[EL] more news 2/22/13

Fri Feb 22 14:07:12 PST 2013

<http://electionlawblog.org/>

    "Organizing for Action ads pressure GOP lawmakers on gun-buyer
    background checks" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47591>

Posted on February 22, 2013 2:05 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47591> by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ofa-launches-first-ad-campaign-to-support-obamas-gun-control-agenda/2013/02/22/835b3140-7d08-11e2-9a75-dab0201670da_story.html>: 
"The advocacy group started by President Obama's former campaign 
officials began its first advertising campaign on Friday, pressuring 13 
Republican lawmakers in their home states to expand background checks to 
all gun buyers."

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    "Miami-Dade has authority to enact absentee ballot law, judge rules"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47588>

Posted on February 22, 2013 2:03 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47588> by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Miami Herald: 
<http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/02/22/3247797/miami-dade-has-authority-to-enact.html#storylink=cpy>"In 
its effort to crack down on voter fraud, Miami-Dade County has the 
authority to limit how many absentee ballots a voter can possess, a 
judge ruled Friday."

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    "Obama's Unneeded Election Commission"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47585>

Posted on February 22, 2013 1:57 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47585> by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Sun-Sentinel editorial. 
<http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/editorials/fl-editorial-election-law-reform-dv-20130222,0,1801369.story>

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    "'I voted early' sticker leads to arrest, fraud charges"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47582>

Posted on February 22, 2013 12:52 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47582> by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

News 
<http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/fl-felon-voter-fraud-pompano-20130222,0,6998691.story> 
from Fla.

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    Dems Lose CA Supermajority in State Legislature
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47580>

Posted on February 22, 2013 12:50 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47580> by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

See here 
<http://www.news10.net/news/california/article/231691/430/Democrats-lose-supermajority-as-Fresno-senator-resigns>.

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    Lots of Intrigue at NY Board of Elections
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47578>

Posted on February 22, 2013 12:49 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47578> by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

See here 
<http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2013/02/queens-gop-chair-drops-case-to-get-ousted-board-of-elections-commissioner-back>, 
here 
<http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/taxonomy/term/181783%0D%0A%0D%0Ahttp://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/node/135910>, 
here 
<http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2013/02/in-gop-power-play-commissioners-jobs-may-not-be-only-ones-in-flux-at-nyc-boa-0>.

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    Von Spakovsky Apparently Rejected for Fairfax County Election Post
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47572>

Posted on February 22, 2013 10:23 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47572> by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

So reports 
<http://notlarrysabato.typepad.com/doh/2013/02/fairfax-countys-nightmare-is-over.html> 
Not Larry Sabato (via Maddow 
<https://twitter.com/maddow/status/305018226868363265>). Apparently an 
unprecedented judicial rejection of a party's choice for the board.

Maybe the judges read Jane Mayer 
<http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/10/29/121029fa_fact_mayer>?

UPDATE: The judges were directed by Democrats 
<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/Letter-to-Judge-Smith-re-Hans.pdf> 
to the Jane Mayer article and more about him.

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    Things That Make You Say Hmmm... <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47569>

Posted on February 22, 2013 10:08 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47569> by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Harold Simmons Foundation gives 
<http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/02/22/12221/gop-super-donors-foundation-leans-left>$50K 
to Public Campaign.

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    President Obama Talks of Bauer-Ginsberg as 2d Best Solution to
    Voting Rights Act section 5 <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47566>

Posted on February 22, 2013 8:37 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47566> by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Listen 
<https://soundcloud.com/siriusxm-urban-view/pres-obama-and-madison-on>.

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    Federal District Court Upholds Philly Ban on Campaign Contributions
    by Police Officers to City Candidates
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47563>

Posted on February 22, 2013 8:16 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47563> by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

See this opinion 
<http://www.paed.uscourts.gov/documents/opinions/13D0150P.pdf>.

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