[EL] ELB News and Commentary 10/26/13

Fri Oct 25 17:16:48 PDT 2013

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    "State of Texas moves to dismiss voter ID litigation"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56286>

Posted on October 25, 2013 5:05 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56286>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Texas Redistricting sums it up 
<http://txredistricting.org/post/65086716509/state-of-texas-moves-to-dismiss-voter-id-litigation>. 
(motion 
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/jmxvxrjpns6pz32/motion%20to%20dismiss%20voter%20ID%20-%20new.pdf>)

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Posted in Department of Justice <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=26>, 
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    "Let the public help draw voting districts"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56284>

Posted on October 25, 2013 5:01 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56284>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Doug Johnson CSM oped. 
<http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Common-Ground/2013/1025/Let-the-public-help-draw-voting-districts>

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    AG Holder Speaks Out About Voting Rights
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56282>

Posted on October 25, 2013 4:30 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56282>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

BLT 
<http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2013/10/holder-talks-career-voting-rights-and-legacy.html?kw=Holder%20Talks%20Career%2C%20Voting%20Rights%20and%20Legacy&et=editorial&bu=National%20Law%20Journal&cn=20131025&src=EMC-Email&pt=Legal%20Times%20Afternoon%20Update>:

    "This whole notion of voter fraud and the need to come up with photo
    ID to combat voter fraud is really a solution that's in search of a
    problem," Holder said today.

    Holder said there's "no empirical evidence that there is vote fraud
    out there. We're not against identification people need to identify
    themselves as who they are before they vote. The notion you need a
    photo ID or some form of identification that is not easily available
    to people is something that is inconsistent with who we are as a nation.

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    "No violation: JeffCo 'duplicate ballot' was a Delta County special
    election ballot" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56280>

Posted on October 25, 2013 3:05 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56280>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Sometimes 
<http://www.coloradoindependent.com/144626/no-violation-jeffco-duplicate-ballot-was-a-delta-county-special-election-ballot> 
it is neither fraud NOR incompetence.

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    "Guest Post: The State Open Campaign System: Technology for Cleaner,
    Fairer Campaigns" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56278>

Posted on October 25, 2013 2:52 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56278>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

John Kaehny 
<http://www.democracyfund.org/blog/entry/the-state-open-campaign-system-technology-for-cleaner-fairer-campaigns>:

    New York has struggled to emerge from a long history of political
    scandals. In recent years, a number of the state's most powerful
    elected officials have left office after indictments or convictions,
    as have numerous state legislators. The public's unhappiness over
    the pervasive influence of money in state politics has led to a loud
    call for new legislation that would reform campaign finance and
    ethics laws. But the state legislature has resisted.

    Despite this inaction in Albany, we are optimistic that there are
    ways forward that do not require difficult legislation or political
    upheaval. For instance, New York --- and other states --- can use
    inexpensive technology to help make our campaign finance system
    cleaner, fairer and more transparent.

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    "Should Congress pass a new Voting Rights Act?"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56275>

Posted on October 25, 2013 11:18 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56275>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Ari Berman <http://video.msnbc.msn.com/now/53374469/#53374469> on NOW 
with Alex Wagner.

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    "NC GOPer Who Resigned Over Racist Remark Says Party Is 'Gutless'
    (AUDIO)" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56273>

Posted on October 25, 2013 11:17 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56273>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

TPM 
<http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/nc-goper-who-resigned-over-racist-remark-says-party-is-gutless-audio>.

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    "California Watchdog: 'Koch Brothers Network' Behind $15 Million
    Dark-Money Donations" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56271>

Posted on October 25, 2013 9:01 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56271>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Andy Kroll 
<http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/10/california-koch-brothers-network-settlement-15-million-dark-money> 
reports.

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    "Why Women in Texas May Be Blocked from Voting"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56269>

Posted on October 25, 2013 8:51 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56269>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

MSNBC reports <http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/texas-voter-id-law>.

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    "GOPer ousted for trashing 'lazy blacks'"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56267>

Posted on October 25, 2013 8:44 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56267>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Adam Serwer reports 
<http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/North-carolina-republican-ousted-for-racial-slur> 
for MSNBC.

    If you have to preface your remarks with a mention of your "black
    best friend," you'll probably regret saying what comes next.

