[EL] ELB News and Commentary 12/17/13

Tue Dec 17 08:31:27 PST 2013

    Dave Levinthal: "The FEC is Rotting from the Inside Out"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57517>

Posted on December 17, 2013 8:28 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57517>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Absolute must-read 
<http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/12/17/13996/how-washington-starves-its-election-watchdog> 
on the problems plaguing the FEC.

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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, federal 
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    "Group files suit against Colorado county clerks over voter rolls"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57515>

Posted on December 17, 2013 8:24 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57515>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The /Denver Post /reports. 
<http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_24736528/group-files-suit-against-colorado-county-clerks-over>

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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, 
The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>, voter registration 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=37>

    "Why shield corporations from disclosing political spending?"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57513>

Posted on December 17, 2013 8:20 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57513>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Alison Frankel writes 
<http://blogs.reuters.com/alison-frankel/2013/12/16/why-shield-corporations-from-disclosing-political-spending/>.

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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>

    "Obenshain says vote recounts have reversed 3 of the 4 closest
    statewide elections" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57511>

Posted on December 17, 2013 8:20 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57511>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Politifact 
<http://www.politifact.com/virginia/statements/2013/dec/17/mark-obenshain/obenshain-says-vote-recounts-have-reversed-3-4-clo/>says 
"true."

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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, 
recounts <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=50>

    "The IRS is doing its job---or more accurately---contemplating doing
    its job after years of dereliction"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57509>

Posted on December 17, 2013 8:11 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57509>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Paul Ryan blogs 
<http://www.clcblog.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=542:the-irs-is-doing-its-jobor-more-accuratelycontemplating-doing-its-job-after-years-of-dereliction> 
at CLC.

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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, tax law 
and election law <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22>

    "A Look Inside As Virginia's Recount Begins"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57507>

Posted on December 17, 2013 8:10 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57507>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

A ChapinBlog. 
<http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/electionacademy/2013/12/a_look_inside_as_virginias_rec.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HHHElections+%28The+Election+Aacdemy%29>

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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, 
recounts <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=50>

    "Proposed IRS campaign rules may create strange tax-exempt allies"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57505>

Posted on December 17, 2013 8:09 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57505>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Reuters reports 
<http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/13/us-usa-politics-nonprofits-idUSBRE9BC0U920131213>.

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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, tax law 
and election law <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22>

    "The public, not the courts, should decide [Commentary]; Anne
    Arundel County Executive John Leopold's appeal seeking the right to
    again run for office after a criminal conviction should be granted,
    so the people can determine his fitness"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57503>

Posted on December 17, 2013 8:08 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57503>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

J.H. Snider writes this oped 
<http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-leopold-20131216,0,4047186.story> 
for the /Baltimore Sun./

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Posted in campaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>, chicanery 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>

    "Of Course Washington Is Broken: It Was Designed to Be"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57501>

Posted on December 17, 2013 8:05 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57501>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Peter Aldous writes <https://medium.com/evidence-base/9773f6175cec>.

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Posted in political parties <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>, 
political polarization <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=68>

    "There's No Way to Follow the Money: A patchwork of vague and lax
    campaign-finance regulations mean hundreds of millions of dollars
    changed hands in 2012 with no one tracking them."
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57498>

Posted on December 16, 2013 1:11 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57498>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

/The Atlantic /reports. 
<http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/12/theres-no-way-to-follow-the-money/282394/>

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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>

    "Tea party and political buttons: Supreme Court declines Minnesota
    case" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57496>

Posted on December 16, 2013 12:54 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57496>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

CS Monitor 
<http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2013/1216/Tea-party-and-political-buttons-Supreme-Court-declines-Minnesota-case>: 
"The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a case testing a 
Minnesota <http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Minnesota> law that bans 
the wearing of buttons or clothing with messages that election officials 
deem too political to be worn within 100 feet of any polling place."

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Posted in campaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>, Supreme Court 
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    GW Election Law Symposium Now Posted
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57494>

Posted on December 16, 2013 12:17 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57494>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

This was a great in-person symposium and I look forward to reading the 
final contributions:

*VOLUME 81 · NUMBER 6 · DECEMBER 2013 *

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          FOREWORD

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*Political Law* <http://www.gwlr.org/2013/12/16/overton-2/>
/Spencer Overton/
81 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 1783 (2013)

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          ESSAYS

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*Gender Unbound?* <http://www.gwlr.org/2013/12/16/crayton/>
/Kareem Crayton/
81 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 1799 (2013)

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*Voting Rules and Constitutional Law* 
<http://www.gwlr.org/2013/12/16/foley/>
/Edward B. Foley/
81 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 1836 (2013)

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*The 2012 Voting Wars, Judicial Backstops, and the Resurrection of Bush 
v. Gore* <http://www.gwlr.org/2013/12/16/hasen/>
/Richard L. Hasen/
81 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 1865 (2013)

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*The Year of the Super PAC* <http://www.gwlr.org/2013/12/16/kang/>
/Michael S. Kang/
81 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 1902 (2013)

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          ARTICLES

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*Unfinished Business: Protecting Voting Rights in the Twenty-First 
Century* <http://www.gwlr.org/2013/12/16/daniels/>
/Gilda R. Daniels/
81 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 1928 (2013)

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*Election Law Pleading* <http://www.gwlr.org/2013/12/16/douglas/>
/Joshua A. Douglas/
81 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 1966 (2013)

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*Separation of Campaign and State* <http://www.gwlr.org/2013/12/16/smith/>
/Bradley A. Smith/
81 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 2038 (2013)

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*Proposition 8 and the Mormon Church: A Case Study in Donor Disclosure* 
<http://www.gwlr.org/2013/12/16/youn/>
/Monica Youn/
81 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 2108 (2013)

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Posted in pedagogy <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=23>

    "Regulators to axe secretive super PAC"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57492>

Posted on December 16, 2013 8:49 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57492>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

CPI reports. 
<http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/12/16/14021/regulators-axe-secretive-super-pac>

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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, federal 
election commission <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=24>

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UC Irvine School of Law
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