[EL] ELB News and Commentary 7/6/13

Sat Jul 6 12:41:26 PDT 2013

    Did Kansas SOS Kobach Lie Again in His Oped? This One Looks Like a
    Geography Problem <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52636>

Posted on July 6, 2013 12:37 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52636> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Following up on this post, <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52620> see 
this. 
<http://www.winfieldcourier.com/top_story/article_02688f58-e5de-11e2-bfd6-001a4bcf887a.html>

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    "Report: no widespread fraud found in SC elections"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52632>

Posted on July 6, 2013 12:27 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52632> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

AP 
<http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SC_VOTER_ID_SCOL-?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT>:

    No one intentionally cast a ballot in South Carolina using the names
    of dead people in recent elections, despite allegations to the
    contrary, according to a State Law Enforcement Division report
    obtained Friday by The Associated Press.

    Attorney General Alan Wilson asked the agency to investigate last
    year after the Department of Motor Vehicles determined in early 2012
    that more than 900 people listed as deceased also had voted in
    recent years.

    Wilson referred the information to state police, saying that the
    number of people cited in the analysis "is an alarming number and
    clearly necessitates an investigation into criminal activity."

    State Election Commission director Marci Andino had her staff take a
    look at questionable votes from the November 2010 general election,
    or about 200 of the more than 900 votes total -- information that
    was also ultimately analyzed by the law enforcement division. Nearly
    half of the issues could be attributed to clerical errors, while
    several dozen resulted from DMV officials running Social Security
    numbers of voters against dead people but not seeing if the names
    matched.

    Several other issues arose from ballots cast by men with the same
    names as their deceased fathers.

If only reports like this got as much attention as the original (usually 
unfounded) allegations of widespread fraud.

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    "States Eye Voting Obstacles in Wake of High Court Ruling"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52629>

Posted on July 6, 2013 12:24 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52629> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

TIME: 
<http://swampland.time.com/2013/07/05/states-eye-voting-obstacles-in-wake-of-high-court-ruling/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+timeblogs%2Fswampland+%28TIME%3A+Swampland%29>"Less 
than a week after the Supreme Court watered down the 1965 Voting Rights 
Act, a handful of states seemed poised to roll back the protections 
afforded to minorities by the 48-year-old law."

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    "Candidate: End voting 'environment of fear' in Ohio"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52627>

Posted on July 6, 2013 12:21 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52627> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Cincinnati Enquirer 
<http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/201307051211/NEWS0106/307050110&nclick_check=1>:

    Ohio Secretary of State candidate Nina Turner, a Democratic state
    senator from Cleveland, wants to reverse what she calls an
    "environment of fear" in Ohio voting.But the current Republican
    Secretary of State, Jon Husted, said he's just enforcing voter laws
    -- and if Turner isn't willing to do that, she's not qualified for
    the office.

This could be an ugly race for Ohio Secretary of State.

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    "After Ruling, States Rush to Enact Voting Laws"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52625>

Posted on July 5, 2013 9:58 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52625> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/06/us/politics/after-Supreme-Court-ruling-states-rush-to-enact-voting-laws.html>on 
the post-/Shelby County/ environment.

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    "GOP Has Tough Choices on Voting Right Act"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52622>

Posted on July 5, 2013 2:19 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52622> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

AP reports 
<http://news.yahoo.com/gop-tough-choices-voting-rights-act-151906183.html>.

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    "Beware Kobach's lie about KC voter fraud case"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52620>

Posted on July 5, 2013 2:18 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52620> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

It's a lie 
<http://www.kansascity.com/2013/07/05/4330970/beware-kobachs-lie-about-kc-voter.html> 
ELB readers willrecognize <http://electionlawblog.org/?s=somali>.

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    "NYC Board Of Elections Finds Nearly 1,600 Brooklyn Ballots Never
    Counted In Nov. 2012? <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52618>

Posted on July 5, 2013 2:15 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52618> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The /NY Daily News/ reports. 
<http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2013/07/nyc-board-of-elections-finds-nearly-1600-brooklyn-ballots-never-counted-in-nov>

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    "Suspect voters sent to Colorado DAs mostly Democrats"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52615>

Posted on July 5, 2013 1:30 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52615> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

AP 
<http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_23604659/suspect-voters-sent-colorado-das-mostly-democrats>: 
"Democrats make up more than half of the 155 suspected noncitizen voters 
that Secretary of State Scott Gessler is referring to prosecutors, 
according to figures released by his office Friday....But Democrats and 
voting rights groups have questioned Gessler's findings and have argued 
that the data does not back up his claims."

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    "The Supreme Court's Libertarian Moment?"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52612>

Posted on July 5, 2013 11:41 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52612> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

    Ilya Shapiro:
    <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ilya-shapiro/the-supreme-courts-libert_b_3536534.html>

    The casual observer of the Supreme Court must have been quite
    confused last week. First, the Court punted on an affirmative action
    case, making it harder to use race in college admissions decisions
    without prohibiting the practice altogether. It then won plaudits
    from conservatives by striking down key parts of the Voting Rights
    Act --- but disappointed many of them the very next day by gutting
    the Defense of Marriage Act.

    What is going on? Is the Court liberal or conservative?

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    "Is It Time for a Right to Vote in the Constitution?"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52609>

Posted on July 5, 2013 11:31 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52609> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYU Washington 
<http://www.nyu.edu/global/global-academic-centers/washington-dc/nyu-washington--dc-events/democracy-next--voices--votes-and-vision/is-it-time-for-a-right-to-vote-in-the-constitution-.html> 
is hosting this event on July 9th.

Here's video <http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/35030045> of the first 
event in the series.

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