[EL] ELB News and Commentary 6/29/13
Justin Levitt
levittj at lls.edu
Sat Jun 29 16:16:48 PDT 2013
All About Redistricting back on track
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52433>
Posted onJune 29, 2013 4:13 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52433>byJustin Levitt
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
Some of you may have noticed that it's been something of a busy week in
the world of election law (and beyond).
What with trying to keep up with the flood of news and reaction and
commentary and speculation here for the15,000+ of you who stopped by
this site <http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s15electionlaw>over the
last week (and all of the rest of you gettingTweets
<https://twitter.com/rickhasen>andFacebook posts
<https://www.facebook.com/pages/Election-Law-Blog/166037433418743>andFeedburns
<http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=electionlawblog/uqCP>andupdates
on the listserv
<http://department-lists.uci.edu/mailman/listinfo/law-election>and
whatever else you kids are using to read your blogs these days), I
haven't had time to keep my own website up to date.
Well, redistricting fans, you can breathe a bit easier now. All About
Redistricting <http://redistricting.lls.edu/>is finally back up to date,
reflecting all of the developments of the last week.
You're welcome.
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Redistricting road for Texas state Senate map comes to an end
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52431>
Posted onJune 29, 2013 4:03 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52431>byJustin Levitt
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
Readers may remember that, almost exactly two years ago, Texas decided
to seek preclearance for its redistricting plans --- including the state
Senate plan --- in a DC federal court, rather than submitting the plans
to the Department of Justice. The DOJ announced that it had no
objections to the Senate plan, which meant that if Texas hadn't gone
straight to court, its Senate maps would have been presumptively legal.
By the time the plan got to court, though, Senator Wendy Davis --- the
same Senator Davis who broughtfilibuster madness
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52196>to Austin just last week --- had
intervened, claiming that the dismantling of the district she
represented should block preclearance. TheDC court agreed
<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/texas-redistricting-district-court.pdf>.
And in an effort to cobble some plan together in time for the 2012
election, a San Antonio federal courtadopted interim maps
<https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BxeOfQQnUr_gUzhBbE82dDRUaHlQSDdCdUhPZVdmdw>that
amounted to a compromise between Senator Davis and the State.
On Wednesday, Governor Perrysigned new redistricting maps
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52280>into law, including a state Senate
plan modeled largely after the federal court's interim plan above and
preserving Davis's district. The next day, Senator Davis filed
anadvisory with the federal court
<http://redistricting.lls.edu/files/TX/20130627%20senate%20advisory.pdf>, noting
that she did not plan to lodge further substantive protests to the new plan.
And so, two years after it began, the dispute over the Texas Senate plan
is winding down --- at least, that is, until Texas decides to
re-re-redraw the maps. Meanwhile,litigation over the congressional and
state House plans <http://redistricting.lls.edu/cases-TX.php#TX>is still
plenty active.
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The Weekly Standard on the aftermath of Shelby County
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52428>
Posted onJune 29, 2013 3:59 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52428>byJustin Levitt
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
Unsurprisingly,a take somewhat different
<http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/hyperventilating-over-voting-rights_738033.html>from
that of the NY Times. Surprisingly, in pointing out that things are not
"just fine" in Boston and Cook County, it seems to be calling for
enhanced federal (or at least statewide) action.
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NY Times on aftermath of Shelby County
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52425>
Posted onJune 29, 2013 3:51 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52425>byJustin Levitt
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
Theeditorial board suggests
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/30/opinion/sunday/the-future-of-voting-rights.html_>work
ahead for the DOJ and for Congress --- including proposals for a
constitutional amendment.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=55>,Voting Rights Act
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Tracking the geography of racism <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52422>
Posted onJune 29, 2013 11:44 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52422>byJustin Levitt
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
ThisMother Jones story
<http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/06/south-more-racist-north>discussesthis
new paper <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2262954>by
Chris Elmendorf and Doug Spencer, trying to tease out distinctions among
jurisdictions potentially relevant to a new VRA coverage formula.
