[EL] ELB Quick Hits

Tue Dec 31 11:25:10 PST 2013

    NYC Dept. of Investigations Reveals Ease of Voting in the Name of
    Ineligible Voters <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57651>

Posted on December 31, 2013 11:15 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57651>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Press release 
<http://www.nyc.gov/html/doi/downloads/pdf/2013/dec%2013/pr40boerpt_123013.pdf>: 
"DOI's operations also revealed that there are names of ineligible 
voters (e.g. felons and people no longer City residents), and deceased 
voters, on the BOE voter rolls, some for periods of up to four years. 
Accordingly, DOI investigators posing as a number of those ineligible or 
deceased individuals were permitted to vote in 61 cases, with no 
challenge or question by BOE poll workers. Investigators were turned 
away in 2 other cases. No votes were cast for any actual candidate or on 
any proposal during the course of the DOI operation. Investigators were 
not questioned by BOE poll workers, even when undercover investigators 
said they no longer resided in the City, or when there were obvious 
disparities between the ages of the investigators, some in their 20s and 
30s, and the ineligible individuals in the voter rolls, some who would 
have been in their 80s and 90s."

Coverage from NY Daily News 
<http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/dead-voters-cast-39-ballots-election-day-report-article-1.1562099>, 
NY Post <http://nypost.com/2013/12/30/the-dead-can-vote-in-nyc/>, John 
Fund 
<http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/367278/report-new-york-investigators-obtain-fraudulent-ballots-97-percent-time-john-fund>.  
So far I don't see any NYT coverage.

There is no evidence any criminals engaged in any real world attempt to 
commit such fraud on a scale large enough to affect an election, in NYC 
or any other place of which I am aware, at least since the 1980s.

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

    "Democrats' alliance of unions and rich people will put Republicans,
    the party of the middle class, at a financial disadvantage for the
    foreseeable future." <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57649>

Posted on December 30, 2013 3:38 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57649>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Power Line 
<http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/12/republicans-are-overwhelmed-by-a-sea-of-democratic-cash.php> 
on campaign financing in Minnesota.

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

    "With the Supreme Court's OK, states begin imposing new laws to
    limit the vote" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57647>

Posted on December 30, 2013 12:52 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57647>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Steven Seidenberg has written this extensive article 
<http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/with_the_supreme_courts_ok_states_begin_imposing_new_laws_to_limit_the_vote/>for 
the /ABA Journal./

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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, 
Supreme Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>, The Voting Wars 
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    "WyLiberty Attorneys File Petition with the United States Supreme
    Court" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57645>

Posted on December 30, 2013 12:50 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57645>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Press release 
<http://wyliberty.org/feature/wyliberty-attorneys-file-petition-with-the-united-states-supreme-court/>: 
"Wyoming Liberty Group attorneys filed a petition with the United States 
Supreme Court 
<http://wyliberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/freespeech_cert_pet.pdf> today, 
requesting the Court hear an appeal of the case /Free Speech v. Federal 
Election Commission/ 
<http://wyliberty.org/legal-center/free-speech-v-federal-election-commission/> 
(FEC). Free Speech, a small grassroots group of three Wyomingites, sued 
the FEC in 2012 for maintaining vague and overbroad regulations that 
prevent political engagement. The case was dismissed by the Wyoming 
Federal District Court and the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed 
its ruling."

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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, Supreme 
Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>

    The "Cute" Voting Rights Act? <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57643>

Posted on December 30, 2013 12:11 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57643>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Liptak 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/31/us/colorful-names-for-laws.html> on 
the names of federal laws.

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

    The Year in Recalls <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57641>

Posted on December 30, 2013 11:24 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57641>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Josh Spivak blogs 
<http://recallelections.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-year-in-recalls-107-recalls-in-2013.html>.

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    "California congressman files campaign papers with wrong district"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57639>

Posted on December 30, 2013 11:04 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57639>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Oops 
<http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2013/12/congressman-files-to-run-in-wrong-district.html>.

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

    "'If I Need ID to Buy Cough Syrup, Why Shouldn't I Need ID to Vote?'
    How to respond to an ubiquitous, and misleading, question about
    voting rights" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57637>

Posted on December 30, 2013 11:00 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57637>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Important Andrew Cohen column 
<http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/12/if-i-need-id-to-buy-cough-syrup-why-shouldnt-i-need-id-to-vote/282636/>.

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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, 
voter id <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>, Voting Rights Act 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>

    "Audit: FEC still in 'significant' danger of hacking"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57635>

Posted on December 30, 2013 10:57 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57635>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

CPI reports 
<http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/12/30/14073/audit-fec-still-significant-danger-hacking>.

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

    "Landmark Rulings in Civil Rights Cases Define Court"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57633>

Posted on December 30, 2013 10:55 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=57633>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NLJ reports 
<http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202635017498&kw=Landmark%20Rulings%20in%20Civil%20Rights%20Cases%20Define%20Court&et=editorial&bu=National%20Law%20Journal&cn=20131230&src=EMC-Email&pt=Daily%20Headlines>.

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Posted in Supreme Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>, Voting 
Rights Act <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>

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UC Irvine School of Law
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