[EL] Arizona opinion

Wed Dec 18 09:06:41 PST 2013

At the oral argument, the Arizona Supreme Court said that it would issue the order first and that an opinion would follow in due course, so I would expect it to be a while before the actual opinion is up.

Bill

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“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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“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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“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.

More here<http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/12/michigan_gov_rick_snyder_signa.html>.
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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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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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