[EL] FW: End of year thanks

Fri Dec 20 11:49:12 PST 2013

I concur - absolutely invaluable and indispensable..

Herman Schwartz

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From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Bill Maurer
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 2:05 PM
To: Rick Hasen; law-election at UCI.edu
Subject: Re: [EL] End of year thanks

Thank you, Professor Hasen, for running the listserv and blog again this past year.  They are invaluable resources.  

Bill Maurer

From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Rick Hasen
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 8:29 AM
To: law-election at UCI.edu
Subject: [EL] ELB News and Commentary 12/20/13

Note: The listserv will be down for maintenance on Saturday.

Blog Downtime, Blogging Break, and Happy Holidays! <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57602>  

Posted on December 20, 2013 8:22 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57602>  by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>  

On Saturday the Election Law Blog will be down for maintenance.

Blogging will be light through New Years-regular ELB News and Commentary mailings for Election Law listserv members will resume on January 6.

Once again it has been a busy year for the Election Law Blog and 2014 promises some big news in the area of voting rights, campaign finance, filibuster reform/political polarization and other topics. More posts from ELB regular commentators are on tap as well.

I wish all my readers a safe, healthy and happy 2014.

Below the fold you’ll find a list of articles and opeds that I’ve published (or that were released in draft) in 2013.  Thanks for reading!

Continue reading → <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57602#more-57602> 

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Posted in Uncategorized <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>  

December 2013 Issue of NCSL’s “The Canvass” Now Available <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57600>  

Posted on December 20, 2013 8:14 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57600>  by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>  

You can read it here <http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/2013-december-canvass.aspx?utm_source=Canvass&utm_campaign=4195b379d0-Canvass_April_20134_25_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c27fe8f428-4195b379d0-111828865> .

It includes a Dick Smolka obituary.

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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18> , election law biz <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=51>  

“Letter questions voter fraud probe costs” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57597>  

Posted on December 20, 2013 7:43 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57597>  by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>  

Des Moines Register <http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20131220/NEWS09/312200078/Letter-questions-voter-fraud-probe-costs> : “The nearly $150,000 that Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz’s office has spent on a long-running voter fraud investigation may not be an appropriate use of federal money, the state auditor suggested in a letter released Thursday.”

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

“A California businessman wants to make the state legislature 100 times larger” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57595>  

Posted on December 20, 2013 7:39 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57595>  by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>  

WaPo reports <http://electionlawblog.org/A%20California%20businessman%20wants%20to%20make%20the%20state%20legislature%20100%20times%20larger> .

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Posted in legislation and legislatures <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=27>  

Ballot Measure to Make California Into Six States? Not Gonna Happen <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57593>  

Posted on December 20, 2013 7:36 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57593>  by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>  

Tech Crunch reports <http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/19/tim-draper-six-californias-secede-silicon-valley-ballot-initiative/>  on the plan, but leaves out the most important detail: The California Supreme Court would almost certainly rule that such a measure cannot go on the ballot as an initiative because one can only amend, but not revise, the state Constitution.  Under the state supreme court’s test for revisions (most recently in a case i <http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=1933184769513157018&hl=en&as_sdt=6&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr> nvolving the Proposition 8 anti-same sex marriage measure), splitting the state into six would count as a revision.

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Posted in direct democracy <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=62>  

How Washington Works Dept. <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57591>  

Posted on December 20, 2013 7:29 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57591>  by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>  

NYT <http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/20/us/politics/nomination-of-baucus-seen-as-rare-boon-to-democrats-midterm-hopes.html?ref=politics> :

	Now they are happy to hand the Finance Committee gavel to Senator Ron Wyden, the mercurial Oregonian who currently leads the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, because it puts Senator Mary L. Landrieu of Louisiana, one of the most endangered Democrats up for re-election in 2014, at the energy helm - a position that will help her campaign rake in cash from industry and press her pro-oil politics in her fossil-fueled state.