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Joey Fiskin discusses the SCOTUS opinions of the week
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52419>
Posted onJune 29, 2013 11:20 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52419>byJustin Levitt
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
Yet again,worth a read
<http://balkin.blogspot.com/2013/06/q-whats-worse-than-discrimination.html>.
The title of his Balkinization piece:
Q. What's worse than discrimination? (A) Accusations of bigotry. (B)
Stopping discrimination.
More here
<http://balkin.blogspot.com/2013/06/q-whats-worse-than-discrimination.html>.
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Congressional plans in the aftermath of Shelby County
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52417>
Posted onJune 29, 2013 11:19 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52417>byJustin Levitt
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
TPMtakes a look at Congressional plans
<http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/06/congressional-democrats-set-voting-rights-act-wheels-in-motion.php>...
and finds that they, too, "remain[ ] a mystery."
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=27>,Voting Rights Act
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15> |Comments Off
DOJ plans in the aftermath of Shelby County
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52415>
Posted onJune 29, 2013 11:19 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52415>byJustin Levitt
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
ThisNational Law Journal piece
<http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202608968847>discusses
--- in necessarily preliminary fashion --- DOJ plans for voting rights
enforcement going forward. "The Justice Department did not respond to
questions about the enforcement strategy following the decision" . . .
so most of the sources are knowledgeable outsiders.
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"Voting Rights Ruling: It Had to Happen Sometime"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52413>
Posted onJune 29, 2013 11:18 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52413>byJustin Levitt
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
This opinion piece
<http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/28/voting_rights_ruling_it_had_to_happen_sometime_119000.html>repeats
a claim I've heard often recently: section 5 buttressed Republican
political fortunes by helping Republicans with control over
redistricting overpack Democrats; now, things will change.
That's a claim that still strikes me as wrong. If Republicans with
control of redistricting had the incentive to overpack Democrats when
section 5 was in place, I'm not sure why they would suddenly lose either
the incentive or the possibility now.
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"Rove: Bush was skeptical of Voting Rights Act"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52411>
Posted onJune 29, 2013 11:18 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52411>byJustin Levitt
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
The comment about White House skepticism in 2006 comes fromKarl Rove's
remarks at Aspen
<http://www.theroot.com/blogs/blogging-beltway/rove-bush-was-skeptical-voting-rights-act>.
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"New Voter ID, Unavailable in Seventy Counties in State, Opens With
Wealth of Issues Remaining" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52409>
Posted onJune 29, 2013 11:18 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52409>byJustin Levitt
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
A report
<http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2013/06/voter_id_problems_texas.php>on
the availability of one of thesix forms of photo ID
<http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/DriverLicense/electionID.htm>now required
to vote in person in Texas.
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"FEC Reinforces Reporting Requirements for Political Committees"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52407>
Posted onJune 29, 2013 11:17 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52407>byJustin Levitt
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
Perkins Coie's political law blogdiscusses the FEC's vote
<http://www.lawandpoliticsupdate.com/2013/06/fec-reinforces-reporting-requirements-for-political-committees/>requiring
PACs to report the "ultimate payees" of expenditures, rather than just
the immediate recipient.
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Congresswoman Lujan Grisham on her 501(c)(4) Reform Act
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52405>
Posted onJune 29, 2013 11:15 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52405>byJustin Levitt
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
Writing atThe Hill
<http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-a-budget/308459-make-the-irs-heed-the-law-on-tax-empt-organizations>,
in defense of treating c4s more like c3s.
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Pay to play in Jersey <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52403>
Posted onJune 29, 2013 11:14 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52403>byJustin Levitt
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
The indictments of seven executives from one of the most influential
engineering firms in the state, the Birdsall Services Group, on
charges of making illegal campaign contributions left one major
question unanswered: Who were the recipients of those donations?
Now we know. The answer? Pretty much everyone.
More here
<http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20130628/NJOPINION0102/306280038/NJ-leaders-want-keep-campaign-finance-loopholes?nclick_check=1>.
