[EL] ELB News and Commentary 7/3/14

Rick Hasen rhasen at law.uci.edu
Wed Jul 2 22:24:36 PDT 2014


    "Court: Super PAC not independent enough"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62990>

Posted on July 2, 2014 10:15 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62990>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Byron Tau reports 
<http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2014/07/court-super-pac-not-independent-enough-191488.html?hp=l11> 
for Politico.

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    "How to use a super PAC to kill super PACs"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62988>

Posted on July 2, 2014 7:48 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62988>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Brian Fung writes 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/07/02/how-to-use-a-superpac-to-kill-superpacs/> 
for WaPo.

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    "Here's How We Can End Gerrymandering Once and for All"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62986>

Posted on July 2, 2014 7:34 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62986>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Nick Stephanopoulos 
<http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118534/gerrymandering-efficiency-gap-better-way-measure-gerrymandering> 
in TNR:

    If insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a
    different result, then litigants who challenge gerrymandering must
    be mad. Last month
    <http://www.courthousenews.com/2014/06/18/Rick%20Perry.pdf>, a
    federal court threw out the Texas Democratic Party's claim that the
    state's new congressional and state house districts are unlawful.
    This was the twelfth time in a row that this sort of claim has
    failed in the current cycle. Plaintiffs' record of futility now
    spans at least three dozen cases over four decades.

    It doesn't have to be this way. Litigants keep losing these lawsuits
    because they keep proposing standards the courts have already
    rejected (such as partisan intent). They're failing to capitalize on
    encouraging comments by the Supreme Court, which show that it's open
    to a test based on /partisan symmetry/---the idea that district
    plans should treat the parties equally. In a forthcoming law review
    article
    <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2457468>, Eric
    McGhee and I lay out just such a test. If plaintiffs were to use it
    in litigation, they'd have a fighting chance at winning. And if they
    /were/ to win, then the whole landscape of redistricting in America
    would be transformed.

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    "Assigning a Dollar Value to Being the Incumbent"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62984>

Posted on July 2, 2014 4:15 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62984>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The UpShot: 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/03/upshot/assigning-a-dollar-value-to-being-the-incumbent.html?_r=0>

    What is an incumbency worth? About half a million dollars, mostly
    from business political action committees who know cementing ties to
    established politicians is a top priority.

    That incumbent politicians have a financial advantage over their
    challengers is not news, but Alexander Fouirnaies, a doctoral
    candidate at the London School of Economics and Andrew B. Hall, a
    doctoral candidate at Harvard University, set out to define just how
    much of an advantage in a paper
    <https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11481940/Fouirnaies_Hall_fin_inc.pdf>
    being published this month in The Journal of Politics.

    Using elections for the House of Representatives from 1980 to 2006
    and for state legislatures from 1990 to 2010, the authors focused on
    races where either a Republican or a Democrat very narrowly won
    election. They then looked at the winner's fund-raising in the next
    election. On average, a candidate for national office would get a
    boost of $500,000 in contributions in the next election. (The
    $500,000 figure is in 2014 dollars
    <http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=275%2C000.00&year1=1990&year2=2014>;
    the paper uses constant 1990 dollars, which puts the advantage at
    $275,000).

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    "Emanuel super PAC gets nearly $1 million in one day"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62982>

Posted on July 2, 2014 4:13 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62982>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Chicago Tribune 
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/clout/chi-emanuel-super-pac-gets-nearly-1-million-in-one-day-20140702,0,977380.story>.

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    "Cochran presser: Most entertaining conference call ever"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62980>

Posted on July 2, 2014 4:02 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62980>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Break out the popcorn 
<http://www.clarionledger.com/story/dailyledes/2014/07/02/cochran-conference-call/12105085/>.

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    "Is Unlimited Spending On Political Speech A Protected Right?"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62978>

Posted on July 2, 2014 3:19 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62978>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NPR posts the audio <http://t.co/LcWQm2tg7q> of the debate on political 
spending with Floyd Abrams, Nadine Strossen, Burt Neuborne, and Zephyr 
Teachout.

    In these Oxford-style debates, the team that sways the most people
    by the end of the debate is declared the winner. One side took the
    position that political advocacy is exactly the kind of speech that
    the First Amendment is designed to protect, and that limiting
    spending means inhibiting expression. The other argued that spending
    is not the same as speech, and allowing unlimited spending gives
    some voices more power than others.

    Before the debate, the audience at the National Constitution Center
    in Philadelphia voted 33 percent in favor of the motion and 49
    percent against, with 18 percent undecided. After the debate, 33
    percent agreed with the motion, while 65 percent were against,
    making the team arguing against the motion the winner of this
    particular debate.

