[EL] ELB News and Commentary 10/18/13

Thu Oct 17 20:04:11 PDT 2013

    "TN Supreme Court Upholds ID Law" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56073>

Posted on October 17, 2013 8:00 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56073>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WBIR 
<http://www.wbir.com/story/news/local/2013/10/17/tennessee-supreme-court-upholds-voter-id-law/3005259/>: 
"Chief Justice Gary R. Wade wrote that, although instances of people 
impersonating voters at the polls have not been documented in Tennessee."

Read the /City of Memphis, Tenn. v. Hargett 
<https://www.tncourts.gov/sites/default/files/cityofmemphisopn_0.pdf> 
/Opinion authored by Chief Justice Gary R. Wade, and the concurring 
Opinion 
<https://www.tncourts.gov/sites/default/files/cityofmemphiscon.pdf> by 
Justice William C. Koch, Jr.

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    Justice Stevens Defends Voter ID Decision Based on Evidence Before
    Him <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56071>

Posted on October 17, 2013 7:54 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56071>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Jess Bravin asked 
<http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052702304384104579141701228734132-lMyQjAxMTAzMDEwNzExNDcyWj.html?dsk=y>Justice 
Stevens if he stands by his decision in Crawford, the Indiana voter id 
decision, in light of Judge Posner's recent comments 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/16/us/politics/judge-in-landmark-case-disavows-support-for-voter-id.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1381905375-ED0EgB6Z7qtaGFq7xQ3toQ>saying 
he got the case wrong:

    In an interview this week, Justice Stevens said he isn't "a fan of
    voter ID" and wasn't in 2008. But he said his opinion was correct
    because the challengers failed to present enough evidence showing
    the requirement suppressed poor and minority voters. "My opinion
    should not be taken as authority that voter-ID laws are always OK,"
    Justice Stevens said. "The decision in the case is state-specific
    and record-specific."

    "I have always thought that David Souter got the thing correct, but
    my own problem with the case was that I didn't think the record
    supported everything he said in his opinion," said Justice Stevens,
    who retired in 2010. "He got a lot of stuff off the Internet and
    inferred things and so forth." But "as a matter of actual history,
    he's dead right. The impact of the statute is much more serious" on
    poor, minority, disabled and elderly voters than evidence in the
    2008 case demonstrated, he said.

(H/t Josh Blackman 
<http://joshblackman.com/blog/2013/10/17/told-you-so-justice-stevens-rehabilitates-his-opinion-in-marion-county-case/>)

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    "Project Vote Pursues En Banc Hearing for Texas Voter Registration
    Case" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56069>

Posted on October 17, 2013 3:12 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56069>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Press release 
<http://projectvote.org/newsreleases/1036-project-vote-pursues-en-banc-hearing-for-texas-voter-registration-case.html>.

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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, 
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    "Republicans in Congress Who Voted Against Re-Opening the Government
    Were Disproportionately from Open Primary States"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56067>

Posted on October 17, 2013 2:14 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56067>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

For those who think we can solve our polarization problems with open 
primaries, read this 
<http://www.ballot-access.org/republicans-in-congress-who-voted-against-re-opening-the-government-were-disproportionately-from-open-primary-states/>.

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Posted in political parties <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>, 
political polarization <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=68>, primaries 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=32>

    "Minnesota feuds over online voter registration"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56065>

Posted on October 17, 2013 2:13 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56065>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/10/17/minnesota-feuds-over-online-voter-registration/> 
reports.

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    "Thoughts on Judge Posner's Admission of Error on the Indiana Voter
    ID Law" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56063>

Posted on October 17, 2013 1:58 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56063>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Paul Smith 
<http://www.acslaw.org/acsblog/thoughts-on-judge-posner%E2%80%99s-admission-of-error-on-the-indiana-voter-id-law>: 
"As the lawyer who argued the constitutional challenge to the Indiana 
Voter ID law in the Supreme Court in 2008, I was both fascinated and 
pleased to hear that Judge Richard Posner -- the author of the Seventh 
Circuit majority opinion 
<http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/documents/Rokita-Judgment.pdf> 
affirmed by the Supreme Court 
<http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/documents/CrawfordSCtOpinion.pdf> 
in /Crawford v. Marion County Elections Board /-- has now publicly 
stated that he was wrong.  It is refreshing, if not unprecedented, for a 
jurist to admit error on such a major case.  I was a little less pleased 
to see that he attempted to excuse his error by blaming the parties for 
not providing sufficient information to the court."

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The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>, voter id 
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    Appeals Court Reverses in Post-Shelby Beaumont TX School District
    Case <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56060>

Posted on October 17, 2013 1:50 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56060>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Opinion <http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/0913434CV2.pdf>.

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Posted in Voting Rights Act <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>

    "State Bar of Michigan Calls for an End to Secret Funding of
    Judicial Campaign Ads" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56058>

Posted on October 17, 2013 1:45 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56058>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Michigan Bar Journal reports. 
<http://www.michbar.org/journal/pdf/pdf4article2278.pdf>

See alsothis letter. 
<http://www.michbar.org/journal/pdf/pdf4article2280.pdf>

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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, 
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    "Brief Urges Supreme Court to Review Florida PAC Regulations"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56056>

Posted on October 17, 2013 1:41 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56056>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

CCP 
<http://www.campaignfreedom.org/2013/10/17/brief-urges-supreme-court-to-review-florida-pac-regulations/>: 
"Can Florida use red tape to block citizens from running a small radio 
ad buy?  The Center for Competitive Politics (CCP) and Cato Institute 
filed a friend of the court brief 
<http://www.campaignfreedom.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/131005-for-filing.pdf> 
late yesterday urging the US Supreme Court to review an appeals court 
ruling that upheld a complex Florida law that generates excessive red 
tape for small groups of speakers."

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    "Virginia election officials purging almost 40,000 voters"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56054>

Posted on October 17, 2013 1:40 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56054>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The latest 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/10/17/virginia-election-officials-purging-almost-40000-voters/>.

More here 
<http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/state-regional/va-removes-k-from-voter-rolls-over-democrats-objections/article_2d111de4-49de-523b-bd9c-5d93b7c0a00e.html>.

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    "North Carolina's Big Election Changes"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56052>

Posted on October 17, 2013 11:34 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56052>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

This event 
<https://www.eventbrite.com/event/8662677301/?ref=enivtefor001&invite=NDQzNjY2NS9yaGFzZW5AbGF3LnVjaS5lZHUvMA%3D%3D&utm_source=eb_email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=inviteformalv2&utm_term=attend&ref=enivtefor001> 
will be held on October 25 in Raleigh.  I'll be the keynote speaker.

As noted, <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=55682> I'll also be speaking 
October 24 at North Carolina State University giving the 2013 American 
Values Public Lecture. 
<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/HasenTalk.pdf>

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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, 
The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>, Voting Rights Act 
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Rick Hasen
Chancellor's Professor of Law and Political Science
UC Irvine School of Law
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