[EL] ELB News and Commentary 1/29/14

Tue Jan 28 07:56:50 PST 2014

    "Is Online Registration Reaching a Tipping Point?"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58388>

Posted on January 28, 2014 7:53 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58388>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

A ChapinBlog. 
<http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/electionacademy/2014/01/is_online_registration_reachin.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HHHElections+%28The+Election+Aacdemy%29>

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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, 
voter registration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=37>, voting 
technology <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=40>

    "Secret Court Ruling Could Undermine Wisconsin Campaign Finance Law"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58386>

Posted on January 28, 2014 7:51 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58386>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Brendan Fischer blogs 
<http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/01/12371/undermine-wisconsin-elections>.

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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>

    "Husted: Come up with compromise on election location"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58384>

Posted on January 28, 2014 7:50 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58384>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The latest 
<http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/201401220522/NEWS010602/301220167> 
from Cincy.

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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>

    "Democrat wins Virginia Senate recount, giving Gov. Terry
    McAuliffe's agenda a crucial boost"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58382>

Posted on January 27, 2014 7:43 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58382>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/monday-recount-will-decide-control-of-the-va-senate--and-fate-of-mcauliffe-agenda/2014/01/27/e93a2846-8756-11e3-833c-33098f9e5267_story.html>: 
"Democrats prepared to seize control of the Virginia Senate on Monday 
after winning a recount by just 11 votes in a razor-thin special 
election, giving Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe's first-year agenda a 
crucial boost."

That's a pretty thin razor.

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Posted in recounts <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=50>

    PA Still Not Decided on Appeal of Voter ID Ruling
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58380>

Posted on January 27, 2014 7:30 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58380>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

But the state 
<http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/20140128_Corbett_wants_judge_to_reconsider_voter_ID_ruling.html> 
files motion for reconsideration in the trial court.

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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, 
The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>, voter id 
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    Report on Justice Sotomayor's Talk @UCILaw with Dean Erwin
    Chemerinsky <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58376>

Posted on January 27, 2014 2:00 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58376>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

I live-tweeted the talk today, and I've reposted the relevant tweets 
below the fold.

Continue reading ? <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58376#more-58376>

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Posted in Supreme Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>

    Onward! <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58374>

Posted on January 27, 2014 1:53 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58374>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bert Brandenberg <http://www.gavelgrab.org/?p=68227> on the passing of 
the inimitable Roy Schotland.

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Posted in election law biz <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=51>

    "Why New Jersey won't recall Chris Christie"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58372>

Posted on January 27, 2014 1:50 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58372>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Josh Spivak writes 
<http://theweek.com/article/index/255579/why-new-jersey-wont-recall-chris-christie?utm_source=links&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=twitter> 
for /The Week. /More here 
<http://recallelections.blogspot.com/2014/01/op-ed-in-jersey-anythings-legal-as-long.html>.

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Posted in recall elections <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=11>

    "The Voting Rights Act in Winter: The Death of a Superstatute"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58370>

Posted on January 27, 2014 1:49 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58370>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Guy Charles and Luis Fuentes-Rohwer have posted this draft 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2377470>on SSRN.  
Here is the abstract:

    The Voting Rights Act, the most successful civil rights statute in
    American history, is dying. In the recent Shelby County decision,
    the U.S. Supreme Court signaled that the anti-discrimination model,
    long understood as the basis for the VRA as originally enacted, is
    no longer the best way to understand the voting rights questions of
    today. Voting rights law and policy are at a critical moment of
    transition. It is likely the case that the superstatute we once knew
    as the VRA is no more and never to return. If so, we need to figure
    out what, if anything, can, will, or should replace it. But before
    figuring out where to go from here, we need to first understand how
    we arrived at the moment of the VRA's disintegration so as not to
    repeat the mistakes of the not too distant past. In this article we
    argue that the VRA is dying because the consensus over the existence
    and persistence of racial discrimination in voting has dissolved. We
    outline three paths for the future of voting rights policy:
    rebuilding a new consensus over the racial discrimination model;
    forging a new consensus over what we call an autonomy model; or
    reconceiving voting rights in universal terms.

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