[EL] big EAC decision; more news
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Wed Mar 19 10:54:03 PDT 2014
Big News from Federal Court: Republican States May Soon Demand Proof
of Citizenship for Voting in Federal Elections
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59556>
Posted on March 19, 2014 10:51 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59556>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Today a federal court decided Kobach v. United States Election
Assistance Commission <https://t.co/RKICU3GCP5>.The upshot of this
opinion, if it stands on appeal, is that states with Republican
legislatures and/or Republican chief election officials are likely to
require documentary proof of citizenship for voting, making it harder
for Democrats to pursue a relatively simple method of voter registration.
The case is complicated and has a complex history, but here are the basics.
In 1993, Congress passed the National Voter Registration Act (or "motor
voter"), which makes a number of changes at issue in federal elections.
Among other things the law requires that states must accept from voters
voter registrations submitted on a federal form for voting in
congressional elections. Preparing this form used to be the
responsibility of the Federal Election Commission, but when Congress
created the U.S. Election Assistance Commission as part of its Help
America Vote Act after the 2000 contested presidential election, it
shifted responsibility for preparing the form to the EAC. The federal
form approved by the EAC is a relatively simple form, and those who
register voters like to use it for voter registration not only because
it is easy, but because it is uniform across the country.
Democratic-aligned groups like the federal form a lot.
Arizona had been fighting with the EAC for a while over whether the
federal form has to require citizenship information for those who vote
to register in Arizona. The EAC did not require such information (in
fact deadlocking on the question a while back, in a story I tell in /The
Voting Wars
<http://www.amazon.com/Voting-Wars-Florida-Election-Meltdown/dp/0300182031/ref=sr_1_cc_2?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1329286945&sr=1-2-catcorr>/.)
The dispute with Arizona eventually made it to the Supreme Court, which
issued an opinion last year in Arizona v. Inter-Tribal Council.
<http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/arizona-v-the-inter-tribal-council-of-arizona-inc/>
In the case, the Supreme Court held that under the NVRA Arizona had to
accept the federal form for voter registration, even without a proof of
citizenship requirement.
While some promoted this opinion as a big victory for the federal
government, I did not see it this way. The opinion by Justice Scalia,
joined by the liberal Justices and others, contained a path for Arizona
to get the case reversed. I wrote *The Supreme Court Gives States New
Weapons in the Voting Wars
<http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/17/the-supreme-court-gives-states-new-weapons-in-the-voting-wars.html>,
/Daily Beast/, June 17, 2013 and *Are the Liberal Justices Savvy or
Suckers? They are playing to beat John Roberts at his long game
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2013/07/are_the_liberals_on_the_supreme_court_savvy_or_suckers.html>,
/Slate/, July 1, 2013, expressing concerns about this case.
Here's the issue. /Inter-Tribal/ says that the federal government has
plenary power to set the manner of conducting federal elections. But it
also says that states have the power to set voter qualifications, and
suggests that Congress cannot set a manner for voting in federal
elections which deprives states of the ability to confirm that voters
meet the state's qualifications. Justice Scalia, for the majority,
suggested that Arizona sue the EAC to get it to either change the
federal form to require proof of citizenship for Arizona or get a court
order for the EAC to do so.
Arizona, joined by Kansas, brought this case. The case is complicated by
the fact that due to a dispute between Democrats and Republicans on the
EAC, there are NO commissioners on the EAC. Justice Scalia noted the
"nice question" of how the EAC is supposed to respond when it has no
commissioners. In the lawsuit, the Executive Director of the EAC,
without any commissioners, issued an opinion rejecting Arizona's request
to add citizenship information.
In today's decision, the federal district court makes three essential moves.
1. The judge expresses doubt, without resolving the question, whether
the Executive Director of the EAC had the authority to decide this
question. The court said it was not necessary to resolve the question
because even if the EAC had a full set of commissioners and voted 4-0 to
reject Arizona's request, the EAC would still lose for other reasons.
2. The judge expresses doubt, without resolving the question, whether
Congress would have the authority in the NVRA to pass a law about voter
registration which would block states from collecting information, such
as citizenship information, necessary to verify voter qualifications.
Again, it said it did not reach the issue.
3. The judge concludes that Congress in the NVRA did not expressly
preempt states from requiring citizenship information (if it did, it
would raise serious constitutional questions about the NVRA). In the
absence of express preemption, and in light of the doubtful
constitutional power to prevent states from collecting this information,
the EAC was without power to deny Arizona and Kansas's request to
include the information on the federal form.
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I do not know how this case will fare as it works its way up on appeal.
I can see the arguments on both sides here---but this is exactly the
path I feared after /Inter Tribal/. In the meantime, in states which
impose citizenship requirements, the streamlined path of voter
registration just got a whole less streamlined.
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"Kansas, Arizona Prevail in Voter Citizenship Suit"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59553>
Posted on March 19, 2014 10:18 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59553>by Rick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
AP
<http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/kansas-arizona-prevail-voter-citizenship-suit-22970388>:
"A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the U.S. Election Assistance
Commission to help Kansas and Arizona enforce laws requiring new voters
to provide proof of their U.S. citizenship."
Here is the order and opinion. <https://t.co/RKICU3GCP5>
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Bauer, Ginsberg in Interview on PCEA Give Different Takes on Voter
Fraud Issue <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59551>
Posted on March 19, 2014 8:50 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59551>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
USA Today <http://www.freep.com/usatoday/article/6568507>:
Q: Do you think voter fraud is a big problem?
