be Informed?"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40197>

Posted on September 13, 2012 9:03 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40197> by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The following announcement arrived via email:

*Who Can Vote? And How Will They Be Informed?*
/*A New America Foundation Delve into '12 Event*/

	
*Tuesday, September 18, 2012*
*12:15 p.m. -- 1:45 p.m.*
**
***New America Foundation*
*1899 L St. NW Suite 400*
*Washington DC, 20036*

RSVP <http://newamerica.net/events/2012/who_can_vote>

The question of exactly how American citizens exercise their right to 
vote has become a source of partisan acrimony this election year. In a 
nation whose patchwork of jurisdictions feature conflicting voter ID and 
registration requirements, lawmakers must safeguard the integrity of the 
electoral process and also ensure the widespread accessibility of voting.

Tensions have peaked in response to legislative efforts to tighten ID 
requirements in key battleground states. The investigative student-run 
reporting project News21 sought to analyze the facts behind this 
controversial issue. Led by former /Washington Post /Executive Editor 
Len Downie, the young journalists conducted the most exhaustive study to 
date of the voting laws and electoral fraud nationwide.

Join New America and News21 to learn more about the findings of this 
editorial series and the broader issue affecting this year's 
election. We will also examine the latest innovations in online voter 
information from Google and the Internet Archive.

/*On Twitter? Follow @MPINAF and use #DelveInto12.*/

/Agenda/
//

*Who Can Vote?*

**

/Featuring/

*Maryann Batlle*

News21 Fellow, Arizona State University

*Joe Henke*

News21 Fellow, Arizona State University

/Moderator/
*Len Downie*
Weil Family Professor of Journalism, Walter Cronkite School of 
Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University

Vice President-at-large and Former Executive Editor of /The Washington Post/

*And How Will They Be Informed?*

**

/Featuring/
*Roger MacDonald*
Leader, Internet Archive TV News Research Service Project

*Anthea Watson Strong*
Independent Consultant, Google Politics and Elections Team

/Moderator/
*Tom Glaisyer*
Former Media Policy Fellow, New America Foundation

**

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    "Underfunding of voter registration: a guarantee that 25 percent or
    more of Americans won't participate"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40195>

Posted on September 13, 2012 9:02 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40195> by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

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<http://www.remappingdebate.org/article/underfunding-voter-registration-guarantee-25-percent-or-more-americans-won%E2%80%99t-participate?page=0,1> 
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    ""Empowering Small Donors, Reviving Democracy"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40193>

Posted on September 13, 2012 9:01 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40193> by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Announcement via email:

*The Brennan Center for Justice*

/presents/

*"Empowering Small Donors, Reviving Democracy"
*

*Tuesday, October 2, 2012
6:30 -- 8:30 p.m.*

*Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law*
161 Avenue of the Americas, 12th Floor
New York, NY 10013

Join the Brennan Center in the second installment of a panel series 
examining the future of public financing for political campaigns. At 
this event, legal scholars and advocates will discuss the impact that 
small donor matching funds can have on civic participation and the 
hydraulics of democracy. Participants will also discuss how public 
campaign financing can effectively respond to the threat of unlimited 
outside spending in the aftermath of /Citizens United/.

Panelists include:

  * *Lawrence Lessig*, professor of law at Harvard Law School, Director
    of the Edmund J. Foundation Center for Ethics and Harvard
    University, and author of /Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts
    Congress--and a Plan to Stop It/.

  * *Fred Wertheimer*, Founder and President of Democracy 21, a
    nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that works to strengthen our
    democracy and promotes government integrity, accountability and
    transparency measures to accomplish its goals. Co-author of a new
    report, /Empowering Small Donors in Federal Elections/, with the
    Brennan Center's Adam Skaggs.

  * *Richard Briffault*, Joseph P. Chamberlain Professor of Legislation
    at Columbia Law School and author of numerous publications on the
    topics of campaign finance reform and election law.

  * *Monica Youn*, the inaugural Brennan Center Constitutional Fellow at
    NYU School of Law, where she focuses on election law and First
    Amendment issues, and former director of the Brennan Center's Money
    in Politics program.

Refreshments will be served.

Please RSVP to Jonathan Backer at jonathan.backer at nyu.edu 
<mailto:jonathan.backer at nyu.edu> or 646-292-8371.

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    "Texas: AG rules that signature petitions in Sinton recall must be
    made public, though allows addresses to be withheld"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40191>

Posted on September 13, 2012 8:59 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40191> by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

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<http://recallelections.blogspot.com/2012/09/texas-ag-rules-that-signature-petitions.html>appears 
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    "Judge temporarily blocks STOCK Act from taking effect for executive
    branch" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40189>

Posted on September 13, 2012 8:58 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40189> by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo reports. 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/decision2012/judge-temporarily-blocks-stock-act-from-taking-effect-for-executive-branch/2012/09/13/26abe4b8-fdeb-11e1-b153-218509a954e1_story.html>

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    "Backlash Swells Against Voter Laws"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40186>

Posted on September 13, 2012 8:52 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40186> by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The Daily Beast reports 
<http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/13/backlash-swells-against-voter-laws.html>.

