[EL] ELB News and Commentary 12/19/14

Rick Hasen rhasen at law.uci.edu
Fri Dec 19 07:19:35 PST 2014 

    "Felons to Get Faster Voting Process"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69286>

Posted onDecember 19, 2014 7:17 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69286>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

News 
<http://www.richmond.com/article_e473abe1-af4d-5788-8bee-45b1b85e25d3.html>from 
VA: "Gov. Terry McAuliffe plans to announce today that he will shrink 
the time violent felons must wait to seek reinstatement of their voting 
rights and will remove some offenses from that list."

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    "FCC Launches Political File Rulemaking for Cable, Satellite and
    Radio in Response to Reform Groups' Petition"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69284>

Posted onDecember 19, 2014 7:15 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69284>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

See here 
<http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2736:december-18-2014-fcc-launches-political-file-rulemaking-for-cable-satellite-and-radio-in-response-to-reform-groups-petition&catid=63:legal-center-press-releases&Itemid=61>.

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    "India's Participatory Model" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69282>

Posted onDecember 19, 2014 7:14 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69282>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Manoj Mate's paper, "India's Participatory Model," was selected from a 
Call for Papers for the AALS Sections on Comparative Law and African Law 
panel entitledComparative Law Expanded: Methodology and Public Law in 
Nontraditional Comparative Legal Systems, on Saturday January 3 at 10:30 
am.
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The article analyzes recent electoral reform decisions in the Supreme 
Court of India and the Central Information Commission recognizing and 
expanding voters' right to information in elections, including the right 
to "none of the above" voting, and transparency in party finance.  The 
article argues that this jurisprudence presents an alternate conception 
of the "participatory model" based on a positive rights framework of 
speech in which citizens actively participate in public discourse and 
the formation of public opinion that affects policy-making, and in which 
the state provides for a broad array of mechanisms to facilitate 
participation in national, state, and local policy-making and governance.

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    "Pledge to Deter Outside Spending in Elections Made Strides in 2014?
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69280>

Posted onDecember 19, 2014 7:13 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69280>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Public Citizenpress release 
<http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/pressroomredirect.cfm?ID=4361>:"The 
number of candidates proposing pledges to deter major election spending 
by outside groups increased dramatically in the 2014 elections, a new 
Public Citizenreport shows <http://www.citizen.org/Peoples-Pledge-Report>."

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    "Obama Gives Voter ID Laws a Boost"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69278>

Posted onDecember 19, 2014 7:11 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69278>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Francis Barry 
<http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-12-18/barack-obamas-immigration-policy-may-hurt-voting-rights>for 
Bloomberg View: "President Barack Obama's decision to grant temporary 
legal status to five million immigrants could end up haunting Democrats' 
voter registration efforts, by fueling the Republican push for voter 
registration laws requiring proof of citizenship."

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Posted inelection administration 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voter id 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>


    "Lawyers Create Big Paydays by Coaxing Attorneys General to Sue"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69276>

Posted onDecember 19, 2014 7:08 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69276>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The latest 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/19/us/politics/lawyers-create-big-paydays-by-coaxing-attorneys-general-to-sue-.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0>from 
Eric Lipton/NYT on state AGs:

    Much as big industries have foundnatural allies in Republican
    attorneys general to combat federal regulations
    <http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/us/politics/energy-firms-in-secretive-alliance-with-attorneys-general.html>,
    plaintiffs' lawyers working on a contingency-fee basis have teamed
    up mostly with Democratic state attorneys general to file hundreds
    of lawsuits against businesses that make anything from
    pharmaceuticals to snack foods.

    The lawsuits follow a pattern: Private lawyers, who scour the news
    media and public records looking for potential cases in which a
    state or its consumers have been harmed, approach attorneys general.
    The attorneys general hire the private firms to do the necessary
    work, with the understanding that the firms will front most of the
    cost of the investigation and the litigation. The firms take a fee,
    typically 20 percent, and the state takes the rest of any money won
    from the defendants.

    While prospecting for contracts, the private lawyers have also
    donated tens of thousands of dollars to campaigns of individual
    attorneys general, as well as party-backed organizations that they
    run. The donations often come in large chunks just before or after
    the firms sign contracts to represent the state, campaign finance
    records and more than 240 contracts examined by The Times show.

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    "Lengthy vacancy ends for election commissioners"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69273>

Posted onDecember 18, 2014 10:04 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69273>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

USA Today reports. 
<http://onpolitics.usatoday.com/2014/12/17/elections-assistance-commission-senate/>

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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,Election Assistance Commission 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=34>


    "Conflicted Supreme Court Takes Up Walker Criminal Probe"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69271>

Posted onDecember 18, 2014 9:54 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69271>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Brendan Fischer blogs 
<http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/12/12693/conflicted-supreme-court-takes-walker-criminal-probe>.

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    More on Efforts to Open Up the Presidential Debates to Minor Party
    and Independent Candidates <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69269>

Posted onDecember 18, 2014 9:52 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69269>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here. 
<http://www.shapiroarato.com/shapiro-arato-isserles-petitions-open-presidential-debates-independent-candidate/>

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    "Lawsuit claims racial discrimination in Ferguson voting"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69267>

Posted onDecember 18, 2014 9:48 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69267>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

MSNBC 
<http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lawsuit-claims-racial-discrimination-ferguson-voting>:

    School board elections in Ferguson, Missouri use a racially
    discriminatory system that is helping to keep blacks "all but locked
    out of the political process," a newfederal lawsuit
    <https://www.aclu.org/racial-justice-voting-rights/missouri-naacp-v-ferguson-florissant-school-district-complaint>alleges.

    The suit, filed Thursday morning by the American Civil Liberties
    Union in a federal district court in St. Louis, is the first effort
    to use the legal system to change the area's political balance of
    power since unrest over the death of Michael Brown last summer
    focused attention on local blacks' severe under-representation in
    government.

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    "14 Things We Learned About Money in Politics in 2014?
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69265>

Posted onDecember 18, 2014 7:17 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69265>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy blogs 
<http://www.brennancenter.org/blog/14-things-we-learned-about-money-politics-2014>.

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    "National Party 2.0: FECA Amendments in Omnibus Spending Bill
    Increase Fundraising Power of National Parties"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69263>

Posted onDecember 18, 2014 7:01 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69263>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Useful Covington explainer 
<http://www.insidepoliticallaw.com/2014/12/10/national-party-2-0-feca-amendments-in-omnibus-spending-bill-increase-fundraising-power-of-national-parties/>and 
chart.

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    "The Privacy-Disclosure Balance and Its Complications"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69261>

Posted onDecember 18, 2014 6:58 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69261>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bauer blogs. 
<http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/2014/12/privacy-disclosure-balance-complications/>

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    "Habemus EAC!" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69259>

Posted onDecember 18, 2014 6:57 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69259>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Doug Chapin'sirrational exuberance 
<http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/electionacademy/2014/12/habemus_eac.php>.

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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,Election Assistance Commission 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=34>

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