[EL] ELB News and Commentary 3/10/14
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Mon Mar 10 07:40:56 PDT 2014
"Will Taxable Groups Hide Political Cash?"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59346>
Posted on March 10, 2014 7:39 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59346>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Must-read <http://www.cq.com/doc/weeklyreport-4436511?from=blogE>CQ
Weekly Cover story by Eliza Newlin Carney:
Unlike super PACs, which are not allowed to coordinate their
activities with parties or candidates, a for-profit company need not
keep politicians at arm's length. And unlike politically active
tax-exempt groups, which must publicly report their officers and
grant recipients to the Internal Revenue Service, LLCs leave
virtually no paper trail. With a little care they can avoid Federal
Election Commission disclosures, public IRS filings and corporate
taxes all at once --- a dream come true, critics say, for
publicity-shy big donors.....
But Kelner says numerous clients are approaching him with questions
about how to organize themselves as for-profits, or as limited
liability companies. They're preparing for the possibility that the
IRS will impose new political curbs on 501(c)(4) social-welfare
groups, says Kelner. Even if the new IRS rules never take effect,
conservative and tea party organizers, in particular, are convinced
that the agency is on a partisan campaign to shut them down. IRS and
administration officials say the agency's mistakes in the tea party
cases resulted from confusion and human error, not ill intent.
"There's an increasing appetite to get out from under IRS scrutiny,"
confirms Indiana election lawyer James Bopp Jr., who has led
numerous constitutional challenges to campaign finance restrictions.
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, tax law
and election law <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22>
"Iowa Poll: Access to voting trumps voter fraud concerns"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59344>
Posted on March 10, 2014 7:37 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59344>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Des Moines Register
<http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20140310/NEWS09/303090106/Iowa-Poll-Access-voting-trumps-voter-fraud-concerns>:
A wide majority of Iowans believe it's more important to ensure
ballot access for eligible voters than to guard against voting by
those who are ineligible.
That result, captured in The Des Moines Register's latest Iowa Poll,
casts new light on a debate that has been raging in the state and
across the nation for years over the appropriate balance between
ballot access and security.
Seventy-one percent of poll respondents say it's more important that
every eligible, registered voter is able to vote, compared with 25
percent who say it's more important that no ineligible person "slips
through the cracks" to cast a vote.
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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,
The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
Ky. Bill to Help Rand Paul Run for President and Senate
Simultaneously <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59342>
Posted on March 10, 2014 7:18 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59342>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Here <http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/14RS/SB205.htm>.
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Posted in campaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
No McCutcheon Opinion Today <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59340>
Posted on March 10, 2014 7:17 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59340>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Next chance is March 25.
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, Supreme
Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
Philly Inquirer Goes Deep into Senate Opposition Fight Against Debo
Adegbile <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59338>
Posted on March 9, 2014 7:50 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59338>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Here.
<http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20140309_A_look_at_the_campaign_that_scuttled_civil_rights_nominee.html>
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Posted in Department of Justice <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=26>
"What does John Locke Say?" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59336>
Posted on March 9, 2014 7:36 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59336>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Sunday night fun <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kItXvJLnTtk>.
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Posted in election law "humor" <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=52>
"Protecting Voting Rights in Alabama"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59334>
Posted on March 8, 2014 9:22 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59334>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NAACP LDF
<http://www.naacpldf.org/press-release/protecting-voting-rights-alabama>:
As part of our efforts to protect the right to vote across the
country, LDF's Political Participation Group wrote a letter
<http://www.naacpldf.org/document/ldf-letter-alabama-regarding-voter-photo-id-law>
to the Alabama Secretary of State, Jim Bennett, urging him to allow
thousands of people to continue to vote under Alabama's new voter
photo identification (photo ID) law.
In the letter, Ryan Haygood <http://www.naacpldf.org/ryan-p-haygood>
and Deuel Ross <http://www.naacpldf.org/deuel-ross> ask the state to
permit voters without photo ID --- including as many as an estimated
31,000 African Americans under the age of thirty --- to cast a
regular ballot in-person on Election Day. Under the new Alabama law,
a person without photo ID is still allowed to vote if two poll
workers can "positively" identify, i.e. vouch for, him or her.
