[EL] ELB News and Commentary 2/1/13
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Fri Feb 1 10:32:17 PST 2013
"Why the GOP's electoral vote gambit won't work"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46844>
Posted on February 1, 2013 10:28 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46844> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The Fix: "
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/02/01/why-the-gops-electoral-vote-gambit-wont-work/>A
Republican-backed plan to change the way certain states allocate
electoral votes has fizzled as quickly as it sprung onto the national
consciousness. The slate of upcoming 2014 governor's races is a major
reason why that happened."
I think there are also other reasons
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2013/01/republican_plans_for_electoral_college_reform_democrats_shouldn_t_worry.html>.
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"Filings reveal previously unknown; Romney bundlers Nearly six-dozen
lobbyists collected $17 million for the GOP presidential candidate"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46839>
Posted on February 1, 2013 10:16 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46839> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
CPI reports
<http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/01/31/12122/filings-reveal-previously-unknown-romney-bundlers>.
See also RGA, DGA reap riches from corporate donors
<http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/02/01/12124/rga-dga-reap-riches-corporate-donors>.
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,
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"Obama Outraises Romney as Both Erode Watergate Restraints"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46837>
Posted on February 1, 2013 10:15 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46837> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bloomberg reports.
<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-31/gingrich-debt-hits-4-7-million-650-000-owed-to-himself.html?alcmpid=politics>
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"The Case for Transparency in Corporate Political Spending"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46834>
Posted on February 1, 2013 10:09 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46834> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Robert Jackson blogs
<http://clsbluesky.law.columbia.edu/2013/01/30/the-case-for-transparency-in-corporate-political-spending/>.
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"GOP's Three-Fifths Compromise; The party's new voting scheme to win
the White House: Rig the Electoral College."
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46832>
Posted on February 1, 2013 10:07 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46832> by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The Root reports.
<http://www.theroot.com/views/gops-three-fifths-compromise?page=0,1>
I'm still betting
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2013/01/republican_plans_for_electoral_college_reform_democrats_shouldn_t_worry.html>
against this happening.
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"State investigators: Fulton election documents were altered"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46828>
Posted on February 1, 2013 9:59 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46828>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
AJC:
<http://www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/state-investigators-fulton-election-documents-were/nWCQw/>
"Someone altered Fulton County voter records after last year's
presidential election, using a red pen to add names to tally sheets of
voters using paper ballots and marking that their votes all
counted....Smith, in a report to the county board, blamed much of the
mismanagement last year on poor decisions by former Elections Director
Sam Westmoreland, who resigned in September while jailed for failing to
follow sentencing terms from two convictions of driving under the
influence involving the use of prescription drugs."
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Posted in chicanery <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>, election
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"Kevin Ring to Appeal D.C. Circuit Decision Upholding Conviction on
Corruption Charges" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46825>
Posted on February 1, 2013 9:50 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46825>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bloomberg BNA says
<http://news.bna.com/mpdm/MPDMWB/split_display.adp?fedfid=29568489&vname=mpebulallissues&jd=a0d6f8t4u4&split=0>
Ring may try to take the case o the DC Circuit en banc or the Supreme Court.
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"Bill requiring purge of noncitizen voters in Colorado defeated"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46822>
Posted on January 31, 2013 5:01 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46822>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Denver Post
<http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_22482811/bill-requiring-purge-noncitizen-voters-colorado-defeated>:
The issue of noncitizen voters was put in the spotlight last year by
Secretary of State Scott Gessler, a Republican, whose office said at
one point there could be as many as 11,000 noncitizens registered
and as many as 4,000 of those noncitizens had voted.
But those numbers were whittled down considerably in the course of
Gessler's own investigation, which later found that of 1,416
registered voters run through a federal database, only 141 were
listed as noncitizens, and of those, only 35 had voted at some point.
And, as The Denver Post and other news organizations found, some of
those 35 actually were U.S. citizens. Secretary of State officials
say updated numbers put the total of suspected noncitizens
registered at 436.
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Contributions via Text Message Coming to Texas
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46817>
Posted on January 31, 2013 3:28 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46817>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
See here. <http://lexpolitico.com/?p=49>
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,
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"Total 2012 election spending: $7 billion"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46815>
Posted on January 31, 2013 3:27 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46815>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Sunlight reports.
<http://reporting.sunlightfoundation.com/2013/total-2012-election-spending-7-billion/>
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"Lobbying Again on Downward Slide in 2012?
