[EL] Open primaries

Wed Aug 6 10:41:31 PDT 2014

There are a few different kinds:

Blanket top-two:  3 states
Completely open:  20
Up to parties:  5

And there are a few states that allow voters to change their party affiliation when they vote, so sort of open.

Cliff

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From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Jboppjr
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2014 11:54 AM
To: Rick Hasen; law-election at UCI.edu
Subject: [EL] Open primaries

Could someone help me with some information?  How many states have open primaries?  Has this this been studied? Jim Bopp

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From: Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu<mailto:rhasen at law.uci.edu>>
Date: 08/06/2014 10:22 AM (GMT-06:00)
To: law-election at UCI.edu<mailto:law-election at UCI.edu>
Subject: [EL] ELB News and Commentary 8/6/14

“A comprehensive investigation of voter impersonation finds 31 credible incidents out of one billion ballots cast”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64062>
Posted on August 6, 2014 8:15 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64062> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Justin Levitt<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/08/06/a-comprehensive-investigation-of-voter-impersonation-finds-31-credible-incidents-out-of-one-billion-ballots-cast/> for WonkBlog:

I’ve been tracking allegations of fraud<https://web.archive.org/web/20070622014244/http:/truthaboutfraud.org/index.html> for years now<http://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/analysis/The%20Truth%20About%20Voter%20Fraud.pdf>, including the fraud ID laws are designed to stop. In 2008, when the Supreme Court weighed in on voter ID, I looked at every single allegation<http://www.brennancenter.org/page/-/Democracy/Analysis%20of%20Crawford%20Allegations.pdf> put before the Court. And since then, I’ve been following reports wherever they crop up.

To be clear, I’m not just talking about prosecutions. I track any specific, credible allegation that someone may have pretended to be someone else at the polls, in any way that an ID law could fix.

So far, I’ve found about 31 different incidents (some of which involve multiple ballots) since 2000, anywhere in the country. If you want to check my work, you can read a comprehensive list of the incidents below.

To put this in perspective, the 31 incidents below come in the context of general, primary, special, and municipal elections from 2000 through 2014. In general and primary elections alone, more than 1 billion ballots<http://www.fec.gov/general/library.shtml> were cast in that period.

Some of these 31 incidents have been thoroughly investigated (including some prosecutions). But many have not. Based on how other claims have turned out, I’d bet that some of the 31 will end up debunked: a problem with matching people from one big computer list to another, or a data entry error, or confusion between two different people with the same name, or someone signing in on the wrong line of a pollbook.
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“Florida Legislature: Don’t talk to congressional members, political consultants”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64060>
Posted on August 6, 2014 7:55 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64060> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Re-redistricting time.<http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/blogs/political-pulse/os-florida-legislatrure-bans-staff-from-talking-to-congressional-members-political-consultants-20140805,0,2275505.post>

See also

Senate orders redistricting records preserved after judge says GOP made ‘mockery’ of process.<http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/senate-orders-redistricting-records-preserved-after-judge-says-gop-made/2191296>
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Posted in legislation and legislatures<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=27>, redistricting<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>
Torres-Spelliscy on Tokaji & Strause’s “The New Soft Money”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64058>
Posted on August 6, 2014 7:52 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64058> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here.<http://www.brennancenter.org/blog/quid-pro-whoa-new-soft-money#.U-FcDRCcsMc.twitter>
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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
“Candidate left off the Peoria council ballot considers lawsuit”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64056>
Posted on August 6, 2014 7:51 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64056> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

News from AZ<http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/story/26205967/2014/08/05/candidate-left-off-the-peoria-council-ballot-considers-lawsuit>.
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Posted in ballot access<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=46>, election administration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>
Wikipedia Features Article on Voting Rights Act of 1965 Today, Its 49th Anniversary<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64054>
Posted on August 6, 2014 7:49 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64054> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Read the article here<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965>.
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Posted in Voting Rights Act<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>
“McDaniel staffer drawn into Fielder controversy (UPDATE)”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64052>
Posted on August 6, 2014 7:47 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64052> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Clarion Ledger<http://www.clarionledger.com/story/dailyledes/2014/08/06/steven-fielder-noel-fritsch-interview/13657353/>:

Stephen Fielder, the self-proclaimed pastor from Meridian, says a member of Chris McDaniel’s campaign paid him $2,000 to give an interview in which he accused a Thad Cochran campaign staffer of asking him to pay people to vote for the GOP incumbent.
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Posted in chicanery<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>
“Election Tech Tuesday: Voting Information Project Offers Election Information App for Apple Mobile Devices”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64050>
Posted on August 6, 2014 7:45 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64050> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Pew.<http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/about/news-room/news/2014/06/election-tech-tuesday-voting-information-project?utm_campaign=2014-08-06%20EIP.html&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua>
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Posted in election administration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>
“Prosecutors Must Prove Corrupt Intent in Trial of Former Virginia First Family”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64048>
Posted on August 5, 2014 7:19 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64048> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/us/prosecutors-must-prove-corrupt-intent-in-trial-of-virginia-first-family.html?ref=politics> on why a McDonnell conviction is no slam dunk, Ferraris, Rolexes and all.
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Posted in bribery<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=54>, campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, chicanery<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>
“The Value of Political Corruption”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64046>
Posted on August 5, 2014 7:14 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64046> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Interesting Tom Edsall column<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/opinion/thomas-edsall-the-value-of-political-corruption.html>.
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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, legislation and legislatures<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=27>, Supreme Court<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
“Wayne County judge to hear request to block absentee ballots in Dearborn Heights”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64044>
Posted on August 5, 2014 4:23 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64044> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Detroit News: <http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140805/POLITICS01/308050051/0/auto04%20avto%20shof/Michigan-Senate-candidate-files-lawsuit-block-absentee-ballots-Dearborn-Heights> “A Wayne County judge will hold a hearing Wednesday over a request to halt counting of absentee ballots in Dearborn Heights suspected of potential election fraud.”
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Posted in absentee ballots<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=53>, election administration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>
Only 15 House Candidates Take Mayday PAC Campaign Finance Pledge<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64042>
Posted on August 5, 2014 3:35 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64042> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

According to DocDawg<http://t.co/xRmNwLVSKR>.
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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
Top Recent Downloads in Election Law on SSRN<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64037>
Posted on August 5, 2014 3:24 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64037> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

(my bimonthly listing)

Here<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/topten/topTenResults.cfm?groupingId=991929&netorjrnl=jrnl>:

RECENT TOP PAPERS for all papers first announced in the last 60 days [cid:part97.02010000.08060202 at law.uci.edu] <http://papers.ssrn.com/publicRss/rssManagerInc.cfm?journalId=991929>
6 Jun 2014 through 5 Aug 2014
Rank

Downloads

Paper Title

1

54

Voter Privacy in the Age of Big Data<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2447956>
Ira Rubinstein<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=88200>
New York University (NYU) – Information Law Institut
Date posted to database: 11 Jun 2014
Last Revised: 25 Jul 2014

2

33

‘You’ve Got Your Crook, I’ve Got Mine’: Why the Disqualification Clause Doesn’t (Always) Disqualify<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2447970>
Ben Cassady<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2255926>
Yale University – Law School
Date posted to database: 11 Jun 2014
Last Revised: 24 Jun 2014

3

26

Constituting the Democratic Public: New Zealand’s Extension of National Voting Rights to Non-Citizens<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2446466>
Fiona Barker<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1871585> and Kate McMillan<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2249482>
Victoria University of Wellington and Victoria University of Wellington – Political Science and International Relations Programme
Date posted to database: 6 Jun 2014
Last Revised: 18 Jun 2014

4

26

The Crimean Vote of March 2014 as an Abuse of the Institution of the Territorial Referendum<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2463536>
Anne Peters<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=341858>
Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
Date posted to database: 9 Jul 2014
Last Revised: 9 Jul 2014

5

19

Redistricting by Formula: An Ohio Reform Experiment<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2450645>
Micah Altman<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=836555> and Michael P. McDonald<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=811078>
MIT Libraries and George Mason University – Government and Politics
Date posted to database: 15 Jun 2014
Last Revised: 15 Jun 2014

6

18

Savior Through Severance: A Litigation-Based Response to Shelby County v. Holder<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2444450>
Cody Gray<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1688387>
Princeton University
Date posted to database: 2 Jun 2014
Last Revised: 2 Jun 2014

7

18

Towards a Feminist Electoral Geography<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2457175>
Claire F. McGing<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1887411>
National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI Maynooth)
Date posted to database: 22 Jun 2014
Last Revised: 1 Jul 2014

8

17

Engineering an Election<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2457502>
Jonathan Zittrain<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=177769>
Harvard Law School and Kennedy School
Date posted to database: 23 Jun 2014
Last Revised: 8 Jul 2014

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Posted in pedagogy<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=23>
5th Circuit Affirms Denial of True the Vote Motion to Invervene in TX Voter ID Case<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64035>
Posted on August 5, 2014 3:18 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64035> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Unanimous order.<http://t.co/R1RxFgEYTu>

(CLC press release<http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2565:august-5-2014-fifth-circuit-denies-true-the-votes-attempted-late-entry-into-texas-voter-id-challenge&catid=63:legal-center-press-releases&Itemid=61>)
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Posted in The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
“Conservatives Target Tennessee Justices in Expensive Race”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64033>
Posted on August 5, 2014 1:27 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64033> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Important NYT report.<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/us/conservatives-target-tennessee-justices-in-expensive-race.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0>
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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, judicial elections<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=19>

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