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    "Tea Party should divorce the Republicans: Why America needs more
    political parties" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62976>

Posted on July 2, 2014 3:08 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62976>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Michael Lind writes 
<http://www.salon.com/2014/07/02/tea_party_should_divorce_the_republicans_why_america_needs_more_political_parties/>.

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    Vermont Right to Life Will Seek #SCOTUS Review in 2d Circuit
    Campaign Finance Case <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62973>

Posted on July 2, 2014 2:18 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62973>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Following up on this post <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62960>, VRTL 
attorney Jim Bopp told the election law listserv (and reprinted with 
Jim's permission): "The 2nd Circuit has very restrictive rules on 
granting rehearing so they never do (to my knowledge).  They did not 
even grant rehearing in Randall v Sorrell.  So off to the Supreme Court 
with a big Circuit split on both the PAC and IEPAC issues.  Jim"

I give this a reasonable chance of a cert. grant, given the circuit 
split (though not on the disclosure issues, but on the 
coordination/enmeshment issue).

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    "WyLiberty Attorneys File for Preliminary Injunction in Wyoming Free
    Speech Case" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62971>

Posted on July 2, 2014 1:45 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62971>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Press release. 
<http://wyliberty.org/feature/wyliberty-attorneys-file-for-preliminary-injunction-in-wyoming-free-speech-case/#ff_s=fA9Ie>

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    In #MSSEN, True the Vote Appears to Have Weak Statutory Argument for
    Poll Book Review Request <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62967>

Posted on July 2, 2014 11:10 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62967>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

In True the Vote's complaint 
<http://www.scribd.com/doc/232166906/True-the-Vote-v-Mississippi-Complaint>, 
it asks for review of the poll books (looking apparently for voters who 
both voting in the Democratic primary a few weeks earlier and the 
Republican primary).  I agree that if the campaign (or True the Vote or 
someone else) could show that more than 6,700 people voted in both 
primaries, that could be grounds for a court to order a new election in 
the #MSSEN Cochran-McDaniel case.  (So far I have not seen public 
evidence of the alleged thousands of such voters already uncovered.)

But I don't see that True the Vote's argument is likely to succeed for 
examination of poll books under the NVRA (motor voter).  Here is the 
relevant provision:

    Section 8(i)(1) of the NVRA provides:
    Each State shall maintain for at least 2 years and shall make
    available for
    public inspection and, where available, photocopying at a reasonable
    cost, all
    records concerning the implementation of programs and activities
    conducted
    for the purpose of ensuring the accuracy and currency of official
    lists of
    eligible voters, except to the extent that such records relate to a
    declination to
    register to vote or to the identity of a voter registration agency
    through which any
    particular voter is registered.
    42 U.S.C. 1973gg-6(i)

Here's True the Vote's argument that poll books count under this statute:

    34. Poll books---the records at issue in this case---mirror the
    state's voter registration rolls. They are records "concerning the
    implementation of programs and activities conducted for the purpose
    of ensuring the accuracy and currency of official lists of eligible
    voters." 42 U.S.C. § 1973gg-6(i)(1); see Project Vote/Voting for
    Am., Inc., 682 F.3d at 335. Meanwhile, the process of reviewing
    completed voter materials, such as poll books, constitutes a
    "program" or "activity" evaluating voter records "for the purpose of
    ensuring the accuracy and currency of official lists
    of eligible voters." See Project Vote/Voting for Am., Inc. v. Long,
    682 F.3d 331, 335 (4th Cir. 2012). Accordingly, the records made the
    basis of this case are subject to the NVRA.

I don't see this as a strong argument. To begin with, textually, poll 
books are not records of voter /registration /or "programs and 
activities" for insuring the accuracy of registration; they are records 
of /voting/. Further, examination of the poll books under True the 
Vote's theory of double voting would not show if people were properly 
/registered/; it could show that people /voted/ improperly.

Finally, the sole case that True the Vote relies on here, ironically a 
/Project Vote/ case (it is ironic because Project Vote had a 
relationship with ACORN, a True the Vote Satan), does not contain any 
support for the idea that poll books are covered by this section of the 
NVRA. The /Project Vote/ case concerned that group's attempt to examine 
rejected voter registration applications.  Here is the specific 
discussion from the case that True the Vote cites in its complaint:

    Finally, as explained above, Section 8(i)(1) of the NVRA mandates
    public disclosure of voter registration activities. /Id./ §
    1973gg--6(i)(1)
    <https://a.next.westlaw.com/Link/Document/FullText?findType=L&pubNum=1000546&cite=42USCAS1973GG-6&originationContext=document&transitionType=DocumentItem&contextData=%28sc.UserEnteredCitation%29#co_pp_2d8d0000f3311>.
    It generally requires states to "make available for public
    inspection and, where available, photocopying at a reasonable cost,
    all records concerning the implementation of programs and activities
    conducted for the purpose of ensuring the accuracy and currency of
    official lists of eligible voters." /Id./ This language embodies
    Congress's conviction that Americans  *335 who are eligible under
    law to vote have every right to exercise their franchise, a right
    that must not be sacrificed to administrative chicanery, oversights,
    or inefficiencies. Under the district court's interpretation, this
    provision mandates disclosure of the records requested by Project Vote.

