[EL] ELB News and Commentary 5/28/14

Tue May 27 21:36:29 PDT 2014

    "The Seattle Prof Who Is Changing the Conversation---and
    Law---Surrounding Voter I.D." <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61809>

Posted on May 27, 2014 9:34 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61809>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Seattle Weekly profiles 
<http://www.seattleweekly.com/home/952618-129/the-seattle-prof-who-is-changing> 
Matt Barreto.

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Posted in election law biz <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=51>, voter 
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    All California Secretary of State Candidates Except Alex Padilla
    Respond to Election Reform Survey <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61807>

Posted on May 27, 2014 8:06 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61807>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Andthe answers <http://cfer.org/sos2014.php#top>are fascinating!

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Posted in campaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>, election 
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    FairVote on Colorado and Oregon Top Two Proposals
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61805>

Posted on May 27, 2014 5:09 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61805>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here 
<http://www.fairvote.org/research-and-analysis/blog/fixing-top-two-with-open-general-elections-the-colorado-innovation/>.

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    "Shrinking Line Separates Campaign Donations From Bribe"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61803>

Posted on May 27, 2014 4:58 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61803>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Al Hunt writes 
<http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-05-25/shrinking-line-separates-campaign-donations-from-bribes>for 
Bloomberg View.

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    "Take this quiz and see if you can pick the 'gerrymandered'
    redistricting plan" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61801>

Posted on May 27, 2014 4:57 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61801>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

This is fun 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/05/27/take-this-quiz-and-see-if-you-can-pick-the-gerrymandered-redistricting-plan/> 
from The Monkey Cage.

To mangle Justice O'Conno 
<http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/92-357.ZO.htm>r, "Put 
differently, we believe that reapportionment is one area in which 
appearances [shouldn't] matter."

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    New Joint Fundraising Committee to Help Republican Challengers
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61799>

Posted on May 27, 2014 4:53 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61799>by 
Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

CPI reports. 
<http://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/05/27/14806/gop-challengers-get-boost-jumbo-joint>

As much as I love my friends at CPI, I won't be adopting their "jumbo 
joint" terminology for these JFCs which are thriving thanks to McCutcheon.

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    The Drunkard's Search for Money in Politics
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61795>

Posted on May 27, 2014 12:06 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61795>by 
Justin Levitt <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>

(cross-posted from Summary Judgments 
<http://summaryjudgments.lls.edu/2014/05/the-drunkards-search-for-money-in.html>)

/Late at night, a good Samaritan happens upon an intoxicated man 
crawling under a streetlight, studying the ground.  The drunkard says 
that he is looking for his keys, and our helpful bystander joins the 
search.  After a few minutes, the helper asks, "Are you sure this is 
where you dropped them?" "No," says the drunk, "I probably dropped them 
by the bar down the road. But the light's much better here."/

The phenomenon of the drunkard's search, often attributed to Abraham 
Kaplan 
<http://books.google.com/books?id=ks8wuZHSKs8C&pg=PA11#v=onepage&q&f=false>, 
afflicts much empirical inquiry 
<http://discovermagazine.com/2010/jul-aug/29-why-scientific-studies-often-wrong-streetlight-effect>. 
Researchers seeking quantitative rigor too often head for the available 
data, fire up STATA, and only as an afterthought offer a few generic 
caveats about the limitations of the data for the topic at hand.

Campaign finance analysis is not immune from this problem. In reading 
some recent studies over the weekend, I noticed a few recurring lapses.
Continue reading ? <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=61795#more-61795>

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