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Taking one for the team: Arizona redistricting
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52401>
Posted onJune 29, 2013 11:13 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52401>byJustin Levitt
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
Cid Kallenwas appointed yesterday
<http://www.kswt.com/story/22719067/yuma-lawyer-picked-for-redistricting-commission>to
replace Jose Herrera as one of the five commissioners on Arizona's
Independent Redistricting Commission. Keep in mind that the commission
has already drawn state and federal districts for this cycle, so Kallen
arrives mostly for the litigation.
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Florida materials for the Presidential Commission on Election
Administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52399>
Posted onJune 29, 2013 11:13 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52399>byJustin Levitt
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
Materials from yesterday's meeting in Florida arenow online
<http://www.supportthevoter.gov/2013/06/29/pcea-public-meeting-june-28-2013-webcast-materials/>,
with a video recording of the proceedings to come. The materials
include testimony fromSecretary Detzner
<https://www.supportthevoter.gov/files/2013/06/PCEA-Florida-Secretary-of-State-Ken-Detzner1.pdf>,
and SupervisorsAndersen
<https://www.supportthevoter.gov/files/2013/06/PCEA-Bay-County-Supervisor-Mark-Andersen.pdf>(Bay),Bucher
<https://www.supportthevoter.gov/files/2013/06/PCEA-Palm-Beach-Supervisor-Susan-Bucher.pdf>(Palm
Beach),Cowles
<https://www.supportthevoter.gov/files/2013/06/PCEA-Orange-County-Supervisor-Bill-Cowles.pdf>(Orange),Lux
<https://www.supportthevoter.gov/files/2013/06/PCEA-Okaloosa-County-Supervisor-Paul-Lux.pdf>(Okaloosa),Snipes
<https://www.supportthevoter.gov/files/2013/06/PCEA-Broward-County-Supervisor-Dr.-Brenda-Snipes.pdf>(Broward),
andTownsley
<https://www.supportthevoter.gov/files/2013/06/PCEA-Miami-Dade-Supervisor-Penelope-Townsley1.pptx>(Miami-Dade).
There were also presentations from Steve Ansolabehere on registration
(presentation
<https://www.supportthevoter.gov/files/2013/06/Stephen-Ansolabehere-Voting-Registration-Systems-Presentation1.pptx>andpaper
<https://www.supportthevoter.gov/files/2013/06/Stephen-Ansolabehere-Voter-Registration-White-Paper.pdf>),
Charles Stewart on lines (presentation
<https://www.supportthevoter.gov/files/2013/06/Charles-Stewart-Waiting-in-Line-to-Vote-Presentation1.pptx>andpaper
<https://www.supportthevoter.gov/files/2013/06/Charles-Stewart-Waiting-in-Line-to-Vote-White-Paper.pdf>),
and Donald Inbody on UOCAVA (presentation
<https://www.supportthevoter.gov/files/2013/06/UOCAVA-Dr.-Donald-Inbody-Presentation.ppt>andpaper
<https://www.supportthevoter.gov/files/2013/06/UOCAVA-Analysis-Dr.-Donald-Inbody-June-2013-.pdf>).
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"House committee says Lois Lerner waived Fifth Amendment right"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52393>
Posted onJune 28, 2013 7:28 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52393>byJustin Levitt
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
The headlineof this WaPo piece
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal_government/house-committee-says-lois-lerner-waived-fifth-amendment-right/2013/06/28/617b662a-e02d-11e2-b2d4-ea6d8f477a01_story.html>really
says it all.
Morehere, from The Hill
<http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/domestic-taxes/308449-house-oversight-lois-lerner-waived-the-fifth-amendment>.
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"SCOTUS Ruling Ensures Lever Machines a Go in NYC Elections"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52388>
Posted onJune 28, 2013 2:12 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52388>byJustin Levitt
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
That's right,lever machines
<http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/131019-scotus-ruling-ensures-lever-machines-a-go-in-nyc-elections/>.
Now, without the need to preclear their use in upcoming municipal
elections. For elections technology in New York, time doesn't seem to
pass: it just is.