    III.
    A.
    1
    <https://a.next.westlaw.com/Document/I54af52e0b72311e1b60ab297d3d07bc5/View/FullText.html?transitionType=UniqueDocItem&contextData=%28sc.Default%29&userEnteredCitation=682+F.3d+at+335.#co_anchor_F12027908812>
    We begin by considering the Commonwealth's argument that the text of
    Section 8(i)(1) does not require public disclosure of completed
    voter registration applications. This issue of statutory
    interpretation is one that we review de novo. /United States v.
    Ide,/ 624 F.3d 666, 668 (4th Cir.2010)
    <https://a.next.westlaw.com/Link/Document/FullText?findType=Y&serNum=2023725624&pubNum=506&fi=co_pp_sp_506_668&originationContext=document&transitionType=DocumentItem&contextData=%28sc.UserEnteredCitation%29#co_pp_sp_506_668>.
    The starting point for any issue of statutory interpretation is of
    course the language of the statute itself. /United States v. Bly,/
    510 F.3d 453, 460 (4th Cir.2007)
    <https://a.next.westlaw.com/Link/Document/FullText?findType=Y&serNum=2014367771&pubNum=506&fi=co_pp_sp_506_460&originationContext=document&transitionType=DocumentItem&contextData=%28sc.UserEnteredCitation%29#co_pp_sp_506_460>.
    "[W]hen the words of a statute are unambiguous, ... this first canon
    is also the last [and] judicial inquiry is complete." /Willenbring
    v. United States,/ 559 F.3d 225, 235 (4th Cir.2009)
    <https://a.next.westlaw.com/Link/Document/FullText?findType=Y&serNum=2018292711&pubNum=506&fi=co_pp_sp_506_235&originationContext=document&transitionType=DocumentItem&contextData=%28sc.UserEnteredCitation%29#co_pp_sp_506_235>
    (internal quotation marks omitted).
    Appellants assert that "[t]he plain and ordinary meaning of [Section
    8(i)(1) ] does not encompass voter applications, much less the
    rejected applications initially sought." Appellants' Br. at 10.
    Instead, they claim, the " 'programs and activities' referred to in
    Section 8(i)(1) of the NVRA are programs and activities related to
    the purging of voters from the list of registered voters." /Id./ at 11.
    Contrary to appellants' insistence, the plain language of Section
    8(i)(1) does not allow us to treat its disclosure requirement as
    limited to voter removal records. As the district court concluded,
    completed voter registration applications are clearly "records
    concerning the implementation of programs and activities conducted
    for the purpose of ensuring the accuracy and currency of official
    lists of eligible voters." 42 U.S.C. § 1973gg--6(i)(1)
    <https://a.next.westlaw.com/Link/Document/FullText?findType=L&pubNum=1000546&cite=42USCAS1973GG-6&originationContext=document&transitionType=DocumentItem&contextData=%28sc.UserEnteredCitation%29#co_pp_2d8d0000f3311>.
    First, the process of reviewing voter registration applications is a
    "program" and "activity." Under Virginia law, election officials
    must examine completed voter registration applications and register
    applicants that possess the necessary qualifications. /See/ Va.Code
    § 24.2--417
    <https://a.next.westlaw.com/Link/Document/FullText?findType=L&pubNum=1000040&cite=VASTS24.2-417&originatingDoc=I54af52e0b72311e1b60ab297d3d07bc5&refType=LQ&originationContext=document&transitionType=DocumentItem&contextData=%28sc.UserEnteredCitation%29>.
    This process of review is a "program" because it is carried out in
    the service of a specified end---maintenance of voter rolls---and it
    is an "activity" because it is a particular task and deed of
    Virginia election employees.
    Moreover, the "program" and "activity" of evaluating voter
    registration applications is plainly "conducted for the purpose of
    ensuring the accuracy and currency of official lists of eligible
    voters." 42 U.S.C. § 1973gg--6(i)(1)
    <https://a.next.westlaw.com/Link/Document/FullText?findType=L&pubNum=1000546&cite=42USCAS1973GG-6&originationContext=document&transitionType=DocumentItem&contextData=%28sc.UserEnteredCitation%29#co_pp_2d8d0000f3311>.
    It is unclear what other purpose it would serve. As the district
    court reasoned, the process of reviewing voter registration
    applications keeps official voter lists both "accurate"---free from
    error---and "current"---most recent. /See //Project Vote,/ 752
    F.Supp.2d at 706.
    <https://a.next.westlaw.com/Link/Document/FullText?findType=Y&serNum=2023627861&pubNum=4637&fi=co_pp_sp_4637_706&originationContext=document&transitionType=DocumentItem&contextData=%28sc.UserEnteredCitation%29#co_pp_sp_4637_706>
    Indeed, voter lists are not "accurate" or "current" if eligible
    voters have been improperly denied registration or if ineligible
    persons have been added to the rolls. /Id./
    <https://a.next.westlaw.com/Link/Document/FullText?findType=Y&serNum=2023627861&originationContext=document&transitionType=DocumentItem&contextData=%28sc.UserEnteredCitation%29>
    By registering eligible applicants and rejecting ineligible
    applicants, state officials "ensure that the state is keeping a
    'most recent' and errorless account of which persons are qualified
    or entitled to vote within the state." /Id./
    <https://a.next.westlaw.com/Link/Document/FullText?findType=Y&serNum=2023627861&originationContext=document&transitionType=DocumentItem&contextData=%28sc.UserEnteredCitation%29>
    Accordingly, the process of assessing voter registration
    applications is a "program[ ] and activit[y] conducted for the
    purpose of ensuring the accuracy and currency of official lists of
    eligible voters." 42 U.S.C. § 1973gg--6(i)(1)
    <https://a.next.westlaw.com/Link/Document/FullText?findType=L&pubNum=1000546&cite=42USCAS1973GG-6&originationContext=document&transitionType=DocumentItem&contextData=%28sc.UserEnteredCitation%29#co_pp_2d8d0000f3311>.
    Furthermore, the registration applications requested by Project Vote
    are clearly "records concerning the implementation *336 of" this
    "program[ ] and activit[y]." /Id./
    <https://a.next.westlaw.com/Link/Document/FullText?findType=Y&serNum=2023627861&originationContext=document&transitionType=DocumentItem&contextData=%28sc.UserEnteredCitation%29>
    The requested applications are relevant to carrying out voter
    registration activities because they are "the means by which an
    individual provides the information necessary for the Commonwealth
    to determine his eligibility to vote." /Project Vote,/ 752 F.Supp.2d
    at 707.
    <https://a.next.westlaw.com/Link/Document/FullText?findType=Y&serNum=2023627861&pubNum=4637&fi=co_pp_sp_4637_707&originationContext=document&transitionType=DocumentItem&contextData=%28sc.UserEnteredCitation%29#co_pp_sp_4637_707>
    Without verification of an applicant's citizenship, age, and other
    necessary information provided by registration applications, state
    officials would be unable to determine whether that applicant meets
    the statutory requirements for inclusion in official voting lists.
    Thus, completed applications not only "concern[ ] the implementation
    of" the voter registration process, but are also integral to its
    execution.

