[EL] ELB News and Commentary 12/22/14

Mon Dec 22 08:32:48 PST 2014

    “Shirley Abrahamson could be forced out of Supreme Court chief
    justice role” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69329>

Posted onDecember 22, 2014 8:30 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69329>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Wow 
<http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/shirley-abrahamson-could-be-forced-out-of-supreme-court-chief-justice-role-b99411632z1-286523971.html>: 
“The legislative session that convenes in January could be the beginning 
of the end for state Supreme Court Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson.”

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    “Commissioner Goodman passes baton after stellar chairmanship”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69327>

Posted onDecember 22, 2014 8:22 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69327>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Paul Jossey blogs 
<http://thereplawyer.blogspot.com/2014/12/commissioner-goodman-passes-baton-after.html>at 
RNLA.

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Election Administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=4>

    Pro-Ben Carson Super PAC Has Raised More Money than “Ready for
    Hillary” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69325>

Posted onDecember 22, 2014 8:21 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69325>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Fascinating 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/22/us/politics/gop-hopes-for-unity-may-be-upset-by-ben-carson.html?ref=politics&_r=0>Trip 
Gabriel piece.

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    “Here’s Where Campaign Finance Reform May Move Ahead As Congress
    Dithers” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69323>

Posted onDecember 22, 2014 8:16 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69323>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Paul Blumenthal writes 
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/20/campaign-finance-reform-states_n_6357182.html>for 
HuffPo.

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    “Independence of independent expenditure groups called into
    question” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69321>

Posted onDecember 22, 2014 8:09 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69321>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Richmond Confidential: 
<https://richmondconfidential.org/2014/12/20/independence-of-independent-expenditure-groups-called-into-question/>

    Richmond’s 2014 election was defined by Chevron Corp.’s failed
    effort to get their favored candidates elected despite spending more
    than $3 million through an array of independent expenditure committees.

    But instances observed during the campaign raise questions about how
    independent their committees and the candidates they supported
    really were. The murky situation could spell trouble for elections
    across the country as underfunded watchdog agencies and hazy
    campaign finance rules may be ill-equipped to deter coordination
    between committees and candidates.

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    “Advocacy Groups Tell Lawmakers To Back Off”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69319>

Posted onDecember 22, 2014 8:07 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69319>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Peter Overby 
<http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2014/12/19/371882614/advocacy-groups-tell-lawmakers-to-back-off>:

    Three advocacy organizations — across ideological lines — are
    telling congressional investigators to back off in a probe of EPA
    ties to a leading environmental group, the Natural Resources Defense
    Council.

    Republican Rep. Darrell Issa of California and Sen. David Vitter of
    Louisiana are leading the investigation. They contend that NRDC
    lobbyists have exerted too much influence over EPA on the issues of
    carbon reduction and the proposed Pebble Mine at Bristol Bay, Alaska.

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    “NC Supreme Court upholds GOP-drawn legislative, congressional
    districts” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69317>

Posted onDecember 21, 2014 3:20 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69317>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

News and Observer 
<http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/12/19/4415831_nc-supreme-court-upholds-gop-drawn.html?rh=1>:

    Twelve months after hearing arguments in the case, the N.C. Supreme
    Court issued a ruling Friday upholding the Republican-led redrawing
    of state congressional and legislative districts in 2011.

    But the NAACP and other organizations that challenged the maps
    quickly announced plans to continue their legal battle against
    districts they contend are blatant racial gerrymandering intended to
    weaken the African-American vote.

You can read the court’s 4-2 opinionat this link 
<http://appellate.nccourts.org/opinions/?c=1&pdf=32487> (viaRichard 
Winger 
<http://www.ballot-access.org/2014/12/north-carolina-supreme-court-upholds-2011-congressional-and-legislative-redistricting/>). 
The newspaper article indicates that plaintiffs may take their racial 
gerrymandering claim to the U.S. Supreme Court. If they do, it would be 
unsurprising for the Court to take the case and hold it (and then likely 
remand) pending resolution of theAlabama redistricting case 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/alabama-democratic-conference-v-alabama/?wpmp_switcher=desktop>currently 
before the Supreme Court, raising similar issues.

