[EL] ELB News and Commentary 1/4/12

Fri Jan 4 10:18:33 PST 2013

    Watch Counting of Electoral College Vote Count Now on C-SPAN
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45910>

Posted on January 4, 2013 10:16 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45910> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here 
<http://www.c-span.org/Events/Joint-Session-of-Congress-Counts-Electoral-Votes/10737436977-1/>.

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    "5 reasons gridlock will seize Congress again"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45907>

Posted on January 4, 2013 10:13 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45907> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The Fix reports. 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/01/04/5-reasons-gridlock-will-seize-congress-again/>

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/01/04/5-reasons-gridlock-will-seize-congress-again/> 

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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=27>, political parties 
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    "America Has Changed, So Voting Rights Act Section 5 Is No Longer
    Constitutional" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45904>

Posted on January 4, 2013 10:10 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45904> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Ilya Shapiro blogs. 
<http://www.cato.org/blog/america-has-changed-so-voting-rights-act-section-5-no-longer-constitutional>

<http://www.cato.org/blog/america-has-changed-so-voting-rights-act-section-5-no-longer-constitutional> 

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Supreme Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>, Voting Rights Act 
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    Is this the Year for the DISCLOSE Act?
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45901>

Posted on January 4, 2013 9:51 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45901> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Maybe <http://atr.rollcall.com/disclose-advocates-renew-fight/>, but I'm 
not overly optimistic.

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    "GOP scrambles to fix its primary problem"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45899>

Posted on January 4, 2013 9:50 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45899> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Politico 
<http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/gop-scrambles-to-fix-its-primary-problem-85726.html>: 
"The disastrous 2012 election 
<http://www.politico.com/2012-election/map/> and embarrassing fiscal 
cliff standoff <http://www.politico.com/p/pages/fiscal-cliff> has 
brought forth one principal conclusion from establishment Republicans: 
They have a primary problem. The intra-party contests, or threat 
thereof, have become the original sin that explains many of the party's 
woes in the minds of GOP leaders. It's the primaries that push their 
presidential nominees far to the right (see "self-deportation" and "47 
percent"); produce lackluster Senate candidates (Todd Akin has almost 
become a one-word shorthand); and, as seen most vividly in the last two 
weeks, dissuade scores of gerrymandered House members from face-saving 
compromise while politically emasculating their speaker."

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    "Presidential Appointment Efficiency and Streamlining Act of 2011?
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45896>

Posted on January 4, 2013 9:46 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45896> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Senate Committee on Rules and Administration 
<http://www.rules.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=InNews&ContentRecord_id=1196b7e5-d0f1-4fb4-be7b-99c7ce678c85>:

            Jan 01 2013

    With strong bipartisan support, the Senate passed S.679, the
    Presidential Appointment Efficiency and Streamlining Act of 2011, to
    reform the presidential nominating and Senate confirmation process.
    President Obama signed the bill into law on August 10, 2012. In
    addition to eliminating the Senate confirmation requirement for
    certain presidential appointments, the bill also called for the
    establishment of a Working Group to examine the feasibility and
    advisability of simplifying the paperwork required for executive
    nominations. That Working Group was directed to report its findings
    to the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration and the
    Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. The report
    is posted below.

            Related Files:

  *

        Report on Streamlining Paperwork for Executive Nominations
        Report of Working Group on Streamlining Paperwork for Executive
        Nominations Final.pdf
        <http://www.rules.senate.gov/public/?a=Files.Serve&File_id=823659d3-b173-40b6-8afa-a261d561eba3>
        (895.9 KBs)

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    "Powerful Tea Party Group's Internal Docs Leak---Read Them Here"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45894>

Posted on January 4, 2013 9:44 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45894> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Mother Jones 
<http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/freedomworks-rich-donors-armey-kibbe-super-pac>: 
"FreedomWorks, the national conservative group that helped launch the 
tea party movement, sells itself as a genuine grassroots operation, and 
for years it has battled 
<http://www.freedomworks.org/news/stages-of-denial> accusations 
<http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2009/04/14/37536/lobbying-clients-teaparties/> 
of "astroturfing" <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W8BbJXjda8>---posing 
as a populist organization while doing the bidding of big-money donors. 
Yet internal documents obtained by /Mother Jones/ show that FreedomWorks 
has indeed become dependent on wealthy individual donors to finance its 
growing operation."

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    "The Youth Vote Matters. But Just How Young Should Voters Be? [Part
    I]" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45891>

Posted on January 4, 2013 9:30 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45891> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Vivian Hamilton 
<http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2013/01/the-youth-vote-matters-but-just-how-young-should-voters-be-part-i.html>: 
"In upcoming posts, I will explore ideals of the citizen-voter from 
classic democratic theory, argue for a conception of electoral 
competence, and examine research from several disciplines within the 
developmental sciences exploring the connection between age range and 
the attainment of certain cognitive competencies. I conclude that age 18 
may have been the best available proxy for electoral competence when the 
nation adopted it as the voting age in 1971, but developments since then 
enable us to identify a better proxy."

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    "The 113th Congress is the most diverse in history"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45887>

Posted on January 4, 2013 9:28 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=45887> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo reports. 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/113th-congress-has-more-women-minorities-than-ever/2013/01/03/7d1aaf30-55e5-11e2-8b9e-dd8773594efc_story.html>

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