[EL] ELB News and Commentary 12/18/14
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Wed Dec 17 22:06:30 PST 2014
"Grimes pledges legal challenge if Paul attempts simultaneous races"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69257>
Posted onDecember 17, 2014 9:58 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69257>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WHAS
<http://www.whas11.com/story/news/politics/2014/12/17/grimes-pledges-legal-challenge-if-paul-attempts-simultaneous-races/20560501/>:
"Six weeks after she lost her own bid for the U-S Senate, Secretary of
State Alison Lundergan Grimes (R-Kentucky) tells WHAS11 if U.S. Sen.
Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) tries to appear on the same ballot for both
Senate and President in 2016, she will challenge him in court."
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Posted inballot access <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=46>,campaigns
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>,election administration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>
"New Voting Machines Finally on the Horizon"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69255>
Posted onDecember 17, 2014 6:42 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69255>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
News from Maryland
<http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-voting-machines-20141216-story.html>.
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Posted inelection administration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,voting technology
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=40>
"CRomnibus Pays Off for Parties" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69253>
Posted onDecember 17, 2014 4:00 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69253>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Ray LaRaja:
<http://blogs.wgbh.org/masspoliticsprofs/2014/12/17/cromnibus-pays-parties/>
I certainly do not believe, like Fred Wertheimer, that this is the
most corrupting legislation ever passed. Personally, I would have
preferred raising the limits on parties to $100,000 or even $200,000
per year, with no proliferation of separate accounts. The new rules
seem inefficient and invite gamesmanship. The parties will surely
try to stretch the meaning of what counts as expenses for its
building fund. Finally, I cannot claim that the new rules decrease
the influence of big money. I can think of better ways to deal with
that, such as public financing. But the changes do not make the
system any worse and, as I note here, in some ways they might make
politics a good deal better.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=68>
"The Elizabeth Warren Right; Conservatives should want more, not
less, money in politics" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69251>
Posted onDecember 17, 2014 3:57 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69251>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
/WSJ /
<http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-elizabeth-warren-right-1418688638>editorial.
<http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-elizabeth-warren-right-1418688638>
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
"Why Participation at the Federal Election Commission Matters,
Despite the Agency's Dysfunction" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69249>
Posted onDecember 17, 2014 11:54 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69249>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Gerry Hebert blogs
<http://clcblog.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=587:why-participation-at-the-federal-election-commission-matters-despite-the-agencys-dysfunction>.
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Watch Video of Yesterday's 9th Cir. En Banc in Chula Vista
Initiative Proponents Anonymity Case
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69247>
Posted onDecember 17, 2014 11:50 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69247>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Here <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtT4xDPxiM4&feature=em-uploademail>.
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Posted indirect democracy <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=62>
"FEC Statement on Campaign Finance Provisions of the Consolidated
and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015 (H.R. 83)"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69245>
Posted onDecember 17, 2014 11:24 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69245>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Here.
<http://www.fec.gov/press/press2014/news_releases/H.R.83Statement.shtml>
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"It's Official: McSally Wins" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69243>
Posted onDecember 17, 2014 9:41 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69243>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
AZ recount over
<http://tucson.com/news/government-and-politics/mcsally-officially-wins-district-seat-in-congress/article_64c9738a-860d-11e4-a02c-df685713e482.html>.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,recounts
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=50>
"The Uniquely Awful Role of Sheldon Adelson in the Israeli Election"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69241>
Posted onDecember 17, 2014 9:11 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69241>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Must read
<http://prospect.org/article/uniquely-awful-role-sheldon-adelson-israeli-election>Gershom
Gorenberg:
When Adelson established/Israel Hayom/in 2007, he made an end-run
around those [campaign finance] rules. It's a full-sized paper,
aimed at matching other national dailies. But it's free. In Israel,
the small advertising market can't produce enough revenue to allow a
profit-seeking publisher to forfeit income from readers. ButAdelson
has shown he's very willing dip into his own pockets to promote his
agenda.
Since the newspaper is privately owned, it need not make its balance
sheet public. In a 2011 deposition in a suit against Adelson in
Israeli court, a former business partner stated, "It is no secret
that the free paper/Israel Hayom/loses $3 million a month, and
cannot be profitable." That number may have been contestable then,
and may have changed since. But the principle that/Israel
Hayom/isn't built to make money appears true to this day.
In circulation terms, though,/Israel Hayom/has done very well. It is
now the most-read newspaper on weekdays, leaving the
once-dominant/Yediot Aharonot/to slide to second place. On
Fridays,/Yediot's/weekend edition is still ahead, but/Israel
Hayom/is closing the gap. Newspapers around the world are
struggling, and often failing, to stay afloat, with so many news
sources available for free on the Internet. Adelson has doubled the
jinx for Israeli newspapers: News is also handed out free on the street.
Owners of niche political publications have been known to accept
reasonable losses as the price for personal prestige and promoting
their perspectives. (Think/The New Republic---/until the current
crisis.) But/Israel Hayom/isn't a niche magazine. And it is not
simply a conservative paper. It's a Netanyahu paper, resented by the
prime minister's rivals on the right as much as it is by opponents
on the left.
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"Partyism" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69239>
Posted onDecember 17, 2014 8:55 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69239>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Cass Sunstein has postedthis provocative draft
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2536084>on SSRN
(forthcoming, /University of Chicago Legal Forum/). Here is the abstract:
"Partyism" is a form of hostility and prejudice that operates across
political lines. For example, some Republicans have an immediate
aversive reaction to Democrats, and some Democrats have the same
aversive reaction to Republicans, so much so that they would
discriminate against them in hiring or promotion decisions, or in
imposing punishment. If elected officials suffer from partyism --
perhaps because their constituents do -- they will devalue proposals
from the opposing party and refuse to enter into agreements with its
members, even if their independent assessment, freed from partyism,
would be favorably disposed toward those proposals or agreements. In
the United States, partyism has been rapidly growing, and it is
quite pronounced -- in some ways, more so than racism. It also has a
series of adverse effects on governance itself, above all by making
it difficult to enact desirable legislation and thus disrupting the
system of separation of powers. Under circumstances of severe
partyism, relatively broad delegations of authority to the executive
branch, and a suitably receptive approach to the Chevron principle,
have considerable appeal as ways of allowing significant social
problems to be addressed. This conclusion bears on both domestic
issues and foreign affairs.
I saw Cass present these data at the Chicago event. Fascinating, and
highly recommended!
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Posted inpolitical parties
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>,political polarization
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=68>
"New FEC chief on 'dark money' mission; Ann Ravel says she'll fight
to out people behind secretive political cash, regardless of party"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69237>
Posted onDecember 17, 2014 7:48 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69237>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
CPI reports
<http://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/12/17/16527/new-fec-chief-dark-money-mission>.
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