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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>,Voting Rights Act 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>

    “Supreme Court Eyes Review of Case Challenging FEC Corporate PAC
    Rules” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69315>

Posted onDecember 21, 2014 3:03 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69315>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bloomberg BNA 
<http://news.bna.com/mpdm/MPDMWB/split_display.adp?fedfid=60530185&vname=mpebulallissues&jd=a0g0m8d4a1&split=0>:

    The Supreme Court is set to consider at the justices’ private
    conference Jan. 9 whether to review a long-running constitutional
    challenge to campaign finance restrictions on corporate political
    action committees, which was brought by the PAC of a conservative
    nonprofit corporation called previous Stop This Insanity Inc., or
    STI (STI Employee Leadership Fund v. Federal Election Commission,
    U.S.,distributed12/17/14).

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    AZ Commission Goes to Ninth Circuit In Political Committee Case
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69311>

Posted onDecember 21, 2014 2:58 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69311>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Statemen 
<http://www.azcleanelections.gov/docs/default-source/announcements/statement-on-galassini-v-fountain-hills.pdf?sfvrsn=0>t 
from AZ Clean Elections Commission:

    On December 5, 2014, Judge James Teilborg released his most recent
    order in the case Galassini v. Fountain Hills. The scope of that
    order and its effect remain subject to further litigation. The State
    has filed a request for a stay pending appeal. It is clear that it
    has no effect on provisions of the Clean Elections Act and Rules
    that apply to
    candidates and other persons who participate financially in state
    and legislative candidate elections.

    Although the conclusion of the 2014 elections means that state and
    legislative candidate and others participating financially in state
    and legislative races may not have imminent filing deadlines, we
    strongly recommend that candidates and other persons who
    participate financially in state and legislative candidate elections
    continue to make filings as required by law, subject to enforcement
    under the Clean Elections Act and Rules. As always please contact
    the Clean Elections staff if you have any questions.

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    True the Vote Calls EAC Nominee Matthew Butler a “Book Burner”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69308>

Posted onDecember 21, 2014 2:53 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69308>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Screen Shot 2014-12-21 at 2.52.16 PM 
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    Recording of Election Law Symposium at University of Chicago Legal
    Forum Now Available <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69306>

Posted onDecember 21, 2014 2:34 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69306>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here <https://legal-forum.uchicago.edu/page/symposium>:

Listen to recordings of the four panels:

  * Panel One: Governance, Polarization, and the Role of Election Law.
    Featuring Josh Chafetz, Ellen Katz, Nolan McCarty, David Schleicher,
    and Zephyr Teachout.
    <https://webshare.uchicago.edu/users/ericajaffe/Public/Legal%20Forum%20Symposium-Session%201.mp3>
  * Panel Two: Voters and Redistricting. Featuring Edward Foley, Michael
    Morley, Nate Persily, James Sample, and Nicholas Stephanopoulos.
    <https://webshare.uchicago.edu/users/ericajaffe/Public/Legal%20Forum%20Symposium-Session%202.mp3>
  * Panel Three: Campaign Finance. Featuring Richard Briffault and David
    Strauss.
    <https://webshare.uchicago.edu/users/ericajaffe/Public/Legal%20Forum%20Symposium-Session%203.mp3>
  * Panel Four: Rules and Regulations. Featuring Luis Fuentes-Rohwer,
    Guy-Uriel Charles, Richard Hasen, and Michael Pitts.
    <https://webshare.uchicago.edu/users/ericajaffe/Public/Legal%20Forum%20Symposium-Session%204.mp3>

Watch Professor Cass Sunstein’s Keynote Address, “Partyism”:

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    Bauer and Ginsberg Send Letter to New EAC Commissioners Re: PCEA
    Recommendations on Voting Tech <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69304>

Posted onDecember 21, 2014 2:24 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69304>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

See the letters. 
<http://electionlawblog.org/%20http://bipartisanpolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/PCEA-BPC-Voting-Technology.pdf>

More 
<http://bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/bpc-recommendations-for-quick-action-on-voting-technology/>from 
Matt Weil of Bipartisan Policy Center.