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46812>
Posted on January 31, 2013 3:24 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46812>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Open Secrets reports
<http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2013/01/lobbying-spending-down-in-2012.html?utm_source=CRP+Mail+List&utm_campaign=cfa08bdc25-Newsletter_1_31_2013&utm_medium=email>.
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"Three years after 'Citizens United,' more campaign finance cases
loom" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46809>
Posted on January 31, 2013 3:21 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46809>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The /NLJ /reports
<http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202586349229> (article
currently behind paywall; UPDATE: now freely available). In the article
I make predictions about whether the Court will take /Danielczyk/ and
/McCutcheon/.
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"Disgraced ex-Rep. Eric Massa continues paying wife from campaign
account" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46806>
Posted on January 31, 2013 3:15 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46806>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
CPI
<http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/01/31/12113/disgraced-ex-rep-eric-massa-continues-paying-wife-campaign-account>:
"Former Rep. Eric Massa
<http://www.esquire.com/features/eric-massa-scandal-0610>, D-N.Y., who
resigned
<http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/disgraced-ex-rep-eric-massa-long-trail-bizarre-behavior-includes-home-shared-staffers-article-1.164192>
from Congress nearly three years ago amid accusations he
groped colleagues and cohabited with junior-level male staff members,
continues to cut his wife a monthly check from his campaign account, a
new Federal Election Commission disclosure indicates."
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"No charges for Patrick Moran in voter fraud investigation"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46804>
Posted on January 31, 2013 3:14 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46804>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WaPo
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/crime-scene/post/no-charges-for-patrick-moran-in-voter-fraud-investigation/2013/01/31/84dec2fc-6bce-11e2-ada0-5ca5fa7ebe79_blog.html>:
"Arlington County police have decided not to charge Patrick Moran in
connection with possible voter fraud
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/virginia-politics/post/police-open-investigation-into-alleged-moran-campaign-offense/2012/10/25/4f61d43a-1ede-11e2-ba31-3083ca97c314_blog.html>,
authorities announced Thursday. Arlington police and prosecutors
initiated an investigation following an undercover video that was
released in October showing Moran discussing possible voter fraud with
an activist posing as a campaign worker. Authorities have closed their
investigation, saying the person responsible for making the video was
uncooperative. They also noted that Moran and the Jim Moran for Congress
campaign provided 'full cooperation.'"
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"Senate Democracy Is Dead' Or at least seriously wounded by the
failure of filibuster reform and the court ruling against the
president's recess appointments". <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46801>
Posted on January 31, 2013 8:19 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46801>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Akhil Amar
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2013/01/filibuster_reform_failure_and_recess_appointment_ruling_death_of_senate.html>
writes for /Slate/.
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"Justice to SCOTUS: Don't allow direct corporate campaign spending"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46799>
Posted on January 31, 2013 8:18 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46799>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Alison Frankel reports
<http://newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com/Legal/News/ViewNews.aspx?id=66818>.
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And then There Was One <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46797>
Posted on January 31, 2013 8:17 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46797>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Pennsylvania
<http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/01/30/electoral_college_vote_splitting_pennsylvania_is_the_final_frontier.html>
as the last possible GOP state looking to change their electoral college
allocations this time around.
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"States, GOP Lawmakers Eye Tougher Election Laws"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46795>
Posted on January 31, 2013 8:15 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46795>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Stateline reports.
<http://www.pewstates.org/projects/stateline/headlines/states-gop-lawmakers-eye-tougher-election-laws-85899446618>
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"Military and Overseas Voters in 2012?
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46793>
Posted on January 31, 2013 8:15 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46793>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
A Pew Data Dispatch
<http://www.pewstates.org/research/analysis/military-and-overseas-voters-in-2012-85899447419>.
As I've argued in /The Voting Wars/
<http://www.amazon.com/Voting-Wars-Florida-Election-Meltdown/dp/0300182031/ref=sr_1_cc_2?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1329286945&sr=1-2-catcorr>,
we have to do much more to enfranchise our overseas military
personnel---especially with problems with voter registration
(registration rates are very low).
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Reform Groups Send Letter Urging House Administration Committee to
Hold Hearing s on Campaign Finance Issues
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46791>
Posted on January 31, 2013 8:13 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46791>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Read <http://publicampaign.org/files/ChairwomanMillerLetter.pdf>all
about it.
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