[EL] more news 6/27/14
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Fri Jun 27 12:59:11 PDT 2014
(Pipe) Dreams Dashed Dept: Thad Cochran Not Supporting Voting Rights
Act Fix <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62855>
Posted on June 27, 2014 12:29 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62855>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Sen. Cochran's spokesperson tells Greg Sargent
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2014/06/27/trolling-of-thad-cochran-on-voting-rights-fails-to-get-desired-effect/>:
I asked Cochran spokesman Chris Gallegos for a response. He said
Cochran is "listening" to the argument over the new legislation, but
directed me back to his previous statement
<http://www.cochran.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2013/6/cochran-statement-on-u-s-supreme-court-ruling-on-the-voting-rights-act>
praising the SCOTUS decision. Gallegos also emailed:
It does appear that Tuesday's election generally went smoothly, even
as the state implemented its new voter ID law. Mississippi election
officials deserve credit. The Senator would concur with Senator
Rand Paul, who recently said, "I'm for more people voting, not less
people voting."
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Posted in Voting Rights Act <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>, VRAA
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=81>
"Perry: Mistakes were made, but no voter fraud found"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62852>
Posted on June 27, 2014 10:52 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62852>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Clarion Ledger:
<http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/politics/2014/06/27/mcdaniel-cochran-jackson-hinds/11471857/>"Hinds
County Republican Party chairman Pete Perry said Friday morning that
examples of voter fraud cited by the tea party and Chris McDaniel's
campaign are simple clerical errors that were fixed."
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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,
fraudulent fraud squad <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=8>
"Sources: Miss. tea party leader Mayfield dead of apparent suicide"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62850>
Posted on June 27, 2014 9:16 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62850>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Very sad news
<http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2014/06/27/mark-mayfield-dead/11456769/>:
"Sources have confirmed that attorney Mark Mayfield has died of an
apparent suicide. Mayfield, vice chairman of the Mississippi Tea Party,
and is one of the three men charged with conspiring with Clayton Kelly
to photograph U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran's bedridden wife in her nursing
home and create a political video against Cochran."
Condolences to his family.
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Posted in Uncategorized <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
FEC Consensus? Senate Votes on DISCLOSE, Amendment in July?
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62848>
Posted on June 27, 2014 9:15 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62848>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Two excellent reports from Bloomberg BNA (behind the less excellent
paywall):
Campaign Finance
FEC Shows Signs of Effort for Consensus
Despite Remaining Roadblocks on Big Issues
<http://news.bna.com/mpdm/display/link_res.adp?lt=email&fname=A0F2F7N3Y6&lf=eml&emc=mpdm:mpdm:109>
Like a patient trying to get out of bed after an illness, the Federal
Election Commission appears to be trying to take some tentative first
steps away from paralyzing deadlocks, encouraged by two new
commissioners but still hampered by old infirmities....
Campaign Finance
Reid Calls for July Campaign Finance Votes
On Constitutional Amendment, DISCLOSE Act
<http://news.bna.com/mpdm/display/link_res.adp?lt=email&fname=A0F2F7Q0T8&lf=eml&emc=mpdm:mpdm:110>
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-Nev.) priority list for Senate
action in July includes plans to schedule votes on a constitutional
amendment to protect the authority of Congress to regulate campaign
finance, as well as a separate...
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, federal
election commission <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=24>, Supreme Court
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"Montana Republican leaders: Closing primaries will wait"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62846>
Posted on June 27, 2014 9:13 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62846>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The latest
<http://missoulian.com/elections_2014/montana-republican-leaders-closing-primaries-will-wait/article_b9a68e82-fd74-11e3-843e-001a4bcf887a.html>
from Montana .Morehere.
<http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/lawyer-urges-montana-gop-to-sue-close-republican-primaries/article_8fc4ae58-fd99-11e3-aef5-0019bb2963f4.html>
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Posted in political parties <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>,
primaries <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=32>
"The Coordination of Issue Advocacy Part I: Coordination and the
Press" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62844>
Posted on June 27, 2014 9:10 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62844>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bauer blogs.
<http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/2014/06/coordination-issue-advocacy-part-coordination-press/>
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, Supreme
Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
The State of Campaign Finance Policy: Recent Developments and Issues
for Congress (June 23, 2014) <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62842>
Posted on June 27, 2014 9:09 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62842>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
New CRS report <http://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41542.pdf> from R. Sam Garrett.
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, Supreme
Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
"Let's do this again! What could McDaniel be thinking for a
challenge? And what is his goal?" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62840>
Posted on June 27, 2014 9:08 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62840>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Mississippi election lawyer Tom Freeland weighs in
<http://nmisscommentor.com/random-firings/lets-do-this-again-what-could-mcdaniel-be-thinking-for-a-challenge-and-what-is-his-goal/>.
More here.
<http://nmisscommentor.com/politics/what-would-a-reality-based-elections-contest-cost/>
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Posted in campaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
"Casting a Cold Eye on Mandated Disclosures of Corporate Political
Activity?" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62838>
Posted on June 27, 2014 9:05 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62838>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Brian Galle
<http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_econ/2014/06/casting-a-cold-eye-on-mandated-disclosures-of-corporate-political-activity.html>:
With the SEC still
<http://www.bakertilly.com/insights/sec-accounting-update-5/> sorta
thinking <http://www.sec.gov/comments/4-637/4-637.shtml> about
requiring U.S. public firms to disclose their political
expenditures, a newly posted paper
<http://www.rochester.edu/college/psc/primo/PrabhatPrimoRiskyBusinessJune2014.pdf>
by Saumya Prabhat and David Primo (of the Indian School of Business
in Hyderabad and University of Rochester, respectively) should be
getting some play.
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62810&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+electionlawblog%2FuqCP+%28Election+Law%29> Prabhat
and Primo claim to find evidence that the U.K.'s enactment of
similar disclosure rules in 2000 was bad for shareholders of
politically active firms, and they argue this is a reason to oppose
possible U.S. reforms. I think they've got at least one really big
methodological problem, and even taking their results at face value
they're just misinterpreting them.
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
NYT Public Editor Weighs in on Times' Coverage of IRS Mess
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62836>
Posted on June 27, 2014 9:03 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62836>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Sullivan
<http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/27/is-the-times-ignoring-a-scandal-at-the-i-r-s/?_php=true&_type=blogs&smid=tw-share&_r=0>:
My take:
The Times was somewhat late in beginning to cover the latest
development about the lost emails. My office had begun to field
several days' worth of reader protests on the lack of attention when
the first story finally went online. Despite that slow start and the
quiet display of the subsequent stories (an analytical piece might
have been a good choice for the front page), The Times has given its
readers insightful coverage of a situation heavily clouded by
partisan politics.
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Posted in tax law and election law <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22>
"Can a president (with a little help from one senator of his party)
circumvent most of the Court's limitation on the recess appointments
power?" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62834>
Posted on June 27, 2014 6:34 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=62834>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Interesting post
<http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/06/can-a-president-with-a-little-help-from-one-senator-of-his-party-circumvent-most-of-the-courts-limitation-on-the-recess-appointments-power/>from
Tom Goldstein.
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Posted in legislation and legislatures <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=27>
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