[EL] ELB News and Commentary 8/12/13

Sun Aug 11 22:12:35 PDT 2013

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    "Texas primaries could be delayed again over redistricting"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=54240>

Posted on August 11, 2013 10:00 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=54240> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

AP reports. 
<http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/2013/aug/11/texas-primaries-could-be-delayed-again-over/>

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    SCOTUSBlog Symposium on McCutcheon is Coming This Week
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=54237>

Posted on August 11, 2013 4:49 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=54237> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Announcement <http://www.scotusblog.com/2013/08/symposium-announcement/>.

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    "Texas on voting rights: It's not about race, just politics"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=54234>

Posted on August 11, 2013 4:41 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=54234> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Adam Serwer reports 
<http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/08/10/texas-on-voting-rights-its-not-about-race-just-politics/>for 
MSNBC.

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    "Debaters Clash Over Allowing Corporate Free Speech"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=54231>

Posted on August 11, 2013 4:34 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=54231> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

See here 
<http://calwatchdog.com/2013/08/07/debaters-clash-over-allowing-corporate-free-speech/#sthash.mzqv45MZ.dpuf> 
and here 
<http://calwatchdog.com/2013/08/09/leftists-seek-sec-regulation-of-corporate-speech/#sthash.w5MXnZXJ.dpuf>.

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    "Bopp Fires Back at CREW Accusations"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=54228>

Posted on August 11, 2013 4:31 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=54228> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

See here. 
<http://tribstar.com/news/x125815279/Bopp-fires-back-at-CREW-accusations/>

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    "'Everyone in America values the votes cast by our citizens ...
    except the county of Sacramento.' Is something wrong with elections
    in Sacramento County?" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=54225>

Posted on August 11, 2013 4:29 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=54225> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Should 
<http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/everyone-in-america-values-the-votes-cast-by-our-citizens-except-the-county-of-sacramento-39/content?oid=10929685>recently 
unearthed and uncounted absentee ballots be counted, now long after an 
election?

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    "I Flirt and Tweet. Follow Me at #Socialbot"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=54222>

Posted on August 11, 2013 4:27 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=54222> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Big political implications inthis Ian Urbina piece 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/11/sunday-review/i-flirt-and-tweet-follow-me-at-socialbot.html> 
in NYT's Sunday Review:

    Other bots have more underhanded ambitions. Last year, officials
    from Mexico's governing Institutional Revolutionary Party were
    accused of using bots to sabotage the party's critics by
    appropriating some of their hashtags and flooding Twitter with
    identical posts, designed to trip Twitter's spam filter. Believing
    the posts to be spam, Twitter soon began blocking those hashtags
    entirely, temporarily silencing the critics, which was exactly what
    the government officials intended.

    In 2010, researchers with Truthy, the Indiana University research
    group, discovered a number of Twitter accounts sending out duplicate
    messages and re-tweeting messages from the same few accounts in a
    closely connected network. Two accounts, for example, sent out
    20,000 similar tweets, most of them linking to, or promoting, the
    Web site of John A. Boehner, then the House minority leader, before
    the last midterm elections.

    Much of the social media remains unregulated by campaign finance and
    transparency laws. So far, the Federal Election Commission has been
    reluctant to venture into this realm.

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    "For Freshmen in the House, Seats of Plenty"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=54220>

Posted on August 11, 2013 4:24 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=54220> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT: 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/11/us/politics/for-freshmen-in-the-house-seats-of-plenty.html?hp&_r=1&>

    With so many lawmakers clamoring to be on the Financial Services
    Committee, it has grown to 61 members from 44 since 1980, forcing
    the installation of four tiered rows
    <http://financialservices.house.gov/media/pdf/022801hg.jpg> of seats
    in the Rayburn House Office Building --- with the first row of
    lawmakers on the floor, just in front of the tables used for witnesses.

    The committee's chairman, Representative Jeb Hensarling, Republican
    of Texas, remains the top recipient of donations
    <http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?type=C&cid=N00024922&newMem=N&cycle=2010/mailto:info@crp.org>
    from industry PACs this year, taking in $282,000, according to the
    Center for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit group that tracks the
    influence of money in politics. But three Republican freshmen ---
    Mr. Barr and Representatives Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Ann Wagner
    of Missouri --- have raised more money from industry PACs than many
    longtime committee members like Representative Spencer Bachus, an
    Alabama Republican who served as the panel's chairman until the end
    of last year.

    The imbalance is apparent on the Democratic side as well. Each of
    the seven freshman Democrats on the committee has raised more
    industry PAC money so far this year than the committee's top
    Democrat, Representative Maxine Waters of California, who has had a
    testy relationship with the industry.

    These freshman Democrats joined this year
    <http://financialservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/crpt-113-hmtg-ba00-fc014-20130507.pdf>
    with Republicans on the committee --- over the objection of Ms.
    Waters and the Obama administration --- to support measures
    advocated by Wall Street banks that would roll back some of the
    strictest provisions of the landmark Dodd-Frank financial
    regulations, which were passed in 2010 in the aftermath of the
    global recession.

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    "Colorado: Claims that new election law opens recall to anyone in
    the state; Media Matters disputes"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=54215>

Posted on August 9, 2013 4:34 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=54215> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

This item 
<http://recallelections.blogspot.com/2013/08/colorado-claims-that-new-election-law.html> 
appears at the Recall Elections Blog.

