[EL] Money from Corporations

Wed Mar 26 08:15:49 PDT 2014

CA Congressional Candidate Vows He Won’t Take Money from Corporations<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59672>
Posted on March 26, 2014 6:48 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59672> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Which he can’t do anyway! Watch.<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXdr4ViVUHI>

This is a pretty common misunderstanding these days. Indeed, I regularly find that people think that campaign finance laws are far less restrictive than they are. I recall some years ago speaking to one of the groups that brings high school kids to Washington in the summer, and in the evenings they would have debates. One of the debate proposals was over a campaign finance proposal the kids had drawn up to regulate money in politics - I had to point out to them that their proposal would actually be deregulation.
There is at least some reason to believe that voters who are better educated and read the papers are actually more likely to misunderstand campaign finance law, and to overstate the amounts actually spent, than less informed voters and voters who don't follow the news.

Of course, there are lots of issues on which voters are ill-informed. But it seems unusual where the best informed voters might be most likely to be the most misinformed voters.

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New York Joins National Popular Vote Compact to Circumvent Electoral College<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59678>
Posted on March 26, 2014 7:22 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59678> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Capital NY<http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/albany/2014/03/8542603/legislature-approves-national-popular-vote>: “With New York’s 29 electors, the interstate compact would have 160 electors, or the 60 percent of the 270 it needs to take effect.”

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Posted in electoral college<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=44>
“Fighting Words: NYC BOE Claims City Council is ‘Cash Starving’ it in Budget”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59676>
Posted on March 26, 2014 7:19 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59676> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

A ChapinBlog<http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/electionacademy/2014/03/fighting_words_nyc_boe_claims.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HHHElections+%28The+Election+Aacdemy%29>.

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Posted in election administration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>
“Scott Brown is right to avoid the ‘People’s Pledge’ politicians’ pact”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59674>
Posted on March 26, 2014 6:52 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59674> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Eric Wang commentary<http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/25/scott-brown-is-right-to-avoid-the-peoples-pledge-politicians-pact/#ixzz2x1l4Syr5> in the Daily Caller.

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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
CA Congressional Candidate Vows He Won’t Take Money from Corporations<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59672>
Posted on March 26, 2014 6:48 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59672> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Which he can’t do anyway! Watch.<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXdr4ViVUHI>

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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, campaigns<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
“Jean-Pierre Kingsley: Election bill puts right to vote at risk”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59669>
Posted on March 25, 2014 8:56 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59669> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

CBC reports. #CanadianVotingWars<http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/jean-pierre-kingsley-election-bill-puts-right-to-vote-at-risk-1.2585400>

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Posted in The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
Read the CA Reed Decision on Candidate Controlled Committee Contributions to Super PACs<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59666>
Posted on March 25, 2014 8:51 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59666> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Following up on this post<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59644>, thanks to a few readers for passing along Chuck Reed v. FPPC.<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/Chuck-Reed-candidate-IE-decision.pdf>

I hope to have some analysis of this at some point.

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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
“Are Koch Brothers Republicans or Just Kochs?”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59664>
Posted on March 25, 2014 8:46 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59664> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Frank Wilkinson writes <http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-03-25/are-koch-brothers-republicans-or-just-kochs> for Bloomberg View.

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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
“Former offender acquitted in Iowa voter fraud case”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59662>
Posted on March 25, 2014 8:37 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59662> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

AP<http://bigstory.ap.org/article/jury-acquits-ex-felon-iowa-voter-fraud-case>:

A former drug offender who believed her voting rights had been restored when she cast a ballot last year was acquitted of perjury Thursday, a public rebuke of Iowa’s two-year investigation into voter fraud.

The 12-member jury took less than 40 minutes to reject the prosecution’s argument that Kelli Jo Griffin intentionally lied on a voter registration form she filled out for a municipal election in the southeastern Iowa town of Montrose.

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Posted in felon voting<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=66>
“Publius Was Not a PAC: Reconciling Anonymous Political Speech, the First Amendment, and Campaign Finance Disclosure”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59660>
Posted on March 25, 2014 8:32 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59660> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Wyoming Law Review article: Publius Was Not a PAC: Reconciling Anonymous Political Speech, the First Amendment, and Campaign Finance Disclosure<http://www.uwyo.edu/law/_files/docs/WY%20Law%20Review/V14%20N1/barr-klein.pdf> by Benjamin Barr and Stephen R. Klein.

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“Law and Politics: What’s the Matter with Kansas (and Arizona)?”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59658>
Posted on March 25, 2014 10:36 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59658> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Jerry Goldfeder has written this commentary<http://reaction.stroock.com/reaction/RSProcess.asp?RSID=VWhNspef20CCB5_lAc9y3Q&RSTYPE=OPENATTACH> for Law.com.

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Posted in Elections Clause<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=70>, NVRA (motor voter)<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=33>, The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>

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