[EL] ELB News and Commentary 12/6/14 & 12/7/14

Daniel Tokaji dtokaji at gmail.com
Sun Dec 7 07:14:54 PST 2014
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“Roundup: Citizens United and Public Corruption”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68881>
Posted on December 7, 2014 7:06 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68881> by *Dan
Tokaji* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=5>

Noah Rosenblum’s post
<http://www.yalelawjournal.org/forum/roundup-citizens-united-and-public-corruption>
in Yale Law Journal Forum summarizes recent scholarship on public
corruption and campaign finance.
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 Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
More Efforts to Change How States Allocate Their Electoral Votes?
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68879>
Posted on December 7, 2014 7:00 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68879> by *Dan
Tokaji* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=5>

Paul Rosenberg has this piece in Salon
<http://www.salon.com/2014/12/06/now_theyre_trying_to_steal_2016_the_demented_gop_schemes_to_rewire_the_electoral_college_and_elect_a_tea_party_president/>
on the
possibility that Republicans will try to assign electoral votes
proportionally or by congressional district in states where they control
the legislature but are likely to vote Democratic in presidential elections.
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Posted in electoral college <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=44>
“Democrats Win PACs, Lose Money War” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68877>
Posted on December 7, 2014 6:46 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68877> by *Dan
Tokaji* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=5>

Politico reports
<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/democrats-gop-super-pacs-fundraising-113362.html?hp=r1_3>
that Democrats
“far outpaced Republicans in the fundraising by super PACs, which are
required to report their contributors’ identities” but that “voluntary
disclosures by other outfits suggest Republicans more than made up for the
disparity through their dominance of secretive non-profit groups that do
not disclose their <http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/60731.html>
donors <http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/60731.html>.”
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
More on Ohio Redistricting Reform Proposal
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68873>
Posted on December 7, 2014 6:14 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68873> by *Dan
Tokaji* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=5>

This story
<http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2014/12/07/proposed-revision-of-redistricting-is-progress-expert-says.html>
in the Columbus Dispatch includes my thoughts on the proposal that the
state house approved Thursday <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68822> on a
bipartisan vote. It’s unclear what the state senate will do.
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Posted in redistricting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>
Federal District Court Invalidates Arizona Disclosure Law
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68869>
Posted on December 7, 2014 6:01 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68869> by *Dan
Tokaji* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=5>

Judge James Teilborg’s ruling found the state’s registration requirement
for political committees “vague, overbroad, and consequently
unconstitutional in violation of the First Amendment,” according to this
report
<http://tucson.com/news/local/federal-judge-strikes-down-campaign-finance-law/article_74fe2156-9ce9-587f-b0d5-469e2f9abe60.html>
.
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
“Energy Firms in Secretive Alliance With Attorneys General”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68867>
Posted on December 7, 2014 5:30 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68867> by *Dan
Tokaji* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=5>

NYT has this report
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/us/politics/energy-firms-in-secretive-alliance-with-attorneys-general.html?_r=1>
on
what it calls an “unprecedented, secretive alliance that … Republican
attorneys general have formed with some of the nation’s top energy
producers to push back against the Obama regulatory agenda,”  finding that
“[a]ttorneys general in at least a dozen states are working with energy
companies and other corporate interests, which in turn are providing them
with record amounts of money for their political campaigns, including at
least $16 million this year."
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, lobbying
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=28>
“Richard Alarcon to Serve 51-Day Sentence under House Arrest”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68863>
Posted on December 6, 2014 12:11 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68863> by
*Dan Tokaji* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=5>

LA Times reports
<http://www.latimes.com/local/cityhall/la-me-alarcon-jail-20141206-story.html>
on how
the former L.A. City Councilman will serve his sentence for living outside
the district he represented. Dan Lowestein comments:  “It’s hard for me to
think that the state of California will be better governed by these cases
being brought forward.”
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Posted in residency <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=38>
Colorado Secretary of State Accuses Boulder Clerk of Violating Election Laws
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68860>
Posted on December 6, 2014 6:01 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68860> by *Dan
Tokaji* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=5>