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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,
voter id <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>, Voting Rights Act
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>
"Why Ohio's GOP is strangling voters' access to the polls"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59332>
Posted on March 8, 2014 9:19 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59332>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Marilou Johanek column
<http://www.toledoblade.com/MarilouJohanek/2014/03/08/Why-Ohio-s-GOP-is-strangling-voters-access-to-the-polls.html>
in the Toledo Blade.
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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,
The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
"In Prop. 8 ruling's wake, initiative sponsors take protective
steps" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59330>
Posted on March 8, 2014 9:14 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59330>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Important LA Times report.
<http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-prop8-impact-20140309,0,5038010.story#axzz2vQgpjDOg>
I recently was on a Federalist Society panel
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=58525> discussing these issues.
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Posted in direct democracy <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=62>, Supreme
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"Libertarians denied spots on Ohio governor's, attorney general's
ballot" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59328>
Posted on March 8, 2014 12:08 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59328>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Cincinnati Enquirer
<http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/ohio%20government/2014/03/07/husted-earl-governor-election-ohio/6180677/>:
"But even with the Democratic involvement, Smith decided the people who
gathered signatures for the candidates could be viewed as Libertarians,
as required by law. He instead focused on two petition circulators'
failure to indicate who was paying them. That's required by law, even
though they were contractors, Smith said."
This now goes to federal district court, and Ballot Access News
<http://www.ballot-access.org/2014/03/ohio-libertarian-party-files-strong-new-legal-argument-in-existing-federal-ballot-access-concerning-primary-ballot-access-for-its-statewide-nominees/>
links to the motion for preliminary injunction.
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Posted in ballot access <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=46>
"Republicans question Iowa's key role in presidential balloting"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59326>
Posted on March 7, 2014 8:30 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59326>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
LAT
<http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-iowa-caucuses-peril-20140308,0,5975331.story#axzz2vLHaG1tX>.
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Posted in campaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>, primaries
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=32>
"The Technology of Voting" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59324>
Posted on March 7, 2014 8:26 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59324>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT Bits Blog
<http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/07/the-technology-of-voting/?ref=politics>.
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Posted in voting technology <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=40>
"Author of elections report cited by Poilievre contradicts minister
on voter fraud" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59322>
Posted on March 7, 2014 5:07 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59322>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
CBC News
<http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/author-of-elections-report-cited-by-poilievre-contradicts-minister-on-voter-fraud-1.2563659>:
The author of a report cited repeatedly to justify cracking down
on potential voter fraud says the Harper government is
misrepresenting his report and ignoring his recommendations.
Indeed, Harry Neufeld says there's not a shred of evidence that
there have been more than "a handful" of cases of deliberate voter
fraud in either federal or provincial elections.
"I never said there was voter fraud," Neufeld said in an interview
with The Canadian Press.
"Nor did the Supreme Court, who looked at this extremely carefully."
Looks like the voting wars are contagious, even crossing borders.
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Posted in Uncategorized <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
New Casebook: The Law of Direct Democracy
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59320>
Posted on March 7, 2014 2:42 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59320>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Henry Noyes has written anew casebook
<http://www.cap-press.com/books/isbn/9781611632767/The-Law-of-Direct-Democracy>
for Carolina Academic Press.
I've seen the table of contents and it looks like great coverage.
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Posted in direct democracy <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=62>
Great Lineup at March 17 American University Conference on Lobbying
and Ethics Reform in US and eU <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59318>
Posted on March 7, 2014 2:39 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59318>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Details
<http://www.american.edu/spa/ccps/upload/press-release-for-March-17-conference-2.pdf>.
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Posted in lobbying <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=28>
"Ohio Secretary of State Removes Libertarian Party Statewide
Candidates from the Libertarian Primary Ballot"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59316>
Posted on March 7, 2014 2:34 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59316>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
BAN reports
<http://www.ballot-access.org/2014/03/ohio-secretary-of-state-removes-libertarian-party-statewide-candidates-from-the-libertarian-primary-ballot/>.
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Posted in ballot access <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=46>
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