[EL] ELB News and Commentary 2/8/14

[Rick Hasen]

    "Republican Party Wing Creates 18 Fake Websites for Democrats"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58612>

Posted on February 7, 2014 6:46 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58612>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

LAT reports 
<http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-republican-fake-websites-democrats-20140207,0,7370553.story#axzz2sh8crLij>.

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Posted in campaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>, chicanery 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>


    When Worlds Collide: Election Administration Edition
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58610>

Posted on February 7, 2014 3:54 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58610>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

As previously noted <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58592>, the Senate 
Committee on Rules and Administration is going to hear from Mr. Bauer 
and Mr. Ginsberg 
<http://www.rules.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=CommitteeHearings&ContentRecord_id=a34f1454-239d-4e55-8a87-6945e8841b37>on 
Feb. 12 at 10 am about the recommendations of the Presidential 
Commission on Election Administration.

But now on Feb. 12 at 10:30 am 
<http://www.rules.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=CommitteeHearings&ContentRecord_id=cebb0cf6-c060-43b3-a600-ea6eaa00693c&ContentType_id=14f995b9-dfa5-407a-9d35-56cc7152a7ed&Group_id=1983a2a8-4fc3-4062-a50e-7997351c154b&MonthDisplay=2&YearDisplay=2014> 
the Rules Committee is going to move forward on the nominations of Tom 
Hicks and Myrna Perez for the EAC.

As I've noted <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58109>, the Bauer-Ginsberg 
report is written as though the EAC is toast, and many Republicans who 
follow this issue on the Hill are adamantly opposed to a revived EAC. 
There are no Republican commissioners being nominated, and it takes 3 
commissioners to take any action at the EAC.

So what's up with moving the Hicks and Perez nomination forward?  They 
can now get through (if the majority leader is willing to burn enough 
hours) with the filibuster rule for these nominations gone.  Is that the 
end game?

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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, 
Election Assistance Commission <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=34>, 
PCEA (Bauer-Ginsberg Commission) <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=79>, 
The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>


    RNLA Praises One Aspect of Bauer-Ginsberg Report, While Bashing "the
    Radical Left and Many in the Democrat Party"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58608>

Posted on February 7, 2014 3:42 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58608>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here, on voter list maintenance 
<http://thereplawyer.blogspot.com/2014/02/obomination-presidential-report-proves.html>.

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NVRA (motor voter) <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=33>, The Voting Wars 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>, Voting Rights Act 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>


    "High Court at a Crossroads: 'Nonpartisans' are trying to reverse
    Citizens United one investigation at a time"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58605>

Posted on February 7, 2014 3:37 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58605>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Steve Hoersting writes 
<http://www.nationalreview.com/article/370454/high-court-crossroads-stephen-m-hoersting>for 
NRO.

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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, tax law 
and election law <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22>


    NPR Story Suggests Macon Ga. Move of Election Day to Summer Not
    Challenged Because of Cost <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58602>

Posted on February 7, 2014 4:58 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58602>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

I'm skeptical 
<http://www.npr.org/2014/02/06/272359791/voting-rights-act-update> it is 
(just) cost.  The tougher standard of winning a Voting Rights Act 
lawsuit under section 2 has a lot to do with it.

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Posted in Voting Rights Act <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>

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