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Mon Nov 3 15:26:26 PST 2014

    NYT Room for Debate: Should Voting in An Election Be A
    Constitutional Right? <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67901>

Posted onNovember 3, 2014 3:17 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67901>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

You can read the forumhere 
<http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/11/03/should-voting-in-an-election-be-a-constitutional-right>.

  * Keith EllisonMark Pocan

          Guarantee Basic Principles
          <http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/11/03/should-voting-in-an-election-be-a-constitutional-right/a-voting-rights-amendment-would-guarantee-democratic-principles>

    KEITH ELLISON AND MARK POCAN, CONGRESSMEN

    Take politicians in the nearly 10,000 voting jurisdictions out of
    the business of deciding who can vote and which votes count.

  * Richard L. Hasen

          Enforce Existing Rights, Don't Amend the Constitution
          <http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/11/03/should-voting-in-an-election-be-a-constitutional-right/to-guarantee-voting-rights-enforce-the-laws-we-have>

    RICHARD L. HASEN, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE

    To Chief Justice Roberts, the rights of donors are fundamental to
    democracy, but protecting African-American voting rights offends
    state sovereignty.

  * Ilya Shapiro

          An Unnecessary Measure to Meet Exaggerated Needs
          <http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/11/03/should-voting-in-an-election-be-a-constitutional-right/a-voting-rights-amendment-is-an-unnecessary-measure-to-meet-exaggerated-needs>

    ILYA SHAPIRO, CATO INSTITUTE

    This debate is just an overheated reaction to a misunderstood
    Supreme Court decision and once uncontroversial ballot-integrity
    measure.

  * Lani GuinierPenda D. Hair

          Best Way to Remove Burdens
          <http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/11/03/should-voting-in-an-election-be-a-constitutional-right/a-voting-rights-amendment-would-end-voting-suppression>

    LANI GUINIER, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL AND PENDA D. HAIR, ADVANCEMENT PROJECT

    Voting should not be a privilege, more easily attainable by those
    with wealth or power. It should be a protected right, like free speech.

  * Heather K. Gerken

          Amendments Are Too Hard to Achieve and Enforce
          <http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/11/03/should-voting-in-an-election-be-a-constitutional-right/on-voting-rights-amendments-are-too-hard-to-achieve-and-enforce>

    HEATHER K. GERKEN, YALE LAW SCHOOL

    To win backing, it could be made too vague to be effective. If it
    included specific remedies, it might lose broad-based support.

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    "To Guarantee Voting Rights, Enforce the Laws We Have"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67904>

Posted onNovember 3, 2014 3:14 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67904>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

This is my contribution to theNYT Room for Debate 
forum<http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/11/03/should-voting-in-an-election-be-a-constitutional-right/to-guarantee-voting-rights-enforce-the-laws-we-have>on 
a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to vote. It concludes:

    Notably Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kennedy did not join in
    Justice Alito's troubling dissent
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=66784> (joined by Justices Scalia and
    Thomas) in the Wisconsin case, which would have allowed the ID law
    to be put into effect even though the state admitted that up to 10
    percent of the state's voters could be prevented from voting in this
    election.

    Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit, who wrote the earlier
    appellate case
    <http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=3284470482973218751&hl=en&as_sdt=6&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr>upholding
    Indiana's voter ID law, has had a change of heart
    <http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/23/why-judge-posner-is-right-on-voter-id-laws.html> and
    wrote a blistering dissent
    <http://media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/rssExec.pl?Submit=Display&Path=Y2014/D10-10/C:14-2058:J:Posner:dis:T:op:N:1433281:S:0> in
    the Wisconsin case. Judge Posner, a Reagan appointee not known as a
    liberal, looked askance at the paltry evidence of impersonation
    voter. "If the Wisconsin legislature says witches are a problem,
    shall Wisconsin courts be permitted to conduct witch trials?"

    Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kennedy might follow Judge
    Posner's sensible change of heart when the issue returns to the
    court. That would do more to protect voting rights than a quixotic
    quest for a constitutional amendment.

