[EL] ELB News and Commentary 2/8/13
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Fri Feb 8 08:03:07 PST 2013
Forum on "The Voting Wars" at Cardozo law Feb. 11
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46018>
Posted on February 8, 2013 8:00 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=46018>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
[Moving to top, and looking forward to attending this event
Monday--assuming the weather cooperates.]
Cardozo Law School's Foersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy is
putting on this event
<http://www.cardozo.yu.edu/MemberContentDisplay.aspx?ccmd=ContentDisplay&ucmd=UserDisplay&userid=10374&contentid=25758&folderid=340>
Feb. 11 at noon:
The Voting Wars: From Florida 2000 to the Next Election Meltdown, a
discussion with the author
2/11/2013
12:00 pm -- 1:30 pm
Richard L. Hasen, Chancellor's Professor of Law and Political
Science at the University of California, Irvine, will discuss and
respond to commentary about his recent book, /The Voting Wars: From
Florida 2000 to the Next Election Meltdown/. Professor Hasen is a
well-known expert in the field of election law, having co-founded
the /Election Law Journal/ and published more than eighty articles
in the field.
Commenting on Professor Hasen's book will be election law Professors
Janai S. Nelson, from St. John's University School of Law; Richard
Briffault, from Columbia Law School; and Mark C. Alexander, from
Seton Hall Law School. Professor Alexander is currently running for
the New Jersey Senate.
The panel will be moderated by Professor Michelle Adams.
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A Quick Reminder on Voter Fraud <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47061>
Posted on February 8, 2013 7:52 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47061>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
With news
<http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/02/08/ohio_poll_worker_admits_to_voting_twice.html>
of possible fraud claims coming out of Hamilton County, Ohio, it is
worth remembering that vast majority of the relatively small number of
cases involve either election officials committing fraud, or voters,
candidates, and others committing absentee ballot fraud.
The problem is that the supposed cure---voter id---does not stop these
main types of fraud.
If John Fund and others started a serious push to eliminate the use of
absentee ballots, then I would take their concerns about voter fraud
much more seriously. But it is not a part of the antifraud measures
proposed and adopted by those who claim this is a major problem.
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squad <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=8>, The Voting Wars
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"Democrats Cite Long Lines in Bid to Shift Voting Rights Debate"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47058>
Posted on February 8, 2013 7:41 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47058>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bloomberg reports
<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-08/democrats-cite-long-lines-in-bid-to-shift-voting-rights-debate.html?alcmpid=politics>.
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"Online symposium announcement: Shelby County v. Holder"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47055>
Posted on February 7, 2013 5:31 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47055>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
SCOTUSBlog symposium on Shelby Countyis coming
<http://www.scotusblog.com/2013/02/online-symposium-announcement-shelby-county-v-holder/>.
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"Watch Out in the Covered Jurisdictions"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47052>
Posted on February 7, 2013 5:18 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47052>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Mike Pitts has written this contribution
<http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/02/07/watch-out-in-the-covered-jurisdictions/>
to the Reuters voting rights symposium
<http://www.reuters.com/subjects/voting-rights> on the Shelby County
case. A snippet: "In contrast, on the local level, there could be
widespread retrogression. This could come from redistricting plans that
eliminate 'safe' districts, switches to at-large elections or
annexations of white population by cities and towns that would reduce
minority voters' influence. The key reason these changes are likely is
that if you look at the Justice Department's pre-clearance enforcement
over the past 30 years, what stands out is that a disproportionate
number of pre-clearance denials involved vote dilution on the local
level. If local jurisdictions are most likely to violate Section 5 now,
they are far more likely to be emboldened when it's killed."
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Crossroad GPS's Tax Status Still in Limbo
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47049>
Posted on February 7, 2013 5:13 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47049>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Ken Vogel tweets <https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/299646127370813445>.
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"Pro-Obama group says it's not partisan, but has wide latitude"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47046>
Posted on February 7, 2013 5:10 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47046>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The /LA Times/ reports.
<http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-organizing-for-action-partisan-issues-20130207,0,6239594.story>
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"Shareholders question corporate political spending"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47043>
Posted on February 7, 2013 5:08 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47043>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Darrell Delamaide column
<http://www.marketwatch.com/story/shareholders-question-corporate-political-spending-2013-02-07>
for Marketwatch.
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"Non-political nonprofit's spending spikes in election years"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47040>
Posted on February 7, 2013 5:06 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47040>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
CPI reports
<http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/02/07/12160/non-political-nonprofits-spending-spikes-election-years?utm_source=publicintegrity&utm_medium=social_media&utm_campaign=twitter>.
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Extensive Ari Berman Cover Story for Nation on Shelby County Case
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47037>
Posted on February 7, 2013 4:51 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47037>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The piece
<http://www.thenation.com/article/172685/why-are-conservatives-trying-destroy-voting-rights-act?page=full#>
includes quotes from Rep. Sensenbrenner, and also this tidbit:
Many of the states and donors who have supported discriminatory
voting laws are also backing Blum. His Project on Fair
Representation is exclusively funded by Donors Trust, a consortium
of conservative funders that might be the most influential
organization you've never heard of. Donors Trust doled out $22
million to a Who's Who of influential conservative groups in 2010,
including the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which
drafted mock voter ID laws and a raft of controversial state-based
legislation; the Americans for Prosperity Foundation, the Koch
brothers' main public policy arm; as well as Grover Norquist's
Americans for Tax Reform Foundation. Donors Trust has received
seven-figure donations from virtually every top conservative donor,
including $5.2 million since 2005 from Charles Koch's Knowledge and
Progress Fund. (The structure of Donors Trust allows wealthy
conservative donors like Koch to disguise much of their giving.)
From 2006 to 2011, Blum received $1.2 million from Donors Trust,
which allowed him to retain the services of Wiley Rein, the firm
that unsuccessfully defended Ohio's and Florida's attempts to
restrict early voting in federal court last year. As a "special
program fund" of the tax-exempt Donors Trust, Blum's group does not
have to disclose which funders of Donors Trust are giving him money,
but he has identified two of them: the Bradley Foundation and the
Searle Freedom Trust. The Wisconsin-based Bradley Foundation paid
for billboards in minority communities in Milwaukee during the 2010
election with the ominous message "Voter Fraud Is a Felony!", which
voting rights groups denounced as voter suppression. Both Bradley
and Searle have given six-figure donations to ALEC in recent years,
and Bradley funded a think tank in Wisconsin, the MacIver Institute,
that hyped discredited claims of voter fraud to justify the state's
voter ID law, currently blocked in state court.
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"Voting Rights Act at Risk" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47034>
Posted on February 7, 2013 4:41 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47034>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
That important CQ story
<http://public.cq.com/docs/weeklyreport/weeklyreport-000004214386.html>
is now free, out from the paywall.
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Rick Hasen
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UC Irvine School of Law
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