[EL] ELB News and Commentary 4/1/14

Tue Apr 1 08:12:17 PDT 2014

<http://electionlawblog.org/>

    "Kobach to Push 'English Proficiency' Test for Voting"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59850>

Posted on April 1, 2014 8:08 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59850>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

AP <http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2014/03/introducing-gmail-shelfie.html>:

    Fresh off his victory
    <http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/22/us/after-ruling-alabama-joins-2-states-in-moving-to-alter-voting-rules.html?action=click&module=Search&region=searchResults%230&version=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nytimes.com%2Fsearch%2Fsitesearch%2F%3Faction%3Dclick%26region%3DMasthead%26pgtype%3DHomepage%26module%3DSearchSubmit%26contentCollection%3DHomepage%26t%3Dqry154%23%2Fhasen%2Fsince1851%2Fallresults%2F1%2Fallauthors%2Fnewest%2F>
    against the federal government in a case involving Kansas and
    Arizona's demand that voters using federal voter registration forms
    provide documentary proof of citizenship before voting, Kansas
    Secretary of State Kris Kobach announced a new initiative to require
    Kansas residents to demonstrate written English proficiency before
    being allowed to vote.

    "Last yearthe Supreme Court confirmed
    <http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/arizona-v-the-inter-tribal-council-of-arizona-inc/?wpmp_switcher=desktop>that
    states, not the monstrous and tyrannical federal government, get to
    set "voter qualifications" for voting even in federal elections,"
    Kobach, a Republican elected official, explained. "That was the
    basis for the recent ruling <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59556> 
    requiring the federal government to include Kansas's demand for
    citizenship information on voter registration cards. This is simply
    the next step to assure fairness
    <http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/02/the_new_conservative_assault_on_early_voting_more_republicans_fewer_voters.html>
    and uniformity
    <http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/03/republican_voter_suppression_rationales_why_voter_integrity_is_nonsense.html>
    in election administration. Also, if you can't write in English, you
    don't deserve a vote."

    A leading civil rights lawyer, speaking on conditions of anonymity,
    expressed shock and vowed to fight the new proposed rules. "WTF? The
    Voting Rights Act banned literacy tests. There's no way s new
    English Proficiency test is going to survive," the lawyer declared. 
    Kobach stated his belief that the Voting Rights Act literacy ban s
    no longer constitutional. "Congress can pass whatever laws it wants,
    but as Justice Scalia explained
    <http://www2.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/Arizona_v_Inter_Tribal_Council_of_Ariz_Inc_133_S_Ct_2247_186_L_Ed>in
    last year's Arizona case, in an opinion signed
    <http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/17/the-supreme-court-gives-states-new-weapons-in-the-voting-wars.html>
    by all theliberal Supreme Court
    <http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2013/07/are_the_liberals_on_the_supreme_court_savvy_or_suckers.html>
    Justices, 'it would raise serious constitutional doubts if a federal
    statute [*2259] precluded a State from obtaining the information
    necessary to enforce its voter qualifications.'"

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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, 
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    Nebraska Becomes 20th State to Adopt Online Voter Registration
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59848>

Posted on April 1, 2014 7:31 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59848>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

See here 
<http://www.omaha.com/article/20140331/NEWS/140339749/1626#coming-soon-to-nebraska-online-voter-registration>.

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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, 
voting technology <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=40>

    "How Republicans Rationalize Voter Suppression"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59846>

Posted on April 1, 2014 7:26 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59846>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Jamelle Bouie writes 
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/03/republican_voter_suppression_rationales_why_voter_integrity_is_nonsense.html> 
for /Slate./

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Posted in The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>

    Not an April Fool's Joke: Corporate Personhood Result of Supreme
    Court Syllabus Error <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59844>

Posted on April 1, 2014 7:24 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59844>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Tony Mauro reports. 
<http://www.nationallawjournal.com/home/id=1202649092836/Supreme%20Court%20Syllabus%20Summary%20or%20Black%20Mark?mcode=1202615432728&curindex=2&slreturn=20140301102044>

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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, Supreme 
Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>

    "Congress to Enact $178.9M Bill to Mandate, Fund 'I Voted' Stickers"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59842>

Posted on April 1, 2014 7:22 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59842>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

A ChapinLameBlog 
<http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/electionacademy/2014/04/congress_to_enact_1789m_bill_t.php>.

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    "Judge halts enforcement of Del. election law"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59840>

Posted on April 1, 2014 7:20 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59840>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

AP 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/judge-halts-enforcement-of-del-election-law/2014/03/31/985faae2-b913-11e3-80de-2ff8801f27af_story.html>: 
"A federal judge has granted an injunction sought by a conservative 
group fighting a Delaware election campaign law."

