[EL] ELB News and Commentary 11/13/13
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Tue Nov 12 21:37:23 PST 2013
"Petition for Disclosure on Political Spending Gains Support"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56699>
Posted on November 12, 2013 8:34 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56699>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WSJ reports.
<http://blogs.wsj.com/cfo/2013/11/12/petition-for-disclosure-on-political-spending-gains-support/>
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
White Candidate Pretending to be Black Gets "The Onion" Treatment
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56696>
Posted on November 12, 2013 8:28 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56696>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Here.
<http://www.theonion.com/articles/white-texan-wins-election-after-pretending-to-be-b,34521/>
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Posted in election law "humor" <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=52>
The Latest on #VAAG <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56694>
Posted on November 12, 2013 8:21 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56694>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Looks like Mark Herring, the Democrat will be declared the winner by 163
votes, and Mark Obenshain, the Republican will seek a recount (he'd be
crazy not too, given the extremely close margin and questions about the
process). Obenshain's statement references the need to assure
uniformity, teeing up a possible /Bush v. Gore/ issue.
Here is some of the latest reporting, with more surely to come:
Politico
<http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/virginia-attorney-general-results-99774.html>
WaPo
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/mark-herring-gets-a-leg-up-as-race-for-va-attorney-general-seesaws-again/2013/11/12/c9526ca6-4beb-11e3-ac54-aa84301ced81_story.html?wprss=rss_local-virginia-social&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter>
Brad Blog <http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10369> (including Obenshain
statement: "We owe it to the people of Virginia to make sure we get it
right, and that every legitimate vote is counted and subject to uniform
rules. We have seen significant swings in the vote count over the last
several days as errors are corrected as a part of the regular canvass
process.")
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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,
recounts <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=50>
"Using Hurricane Sandy as a Lesson for Future Elections"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56692>
Posted on November 12, 2013 7:53 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56692>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Very important NYT story
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/13/nyregion/lessons-from-hurricane-sandy-being-applied-to-election-planning.html?_r=0>
on disaster continency planning for elections.
My post-Sandy piece: *How Many More Near-Election Disasters Before
Congress Wakes Up?
<http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/30/how-many-more-near-election-disasters-before-congress-wakes-up.html>,
/The Daily Beast/, Oct. 30, 2012*
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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>
"A Week After Polls Closed, Va. AG Race Still Too Close To Call"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56689>
Posted on November 12, 2013 7:07 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56689>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Brian Naylor reports
<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=244826826> for
NPR, with a focus on the role of social media crowd sourcing the vote
count. (I am quoted in this piece on "the drama and the data" as making
this race special.)
Michael McDonald
<https://twitter.com/ElectProject/status/400457206522339328>: "Calling
Herring winner premature given chance recount changing outcome. Likely
Herring emerges winner, but let recount process play out 1st"
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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,
recounts <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=50>, social media and social
protests <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=58>
"The High States Virginia Election Recount"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56687>
Posted on November 12, 2013 11:20 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56687>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Michael Tomasky
<http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/12/the-high-stakes-virginia-election-recount.html>
writes on #VAAG for /The Daily Beast./
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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,
provisional ballots <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=67>, recounts
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=50>, The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
"(Bad) Writing on the Wall? Could Decline of Penmanship Mean Changes
for Elections?" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56685>
Posted on November 12, 2013 10:40 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56685>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
A Chapinblog.
<http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/electionacademy/2013/11/bad_writing_on_the_wall_could.php>
I could easily see myself disenfranchised on penmanship grounds.
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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>
Journal of Law and Politics Voting Wars Symposium Now Published
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56683>
Posted on November 12, 2013 10:39 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56683>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Read it here <http://www.lawandpolitics.org/content/vol-xxviii-no-4>:
Vol. XXVIII, No. 4
/Doug Chapin/, "Supposing is Good, But Finding Out is Better" Data's
Vital Role in "Fixing" Election Administration
<http://files.www.lawandpolitics.org/content/vol-xxvii-no-4/Chapin_Final.pdf>
/Edward B. Foley/, A Big Blue Shift: Measuring an Asymmetrically
Increasing Margin of Litigation
<http://files.www.lawandpolitics.org/content/vol-xxviii-no-4/Foley_Color_1110.pdf>
/Richard L. Hasen/, Keynote Address of Prof. Richard L. Hasen Given to
/The Voting Wars/ Symposium, March 23, 2013
<http://files.www.lawandpolitics.org/content/vol-xxvii-no-4/Hasen_Final.pdf>
/Justin Levitt/, "Fixing That:" Lines at the Polling Place
<http://files.www.lawandpolitics.org/content/vol-xxvii-no-4/Levitt_Final.pdf>
/Charles Stewart III/, Waiting to Vote in 2012
<http://files.www.lawandpolitics.org/content/vol-xxvii-no-4/Stewart_Final.pdf>
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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,
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Status of the Bauer-Ginsberg Commission
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56681>
Posted on November 12, 2013 10:33 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56681>by Rick Hasen
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Hey what's up with the Bauer-Ginsberg commission? Jonathan Bernstein
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/11/11/u-s-elections-are-still-awful-we-should-fix-that/>
raised the point yesterday: "Political junkies might recall that Obama
got around to appointing a commission back in May to look into voting
problems, but so far, a year after that 2012 election, nothing seems to
have come of it."
Here's an update from Bob Bauer and Ben Ginsberg, the co-chairs:
"The Commission began its work in June and has since held four
public hearings around the country and engaged in extensive
fact-finding with the support of state and local election officials,
experts in election administration and scholars in the field. Its
next public meetings occur over the coming three weeks, with the
last one to take place in early December. The Commission will make
its report to the President early in January of next year.
The Commission's hearing and meeting schedule, videos of its public
hearings and links to the comments and materials received and
consulted, may be viewed at the Commission's website at
www.supportthevoter. gov."
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