[EL] ELB News and Commentary 9/15/12
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Sat Sep 15 18:17:19 PDT 2012
Broad Support for Voter ID Laws in NYT/CBS Poll
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40270>
Posted on September 15, 2012 6:15 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40270> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
New Poll:
<http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/09/15/us/politics/New-York-Times-CBS-Poll-Results.html?ref=politics>
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"Poll: Strong Support for Campaign Spending Limits"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40267>
Posted on September 15, 2012 6:06 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40267> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
AP
<http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2012/09/15/us/politics/ap-us-ap-poll-campaign-spending.html?ref=politics>:
"More than 8 in 10 Americans in a poll by The Associated Press and the
National Constitution Center support limits on the amount of money given
to groups that are trying to influence U.S. elections."
"The poll also found a slight increase in the share of Americans who say
voting rights for minorities require legal protection, although the
public is divided over whether such laws still are needed. Sixty percent
of Democrats say those protections are still needed, compared with 40
percent of independents and 33 percent of Republicans."
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"Early voting: Why Justice dropped its challenge of Florida plan"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40264>
Posted on September 15, 2012 5:53 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40264> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The CS Monitor reports
<http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/2012/0913/Early-voting-Why-Justice-dropped-its-challenge-of-Florida-plan>.
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"Conservative super PACs targeting blue-state Democrats"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40261>
Posted on September 15, 2012 5:48 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40261> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WaPo reports.
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"Some Republicans Try Out a New Campaign Theme: Bipartisanship"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40259>
Posted on September 15, 2012 5:46 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40259> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT reports.
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Is the Voting Rights Act Living on Borrowed Time?
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40256>
Posted on September 15, 2012 5:43 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40256> by Rick Hasen
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"Assessing the Potential Effects of Citizens United: Evidence from
the States" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40253>
Posted on September 15, 2012 5:40 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40253> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Timothy Werner and John Coleman have posted this draft
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2108171>on SSRN.
Here is the abstract:
The U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 decision in Citizens United v. FEC was
one of its most controversial in decades. Critics of the decision
argued it would lead to a flood of corporate and union cash that
would warp electoral and policy outcomes. We test for this
possibility by exploiting the variation in campaign finance laws at
the state level from 1977 through 2006.
Through an analysis of three policy outcomes of interest to
businesses and unions over three decades --- the degree of
liberalism among state elected officials; the relative state minimum
wage compared to the federal minimum wage; and the degree of
pre-transfer income inequality in a state --- we find minimal
effects for the overall campaign finance regulatory regimes in
general and corporate and union independent expenditures
specifically on public policy outcomes. These findings suggest that
critics' fears about the possible effects of Citizens United at the
national level may be overstated.
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"Secretary of State Connie Lawson warns Hoosiers about
over-the-phone voting scam" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40251>
Posted on September 15, 2012 5:37 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40251> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
See this press release
<http://www.in.gov/activecalendar/EventList.aspx?view=EventDetails&eventidn=58959&information_id=118983&type=&syndicate=syndicate>.
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"Could Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Help Romney Win Race? Up to 1
Million Voters Face Disenfranchisement"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40249>
Posted on September 15, 2012 5:37 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40249> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Here is a link
<http://www.democracynow.org/2012/9/14/could_pennsylvania_voter_id_law_help>to
a Democracy Now! program. I haven't had a chance to listen to the
program but the 1 million disenfranchised voters seems quite high and
not supported at all by what we know.
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"A.G. Schneiderman Announces Agreement With Schenectady County Board
Of Elections To Provide Language Access For Voters"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40246>
Posted on September 15, 2012 5:33 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40246> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
See this press release
<http://www.ag.ny.gov/press-release/ag-schneiderman-announces-agreement-schenectady-county-board-elections-provide>.
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Rosen on Toobin on Roberts on Citizens United and the Supposed
Switch from a Narrow Opinion <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40244>
Posted on September 15, 2012 5:32 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40244> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
See this review.
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/the-oath-the-obama-white-house-and-the-supreme-court-by-jeffrey-toobin/2012/09/14/ff9d4c54-fb56-11e1-8adc-499661afe377_story_1.html>
My copy of "The Oath" shipped today and I'm looking forward to reading it!
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"US democracy: The power of money"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40241>
Posted on September 15, 2012 5:28 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40241> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Al Jazeera
<http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/empire/2012/09/20129127525392941.html>:
Joining us as interviewees: Senator Richard Lugar, the long-serving
and outgoing Republican Indiana senator; and James Bopp Jr, the
lawyer whose work has been immensely successful in deregulating
campaign finance and who was instrumental in winning the landmark
Citizens United case.