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    "Corporate Lobbyists Assail Tax Overhaul They Once Cheered"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59838>

Posted on April 1, 2014 7:19 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59838>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/02/business/tax-lobby-works-to-defeat-overhaul-it-once-cheered.html?ref=politics&_r=0>: 
"The twist reflects how lobbying in Washington --- and the millions of 
dollars in fees that lobbyists collect --- are often about stopping 
action and preserving the status quo. Whenever Congress considers major 
changes to the tax code, lobbyists buy insurance on both sides of the 
fight. It also reflects a pivot by lobbyists who had spent months 
cheering Mr. Camp's three-year effort to draft this giant package, given 
that its stated purpose was to lower corporate tax rates and simplify 
the tax code, and who are now working to make sure that the package 
<http://crfb.org/blogs/camp-proposes-draft-cut-rates-and-trim-deductions> never 
becomes law."

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Posted in legislation and legislatures 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=27>, lobbying 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=28>

    "Through a Glass, Darkly: The Rhetoric and Reality of Campaign
    Finance Disclosure" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59836>

Posted on March 31, 2014 7:41 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59836>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Jennifer Heerwig and Kate Shaw have posted this draft 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2416591> on SSRN 
(forthcoming, /Georgetown Law Journal/).  Here is the abstract:

    In Citizens United v. FEC, the Supreme Court swept away
    long-standing limits on corporate spending in federal elections, but
    it also strongly affirmed the constitutionality of robust disclosure
    and disclaimer requirements. In the wake of that decision, many
    proponents of campaign finance regulation have turned their
    attention to disclosure as the best remaining mechanism by which to
    regulate money in elections. At the same time, opponents of campaign
    finance regulation --- including the legal team behind Citizens
    United --- have trained their sights on disclosure, filing new
    challenges to existing disclosure requirements in a number of state
    or federal courts, although so far with only limited success.

    Relying on the Longitudinal Elite Contributor Database (LECD) --- an
    original database developed by one of the authors to track the
    population of unique individual campaign contributors from 1980
    through 2008 --- this essay tests the Supreme Court's rhetoric about
    disclosure, and some of the premises of our current policy debates
    about money in politics, against the realities of the FEC's existing
    disclosure regime. In particular, we find that compliance with
    existing disclosure regulations is inconsistent and that the current
    regime fails to identify the most potentially influential players in
    the campaign finance system. In so doing, the current system fails
    to provide basic facts about how candidates (and committees) finance
    their campaigns. We suggest that much of what the Court and
    reformers assume about disclosure is wrong --- that their views are
    premised on an effective and well-functioning disclosure regime that
    in fact bears scant resemblance to the system of disclosure
    maintained by the FEC. Correcting these misunderstandings will be
    critical to crafting better reform proposals. And the stakes could
    not be higher: disclosure may well be the only constitutionally
    viable and politically feasible method of regulating money in
    elections in a post-Citizens United world.

I look forward to reading this!

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    $1000 Contribution to Prop 8 by Mozilla CEO Leads to OK Cupid
    Protest: Harassment? <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59833>

Posted on March 31, 2014 5:24 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59833>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here 
<http://recode.net/2014/03/31/okcupid-takes-public-stand-against-new-mozilla-ceo/>'s 
a description of the controversy.

Is this harassment or the free speech exercise of OKCupid?

See my piece, *Chill Out: A Qualified Defense of Campaign Finance 
Disclosure Laws in the Internet Age <http://ssrn.com/abstract=1948313>, 
27 /Journal of Law and Politics/ 557 (2012)* and

Elian Dashev, Economic Boycotts as Harassment: The Threat to First 
Amendment Protected Speech in the Aftermath of Doe v. Reed 
<http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/llr/vol45/iss1/6/>

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    "Forget Susan B. Anthony" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59831>

Posted on March 31, 2014 3:41 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59831>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Monkey Cage blog. 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/03/31/forget-susan-b-anthony/>

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Posted in voting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=31>

    New Jersey Court Holds Some State Petition Circulation Rules
    Unconstitutional <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59829>

Posted on March 31, 2014 3:36 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59829>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Read Empower Our Neighborhoods v. Kimberly Guadagno. 
<http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/decisions/EON_Motion_140331.pdf>

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    Deven Desai of Concurring Opinions Interviews Me About Latest Voting
    Skirmishes <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59827>

Posted on March 31, 2014 2:37 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59827>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Read it here 
<http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2014/03/bright-ideas-prof-rick-hasen-on-the-recent-and-future-voting-war-engagements.html>.

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    "A Response to the Koch Brothers Claim of Entitlement to Anonymous
    Political Giving" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59825>

Posted on March 31, 2014 8:25 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59825>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Fred Wertheimer blogs 
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/fred-wertheimer/a-response-to-the-koch-brothers_b_5043831.html>.

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