[EL] ELB News and Commentary 6/17/14

Mon Jun 16 19:54:49 PDT 2014

    "Court Rulings on Voter Restrictions Create Limbo as Midterms Near"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62429>

Posted on June 16, 2014 7:38 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62429>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Extensive NYT article begins 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/17/us/court-rulings-on-voter-restrictions-create-limbo-as-midterms-near.html?_r=0>:

    With the midterm elections only months away, efforts to carry out
    some of the country's strictest photo ID requirements and shorten
    early voting in several politically pivotal states have been thrown
    into limbo by a series of court decisions concluding that the
    measures infringe on the right to vote.

    The most recent ruling
    <http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/12/us/ohio-federal-judge-orders-more-days-for-early-voting.html>
    came last Wednesday, when a federal judge ordered Ohio's elections
    chief to restore early voting hours on the three days before
    Election Day. It is the second lower court decision in Ohio since
    2012 that bolsters voter rights.

    The court decisions have gone both ways, but several have provided a
    new round of judicial rebukes to the wave of voting restrictions,
    nearly all of them introduced since 2011 in states with Republican
    majorities. The decisions have ensured that challenges will remain a
    significant part of the voting landscape, perhaps for years.

    And, with challenges still going through the courts, voting rules
    and requirements remain uncertain in several states before the
    midterm elections.

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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, 
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    Big Race Coming for Indiana Secretary of State
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62427>

Posted on June 16, 2014 3:47 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62427>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

See here 
<http://www.tribstar.com/news_columns/x998007680/STATE-OF-THE-STATEHOUSE-Coauthor-of-election-laws-may-have-to-worry-about-own-race>.

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Posted in campaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>, election 
administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>

    "Republican fundraising for 2016 presidential race off to a slow
    start" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62425>

Posted on June 16, 2014 3:44 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62425>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

LAT reports 
<http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-gop-donor-mood-20140615-story.html>.

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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, 
campaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>

    WaPo Editorial Suggests MultiMember Districts to Deal with Political
    Polarization <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62423>

Posted on June 16, 2014 3:24 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62423>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here. 
<http://thewashingtonpost.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspx?key=p%2F9dxkfA95UOV1ZnlubdTZ%2BN4OVwpJ1AQqy763z5pWxiM%2BHv4W%2FWCUKLQXk2YRHb2M1fdwmhEGj7%0D%0A5tZgVWmmZKjwO94tdlrwYVdHLFmWWuNp2IKIRwvaUKgvJil3gEkX%0D%0A>

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Posted in alternative voting systems 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=63>, political parties 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>, political polarization 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=68>

    "Watchdogs Call on Senate Ethics Committee to Open Ethics Process
    and Create Outside Investigative Office"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62421>

Posted on June 16, 2014 3:21 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62421>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

See here. 
<http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2497:june-16-2014-watchdogs-call-on-senate-ethics-committee-to-open-ethics-process-and-create-outside-investigative-office&catid=63:legal-center-press-releases&Itemid=61>

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

    Senate Judiciary Committee Holding June 25 Hearing on Voting Rights
    Amendments Act <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62419>

Posted on June 16, 2014 1:13 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62419>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

No witness list yet for this hearing. 
<http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/the-voting-rights-amendment-act-s1945_updating-the-voting-rights-act-in-response-to-shelby-county-v-holder>

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Posted in Voting Rights Act <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>, VRAA 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=81>

    "Here's how the IRS lost emails from key witness Lois Lerner"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62413>

Posted on June 16, 2014 12:16 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62413>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo reports. 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/06/16/heres-how-the-irs-lost-emails-from-key-witness-lois-lerner/>

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

    Contribution Limits Lifted for All Gubernatorial Candidates in
    Illinois <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62411>

Posted on June 16, 2014 12:08 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62411>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Jisha Dymond explains 
<http://www.corporatepoliticalactivitylaw.com/illinois/law-unintended-consequences>.

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

    2014 Supplement to Lowenstein, Hasen, & Tokaji: Election Law Cases
    and Materials Coming in July <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61460>

Posted on June 16, 2014 12:00 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61460>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

[UPDATING and bumping to the top.]

The 2014 Supplement to the 5th edition of /Election Law--Cases and 
Materials 
<http://www.cap-press.com/books/isbn/9781611631784/Election-Law-Fifth-Edition> 
/will be downloadable without cost for any professors adopting the 
casebook and for their students by early July. For the first time, 
others will have the option to purchase the Supplement for use 
(including in their courses) electronically on Amazon. The Supplement 
will be up-to-date through the end of the Supreme Court's October 2013 
term. It will include an edited version of of the Supreme Court's new 
campaign finance case, /McCutcheon v. FEC/, an edited version of /Shelby 
County v. Holder/, and an edited version of the lower court decision in 
the Alabama redistricting cases which the Supreme Court will hear in the 
October 2014 term.

The supplement will also consider developments in Voting Rights Act 
litigation after the Supreme Court's /Shelby County/ case as well as 
cover litigation over citizenship and other state registration and 
voting requirements under the Elections Clause following the Supreme 
Court's opinion last term in /Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council. /It also 
covers the new /Susan B. Anthony/ false campaign speech case.

You will find information about the Supplement when it is available on 
the Election Law casebook page 
<http://www.cap-press.com/books/isbn/9781611631784/Election-Law-Fifth-Edition> 
at Carolina Academic Press. (Instructors wishing a review copy or a 
teacher's manual can request these items on that page as well).  Here is 
a description of the Fifth Edition, which was published in 2012:

    The first edition of /Election Law/ was the first modern casebook
    on the subject of election law. Now in its fifth edition, the
    leading election law casebook covers the right to vote and voter
    turnout, legislative districting, the Voting Rights Act, racial
    gerrymandering cause of action, ballot propositions, constitutional
    rights and obligations of political parties, bribery, regulation of
    campaign speech, campaign finance, and election administration.

    The streamlined and student-friendly fifth edition of /Election
    Law/ fully covers developments in election law in the 2012 election
    season including: extensive coverage of /Citizens United/, super
    PACs, and other campaign finance developments; emerging issues in
    voting rights and redistricting, including coverage of the Texas
    redistricting and voter identification cases; and new coverage of
    issues in judicial elections. It will continue to include
    perspectives from law and political science, and is appropriate in
    both law and political science courses. The extensive campaign
    finance coverage makes the book appropriate for a campaign finance
    seminar as well.

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UC Irvine School of Law
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