[EL] ELB News and Commentary 8/29/14
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Thu Aug 28 20:41:16 PDT 2014
"Landrieu claims parents' home as her own, raising questions of
Louisiana residency" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64786>
Posted onAugust 28, 2014 8:39 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64786>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WaPo reports.
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/landrieu-claims-parents-home-as-her-own-raising-questions-of-louisiana-residency/2014/08/28/423d8552-2e08-11e4-9b98-848790384093_story.html>
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Posted inresidency <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=38>
"Fairfax officials say some people may have crossed Va.-Md. line to
vote twice in 2012? <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64784>
Posted onAugust 28, 2014 8:23 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64784>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WaPo
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/fairfax-officials-say-some-people-may-have-crossed-state-lines-to-vote-twice-in-2012/2014/08/28/391b4210-2edb-11e4-9b98-848790384093_story.html>:
"Tens of thousands of voters were registered to cast ballots in both
Virginia and Maryland during the 2012 presidential election --- and more
than 150 appear to have voted twice, an advocacy group claims...Some
Democrats were more skeptical, saying the claims need to be checked
carefully."
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Posted inelection administration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voter registration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=37>
"2 California Counties Ask to Form Separate State"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64782>
Posted onAugust 28, 2014 5:36 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64782>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
AP
<http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/california-counties-form-separate-state-25168565>: "We
fully expect to be ignored," Baird said.
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Posted inUncategorized <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
"The Super PAC Workaround: How Candidates Quietly, Legally
Communicate" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64780>
Posted onAugust 28, 2014 5:26 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64780>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bloomberg reports.
<http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-08-28/how-candidates-communicate-legally-with-super-pacs>
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
"Why internet voting is a very dangerous idea"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64778>
Posted onAugust 28, 2014 5:24 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64778>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Marc Ambinder
<http://theweek.com/article/index/267191/why-internet-voting-is-a-very-dangerous-idea>is
so right.
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Posted inelection administration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,internet voting
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=49>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
"Protecting Political Participation Through the Voter Qualifications
Clause of Article I" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64776>
Posted onAugust 28, 2014 5:20 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64776>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Franita Tolson has postedthis draft
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2485924#.U_-5Ma_UKpF.twitter>on
SSRN (forthcoming /Boston College Law Review/). Here is the abtract:
The Voter Qualifications Clause of Article I, Section 2 of the U.S.
Constitution makes federal voting rights dependent upon
participation in state elections. This Article argues that Article I
incorporates both state constitutional law governing the right to
vote and the democratic norms that existed within the states at the
founding as the basis for determining the qualifications of federal
electors. The democratic norms governing political participation can
be traced to founding-era state constitutions that preserved the
fundamental right of citizens to alter or abolish their governments
at will, which was similar to the right of revolution exercised by
the colonists against the British during the Revolutionary War. It
is this understanding of the right to vote in federal elections,
parasitic upon the robustly democratic notion of participation that
existed at the state level and enshrined in state constitutional
alter or abolish provisions, that the framers of the Constitution
endorsed in the Voter Qualifications Clause of Article I. Contrary
to this provision, the caselaw has divorced state and federal
elections, resulting in excessive judicial deference to state
regulations that govern the right to vote. As this Article shows,
the Voter Qualifications Clause requires that states aggressively
safeguard political participation in order to protect federal voting
rights, which suggests that courts should apply a higher level of
scrutiny in assessing the constitutionality of state election laws.
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Posted inelection administration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,Elections Clause
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=70>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
"Judge to rule Friday on dismissing McDaniel challenge"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64774>
Posted onAugust 28, 2014 5:16 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64774>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Ruling coming tomorrow
<http://www.clarionledger.com/story/dailyledes/2014/08/28/judge-to-rule-motion-dismiss/14757221/>at
2 pm Eastern.
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Posted inUncategorized <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
"Constitution Check: Who decides who gets to vote?"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64772>
Posted onAugust 28, 2014 1:50 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64772>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Lyle Denniston
<http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2014/08/constitution-check-who-decides-who-gets-to-vote/>on
Kobach v. EAC.
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Posted inElections Clause <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=70>,NVRA
(motor voter) <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=33>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voting
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=31>
"Citizens United Redux: The Masses Deserve A Media Exemption Too"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64770>
Posted onAugust 28, 2014 1:48 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64770>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Eric Wang has writtenthis oped
<http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/28/citizens-united-redux-the-masses-deserve-a-media-exemption-too/>for
the /Daily Caller./
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
"Law & Order: Elections division; A snapshot of the plethora of
elections-related litigation" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64768>
Posted onAugust 28, 2014 9:52 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64768>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
That's the lead story in this week'sElectionline Weekly
<http://www.electionline.org/index.php/electionline-weekly>.
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Posted inelection administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>
NY Federal Court Explains Reasons for Earlier Order Blocking
Enforcement of NY Contribution Limits for Super PACs
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64765>
Posted onAugust 28, 2014 9:36 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64765>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
You can read the new opinion in /Hispanic Leadership Fund, Inc. v. NY
State Board of Elections /here
<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/hispanic.pdf>.
