[EL] ELB News and Commentary 3/29/13
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Fri Mar 29 11:20:46 PDT 2013
"Lawyers rejected by Justice Department notch partial win"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48848>
Posted on March 29, 2013 10:21 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48848>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Josh Gerstein reports
<http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2013/03/lawyers-rejected-by-justice-department-notch-partial-160500.html>.
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Justice Dept. Civil Rights Division Issues Report on 2009-12
Accomplishments <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48845>
Posted on March 29, 2013 10:10 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48845>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Here
<http://www.justice.gov/crt/publications/accomplishments/crtaccomplishment09_12.pdf>.
Reading it gives no inkling of turmoil
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2013/03/justice_department_s_inspector_general_report_is_the_voting_rights_section.html>in
the voting section.
Update: Mother Jones: The Civil Rights Division is Kicking Butt, Says
the Civil Rights Division
<http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/03/thomas-perez-civil-rights-division-report-accomplishments>
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"GOP seeks to curb early voting" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48843>
Posted on March 29, 2013 10:08 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48843>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
News <http://www.wral.com/gop-seeks-to-curb-early-voting/12280309/> from
North Carolina.
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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,
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"Lepak v. City of Irving: Edward Blum's Attack on Fair
Representation" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48841>
Posted on March 29, 2013 10:07 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48841>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
David Gans blogs
<https://theusconstitution.org/text-history/1933/lepak-v-city-irving-edward-blum%E2%80%99s-attack-fair-representation>.
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"Officials looking at 129 votes from 2012; Suspected cases of
election fraud involve only a small percentage of the total ballots
cast" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48838>
Posted on March 29, 2013 10:05 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48838>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports
<http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/201303290522/NEWS/303290042>.
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Richmond Law Review Election Law Symposium Now Published
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48835>
Posted on March 28, 2013 1:56 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48835>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Dig in:
* Minority Vote Dilution in the Age of Obama
/Dale Ho/
<http://lawreview.richmond.edu/minority-vote-dilution-in-the-age-of-obama/>
* Discouraging Election Contests
/Joshua A. Douglas/
<http://lawreview.richmond.edu/discouraging-election-contests/>
* The Right Choice for Elections: How Choice Voting Will End
Gerrymandering and Expand Minority Voting Rights, From City Councils
to Congress
/Rob Richie, Andrew Spencer/
<http://lawreview.richmond.edu/the-right-choice-for-elections-how-choice-voting-will-end-gerrymandering-and-expand-minority-voting-rights-from-city-councils-to-congress/>
* Photo ID, Provisional Balloting, and Indiana's 2012 Primary Election
/Michael J. Pitts/
<http://lawreview.richmond.edu/photo-id-provisional-balloting-and-indianas-2012-primary-election/>
* The Original Sin of Campaign Finance Law: Why Buckley v. Valeo Is Wrong
/Jessica A. Levinson/
<http://lawreview.richmond.edu/the-original-sin-of-campaign-finance-law-why-buckley-v-valeo-is-wrong/>
* Lessons from Improvements in Military and Overseas Voting
/Steven F. Huefner/
<http://lawreview.richmond.edu/lessons-from-improvements-in-military-and-overseas-voting/>
* A Half-Century of Virginia Redistricting Battles: Shifting from
Rural Malaportionment to Voting Rights to Public Participation
/Micah Altman, Michael P. McDonald/
<http://lawreview.richmond.edu/a-half-century-of-virginia-redistricting-battles-shifting-from-rural-malaportionment-to-voting-rights-to-public-participation/>
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"Obama Signs Order Creating Election Reform Commission"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48832>
Posted on March 28, 2013 1:18 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48832>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Politico
<http://www.politico.com/politico44/2013/03/obama-to-sign-order-creating-election-reform-commission-160422.html?hp=l11>:
"President Obama signed an executive order Thursday
<http://images.politico.com/global/2013/03/28/130328_2013electionadmineorel.html>
creating the Presidential Commission on Election Administration, a panel
tasked with formulating suggestions on how to cut down on long lines to
vote and other problems that plagued voters in 2012. Obama announced
plans to launch the effort --- co-chaired by lawyers Bob Bauer and Ben
Ginsberg who represented the Obama and Romney campaigns, respectively,
during the 2012 election --- during his State of the Union address. But
the White House hadn't offered details on how the commission would work
until Thursday."
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"Fighting big money with big money"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48830>
Posted on March 28, 2013 1:16 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48830>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
E.J. Dionne
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ej-dionne-michael-bloomberg-and-fighting-money-with-money/2013/03/27/54fa52d4-96f5-11e2-b68f-dc5c4b47e519_story.html>:
"Put aside that the hypocrisy question rarely is raised against those
who defend unlimited contributions except when the big bucks are wielded
against them. Can I be grateful for what Bloomberg is doing and still
loathe /Citizens United/? I say: Yes."
I expressed a different view here <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=47399>.
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"Judge Rules Privacy of Federal Employees Violated by STOCK Act"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48828>
Posted on March 28, 2013 1:08 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48828>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bloomberg BNA breaking news: "The privacy rights of thousands of
high-level federal employees could be violated if a provision of the
STOCK Act requiring online disclosure of the employees' financial
information goes into effect, a federal judge said in aruling
<http://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/document/Senior_Executives_Association_et_al_v_United_States_of_America_et>released
March 28 (Senior Executives Association v. U.S., D. Md., No. 12-2297,
ruling 3/27/13)."