Bauer:It is not the problem it's being made out to be. It does not
justify the anti-fraud measures that a number of states, at least
that's what they're calling them, have been implementing. Obviously
Democrats, progressives, if you will, have some significant concern
about what really lies behind this. Now, let me say clearly . . .
nobody believes that we should have a system that permits widespread
fraud to take place. Everybody understands that we need safeguards
to ensure that voting is done with integrity and we can have
confidence in the outcome of our elections.
. . . But having said that, there isn't any evidence of widespread
fraud, and there certainly isn't the sort of evidence that would
justify some of what we're seeing in the legislative and political
sphere today, which frankly -- whether by design or just because it
happens that way -- results, in our view, in disqualifying voters
that should be permitted to cast their ballots and participate in
the democratic process.
Ginsberg: I think that there are examples of fraud, and when there
are examples of fraud, if you want people to have faith in the
system, and to give the appearance that it is a one-person, one-vote
system, then some simple measures that are common in everyday life,
like showing photo ID, is to me a useful step to take.
They also comment on the campaign finance system.
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ELJ 13:1 Now Available <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59548>
Posted on March 19, 2014 8:35 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59548>by
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Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy
*Table of Contents Alert*
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Under the Influence? Lobbying and Campaign Finance
Editorial
*The Party Line*
Paul Gronke and Michael Halberstam
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Zephyr Teachout
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Bruce E. Cain and Lee Drutman
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*The Tension Between Lobbying and Campaign Finance Laws: Rolling Back
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Craig Holman
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*A Public Finance Model for Lobbying: Lobbying, Campaign Finance, and
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Heather K. Gerken and Alex Tausanovitch
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March 2014: 75-90.
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*Business Lobbying as an Informational Public Good: Can Tax Deductions
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Michael Halberstam and Stuart Lazar
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Anthony Johnstone
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Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer
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*The Anxiety of Influence: The Evolving Regulation of Lobbying*
Richard Briffault
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*Money, Priorities, and Stalemate: How Lobbying Affects Public Policy*
Frank R. Baumgartner, Jeffrey M. Berry, Marie Hojnacki, David C.
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*The Seven Deadly Virtues of Lobbyists: What Lawyer Lobbyists Really Do*
Nicholas W. Allard
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Book Review
*Making Members of Parliament*
Heather Green
Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy, Vol. 13, No. 1,
March 2014: 220-223.
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*Roy A. Schotland (1933--2014)*
Doug Chapin
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Irony Dept: Ultra-Orthodox Candidate Wins Beit Shemesh Revote
(Following Ultra-Orthodox Voter Fraud) Thanks to Votes of Women,
Usually Barred from Voting <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59546>
Posted on March 19, 2014 8:18 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59546>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Oh, and anti-Zionists too. Jerusalem Post:
<http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/In-tension-gripped-Beit-Shemesh-turnout-high-in-mayoral-revote-345064>
One of the possible electoral sources for Abutbul's extra votes was
the radical, anti-Zionist factions in the city who usually refuse to
vote in any elections due to their ideological opposition to the
State of Israel. Although the rabbinic leaders of the anti-Zionist
community spoke out against voting, there were reports of members of
those groups voting throughout the day.
The haredi media also reported late on Tuesday that the leadership
of the Toldos Ahron and Dushinsky hassidic groups had permitted
women to vote in the election.
Washington Jewish Week
<http://washingtonjewishweek.com/10977/beit-shemesh-has-spoken/>:
The Jerusalem Post reported that groups of/haredim/ who
traditionally boycott the elections, and /haredi/ women, whom some
sects forbid from voting, were given special dispensation by their
rabbis to vote. While not illegal, it does seem like a cynical use
of democracy from at-times extreme Jewish groups that don't
recognize the State of Israel but are willing to benefit from the
public dime.
This is the same constituency whose members made headlines by
spitting on a modern Orthodox schoolgirl, attacked a public bus
after a woman passenger refused to move to the back in order to
accommodate ultra-Orthodox male passengers, and a couple of years
earlier, threw parts of the city into chaos with daily riots. Mr.
Abutbul himself displayed either ignorance of reality or a close
reading of his constituency when he claimed that no gays lived in
his city, adding, "Thank God this city is holy and pure."
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Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to Hear Appeal in Tom DeLay Case
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59543>
Posted on March 19, 2014 7:42 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59543>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Here's the docket notation
<http://www.cca.courts.state.tx.us/opinions/case.asp?FilingID=298059>(via Steve
Klein <https://twitter.com/SteveRKlein/status/446292080579469312>).
After the last appellate ruling, I wrote for /Slate/: Why Was Tom
DeLay's Conviction Tossed? Corporate Love Set Him Free.
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2013/09/tom_delay_s_conviction_reversed_on_appeal.html>
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,
chicanery <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>
Allegations Pa. Democratic Legislator Took Bribe in Sting Connected
to Voter ID Law Vote <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59541>
Posted on March 19, 2014 7:37 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59541>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
I expect we will be hearing more of this /Philadelphia Inquirer/ report.
<http://articles.philly.com/2014-03-17/news/48269239_1_investigation-kane-ali>
I have to say that the idea that you would have to bribe Pa. Democratic
legislators to vote against a voter id bill sounds odd to say the least.
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"Kentucky Senate passes bill to let Rand Paul run for re-election
and president in 2016? <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59539>
Posted on March 19, 2014 7:15 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59539>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Kentucky.com reports
<http://www.kentucky.com/2014/03/18/3147299/kentucky-senate-passes-bill-to.html>.
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Posted in ballot access <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=46>, campaigns
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
"In Defense of Anonymous Political Giving"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59537>
Posted on March 19, 2014 7:13 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59537>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Tom Edsall
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/opinion/edsall-in-defense-of-anonymous-political-giving.html?ref=campaignfinance>
talks to a Koch spokesperson about 501c4 anonymity and political activity.
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