    Don Yelton, a former North Carolina Republican official, was
    compelled to resign
    <http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/republican-resigns-racially-charged-daily-650821> Thursday
    after tossing around racial slurs during an interview with Comedy
    Central's /The Daily Show. /Yelton said he didn't care if North
    Carolina's strict voter ID law "hurts a bunch of lazy blacks who
    wants the government to give them everything."

    "The law is going to kick the Democrats in the butt," Yelton told
    /The Daily Show'/s Aasif Mandvi. North Carolina's recent voting law,
    one of the strictest in the country, is currently being challenged
    <http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/high-stakes-battle-over-north-carolinas> in
    court on the basis that it makes it deliberately makes it harder for
    minorities to vote. At least one state, Texas, has argued in court
    <http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/08/10/texas-on-voting-rights-its-not-about-race-just-politics/> that
    election laws are constitutional if they disenfranchise voters on
    the basis of party affiliation rather than race, an argument voting
    rights advocates find absurd.

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    Corruption Conference at New School
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56265>

Posted on October 25, 2013 7:47 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56265>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Announcement <http://www.newschool.edu/cps/corruption/>:

    The Center for Public Scholarship is pleased to present the 30th
    /Social Research/ conference, "Corruption," on Thursday and Friday,
    November 21 and 22, 2013, at The New School in New York City.

    Signs of corruption and the damage it causes are painfully evident
    in political and corporate life everywhere. Policy makers,
    historians, lawyers, and scholars will discuss the many systems
    undermined by corruption and the transparency and accountability
    protocols that could serve to reduce corruption, if not eliminate it.

    Specifically, the conference will examine both U.S. and global
    aspects of the problem of corruption, including social and
    historical dimensions of corruption, the systems most at risk of
    corruption (governments, business, labor, and markets), and
    possibilities for reform.

    Additional issues will be addressed in the publication of the Winter
    2014 issue of /Social Research/, with case studies of corruption in
    Kenya, India, Russia, Latin America, and the United States.

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    "Gap Clothing Chain Founders Were Behind California 'Dark Money'
    Campaign" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56263>

Posted on October 25, 2013 7:42 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56263>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Paul Blumenthal: 
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/24/gap-california-dark-money_n_4159516.html?utm_source=Alert-blogger&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Email+Notifications>

    Well-known corporate chiefs funded illegal "dark money"
    contributions to groups in the Koch brothers' political network
    involved in Thursday's record campaign finance settlement in
    California, according to settlement documents.

    Members of the Fisher family, founders of the Gap clothing chain,
    plowed more than $8 million into the dark money campaign to defeat
    Gov. Jerry Brown's tax increase, Proposition 30, and to support the
    anti-union Proposition 32, in the 2012 elections, according to
    partially redacted documents
    <http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/IncomeExpenseSummaryAJS.pdf>
    supplied by Americans for Job Security, a group that handled
    contributions that figured in Thursday's settlement.

    Those documents also show that Charles Schwab, founder of Charles
    Schwab Corp., donated $6.4 million through Americans for Job
    Security. Philanthropist Eli Broad, who publicly backed Brown's tax
    increase proposition, made a $500,000 contribution, according to the
    documents. Las Vegas Sands Corp. CEO Sheldon Adelson and his wife
    gave a combined $500,000. Crossroads GPS, the dark money nonprofit
    founded by Karl Rove, chipped in $2 million.

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    "Lecturer talks about flaws in N.C. voter law"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56261>

Posted on October 25, 2013 5:35 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56261>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Hey, 
<http://www.technicianonline.com/news/article_726fcbb4-3d2b-11e3-bea3-0019bb30f31a.html> 
that's me.

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    "Group Linked to Kochs Admits to Campaign Finance Violations"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56259>

Posted on October 24, 2013 8:53 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=56259>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Nick Confessore 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/25/us/politics/group-linked-to-kochs-admits-to-campaign-finance-violations.html> 
NYT: "A secretive nonprofit group with ties to the billionaire 
conservative businessmen Charles and David Koch admitted to improperly 
failing to disclose more than $15 million in contributions it funneled 
into state referendum battles in California, state officials there 
announced Thursday."

Don't missthe graphic. 
<http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/10/25/us/political-nonprofit-groups-skirt-disclosure-rules.html?ref=politics>

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