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"Overrides: The Super Study" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64762>
Posted onAugust 28, 2014 9:25 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64762>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Victoria Nourse
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2472111>on
Christiansen & Eskridge:
Overrides should be of interest to a far larger group of scholars
than statutory interpretation enthusiasts. We have, in overrides,
open inter branch encounters between Congress and the Courts far
more typically found in the shadows of everyday Washington politics.
Interestingly, Christiansen and Eskridge posit the court-congress
relationship as more triadic than dyadic given the role played by
agencies. One of their more interesting conclusions is that/agencie
are the big winners/in the override game: agencies were present in
seventy percent of the override cases and the agency view prevailed
with Congress and against the Supreme Court in three-quarters of
those overrides. When the Supreme Court rejects the statutory
interpretations of agencies, supported by the Solicitor General, it
does so at its peril. This suggests that the common wisdom --- that
agencies often have a better handle than courts on Congress's
meaning because of their closer connections with Congress (through
oversight, expertise about the statute, informal communications,
etc.) --- is true. It also suggests that broad congressional
delegation to agencies --- traditionally viewed with suspicion by
lawyers --- may come with a silver interpretive lining.
The author makes no attempt to survey the richness of this
gargantuan study nor the extraordinary effort it must have taken. It
should be of interest to readers of court--congress interaction,
students of agency action, scholars of statutory interpretation, and
the separation of powers. Her aim is not to repeat the study, or
even to summarize it, but to provide a parsimonious and helpful lens
through which we may understand its intellectual assumptions and
accomplishments. In part I, the author addressees its methodological
virtues and vices. In part II, she posits a fairly parsimonious
model that helps to explain the rich Christiansen and Eskridge
findings. In part III, the author provides a brief comment on the
authors' recommendations for future action.
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Posted inlegislation and legislatures <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=27>
"Study: Citizens United Elected More Republicans"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64760>
Posted onAugust 28, 2014 9:24 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64760>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Reid Wilson
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/08/28/study-citizens-united-elected-more-republicans/>for
WaPo on Tilman Klumpp of the University of Alberta, Hugo Mialon of
Emory University and Michael Williams of Competition Economics, "The
Business of American Democracy: /Citizens United/, Independent Spending
and Elections." <http://www.ualberta.ca/%7Eklumpp/docs/cu.pdf>
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
"What if Alabama elected multiple congressmen per district? A
radical reform proposal" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64758>
Posted onAugust 28, 2014 8:34 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64758>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
See here.
<http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2014/08/what_if_alabama_elected_multip.html>
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Posted inalternative voting systems <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=63>
In the Election Law Mailbag <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64756>
Posted onAugust 28, 2014 8:30 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64756>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Eric H. Kearney, Pavan V. Parkh and Bethany E. Sanders, /Perfect is the
Enemy of the Fair: An Analysis of Election Day Error in Ohio's 2012
General Election Through a Discussion of the Materialaity Principle,
Compliance Standards, and the Democracy Canon, /62 Cleveland State Law
Review 279 (2014).
Donald Kochan,The Masks of Virtue: Theories of Aretaic Legislation in a
Public Choice Perspective
<http://www.slu.edu/Documents/law/Law%20Journal/Archives/LawJournal58-2/Kochan_Article.pdf>,
58 St. Louis University Law Journal 295 (2014).
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"Attack ads have their plus sides" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64754>
Posted onAugust 28, 2014 8:01 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64754>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Peter Schuck WaPo oped.
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/attack-ads-have-their-plus-sides/2014/08/26/c1150cd8-27eb-11e4-958c-268a320a60ce_story.html>
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"Color by Numbers: The New Misreading of the Voting Rights Act"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64752>
Posted onAugust 28, 2014 7:59 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64752>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Justin Levitt has postedthis draft
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2487426>on SSRN.
Here is the abstract:
The role of race in the apportionment of political power is one of
the thorniest problems at the heart of American democracy, and
poised to once again take center stage at the Supreme Court this
Term. The Court has agreed to hear a case from Alabama involving the
Voting Rights Act and the appropriate use of race in redistricting.
But though the litigation posture of the case may not make it clear
to the Court, Alabama is part of a disturbing pattern. States like
Alabama have been applying not the Voting Rights Act, but a
hamhanded cartoon of the Voting Rights Act --- substituting blunt
numerical demographic targets for the searching examination of local
political conditions that the statute actually demands.
This short and timely Essay is the first to identify the ways in
which multiple states in this redistricting cycle appear to have
substituted this cartoon of the Voting Rights Act for the real
thing. It identifies the racial essentialism at the heart of the
demographic shorthand, and contrasts that retrograde approach with
the tailored and nuanced law on the books. It then elaborates the
constitutional danger of replacing the real statute with the
imagined one, and urges courts, including the Supreme Court, to see
the cartoon for what it is.
I can't wait to read this!
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