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

Voting Makes List of Top Performance Challenges at DOJ in 2013 <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57589>  

Posted on December 20, 2013 7:27 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57589>  by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>  

>From the OIG <http://www.justice.gov/oig/challenges/2013.htm> :

	The non-ideological, non-partisan enforcement of law is fundamental to the public’s trust in the Department.  Yet in a recent report assessing how the enforcement priorities of the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division have changed over time and whether the voting rights laws have been enforced in a non-discriminatory fashion, the OIG identified issues in the handling of a small number of cases that the OIG believed risked undermining public confidence in the non-ideological enforcement of the voting rights laws.  The investigation also revealed several incidents in which deep ideological polarization fueled disputes and mistrust that harmed the functioning of the Voting Section, including numerous examples of harassment and marginalization of employees and managers due, at least in part, to their perceived ideological or political beliefs.  These incidents received substantial public attention through congressional hearings and media reporting, thereby feed!
 ing the concern that the administration of justice had become politicized.  The OIG will monitor the Department’s corrective actions taken in response to our report.

This is the sole mention of the Voting Section in the Dec. 11 report (h/t Christian Adams) <https://twitter.com/ElectionLawCtr/status/414048774403522560> .

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Posted in Department of Justice <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=26> , Voting Rights Act <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>  

“Fact-checking voting laws: a year-end report” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57587>  

Posted on December 19, 2013 8:53 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57587>  by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>  

Politifact. <http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2013/dec/19/fact-checking-voter-suppression-year-end-report/> 

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

“Why Is the Franklin Center’s ‘Wisconsin Reporter’ and ‘Watchdog.org’ Attacking the John Doe?” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57585>  

Posted on December 19, 2013 1:36 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57585>  by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>  

Brendan Fischer blogs. <http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/12/12344/why-franklin-center-wisconsin-reporter-attacking-john-doe> 

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

“Overseas Vote Foundation to Launch Remote Voting Technology Research Project” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57583>  

Posted on December 19, 2013 1:26 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57583>  by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>  

Press release <https://www.overseasvotefoundation.org/E2E-Verifiable-Internet-Voting-Project/News> :

	Overseas Vote Foundation (OVF), a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to overseas, military, and domestic absentee voter participation has received a grant from the Democracy Fund in support of a research-based approach to the unanswered question of whether remote absentee voting can be conducted securely online.

	The project is called End-to-End Verifiable Internet Voting: Specification and Feasibility Assessment Study (E2E VIV Project) and will examine a form of remote voting that enables a so-called “end-to-end verifiability” (E2E) property. A unique team of experts in computer science, usability, and auditing together with a selection of local election officials from key counties around the U.S. will assemble for this study.

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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18> , internet voting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=49> , military voting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=48> , voting technology <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=40>  

Lessig Walking Across New Hampshire to Bring Attention to Campaign Finance Issues <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57581>  

Posted on December 19, 2013 11:35 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57581>  by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>  

See here <http://www.conwaydailysun.com/index.php/newsx/local-news/110545-nh-rebellion-coming-to-conway> .

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

Maryland Appellate Blog Analysis of Md. Court of Appeal Redistricting Decision <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57577>  

Posted on December 19, 2013 9:51 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57577>  by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>  

Here <http://mdappellate.wordpress.com/2013/12/19/in-re-2012-legislative-districting-and-the-permanence-or-expedience-of-judicial-review/> .

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Posted in redistricting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>  

“The most important political story you haven’t heard about” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57575>  

Posted on December 19, 2013 7:07 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57575>  by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>  

The Fix <http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/12/18/the-most-important-political-story-you-havent-heard-about/> on Dave Levinthal’s must-read report <http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/12/17/13996/how-washington-starves-its-election-watchdog> on the FEC.

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

“Switcheroo: Ohio SoS Says Online Registration is the Solution to Non-Citizen Voting” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57573>  

Posted on December 19, 2013 7:05 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57573>  by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>  

Doug Chapin <http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/electionacademy/2013/12/switcheroo_ohio_sos_says_onlin.php> : “Husted’s use of non-citizen voting to push OVR instead of voter ID is a really, REALLY important development; while states that have already adopted OVR often cite eligibility checks as a benefit, that fact often gets lots alongside expanding the electorate and cost efficiency. As the country prepares to enter another federal election year - which will inevitably bring renewed focus on the incidence and impact of voter fraud, including non-citizen voting - support for OVR as an anti-fraud measure could become a new talking point across the country. Given that OVR tends to attract consensus more than voter ID, this could signal another wave of states joining the trend toward online registration.”

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

“Fox News ‘catches’ voter fraud in Ohio: Throw this red herring back” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57570>  

Posted on December 18, 2013 8:16 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57570>  by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>  

LAT opinion blog <http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-ohio-voter-fraud-fox-news-20131218,0,5648726.story#axzz2ntIhau8E> .

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

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