    Finally, "the fact that [Section 8(i)(1) ] very clearly requires
    that '/all/ records' be disclosed brings voter registration
    applications within its reach." /Id./ at 707--08
    <https://a.next.westlaw.com/Link/Document/FullText?findType=Y&serNum=2023627861&originationContext=document&transitionType=DocumentItem&contextData=%28sc.UserEnteredCitation%29>
    (emphasis added). As this court has recognized, "the use of the word
    'all' [as a modifier] suggests an expansive meaning because 'all' is
    a term of great breadth." /Nat'l Coal. for Students with
    Disabilities Educ. & Legal Def. Fund v. Allen,/ 152 F.3d 283, 290
    (4th Cir.1998)
    <https://a.next.westlaw.com/Link/Document/FullText?findType=Y&serNum=1998156965&pubNum=506&fi=co_pp_sp_506_290&originationContext=document&transitionType=DocumentItem&contextData=%28sc.UserEnteredCitation%29#co_pp_sp_506_290>.
    Given that the phrase "all records concerning the implementation of
    programs and activities conducted for the purpose of ensuring the
    accuracy and currency of official lists of eligible voters"
    unmistakably encompasses completed voter registration applications,
    such applications fall within Section 8(i)(1)'s general disclosure
    mandate.

Perhaps True the Vote will have stronger arguments as they brief this 
case. But so far this appears weak to me.
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    "Blogger drawing anger, praise covering Miss. primary"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62965>

Posted on July 2, 2014 10:34 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62965>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Clarion-Ledger, 
<http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/politics/2014/07/02/chuck-c-johnson/12052915/>which 
has been GREAT on the #MSSEN story.

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    Serious, So Far Unproven Accusations of Illegal Votes and Stolen
    Election in #MSSEN <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62963>

Posted on July 2, 2014 9:32 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62963>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Via PoliticalWire 
<http://politicalwire.com/archives/2014/07/02/mcdaniel_says_cochran_stole_election.html#.U7QzmSw0ZIQ.twitter>, 
incendiary words from Sen. McDaniel.

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