[EL] ELB News and Commentary 3/12/13

Mon Mar 11 20:42:04 PDT 2013

    "A Universal Right to Vote" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48302>

Posted on March 11, 2013 8:28 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48302> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/12/opinion/a-universal-right-to-vote.html>Editorial: 
"These more recent battles over ballot access show how important it is 
to build new legislative protections for participation in democracy. 
Section 5 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act 
<http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/vot/sec_5/about.php>, which requires 
areas with a history of discrimination to pre-clear any electoral 
changes with the Justice Department, remains a significant tool to 
prevent abuses in areas spread across 15 states 
<http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/vot/sec_5/covered.php>, and it should 
be upheld by the court. But no matter what happens to the act, it's 
imperative that Congress take action to prevent these kinds of abuses 
across the rest of the country."

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    "FEC: Larry Craig Misused Campaign Funds for Personal Legal
    Expenses" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48299>

Posted on March 11, 2013 6:23 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48299> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

BLT 
<http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2013/03/fec-larry-craig-misused-campaign-funds-for-legal-expenses.html>: 
"A federal judge in Washington today expressed doubt that former U.S. 
Senator Larry Craig properly used campaign money when he spent hundreds 
of thousands of dollars on personal legal expenses following his arrest 
in 2007 in a sex sting at an airport in Minnesota."

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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10> | 
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    The Scalia Court and Voting Rights, Part 2
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48296>

Posted on March 11, 2013 5:39 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48296> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

More 
<https://theusconstitution.org/text-history/1869/scalia-court-and-voting-rights-part-2> 
from Doug Kendall (and Ryan Woo).

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    NYT on Papal Voting Rules <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48294>

Posted on March 11, 2013 5:38 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48294> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Worth a read. 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/12/world/europe/in-conclave-ritual-and-secrecy-in-election-of-pope.html?pagewanted=1&hp>

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    "Ninth Circuit Seems Disinclined to Invalidate Nevada's 'None of
    These Candidates' Law" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48291>

Posted on March 11, 2013 4:55 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48291> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Ballot Access News reports 
<http://www.ballot-access.org/2013/03/11/ninth-circuit-seems-disinclined-to-invalidate-nevadas-none-of-these-candidates-law/>.

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    "Would GOP Filibuster Perez Too?" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48288>

Posted on March 11, 2013 4:49 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48288> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

/Roll Call 
<http://www.rollcall.com/news/would_gop_filibuster_perez_too-223021-1.html>/reports 
<http://www.rollcall.com/news/would_gop_filibuster_perez_too-223021-1.html>.

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Posted in Department of Justice <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=26> | 
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    John Fund Comes to Von Spakvovsky's Defense in Boot from Fairfax
    Elections Board <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48285>

Posted on March 11, 2013 12:13 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48285> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here. 
<http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/342633/von-spakovsky-denied-reappointment-va-election-board-john-fund>

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    "Nun, 2 others Face Vote Fraud Charges"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48282>

Posted on March 11, 2013 12:10 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48282> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The /Cincinnati Enquirer /reports. 
<https://twitter.com/derektmuller/status/311190028011323392>

Derek Muller 
<https://twitter.com/derektmuller/status/311190028011323392>: From this 
story: (1) voter fraud exists, (2) it's rare, (3) none of these would 
have been stopped by photo ID.

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    "The Voting Rights Case You Haven't Heard Of"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48279>

Posted on March 11, 2013 12:03 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48279> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

David Gans previews 
<http://theusconstitution.org/text-history/1870/voting-rights-case-you-haven%E2%80%99t-heard> 
Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council.

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voter registration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=37>, voting 
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    GW Event Tomorrow on Shelby County Case---Now Open to the Press Too
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48277>

Posted on March 11, 2013 12:02 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48277> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Details here 
<http://gwplsi.pbworks.com/w/page/64408178/GW%20Political%20Law%20Studies%20Initiative> 
on what looks like a great event.

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    Quote of the Day <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48274>

Posted on March 11, 2013 8:06 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48274> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

"I think by the time the debate is concluded, there will be a very 
bipartisan consensus that if there is an amendment needed to Section 5 
to keep it viable, the votes will be overwhelming."

---Representative Jim Sensenbrenne 
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/11/voting-rights-act-congress_n_2829246.html>r, 
on what will happen if the Court strikes down the coverage formula for 
Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act in the /Shelby County/ case.

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    "Epilogue: Bush v. Gore and the Constitutional Right to Vote"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48271>

Posted on March 11, 2013 8:03 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48271> 
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Sam Issacharoff and Rick Pildes have posted this draft 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2227062>on SSRN 
(forthcoming: Michael Alvarez and Bernard Grofman (eds), Election 
Administration in the United States: The State of Reform After Bush v. 
Gore, Cambridge University Press).  Here is the abstract:

    This essay provides a look at the legal landscape regarding the
    right to vote that has emerged in the wake of the 2012 elections.
    Courts have begun using Bush v. Gore to craft an intermediate form
    of equal protection scrutiny to address barriers to voting or the
    manipulation of voting requirements when the state's justifications
    for these constraints are thin or unconvincing. The essay also
    focuses on the emergence of Early Voting as a central feature of
    current democratic participation and the ways in which courts have
    begun to understand Early Voting as a legal category. The essay
    serves as an epilogue to a social science volume on voting reform
    edited by Michael Alvarez and Bernard Grofman, Election
    Administration in the United States: The State of Reform after Bush
    v. Gore. The essay ends with a tentative assessment of the emerging
    new equal protection jurisprudence.

Can't wait to read this!

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Rick Hasen
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