[EL] ELB News and Commentary 5/4/13

Sat May 4 17:25:22 PDT 2013

    "More political intelligence is under scrutiny in connection with
    Medicare funding decision" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49896>

Posted on May 4, 2013 5:22 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49896> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo reports. 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/timing-of-political-intelligence-probed/2013/05/03/9128c776-b429-11e2-bbf2-a6f9e9d79e19_story.html>

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    "Florida Lawmakers Approve Overhaul of State's Problem-Ridden Voting
    Process" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49894>

Posted on May 4, 2013 5:20 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49894> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT reports 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/04/us/florida-lawmakers-approve-overhaul-of-states-problem-ridden-voting-process.html?ref=us>.

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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, 
The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60> | Comments Off

    "As Senators Head for Exit, Few Step Up to Run for Seats"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49892>

Posted on May 4, 2013 5:19 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49892> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT reports. 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/business/pro-business-decisions-are-defining-this-supreme-court.html?pagewanted=all>

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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=27>, political parties 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>, political polarization 
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    "Elections bill heads to governor's desk"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49889>

Posted on May 3, 2013 3:27 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49889> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Gannett 
<http://www.tallahassee.com/article/20130503/CAPITOLNEWS/130503010/Elections-bill-heads-governor-s-desk>:

    Florida election supervisors will be allowed to restore early voting
    up to 14 days --- including the last Sunday before Election Day ---
    and increase the kinds of locations sanctioned for early-voting,
    under a bill passed by the Legislature in its final hours of session
    Friday.HB 7013 reverses much of the changes by the Republican-led
    Legislature in 2011 that limited early voting down to eight days. At
    the time, proponents said the move was intended to reduce voter
    fraud, but later was acknowledged by some party leaders as a way to
    dampen Democratic turnout in the wake of President Barack Obama's
    victory. The result was long lines on Election Day last year in
    large, urban counties such as Miami-Dade. Those voting problems,
    studies showed, disproportionately impacted minorities, registered
    Democrats and no-party affiliated voters.

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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, 
The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60> | Comments Off

    "Citizens United or Divided?" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49886>

Posted on May 3, 2013 2:29 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49886> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

I'll be on this panel 
<http://www.bhba.org/intus/event3/signup.asp?event_id=3276> with CA 
Assembly Member Mike Gatto and Professor Ronald Rotunda of Chapman on 
Monday at 6 pm.  The event is sponsored by the Beverly Hills Bar 
Association and moderated by Kenneth Freundlich.

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    "Judge ends campaign-finance challenge"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49883>

Posted on May 3, 2013 2:25 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49883> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

News from NY 
<http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20130503/BLOGS04/130509948>.

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    "Marco Rubio gets Florida Legislature to eliminate early primary in
    2016? <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49881>

Posted on May 3, 2013 2:24 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49881> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Miami Herald 
<http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2013/05/marco-rubio-gets-florida-legislature-to-eliminate-early-primary-in-2016.html>: 
"U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio persuaded state lawmakers to make a last-minute 
change eliminating Florida's early presidential primary -- a race in 
which the Republican could be on the ballot."

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    "The Contemporary Presidency: How the 2012 Presidential Election Has
    Strengthened the Movement for the National Popular Vote Plan"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49878>

Posted on May 3, 2013 2:11 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49878> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Rob Richie and Andrea Levien have written this article 
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/psq.12027/abstract> for 
/Presidential Studies Quarterly./ Here is the abstract:

    The United States has reached an unprecedented level of inequality
    in presidential elections. In 2012, only 10 states drew the major
    party presidential candidates for postconvention campaign events,
    and those same 10 states attracted 99.6% of all general election
    television advertising spending by the campaigns and their allies.
    The remaining 41 spectator states (counting the District of
    Columbia) included all 38 states that had been similarly overlooked
    in 2008. This article details these inequalities and their roots in
    state statutes allocating electoral votes on a winner-take-all
    basis. It argues that states should end this inequality by enacting
    the National Popular Vote interstate compact, which would ensure
    that it is the popular vote in all 50 states and the District of
    Columbia that determines who becomes the president.

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    "Campaign Contribution Limits Broken Repeatedly In 2012 Election
    With No FEC Oversight" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49875>

Posted on May 3, 2013 2:07 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=49875> by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Some great report by Paul Blumenthal for HuffPo 
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/03/campaign-contribution-limits_n_3132474.html> 
who finds lots of people potentially breaking the federal aggregate 
contribution limits (some of which are up for challenge at the Supreme 
Court next term in the /McCutcheon/ 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?s=mccutcheon> case).

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