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    "Federal court case in Wyoming examines election law and free
    speech" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40183>

Posted on September 13, 2012 11:51 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40183> by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

News 
<http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/federal-court-case-in-wyoming-examines-election-law-and-free/article_4bde11fa-b731-5607-8c0a-5bdc2ae901f5.html>from 
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    "Study of US campaign ads finds growing role of outside groups"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40181>

Posted on September 13, 2012 11:49 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40181> by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Reuters reports. 
<http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/09/12/usa-campaign-money-idINL1E8KCE8720120912>

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    Archived Webcast of Smith, Streb, and Hasen on Citizens United
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40178>

Posted on September 13, 2012 11:43 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40178> by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

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    Ari Berman Less Optimistic About Reversal in PA Voter ID Case
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40175>

Posted on September 13, 2012 11:33 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40175> by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The Nation: 
<http://www.thenation.com/blog/169909/nightmare-pennsylvania-voter-id-law-revisited-court#>

    The state supreme court is split three to three between Democrats
    and Republicans (a fourth Republican judge was suspended after using
    public funds on her campaign). Thus four votes are needed to
    overturn the lower court's decision. The Democratic judges spoke
    frequently and asked pointed questions of the state. The Republicans
    judges, with the occasional exception of Saylor, said almost
    nothing. Chief Justice Ronald Castille, who overturned the GOP's
    redistricting plans and is thought to be the swing justice on the
    court, stayed mostly silent and appeared irritated, at times, with
    the outspoken Democrats. "We got three votes but that doesn't help
    us," Vic Walczak, legal director for the Pennsylvania ACLU, told me
    after the hearing. "We need a fourth."

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    Lots More Entries in the SCOTUSBlog Voting Rights Act Symposium
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40171>

Posted on September 13, 2012 10:58 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40171> by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
09.13.12 	Guy-Uriel Charles 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/author/guy-uriel-charles/> 	Online VRA 
symposium: The Voting Rights Act, judicial review, and congressional 
deference 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/09/online-vra-symposium-the-voting-rights-act-judicial-review-and-congressional-deference/> 

09.13.12 	Adam Cox and Thomas Miles 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/author/adam-cox/> 	Online VRA symposium: 
Social science goes to court 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/09/online-vra-symposium-social-science-goes-to-court/> 

09.13.12 	Hans von Spakovsky 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/author/hans-von-spakovsky/> 	Online VRA 
symposium: The constitutionality of Section 5 comes to the Supremes 
again 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/09/online-vra-symposium-the-constitutionality-of-section-5-comes-to-the-supremes-again/> 

09.12.12 	Abigail Thernstrom 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/author/abigail-thernstrom/> 	Online VRA 
symposium: The Section 5 guidelines and their substantial federalism 
costs 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/09/online-vra-symposium-the-section-5-guidelines-and-their-substantial-federalism-costs/> 

09.12.12 	Richard Pildes 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/author/rick-pildes/> 	Online VRA symposium: 
The Supreme Court response to Congressional avoidance 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/09/online-vra-symposium-the-supreme-court-response-to-congressional-avoidance/> 

09.12.12 	Joshua Thompson 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/author/joshua-thompson/> 	Online VRA 
symposium: It's time for the Court to review Section 5 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/09/online-vra-symposium-its-time-for-the-court-to-review-section-5/> 

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09.11.12 	Nathaniel Persily 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/author/nathan-persily/> 	Online VRA 
symposium: When should the best be the enemy of the possible? 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/09/online-vra-symposium-when-should-the-best-be-the-enemy-of-the-possible/> 

09.11.12 	Heather Gerken 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/author/heather-gerken/> 	Online VRA 
symposium: Reading the tea leaves -- the uncertain future of the Act 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/09/online-vra-symposium-reading-the-tea-leaves-the-uncertain-future-of-the-act/> 

09.11.12 	Ilya Shapiro 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/author/ilya-shapiro-guest/> 	Online VRA 
symposium: The Court should reconsider the constitutionality of the 
VRA's outmoded and unworkable Section 5 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/09/online-vra-symposium-the-court-should-reconsider-the-constitutionality-of-the-vras-outmoded-and-unworkable-section-5/> 

09.10.12 	Luis Fuentes-Rohwer 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/author/luisfr/> 	Online VRA symposium: The 
VRA meets the living Constitution 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/09/online-vra-symposium-the-vra-meets-the-living-constitution/> 

09.10.12 	Richard Hasen <http://www.scotusblog.com/author/rick-hasen/> 
Online VRA symposium: The Voting Rights Act, Congressional silence, and 
the political polarization 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/09/online-vra-symposium-the-voting-rights-act-congressional-silence-and-the-political-polarization/> 

09.08.12 	Kali Borkoski 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/author/kali-borkoski/> 	Online symposium: The 
Court and the Voting Rights Act 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/09/online-symposium-the-court-and-the-voting-rights-act/> 

09.07.12 	Lyle Denniston 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/author/lyle-denniston/> 	Voting rights cases: 
Made simple 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/09/voting-rights-cases-made-simple/>

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