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    President Obama Mentions Voting Rights Act in Press Conference Today
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=54212>

Posted on August 9, 2013 2:00 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=54212> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

 From thetranscript 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/transcript-president-obamas-august-9-2013-news-conference-at-the-white-house/2013/08/09/5a6c21e8-011c-11e3-9a3e-916de805f65d_print.html> 
in response to a question on immigration reform:

    So when I hear the opposition to immigration reform, I just run
    through the list of things that are concerned about, I look at what
    the Senate bill does, and I say to myself, you know what, the Senate
    bill actually improves the situation on every issue that they say
    they're concerned about.

    Now, what they may argue is it doesn't solve the problem a hundred
    percent. I don't know a law that solves a problem a hundred percent.
    Social Security lifted millions of seniors out of poverty, but there
    are still some poor seniors. The Civil Rights Act and the Voting
    Rights Act drastically reduced discrimination in America, but
    there's still discrimination. That doesn't make them bad laws. It
    just means that there are very few human problems that are a hundred
    percent solvable.

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    En Banc Petition Filed in 10th Circuit in Free Speech v. FEC
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=54210>

Posted on August 9, 2013 1:58 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=54210> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Read the petition 
<http://wyliberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Free-Speech-En-Banc-Petition-8.9.13-Filed.pdf>and 
related blog post. 
<http://wyliberty.org/feature/masters-of-illusion-stopping-the-speech-police/>

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    Congrats to Herron and Smith <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=54207>

Posted on August 9, 2013 11:43 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=54207> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

...whose paper, "Getting Your Souls to the Polls: The Racial Impact of 
Reducing Early In-Person Voting in Florida," was unanimously selected as 
the Best Paper Award for the State Politics & Policy Section of the 
American Political Science Association. The paper was subsequently 
published in /Election Law Journal/, and is available here 
<https://www.supportthevoter.gov/files/2013/07/Election-Law-Journal-Souls-to-the-Polls-Early-Voting-in-Florida-in-Shadow-of-House-Bill-1355.pdf>.

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    "Texas: We Only Hate Democrats, Not Minorities"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=54204>

Posted on August 9, 2013 10:48 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=54204> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Frank Wilkinson 
<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-09/texas-we-only-hate-democrats-not-minorities.html> 
for Bloomberg View: "So, here's the question the federal courts must 
decide: When the white party uses its legislative authority to undermine 
the brown and black party, is that a racial act or merely a political one?"

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    Bauer on Levitt and Brad Smith on the Contribution-Expenditure
    Distinction <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=54201>

Posted on August 9, 2013 9:33 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=54201> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here. 
<http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/2013/08/levitt-smith-and-the-possibilities-in-discussion/>

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    "Auditor: California has inefficiently spent millions earmarked for
    voting systems" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=54199>

Posted on August 9, 2013 9:19 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=54199> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

SacBee 
<http://www.sacbee.com/2013/08/09/5636019/auditor-california-has-inefficiently.html>: 
"Confusing and inconsistent direction from the California Secretary of 
State's Office has led the state to inefficiently spend millions of 
federal dollars earmarked to improve voting systems, according to a 
state audit released Thursday."

You can find a summary of the report (and a link to the full report) of 
the California State Auditor here 
<http://www.bsa.ca.gov/reports/summary/2012-112>.

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    "How McConnell's Woes Could Blow Up Washington"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=54196>

Posted on August 9, 2013 9:04 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=54196> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Josh Marshall withthe key takeaway point 
<http://editors.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2013/08/how_mcconnells_woes_could_blow_up_washington.php?ref=fpblg> 
from the McConnell controversy and the primary season.

I'd only add that in the general election, McConnell could be blamed by 
voters in the middle for failing to avert a government shutdown (for 
which he and Republicans would be blamed).

He has a fine line to walk.

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    Move to Amend Responds to My Critique of Constitutional Amendments
    to Overturn Citizens United <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=54193>

Posted on August 9, 2013 8:52 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=54193> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

In Three Wrong Progressive Approaches (and One Right One) to Campaign 
Finance Reform 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2293979> 
(forthcoming, /Harvard Law and Policy Review/), I argue against a 
constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United on grounds that 
such proposals are likely to squelch too much political activity or to 
be weak and ineffective.

Victor Tiffany, a supporter of Move to Amend, responds to my critique 
here 
<http://www.amendmentgazette.com/2013/08/08/taking-on-amendment-critics-part-xviii-richard-hasen/>. 
He concludes: "Hasen's approach smacks of corporate liberalism 
<http://aaeblog.com/2007/02/06/remembering-corporate-liberalism/>, a 
symptom of the disease that he turns an apparently blind eye toward."

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    "Alabama GOP Donor Challenges Limits"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=54190>

Posted on August 9, 2013 8:45 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=54190> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

USA Today profiles 
<http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/08/09/alabama-gop-donor-challenges-limits/2634671/> 
Shaun McCutcheon, of McCutcheon v. FEC.

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    "Futuristic voting is on the way, presidential panel told"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=54187>

Posted on August 9, 2013 8:43 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=54187> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

AP reports 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/futuristic-voting-is-on-the-way-presidential-panel-told/2013/08/08/9ee12fda-004f-11e3-8294-0ee5075b840d_story.html>on 
yesterday's Bauer-Ginsberg hearing in Denver.

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    Persily and Mann on Shelby County <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=54184>

Posted on August 9, 2013 8:41 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=54184> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Nate Persily and Tom Mann have posted this paper 
<http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2013/08/09-shelby-v-holder-policy-mann>, 
summarizing the recent Brookings conference on Shelby County.

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UC Irvine School of Law
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