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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,PCEA (Bauer-Ginsberg Commission) 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=79>,voting technology 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=40>

    “Wisconsin’s partisans want to kill their own watchdog — the
    Government Accountability Board” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69302>

Posted onDecember 21, 2014 2:20 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69302>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Andrea Kaminski oped 
<http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/wisconsins-partisans-want-to-kill-their-own-watchdog--the-government-accountability-board-b99410744z-286369141.html>in 
/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. /

(h/tJames Rowen 
<http://thepoliticalenvironment.blogspot.com/2014/12/strong-call-to-support-gab.html>)

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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>

    “In a Break From Partisan Rancor, Ohio Moves to Make Elections More
    Competitive” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69300>

Posted onDecember 21, 2014 2:18 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69300>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Trip Gabriel reports 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/us/politics/in-a-break-from-partisan-rancor-ohio-moves-to-make-elections-more-competitive.html?ref=politics&_r=0>for 
the NYT.

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    “GOP consultants have some fun and send out a doc-shredding
    Christmas card” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69298>

Posted onDecember 21, 2014 2:14 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69298>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Miami Herald 
<http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2014/12/gop-consultants-have-some-fun-and-send-out-a-doc-shredding-christmas-card-.html>: 
“Data Targeting, the Republican political consulting firm that went to 
legal war for the last year to keep its redistricting documents shielded 
from the public record, has had some fun this holiday season at its own 
expense.”

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    “Inside look: How pols inked surprise redistricting deal”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69296>

Posted onDecember 21, 2014 2:12 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69296>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The/Cincinnati Enquirer /reports. 
<http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2014/12/20/inside-story-ohio-surprising-redistricting-deal-came-together/20652947/>

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    “The writing is on the ballot and petition and envelope; Does
    penmanship — good or bad — affect elections?”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69294>

Posted onDecember 19, 2014 10:48 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69294>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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    “Farewell to the Colbert Report” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69292>

Posted onDecember 19, 2014 10:46 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69292>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

CLC blog. 
<http://clcblog.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=588:farewell-to-the-colbert-report>

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    “Can Incarcerated Felons Be (Re)integrated into the Political
    System? Results from a Field Experiment”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69290>

Posted onDecember 19, 2014 10:45 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69290>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Alan S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, Marc Meredith, Daniel R. Biggers and 
David J. Hendry have writtenthis article 
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajps.12166/abstract>for 
AJPS.  Here is the abstract:

    Funding for this research was provided by Yale University and the
    Institution for Social and Policy Studies. We thank Vesla Weaver;
    Seth Hill; Matt Levendusky; seminar participants at UCLA, UCSD, the
    University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy Studies, and
    Yale University; the anonymous reviewers; and the editor for their
    helpful comments and feedback. We also thank the Connecticut
    Secretary of State’s office for their cooperation. An earlier
    version of this article was presented at the 2012 American Political
    Science Association meeting and circulated with the title “Felony
    Status, Patterns of Participation, and the Possibility of Political
    Reintegration: Results from a Field Experiment.” Data and supporting
    materials are available athttp://huber.research.yale.edu
    <http://huber.research.yale.edu/>and the AJPS Data Archive on
    Dataverse (http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/ajps). All errors are
    our own.

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    “Danielle Allen named to Harvard posts; Will direct Edmond J. Safra
    Center for Ethics, join FAS in government”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69288>

Posted onDecember 19, 2014 10:41 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69288>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Coming on board 
<http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/12/danielle-allen-named-to-harvard-posts/> when 
Larry Lessig’s term ends.

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