[EL] ELB News and Commentary 3/31/14

Mon Mar 31 07:39:25 PDT 2014

    "Democratic turnout seen as key to party's retaining Senate control"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59823>

Posted on March 31, 2014 7:23 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59823>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

/LA Times/ 
<http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-democratic-drop-off-20140331,0,535810.story#ixzz2xXJyC156>reports. 
<http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-democratic-drop-off-20140331,0,535810.story#ixzz2xXJyC156>

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Posted in campaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>, political 
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    "The GOP advantage: Geography or gerrymandering?"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59821>

Posted on March 31, 2014 7:21 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59821>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

AP reports 
<http://bigstory.ap.org/article/gop-advantage-geography-or-gerrymandering-0>. 
See also GOP has built-in advantage in fight for US House. 
<http://bigstory.ap.org/article/gop-has-built-advantage-fight-us-house-2>

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Posted in political parties <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>, 
political polarization <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=68>, 
redistricting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>

    Important Brian Newby Post on the Difficulty Some Voters in Kansas
    are Having Proving Citizenship to Be Able to Vote
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59819>

Posted on March 31, 2014 7:16 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59819>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Read this 
<http://electiondiary-briandnewby.blogspot.com/2014/03/out-of-our-league.html>.

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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, 
The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>

    ELJ Content Fully Open (Outside Paywall) Through April 13
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59817>

Posted on March 31, 2014 7:11 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59817>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Great opportunity 
<http://www.liebertpub.com/global/pressrelease/mary-ann-liebert-inc-launches-author-appreciation-month-with-fully-open-content-through-april-13th/1409/> 
if you don't have (or your organization does not have) an online 
subscription.

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Posted in Uncategorized <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>

    Quote of the Day <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59815>

Posted on March 30, 2014 9:42 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59815>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

"I'm just trying to run for secretary of state. I hope I don't get 
indicted."

--Leland Yee 
<http://www.sacbee.com/2014/03/30/6279416/leland-yees-campaign-debt-at-root.html>, 
according to indictment at a meeting where he had arranged for a $10,000 
payoff.
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Posted in bribery <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=54>, campaign finance 
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>, chicanery 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>

    "Leland Yee's campaign debt at root of criminal behavior,
    authorities allege" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59813>

Posted on March 30, 2014 9:39 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59813>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

/Sac Bee/ 
<http://www.sacbee.com/2014/03/30/6279416/leland-yees-campaign-debt-at-root.html>:

    In more than a decade of campaigns for the California Legislature,
    San Francisco mayor and secretary of state, state Sen. Leland Yee
    raised in excess of $5 million. Yet it was a campaign debt only a
    fraction of that amount that federal officials allege pulled the
    veteran politician into a sprawling sting operation.

    The 137-page FBI affidavit against Yee and more than 20 other
    defendants says the San Francisco Democrat's focus on retiring a
    $70,000 campaign debt from his unsuccessful 2011 mayor's race and
    raising money for his 2014 candidacy for secretary of state led him
    to accept bribes in return for official favors and arrange overseas
    weapons deals.

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    "Hopes Frustrated, Many Latinos Reject the Ballot Box Altogether"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59811>

Posted on March 30, 2014 9:29 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59811>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT reports 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/31/us/hopes-frustrated-many-latinos-reject-the-ballot-box-altogether.html?ref=politics>.

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    "Hobby Lobby's Lobbying Hobbies" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59809>

Posted on March 30, 2014 12:22 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59809>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Open Secrets 
<http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2014/03/hobby-lobbys-lobbying-hobbies.html>.

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Posted in lobbying <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=28>

    "Koch-Funded Network Jumps To Defend Billionaire Brothers Against
    Democratic Attacks" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59807>

Posted on March 30, 2014 12:22 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59807>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

HuffPo reports 
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/28/koch-brothers-network_n_5051718.html?utm_content=bufferb5c29&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer>.

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    "Local couple upset after receiving pre-marked voter registration
    card from Covered California" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59805>

Posted on March 30, 2014 11:22 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59805>by Rick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

ABC 10 News 
<http://www.10news.com/news/local-couple-upset-after-receiving-pre-marked-voter-registration-card-from-covered-california-03282014>: 
"LA MESA, Calif. -- A local couple called 10News concerned after they 
received an envelope from the state's Obamacare website, Covered 
California. Inside was a letter discussing voter registration and a 
registration card pre-marked with an "x" in the box next to Democratic 
Party."

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    "New G.O.P. Bid to Limit Voting in Swing States"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59803>

Posted on March 29, 2014 7:09 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=59803>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Must-read, front-page NYT article 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/30/us/new-gop-bid-to-limit-voting-in-swing-states.html?ref=politics>:

    In all, nine states have passed measures making it harder to vote
    since the beginning of 2013. Most have to do with voter ID laws.
    Other states are considering mandating proof of citizenship, like a
    birth certificate or a passport, after a federal court judge
    recently upheld such laws passed in Arizona and Kansas. Because many
    poor people do not have either and because documents can take time
    and money to obtain, Democrats say the ruling makes it far more
    difficult for people to register.

    Voting experts say the impact of the measures on voter turnout
    remains unclear. Many of the measures have yet to take effect, and a
    few will not start until 2016. But at a time when Democrats are on
    the defensive over the Affordable Care Act and are being
    significantly outspent by conservative donors like the Koch
    brothers, the changes pose another potential hurdle for Democratic
    candidates this year.

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