[EL] ELB News and Commentary 12/18/13
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Wed Dec 18 07:47:19 PST 2013
"Arizona high court upholds higher campaign-contribution limits'
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57545>
Posted on December 18, 2013 7:46 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57545>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Arizona Republic
<http://www.azcentral.com/news/politics/free/20131217arizona-high-court-hears-political-giving-case.html>:
Higher campaign-contribution limits --- up to $4,000 per candidate
in a statewide race --- are in force for the 2014 elections, in the
wake of a Tuesday state Supreme Court ruling.
The five-member court sided with state legislative leaders, who
argued the higher limits set out in a bill passed this year do not
violate the state Constitution.
The opinion does not yet appear to be posted on the Arizona Supreme
Court's website.
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
"States with higher black turnout are more likely to restrict
voting" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57543>
Posted on December 18, 2013 7:38 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57543>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Keith Bentele and Erin O'Brien have this post
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2013/12/17/states-with-higher-black-turnout-are-more-likely-to-restrict-voting/>at
The Monkey Cage.
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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,
The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
"The Register editorial: 'Voter fraud' findings didn't live up to
billing Educating would-be voters is needed, not witch hunt"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57541>
Posted on December 18, 2013 7:36 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57541>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Des Moines Register
<http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20131218/OPINION03/312180018/The-Register-editorial-Voter-fraud-findings-didn-t-live-up-to-billing?Frontpage>:
The timing was perfect for Secretary of State Matt Schultz when he
ran for office in 2010. The Republican was able to ride a national
wave of trumped-up hysteria about hundreds of non-citizens
supposedly voting illegally. Schultz made rooting out voter fraud
the centerpiece of his campaign, and he won the election, unseating
incumbent Michael Mauro.
Schultz went on to propose rules seeking to purge ineligible voters
from voter lists. This move became the subject of a lawsuit. In July
2012, he struck a deal with the Iowa Division of Criminal
Investigation to assign a full-time agent to investigate suspected
voter fraud. The state auditor's office is now reviewing whether
it's appropriate for Schultz's office to use federal
election-improvement money to pay for fraud investigations.
After 18 months of scouring the state for voting scofflaws and
spending $150,000 in tax money on the effort, what serious problems
have been uncovered? None --- other than we now know that there
isn't a problem with voter fraud in Iowa and that some Iowans are
confused about voting laws.
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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,
The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
"17 people caught casting illegal ballots in 2012 election"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57539>
Posted on December 18, 2013 7:34 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57539>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Columbus Dispatch
<http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/12/18/Husted-voter-fraud.html>:
"Thanks to new cross-checking of the statewide voter database with
drivers' license records, Secretary of State Jon Husted today said his
office discovered 17 non-U.S. citizens cast illegal ballots in Ohio's
2012 general election."
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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>
"Editorial: Signing campaign finance bill would betray Snyder's
pledge to voters" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57537>
Posted on December 18, 2013 7:31 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57537>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Detroit Free Press:
<http://www.freep.com/article/20131217/OPINION01/312170041/Michigan-campaign-finance-SB-661-Rick-Snyder-Ruth-Johnson>
That grunting and straining you hear is the sound of Gov. Rick
Snyder's struggle to reconcile campaign finance legislation recently
adopted by state lawmakers with a pledge he made as a candidate to
help voters learn who's spending how much to influence Michigan's
political process.
But it simply can't be done --- and we urge the governor to stop
trying before he hurts himself and the state government he has
repeatedly promised to make more transparent and accountable.
Morehere
<http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/12/michigan_gov_rick_snyder_signa.html>.
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
"REPORT: Thousands Disenfranchised by Inconsistent Handling of
Provisional Ballots" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57535>
Posted on December 18, 2013 7:29 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57535>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
FELN Press Release
<http://www.fairelectionsnetwork.com/press_releases/report-thousands-disenfranchised-inconsistent-handling-provisional-ballots>:
A national review of provisional ballot counting rules, contained in
a report released today by the Fair Elections Legal Network,
underscores that a minority of states continue to reject votes cast
for important higher offices when mistakenly cast in an incorrect
precinct even though the voter would have been eligible to vote for
those offices in their home precinct.
The report, /Saving Votes: An Easy Fix to the Problem of Wasting
Provisional Ballots Cast Out of Precinct/ <http://bit.ly/1hZav11>,
concludes that tens of thousands of provisional ballots are never
opened because the voter cast his or her ballot in the wrong
location. Twenty-two states continue to reject these ballots in
full, discarding even votes for Governor, U.S. Senator and President.
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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,
provisional ballots <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=67>, The Voting
Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
"13 Things We Learned about Money in Politics in 2013?
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57533>
Posted on December 18, 2013 7:27 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57533>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy blogs
<http://www.brennancenter.org/blog/13-things-we-learned-about-money-politics-2013>.
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, tax law
and election law <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22>
"Income Inequality and Campaign Money: A Case of Cognitive
Dissonance" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57531>
Posted on December 18, 2013 7:26 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57531>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Dan Glickman blogs.
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-glickman/income-inequality-and-cam_b_4459863.html>
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
"Campaign Legal Center agrees with CCP: IRS regulations are not
about tax policy, but regulating political speech"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57529>
Posted on December 18, 2013 7:24 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57529>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Brad Smith
<http://www.campaignfreedom.org/2013/12/16/campaign-legal-center-agrees-with-ccp-irs-regulations-are-not-about-tax-policy-but-regulating-political-speech/>
on Paul Ryan.
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, tax law
and election law <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22>
"The Lobbyists' Lament" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57527>
Posted on December 18, 2013 7:23 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57527>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Haley Barbour and Ed Rogers write
<http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/12/the-lobbyists-lament-101252_full.html>
for /Politico/ magazine.
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Posted in legislation and legislatures
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=27>, lobbying
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=28>
"More About the FEC's Troubles" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57525>
Posted on December 18, 2013 7:21 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57525>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bauer's latest.
<http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/2013/12/more-about-the-fecs-troubles/>
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,
election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>
"Attorney general to investigate Fulton County voting"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57523>
Posted on December 18, 2013 7:19 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57523>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
CBS Atlanta reports
<http://www.cbsatlanta.com/story/24246174/attorney-general-to-investigate-fulton-county-voting>.
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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>
FEC Deadlock on Crossroads GPS Probe?
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57521>
Posted on December 17, 2013 2:43 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57521>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Politico
<http://www.politico.com/story/2013/12/crossroads-gps-probe-fec-101246.html?hp=l1>:
"The Federal Election Commission has closed a long-running investigation
into the activities of Crossroads GPS --- the nonprofit group founded by
GOP strategist Karl Rove. According to a letter sent by the FEC to
Crossroads GPS and provided on Tuesday to POLITICO, the election
enforcement agency dismissed the complaint --- which was filed in 2010
--- because there were insufficient votes on the commission supporting
allegations that Crossroads GPS violated campaign finance law."
I presume this means a partisan/ideological split on the commission and
that there will be a few strong statements about this.
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, federal
election commission <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=24>, tax law and
election law <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22>
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