[EL] ELB News and Commentary 5/16/14
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Fri May 16 07:45:19 PDT 2014
"Are the Super-Wealthy Buying Democracy?"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61539>
Posted on May 16, 2014 7:38 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61539>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Important post
<http://www.mischiefsoffaction.com/2014/05/are-super-wealthy-buying-democracy.html>
from Seth Masket.
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
"Judge rules NC lawmakers must share voter ID correspondence"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61537>
Posted on May 16, 2014 7:33 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61537>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
See here.
<http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/05/15/3864733/us-district-judge-rejects-nc-lawmakers.html>
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Posted in The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>, voter id
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>
"Developer Money Follows Circuitous Route to San Diego County
Supervisor's Race" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61535>
Posted on May 16, 2014 7:29 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61535>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
KPBS reports
<http://www.kpbs.org/news/2014/may/16/developer-money-follows-circuitous-route-to-San-Di/>.
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
"Regulating Political Campaigns -- An Unavoidable Compromise?"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61533>
Posted on May 16, 2014 7:25 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61533>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Emese Szilágyi has posted this draft
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2429228> on SSRN.
Here is the abstract:
Legislators in Europe and elsewhere try to enact
campaign-regulations which help to preserve the fairness of the
political competition. These rules have the same aim: to guarantee
the idea of political equality. But political equality means more,
than the principle of "one person, one vote". It involves the idea
that everybody must have the same opportunity to influence the
outcome of the elections, everybody must have the very same
possibility to spread his or her views regarding to political issues
and the public is entitled to receive those information about the
rival arguments in order to be able to form a considered decision at
the end of the campaign. These arguments highlight the crucial
importance of the freedom of expression during campaign-periods. But
in many cases the campaign-rules raise the question: whether they
are acceptable regulations on the freedom of expression or they are
too widely defined. In my brief article I intend to explore
considerations which prove us that there is no actual contradiction
between the freedom of expression and political equality.
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
"Was the Chief Justice's McCutcheon Opinion Honest? A Response to
Fred Wertheimer" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61531>
Posted on May 16, 2014 7:23 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61531>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Allen Dickerson writes <http://www.campaignfreedom.org/2014/05/16/honesty/>.
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"Three-Judge Panel Disregards Precedent to Gut Wisconsin Political
Disclosure Laws" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61529>
Posted on May 15, 2014 2:56 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61529>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
CLC press release
<http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2474:may-15-2014-three-judge-panel-disregards-precedent-to-gut-wisconsin-political-disclosure-laws&catid=63:legal-center-press-releases&Itemid=61>.
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
"Conyers files federal lawsuit in fight to stay on primary ballot"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61527>
Posted on May 15, 2014 2:46 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61527>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Yeah, there was little doubtthis was coming.
<http://www.freep.com/article/20140515/NEWS06/305150134/1001/rss01>
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Posted in campaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>, petition
signature gathering <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=39>, residency
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=38>
"Jerry Brown signs law requiring political nonprofits identify
donors" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61525>
Posted on May 15, 2014 2:28 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61525>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
SacBee
<http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2014/05/jerry-brown-signs-law-requiring-political-nonprofits-identify-donors.html>:
Nonprofit organizations that make political contributions in
California will have to disclose more information about the source
of their money under a law Gov. *Jerry Brown* signed Wednesday.
Senate Bill 27 was inspired by the 2012 ballot measure wars in
California, when two out-of-state nonprofit groups poured $15
million into fighting Proposition 30 and supporting Proposition 32.
Because of the groups' nonprofit status, they were not required to
report where their donations originally came from, leading some to
describe the contributions as "dark money."
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
"Is the GOP Retreating on Voting Rights? Don't Count on It"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61523>
Posted on May 15, 2014 11:35 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61523>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Zach Roth reports
<http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/republican-no-retreat-voter-id?cid=sm_twitter>
for /MSNBC/.
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Posted in The Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
"NEW: IRS office in D.C. heavily involved in tea party assault"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61521>
Posted on May 15, 2014 10:15 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61521>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
/Washington Times/:
<http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/14/irs-papers-contradict-lois-lerner-story-as-many-gr/>
/A /year after a scorching audit revealed that the Internal Revenue
Service
<http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/internal-revenue-service/>
targeted tea party groups for intrusive scrutiny, and despite an
effort to clean house at the agency, many of those groups are still
awaiting approval for tax-exempt status.
Meanwhile, documents released Wednesday --- a year to the day after
the inspector general's audit --- signal intensive involvement of
IRS
<http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/internal-revenue-service/>
employees in Washington
<http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/washington/>, contradicting
the early story by agency employees that the problems stemmed from
overzealous employees in the Cincinnati office.
Judicial Watch has posted the documents
<http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-new-documents-show-irs-hq-control-tea-party-targeting/>.
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Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, tax law
and election law <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22>
"Has Social Media Changed Elections?"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61519>
Posted on May 15, 2014 9:41 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61519>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
That's the lead story
<http://www.electionline.org/index.php/electionline-weekly> in this
week's Electionline Weekly.
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Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,
social media and social protests <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=58>
"Leahy Announces June 3 Hearing On Constitutional Amendment To Rein
In Massive Campaign Spending" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61515>
Posted on May 15, 2014 9:21 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61515>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
See this press release
<http://www.leahy.senate.gov/press/leahy-announces-june-3-hearing-on-constitutional-amendment_to-rein-in-massive-campaign-spending>.
I'm an opponent of both /Citizens United /and the constitutional
amendment approach. See *
Three Wrong Progressive Approaches (and One Right One) to Campaign
Finance Reform
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2293979>, 8 /Harvard
Law & Policy Review/ 21 (2014)*
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"Missoula commissioners hear critics of appointed elections
administrator" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61513>
Posted on May 15, 2014 9:06 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61513>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
/The Missoulian/
<http://missoulian.com/news/local/missoula-commissioners-hear-critics-of-appointed-elections-administrator/article_3ff3f1a0-dbd3-11e3-84bd-0019bb2963f4.html>:
If you oversee voting -- the most basic right in a democracy -- you
should be directly accountable to voters.
So said many members of the public who spoke Wednesday at a Missoula
Board of County Commissioners hearing on the creation of an
appointed elections administrator. Currently, election
administration is among the responsibilities of the clerk and
recorder -- who is elected by voters -- and the proposal to create a
position beholden to county officials instead wasn't popular among
audience members.
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"Political Corruption and the Academic Left; the Rick Hasen Edition"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61511>
Posted on May 15, 2014 9:03 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61511>by
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Paul Jossey blogs
<http://thereplawyer.blogspot.com/2014/05/political-corruption-and-academic-left_15.html>.
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How the Failure to Redistrict Has Shaped Indian Politics
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61509>
Posted on May 15, 2014 8:45 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61509>by
Richard Pildes <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=7>
From Ellen Barry's article
<http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/05/15/world/asia/india-election.html?hp>in
the NY Times:
For generations, Congress [the dominant political party] politicians
have focused heavily on the rural electorate, in part because a
30-year freeze on redistricting kept the number of urban
constituencies artificially low, said K.C. Sivaramakrishnan,
co-author of "A Handbook of Urbanization in India."
"There is a certain political attitude which has been there for a
long time --- that rural is good, rural is simple, rural is plain,
rural is beautiful," Mr. Sivaramakrishnan said, a belief that harks
back to Mohandas K. Gandhi, who venerated villages as the ideal
expression of human civilization.
Sound familiar?
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