And we debate the larger issues of money and power in American
politics with our guests: Melanie Sloan, the executive director of
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington; Steven
Hoersting, the co-founder of the Center for Competitive Politics, an
attorney who is regarded as an architect of the Super PAC system;
Clyde Wilcox, a professor of government at Georgetown University and
the author of more than 30 books, including /Interest Groups in
American Campaigns: The New Face of Electioneering/; and Larry
Beinhart, a novelist and author of the critically acclaimed novel
/American Hero,/ which was adapted into the film /Wag the Dog/.
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"Kansas Ballot Challenge Over Obama's Birth Is Ended"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40239>
Posted on September 15, 2012 5:26 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40239> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT reports.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/15/us/politics/kansas-election-officials-seek-copy-of-obamas-birth-certificate.html?ref=politics>
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"Presidential Race May Hinge on Third Party Candidates"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40236>
Posted on September 15, 2012 5:22 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40236> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bloomberg reports
<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-14/presidential-race-may-hinge-on-third-party-candidates.html>:
"Virgil Goode, an anti-immigration southerner, and Gary Johnson, a
pro-marijuana southwesterner, have little in common, save one thing:
They both are seeking to shake up the American presidential race as
third-party candidates. While they have no chance to win the Nov. 6
election, the tight race between President Barack Obama
<http://topics.bloomberg.com/barack-obama/> and Republican Mitt Romney
<http://topics.bloomberg.com/mitt-romney/> may create the right
circumstances for one of them --- or both --- to pull just enough votes
in a key state to sway the contest."
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"Project Vote Appeals Texas Voter Registration Case to U.S. Supreme
Court" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40233>
Posted on September 15, 2012 5:19 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40233> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The following press release arrived via email:
*Project Vote Appeals Texas Voter Registration Case to U.S. Supreme
Court
*/Voting rights group asks justices to rule on the freedom of voter
registration efforts/*
*
Washington, DC -- Today, with little over three weeks left before
the close of voter registration in Texas, attorneys for Project Vote
filed an emergency appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court
<http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=asyrAK0fcmYu69M7lSaQvRZOYjlM7fog>,
asking the justices to intervene and prevent the state from
enforcing laws that place undue burdens on voter registration drives.
In February 2012, Project Vote and its affiliate Voting for America
filed a lawsuit
<http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=F88zA%2Brlchp%2Ffzd2WP8qHRZOYjlM7fog>
against the state of Texas, arguing that certain provisions of Texas
election code unfairly restricted voter registration activities, in
violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S.
Constitution and the National Voter Registration Act.
"Current Texas law would make it nearly impossible for voter
registration organizations to conduct their work in the state," said
Michael Slater, executive director for Project Vote.
In August, U.S. District Court Judge Gregg Costa agreed that these
laws improperly restricted voter registration drives, writing in a
96-page ruling that "Texas now imposes more burdensome regulations
on those engaging in third-party voter registration than the vast
majority of, if not all, other states." Judge Costa granted a
preliminary injunction enjoining the following laws:
* a prohibition on voter registration drives submitting to
officials by mail applications they collect;
* a ban on non-Texans becoming volunteer deputy registrars;
* a prohibition that prevents any person from accepting or
handling applications from residents of counties other than the
county in which the person was appointed as a volunteer deputy
registrar; and
* a burdensome compensation law that prohibits organizations from
firing employees based on their performance in collecting
applications.
"Voter registration drives have played a vital role in increasing
participation in the political process," wrote Costa. "This is
especially true in minority communities with historically lower
rates of voter registration."
On September 6th, in a 2-1 decision, the 5th Circuit Court of
Appeals stayed Judge Costa's ruling pending appeal. Now Project Vote
and Voting for America are appealing that decision to the highest
court in the land.
The Plaintiffs are represented by attorneys from the law firms of
Ropes & Gray, Brazil & Dunn, and Spivey & Grigg, L.L.P.
"Millions of eligible Texans are still not registered to vote, in
part because Texas has some of the worst voter registration laws in
the nation," said Chad Dunn, counsel for the plaintiffs. "With a
national election fast approaching, we are asking the Supreme Court
to recognize that voter registration drives serve an essential
function in our democracy, and must be allowed to operate without
undue burdens or unreasonable fear of prosecution."
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Witness Testimony from Recent Senate Judiciary Commitee Hearing on
Citizens United and on Voting Rights Act
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Posted on September 15, 2012 5:15 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40230> by Rick Hasen
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Anthony Johnstone
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Michael Carvin
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Elisabeth MacNamara
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"U.S. Justice Department approves Mississippi's legislative
redistricting plan" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40228>
Posted on September 15, 2012 5:14 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40228> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
See here
<http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2012/sep/14/justice-department-approves-mississippis-plan/?CID=happeningnow>.
