[EL] ELB News and Commentary 5/3/14

Sat May 3 11:39:09 PDT 2014

    "No special session to pass voter ID bill, says Gov. Walker"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61172>

Posted on May 3, 2014 11:38 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61172>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The latest 
<http://www.piercecountyherald.com/content/government-and-political-roundup-no-special-session-pass-voter-id-bill-says-gov-walker> 
from Wisconsin.

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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, 
The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>, voter id 
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    "Federal judge: Candidates don't have right to absentee ballot
    lists" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61170>

Posted on May 3, 2014 11:34 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61170>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

News from Kentucky. 
<http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/elections/2014/05/02/absentee-vote-ruling/8628961/>

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Posted in campaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>

    "How Not to Pick Judges" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61168>

Posted on May 3, 2014 11:33 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61168>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Maya Sen 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/04/opinion/sunday/how-not-to-pick-judges.html?_r=0> 
in the NYT Sunday Review:

    RESEARCH has long shown that female judges vote differently from men
    on issues of sex discrimination, harassment and sentencing, while
    black judges vote differently from whites on issues involving civil
    rights and affirmative action.

    Still, despite decades of effort by presidents and advocacy groups
    to promote minority and female candidates to the bench, our 1,355
    sitting federal judges remain 81 percent white and 76 percent male.

    A surprising part of the problem, as I show in a new study
    <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674579> in the Journal of Law
    and Courts, is linked to the American Bar Association's system for
    rating judicial candidates, which plays a surprisingly large role in
    judge selection.

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Posted in judicial elections <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=19>, 
legislation and legislatures <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=27>

    "Reps. Mike Honda, Tom McClintock find reelection no longer a lock;
    California's relatively new 'top two' primary system means the
    incumbents face challengers who may have stayed away before"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61166>

Posted on May 3, 2014 11:30 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61166>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The LA Times reports. 
<http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-honda-mcclintock-20140503,0,7544637.story#axzz30g8G5j7V>

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Posted in political parties <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>, 
primaries <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=32>

    "Cantor calls for special prosecutor in IRS targeting investigation"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61164>

Posted on May 2, 2014 9:31 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61164>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2014/05/02/cantor-calls-for-special-prosecutor-in-irs-targeting-investigation/>: 
"The House majority leader on Friday called for Attorney General Eric 
Holder to appoint special counsel to investigate the Internal Revenue 
Service's controversial treatment of certain advocacy groups during the 
past two election cycles."

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Posted in tax law and election law <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22>

    "Democratic Group to Return Donations"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61162>

Posted on May 2, 2014 9:29 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61162>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT: 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/03/us/politics/democratic-group-to-return-donations.html?ref=politics&_r=0>"The 
Democratic National Committee 
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/d/democratic_national_committee/index.html?inline=nyt-org>, 
faced with the possibility that it had accepted illegal campaign 
contributions from straw donors, decided Thursday to return sizable 
donations made last fall in the names of the children of a Florida 
cardiologist whose lucrative medical practice has caught the attention 
of Medicare 
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/medicare/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier> 
regulators."

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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>

    "SC legislators working on election law fix"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61160>

Posted on May 2, 2014 9:26 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61160>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

AP 
<http://www.wistv.com/story/25416919/sc-legislators-working-on-election-law-fix>: 
"Both the House and Senate have passed a bill designed to prevent a 
lawsuit from throwing South Carolina's elections into chaos again."

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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>

    "Arkansas voter ID law again found unconstitutional"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61158>

Posted on May 2, 2014 9:23 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61158>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

AP reports 
<http://www.salon.com/2014/05/02/arkansas_voter_id_law_again_found_unconstitutional/>.

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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, 
The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>, voter id 
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    "Moderate Candidates' Campaigns are Expensive--Very Expensive"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61156>

Posted on May 2, 2014 1:06 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61156>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Anne Kim writes f 
<http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/ten-miles-square/2014/04/winning_or_defending_a_seat050137.php>or 
the /Washington Monthly./

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Posted in campaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>, political 
parties <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>, political polarization 
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    "Battleground Texas: Inside the fight to turn the state blue"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61154>

Posted on May 2, 2014 11:00 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61154>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Zack Roth 
<http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-perry/the-fight-turn-texas-blue> on 
the voting wars in Texas over registration and id.

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

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