Colorado’s Republican Secretary of State Scott Gessler has issued a report
<http://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/docs/2014BoulderReport.pdf> finding
“serious and systemic violations of Colorado state law” by Boulder’s
Democratic County Clerk Hillary Hall during the 2014 election.  The
allegations include “systematically discriminat[ing] against Republican
election judges, by excluding people nominated by the Republican Party, and
even appointing people not registered to vote.”  The Secretary of State
nevertheless accepted Boulder’s election returns
<http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_27072646/secretary-state-accepts-part-boulder-county-voting-results>
for state and federal office.  Hall denies the accusations
<http://www.dailycamera.com/news/ci_27082559/boulder-county-clerk-hall-i-followed-law-election>,
and
Gessler says he’s not pursuing a criminal investigation.
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Posted in chicanery <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>, election
administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>
Magleby on Voters’ Preferred Methods of Voting
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68857>
Posted on December 6, 2014 5:22 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68857> by *Dan
Tokaji* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=5>

David Magleby has this piece
<http://www.forbes.com/sites/datafreaks/2014/12/04/the-death-of-voting-booths-america-is-changing-the-way-we-vote/>
on
Forbes’ Data Freaks, reporting on a survey of Utah voters. A snippet:

We found that 21 percent of the Utah voting population prefers to vote by
mail and nearly 20 percent prefer to vote by Internet. Of voters under age
50, one-in-four would prefer to vote by Internet. Interestingly, voters
over 65 were most likely to prefer mail-in ballots. These voter attitudes,
coupled with no assurance of federal funds to update voting equipment, make
in-person voting seem like an endangered species and a shift to Internet
voting seem like an inevitable reality.

Worth reading, but I don’t share his prediction on Internet voting — at
least not any time soon — given the formidable security concerns
<http://www.technologyreview.com/news/506741/why-you-cant-vote-online/>.
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Posted in absentee ballots <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=53>, internet
voting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=49>
“The Ruth Bader Ginsburg Taboo” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68855>
Posted on December 6, 2014 5:09 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68855> by *Dan
Tokaji* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=5>

Politico
<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/ruth-bader-ginsburg-113357.html?hp=t4_r>
on Justice Ginsburg’s recent health issues and the possibility no one wants
to discuss.
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Posted in Supreme Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
“The 2014 Elections That Ended in a Tie”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68852>
Posted on December 6, 2014 5:02 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68852> by *Dan
Tokaji* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=5>

538 reports
<http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/the-2014-elections-that-ended-in-a-tie/>
on elections resolved by coin flips, lot-drawing, and other games of
chance. See Mike Pitts
<http://mckinneylaw.iu.edu/instructors/pitts/connecticut_final.pdf>.
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Posted in recounts <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=50>
“Thousands of Americans use same-day registration this year”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68849>
Posted on December 5, 2014 12:06 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68849> by
*Dan Tokaji* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=5>

Electionline Weekly has this story
<http://www.electionline.org/index.php/electionline-weekly>.
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Posted in voter registration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=37>
“Libertarians Displace Democrats on Alaska Campaign Finance Commission”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68847>
Posted on December 5, 2014 11:58 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68847> by
*Dan Tokaji* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=5>

Ballot Access News has this post
<http://www.ballot-access.org/2014/12/libertarians-displace-democrats-on-alaska-campaign-finance-commission/>
on a consequence of Democrats having no gubernatorial nominee on the
ballot.
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Posted in third parties <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=47>
Voting Stories from Kansas and Ohio <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68843>
Posted on December 5, 2014 11:50 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68843> by
*Dan Tokaji* <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=5>

The Brennan Center has short pieces on how Kansas’ ID and citizenship rules
<http://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/voting-2014-stories-kansas> and Ohio’s
registration and early voting cuts
<http://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/voting-2014-stories-ohio> affected
individual voters, part of its series Voting 2014: Stories from the States
<http://www.brennancenter.org/state-voting-2014-states>.
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Posted in absentee ballots <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=53>, voter id
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>, voter registration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=37>

-- 
Daniel Tokaji
Charles W. Ebersold & Florence Whitcomb Ebersold Professor of
Constitutional Law
The Ohio State University | Moritz College of Law
614.292.6566 | @Title52law <https://twitter.com/Title52law>
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