I do have a question about the legality of the move. HAVA offered funds
for jurisdictions to replace their punch card and lever voting systems.
States that took the funds, as a condition on those funds, had to
ensure that "all of the punch card voting systems or lever voting
systems" in precincts where those systems were used in 2000 would be
replaced by either 2004 or 2006. (42 USC 15302(a)(3)) New Yorktook
more than $49 million
<http://www.eac.gov/assets/1/Documents/FY2010%20Grants%20Report%20FINAL.pdf> in
federal funds to replace its lever machines.
So ... is the thought that HAVA requires that lever machines be replaced
(in states taking the money), but doesn't prohibit bringing them back?
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,Voting Rights Act
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Reactions to Shelby County: Sam Bagenstos
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52385>
Posted onJune 28, 2013 1:44 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52385>byJustin Levitt
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
And really,it's a reaction
<http://www.psmag.com/politics/one-step-forward-three-steps-back-at-the-supreme-court-61544/>to
many of the decisions of the week:
Martin Luther King famously said that the arc of the moral universe
is long, but it bends toward justice. If the Supreme Court's recent
decision to invalidate the Defense of Marriage Act let us watch the
arc bend, the Court's other civil rights decisions this week proved
just how excruciatingly long the arc is. . . .
Morehere
<http://www.psmag.com/politics/one-step-forward-three-steps-back-at-the-supreme-court-61544/>.
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"Voting Rights after Shelby County v. Holder"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52382>
Posted onJune 28, 2013 1:35 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52382>byJustin Levitt
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
A truly all-star cast offersthis webcast
<http://www.brookings.edu/events/2013/07/01-voting-rights-shelby-holder> sponsored
by Brookings, this Monday from 10am-4pm eastern.
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"The Voting Rights Act of 1965: One Vote,One Voice."
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52380>
Posted onJune 28, 2013 1:32 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52380>byJustin Levitt
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
This is the title of a remarkable website
<http://18602803.nhd.weebly.com/>chronicling the history of the Voting
Rights Act. It generously incorporates multimedia exhibits taken from
primary sources, and looks to be an exceptional resource.
And what really blows my mind is that the site's authors are FIFTEEN
YEARS OLD. That's right: 15.
Priya Ramamoorthy, Maanasa Nathan, Kavya Ramamoorthy, and Smrithi
Mahadevan areseniors 9th graders, I believe, at Westwood High School in
Austin, TX. Their efforts won them theHistory of Congress Award
<http://www.nhd.org/2013_special_prizes.html#503>for National History
Day this year. And it's not a fluke: last year, they won first prize
for a group website, forthis remarkable site on Title IX
<http://76705925.nhd.weebly.com/home.html>.
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"The Supreme Court's Other Voting Rights Decisions This Week"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52378>
Posted onJune 28, 2013 12:56 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52378>byJustin Levitt
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
Frontline
<http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-elections-politics/the-supreme-courts-other-voting-rights-decisions-this-week/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FrontlineEditorsNotes+%28FRONTLINE+-+Latest+Stories%29> covers
the Texas remands.
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Appeal filed in Texas campaign finance case
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Posted onJune 28, 2013 12:02 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52376>byJustin Levitt
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This <http://lexpolitico.com/?p=241>is an appeal to the decision
inCatholic Leadership Coalition of Texas v. Reisman
<http://lexpolitico.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/20130531-ORDER-granting-and-denying-summary-judgment.pdf>.
Plaintiffs had challenged two provisions: a corporate/labor
contributions ban, and a requirement that PACs appoint a campaign
treasurer 60 days before making expenditures or contributions. The
federal district court upheld both provisions.
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"Moretinas plead guilty to voter fraud in Jackson County"
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Posted onJune 28, 2013 11:47 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=52373>byJustin Levitt
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Two pleas
<http://www.kansascity.com/2013/06/28/4318700/moretinas-plead-guilty-to-voter.html>to
falsifying residence information, in order to vote in the wrong Missouri
district.
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