[EL] ELB News and Commentary 2/18/14
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Tue Feb 18 07:49:22 PST 2014
"The Case of the Missing Democratic Voters"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58835>
Posted on February 18, 2014 7:45 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58835>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Ross Ramsey writes
<http://www.texastribune.org/2014/02/14/case-missing-democratic-voters/>for
the /Texas Tribune./
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Posted in campaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>, political
parties <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>
"The Conservative Case to Limit Voting"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58833>
Posted on February 18, 2014 7:38 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58833>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Zachary Roth
<http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/the-conservative-case-limit-voting> writes
for MSNBC.
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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,
The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
"Los Angeles' Dean Logan on Changing Elections: 'The Line Starts
Here'" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58831>
Posted on February 18, 2014 7:35 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58831>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
A ChapinBlog
<http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/electionacademy/2014/02/los_angeles_dean_logan_on_chan.php>.
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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>
"A wave of Capitol Hill retirements may force some lobbyists to
rebrand themselves" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58829>
Posted on February 18, 2014 7:28 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58829>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WaPo reports.
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-wave-of-capitol-hill-retirements-may-force-some-lobbyists-to-rebrand-themselves/2014/02/17/d886d2ba-9363-11e3-83b9-1f024193bb84_story.html>
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Posted in legislation and legislatures
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=27>, lobbying
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=28>
Mega-Donors on Left and Right <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58827>
Posted on February 18, 2014 7:26 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58827>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT ("Financier Plans Big Ad Campaign on Climate Change")
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/18/us/politics/financier-plans-big-ad-campaign-on-environment.html?hp&_r=0>:
"A billionaire retired investor is forging plans to spend as much as
$100 million during the 2014 election, seeking to pressure federal and
state officials to enact climate change measures through a hard-edge
campaign of attack ads against governors and lawmakers."
Politico ("Exclusive: Mega-Donors Plan GOP War Council")
<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/paul-singer-republican-gop-fundraising-campaigns-donors-103600.html?hp=f1>:
"A group of major GOP donors, led by New York billionaire Paul Singer,
is quietly expanding its political footprint ahead of the midterm
elections in an increasingly assertive effort to shape the direction of
the Republican Party."
More evidence that left and right will rely upon mega-donors who will
drive policy in their desired directions (and often for reasons of
self-interest).
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
"January: When Companies Donate To Both Political Parties"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58825>
Posted on February 18, 2014 7:22 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58825>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bloomberg reports.
<http://go.bloomberg.com/political-capital/2014-02-14/january-when-companies-donate-to-both-political-parties/?alcmpid=politics>
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Two on Campaign Finance from Michael Kang
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58823>
Posted on February 18, 2014 7:20 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58823>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Michael Kang has posted two drafts on SSRN:
Party-Based Corruption and McCutcheon v. FEC
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2394863> (forthcoming,
/Nw. U. L. Rev. Colloquy)/. Abstract:
This Essay presents a group-level theory of quid pro quo corruption
and re-thinks under those terms the aggregate contribution limit
challenged in McCutcheon v. FEC. Traditionally, quid pro quo
corruption is understood as arising between a contributor and an
individual candidate, but this understanding of quid pro quo
corruption as limited to individual candidates, each isolated from
one another, makes little sense given the pervasiveness of political
parties in national politics and campaign finance. The aggregate
limit plausibly addresses the risk of quid pro quo corruption, not
only between the traditional dyad of contributor and individual
candidate, but between contributor and his or her political party.
Understanding the aggregate limit through this theory as a
structural check on party-based, group-level corruption better
captures the corruption worry about a contributor donating almost $4
million per federal election cycle than the anti-circumvention
claims that pervaded the McCutcheon case. Although the group-level
corruption contemplated here is less the corruption of a party than
a concern about party-based corruption, the larger point is that
national politics is mediated pervasively by partisan linkages ---
interconnecting individual candidates and officeholders --- and
these linkages belie an assumption that corruption is conceivable
only at the level of the individual candidate.
The Year of the Super PAC
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2389147>(/George
Washington L. Rev./). Abstract:
2012 was the year of the Super PAC. In the first presidential
election cycle since their development, Super PACs raised almost one
billion dollars and enabled the very wealthy to channel money into
campaigning like never before during the post-Watergate era.
However, still so early in the Super PAC's evolution, 2012 offered
only a taste of what comes next. Super PACs of the future will not
serve merely as voice amplifiers for candidates and parties, as they
typically seemed in 2012. Super PACs, and related 501(c) entities,
enable very wealthy individuals to avoid the usual coordination
costs of mass politics and bypass the major parties, a capacity that
they will learn to exploit for their independent ends.
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
"Labor unions benefit more from Citizens United than big
conservative donors" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58821>
Posted on February 17, 2014 5:20 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58821>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
This item
<http://watchdog.org/129000/citizens-united-koch-brothers-elections/>appears
at Watchdog.org.
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DOJ Web Page on Section 5 Does Not Acknowledge Shelby County and End
of Preclearance Regime <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58818>
Posted on February 17, 2014 4:26 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58818>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
At some point About Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act
<http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/vot/sec_5/about.php> should probably
be updated. After all, /Shelby County/ was in June 2013.
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"Iowa's voter fraud probe becomes a numbers game"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58816>
Posted on February 17, 2014 4:03 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58816>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Sioux City Journal reports
<http://siouxcityjournal.com/mobile/article_11372393-81f3-52bd-b250-b2f226915492.html>.
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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,
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"Law professor says 'dual elections' a real possibility this year"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58814>
Posted on February 17, 2014 3:49 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58814>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The latest
<http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2014/feb/17/law-professor-says-dual-elections-real-possibility/?kansas_legislature>
from Kansas.
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"Ohio Secretary of State says there's little evidence of voter fraud
here" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58812>
Posted on February 17, 2014 3:48 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58812>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WKSU reports <http://www.wksu.org/news/story/38295>.
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The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
"Does Michael Mukasey read the Yale Law Journal?"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58810>
Posted on February 17, 2014 2:05 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58810>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Oops
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/02/17/does-michael-mukasey-read-the-yale-law-journal/>.
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"Republican campaign group tweaks websites, makes them less
misleading" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58808>
Posted on February 17, 2014 11:13 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58808>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
CNN
<http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/02/16/republican-campaign-group-tweaks-websites-makes-them-less-misleading/>:
The National Republican group whose mission is to elect GOP House
members has altered some of its misleading websites for 2014
congressional candidates, making it more clear that any
contributions made through the sites will be going toward defeating
Democrats, not supporting them.
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