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"First Person Singular: Steve Weir; Data is a useful tool for
elections officials" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48826>
Posted on March 28, 2013 1:07 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48826>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Electionline
<http://www.electionline.org/index.php/electionline-weekly>. As my
colleague Dan Lowenstein may note, "Steve Weir" is singular but "Data"
are plural.
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"Former registration worker pleads guilty in ballot petition fraud
case" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48824>
Posted on March 28, 2013 1:05 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48824>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
News from Indiana
<http://www.southbendtribune.com/news/sbt-former-registration-worker-pleads-guilty-in-ballot-petition-fraud-case-20130328,0,6607909.story>.
No, a voter id law wouldn't have helped---Indiana has one!
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"Lost in Space? Shortcuts and Spatial Voting in Low-Information
Elections" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48822>
Posted on March 28, 2013 1:03 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48822>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Chris Elmendorf, Cheryl Boudreau, and Scott MacKenzie have postedthis
draft <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2232371> on
SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Voters face difficult choices in low-information local elections.
Despite the concerns this raises for voter competence, there are
virtually no studies of whether and when voters are able to choose
candidates who best represent them ideologically in these contexts.
We fill this gap by creating same-scale measures of candidate and
voter ideology during a local election and examining how candidate
ideology affects voters' decisions. We also conduct an exit poll in
which we experimentally manipulate cues and examine their effects on
voters' candidate preferences. Our results show that the ideological
proximity of candidates has large effects on voters' decisions.
However, exposing voters to endorsements made by political parties
and newspapers with ideological reputations diminishes, rather than
enhances, voters' propensity to prefer ideologically-similar
candidates. These results challenge the notion that local elections
are non-ideological and that citizens who have access to cues make
"better" decisions than those who do not.
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"New Voter Suppression Efforts Prove Voting the Rights Act Is Still
Needed" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48819>
Posted on March 28, 2013 1:00 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48819>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Ari Berman writes
<http://www.thenation.com/blog/173562/new-voter-suppression-efforts-prove-voting-rights-act-still-needed#>
for The Nation.
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"Kenya Vote Commission Cites Bush V Gore in Defense"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48817>
Posted on March 28, 2013 1:00 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48817>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
At least
<http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/kenya-vote-commission-cites-bush-gore-defense-18831908#.UVSgoTeNCvE>
the case may have precedential value at a high court /somewhere/!
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Video of My Keynote, The Voting Wars Revisited, Now Posted
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48814>
Posted on March 28, 2013 12:56 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48814>
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Last week I spoke at an excellent conference at the University of
Virginia, sponsored by the Journal of Law and Politics. The university
has now posted video and audio of my talk:
3.23.2013
*Richard Hasen on the State of Election Law After 2012*
Video <http://youtu.be/CeJC50XBaEM> | MP3
<http://www.law.virginia.edu/podcast/1213/13_03_25_hasen.mp3>
Richard L. Hasen, the Chancellor's Professor of Law and Political
Science at the University of California, Irvine, recently spoke at the
Journal of Law & Politics conference "The Voting Wars: Elections and the
Law from Registration to Inauguration" on March 23. University of
Virginia law professor John C. Jeffries Jr. introduced ...
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Election Law Journal 12:1 Now Available, International Election
Observation <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48810>
Posted on March 28, 2013 8:39 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=48810>
by Dan Tokaji <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=5>
The new issue of Election Law Journal is now available
<http://online.liebertpub.com/toc/elj/12/1>. The featured topic
is International Eleciton Observation, with a set of papers co-edited by
Emily Beaulieu. Here's the table of contents:
The Party Line: The Value of Election Observation, by Paul Gronke,
Daniel Tokaji
*Articles*
Political Consultants and Party-Centered Campaigning: Evidence from the
2010 U.S. House Primary Election Campaigns, Sean A. Cain
Ballot Design as Fail-Safe: An Ounce of Rotation Is Worth a Pound of
Litigation, by Mary Beth Beazley
Is Money in Politics Harming Trust in Government? Evidence from Two
Survey Experiments, by Michael W. Sances
*Featured Topic: International Election Observation*
Introduction, by Emily Beaulieu
The Role of International Electoral Observation Missions in the
Promotion of the Political Rights of Women: The Case of the OAS, by
Betilde Muñoz-Pogossian
Democracy Post-2011 Arab Spring: Perceptions and Election Fairness in
Egypt, by Saud Kabli
The Carter Center and Election Observation: An Obligations-Based
Approach for Assessing Elections, by David J. Carroll, Avery Davis-Roberts
Citizen Election Observation Towards a New Era, by Domenico Tuccinardi,
Franck Balme
*Book Reviews *
International Election Observers and the Democratic Quality of
Elections, by Emily Beaulieu (reviewing Susan D. Hyde, /The
Pseudo-Democrat's Dilemma: Why Election Observation Became an
International Norm /and Judith G. Kelley, /Monitoring Democracy: When
International Election Observation Works, and Why It Often Fails/)
Australian Electoral Reform and Administration: Partisanship and
Independence, by Paul Rodan (reviewing Norm Kelly, /Directions in
Australian Electoral Reform/)
Our next issue will feature papers from the HAVA at 10
<http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/hava-at-10/> conference hosted
by Election Law @ Moritz last year, marking the 10th anniversary of the
Help America Vote Act.
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