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"Iowa Judge Bars Plan to Purge Noncitizens From Voter Roll"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40226>
Posted on September 15, 2012 5:13 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40226> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bloomberg
<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-14/iowa-judge-voids-plan-to-purge-noncitizens-from-voter-rolls.html>:
"Iowa <http://topics.bloomberg.com/iowa/>'s secretary of state was
temporarily barred from issuing new rules on purging noncitizens from
voter registration rolls by a judge who said the process was likely to
create confusion for legitimate voters." More from the /Des Moines
Register.
<http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2012/09/12/polk-judge-refuses-to-throw-out-voting-rules-lawsuit-against-iowa-sec-of-state-matt-schultz/>/
If anyone has a copy of Judge Gunderson's 12-page report, please send along.
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"Protecting the Vote: Suppression, Fraud and the Future of Voter ID
Laws" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40224>
Posted on September 15, 2012 5:06 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40224> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Watch the video
<http://forum.iop.harvard.edu/content/protecting-vote-suppression-fraud-and-future-voter-id-laws>of
this Harvard event featuring
*Jennie Bowser*
Senior Fellow, National Conference of State Legislatures
*John Fund*
Senior Editor, /The American Spectator/
*Alex Keyssar*
Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy, HKS
*Tova Wang*
Senior Democracy Fellow, Demos; Fellow, The Century Foundation
*Trey Grayson* (Moderator)
Director, Institute of Politics
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"Absence of FEC From Case Complicates Court Argument Over FEC
Disclosure Rules" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40221>
Posted on September 15, 2012 5:01 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40221> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bloomberg BNA
<http://news.bna.com/mpdm/MPDMWB/split_display.adp?fedfid=28005101&vname=mpebulallissues&jd=a0d4p3b5f9&split=0>:
"Lawyers for both sides in a dispute over Federal Election Commission
disclosure rules were peppered with probing questions by a three-judge
panel during an oral argument Sept. 14 in the federal appeals court in
Washington, D.C. (Van Hollen v. Federal Election Commission, D.C. Cir.,
Nos. 12-5117 and 12-5118, argued 9/14/12). The court gave no immediate
indication of how or when it would rule."
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"In-Person Voter Fraud: Not Really a Matter of Opinion"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40219>
Posted on September 15, 2012 4:59 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40219> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Kevin Drum
<http://m.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/09/person-voter-fraud-not-really-matter-opinion>
on the recentNYT story
<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/10/us/politics/legal-battles-on-voting-may-prove-a-critical-issue-in-election.html?pagewanted=all>
on voter fraud and the responses
<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/opinion/sunday/he-said-she-said-and-the-truth.html?_r=2&src=twr&pagewanted=all>to
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Details on "The Voting Wars" at Stanford Law, October 1
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40216>
Posted on September 15, 2012 4:26 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40216> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
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<https://www.law.stanford.edu/event/2012/10/01/acs-presents-professor-rick-hasen>.
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"Are Top Two Backers Seeking to Crush Dissent in California?"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40212>
Posted on September 15, 2012 4:21 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40212> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
This item
<http://www.fairvote.org/are-top-two-backers-seeking-to-crush-dissent-in-california#.UFUNChgpqTb>
appears at FairVote. See also this related amicus brie
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" Absentee Ballot Numbers: Is It Just a Calendar Thing?"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40209>
Posted on September 15, 2012 4:19 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40209> by Rick Hasen
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"Decade-Old E-Voting 'Wars' Continue into Presidential Election"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40207>
Posted on September 15, 2012 4:18 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=40207> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
This item i
<http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2012/09/14/decade-old-e-voting-wars-continue-into-presidential-election/>n
the /Wall Street Journal/ begins:
A decade after Dana Debeauvoir helped change Travis County, Texas to
an all-electronic voting system she still expects to be falsely
accused of fixing the coming election, just as she had in the last
two presidential races. The clerk, who has administered voting for
25 years in the county that includes Austin, says the public has
remained mistrustful of the ballot system, where voters pick
candidates directly from a computer screen, without marking a piece
of paper. "There have been so many hard feelings," says Debeauvoir.
"You get people saying 'I know you have been flipping votes.'"
Chapter 6 of /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>/
discusses the fights over voting technology.
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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 at 9
am Pacific at this link
<http://msweb.merage.uci.edu/Mediasite/Play/42473c5e3dd746659934e3642cf63add1d>.
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