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    "Texas Governor Intimidating Grand Jury, Prosecutor Claims"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67898>

Posted onNovember 3, 2014 2:42 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67898>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bloomberg reports. 
<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-03/texas-governor-intimidating-grand-jury-prosecutor-claims.html>

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    "Vote Suppressors At It Again: A Response to Hans van Spakovsky"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67896>

Posted onNovember 3, 2014 2:32 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67896>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Gerry Hebert and Josh Boneblog 
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/j-gerald-hebert/voting-fraud_b_6084172.html>.

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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,fraudulent fraud squad 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=8>,The Voting Wars 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>

    "Outside spending reaches $7 million in N.C. state races"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67894>

Posted onNovember 3, 2014 2:21 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67894>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Facing South reports 
<http://www.southernstudies.org/2014/11/outside-spending-reaches-7-million-in-nc-state-rac.html-0>.

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    "40,000 Voter Registrations Have Gone Missing in Georgia, and
    They're Probably Lost Forever" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67892>

Posted onNovember 3, 2014 2:20 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67892>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

TNR reports. 
<http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120097/40000-missing-voters-georgia-are-unlikely-regain-their-ballot?utm_content=buffer30c8d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer>

If this turns out to be correct it is a BFD. Not because I suspect a 
nefarious scheme to ditch these registrations, but rather because once 
again election administration incompetence will effectively 
disenfranchise people.

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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voter registration 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=37>

    "Colorado Mail-In Voting Gets Early Test; New Statewide System Will
    Be Used on Closely Watched Races" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67890>

Posted onNovember 3, 2014 1:53 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67890>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Dan Frosch 
<http://online.wsj.com/articles/colorado-mail-in-voting-gets-early-test-1415049406>for 
WSJ:

    A new election system using only mail-in ballots faces an immediate
    test in Colorado, with tight Senate, House and gubernatorial races
    that are being closely watched nationally.

    Hoping to boost turnout, the Democrat-led legislature here passed a
    law a year ago requiring Colorado to use mail-in ballots in
    virtually all elections. Some Republicans, including the secretary
    of state, have voiced concern about mandating the system statewide,
    saying that relying so heavily on the postal service could cause
    problems, especially for rural voters. Democrats have said that the
    two other states with all-mail elections, Washington and Oregon,
    have experienced few problems.

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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>

    "A 'People's Pledge" Could Quell the Politics in Judicial Elections"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67888>

Posted onNovember 3, 2014 1:38 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67888>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Trevor Potter and Ganesh Sitaraman write 
<http://www.clcblog.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=579:a-peoples-pledge-could-quell-the-politics-in-judicial-election>.

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    Must-Read of the Day <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67886>

Posted onNovember 3, 2014 1:36 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67886>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Joey 
Fishkin<http://balkin.blogspot.com/2014/11/like-looking-for-vacuum.html>on 
voting rights and Texas's voter id law.

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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,Voting Rights Act 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>

    "Justice Department To Monitor Tuesday's Elections In 18 States"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67884>

Posted onNovember 3, 2014 1:22 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67884>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Chris Geidner reports 
<http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/justice-department-to-monitor-tuesdays-elections-in-18-state>for 
BuzzFeed.

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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=26>,Voting Rights Act 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>

    Is the Interstate "Cross Check" Program Wrongly Disenfranchising
    Thousands of Voters? <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67882>

Posted onNovember 3, 2014 1:17 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67882>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

That's the claim made by Greg Palast in this extensiveAl Jazeera repor 
<http://projects.aljazeera.com/2014/double-voters/index.html>t. I have 
hesitated to link to this report, because in my experience dealing with 
Palast's work on Florida 2000 for my book, The Voting Wars, I was not 
convinced by the soundness of some of his methodology and reporting.

I hope someone else will be following up to see if the cross check 
program is really leading to this purge. If true, the facts in Palast's 
report are very troubling, and could lead more states to consider 
alternative matching programs such asERIC 
<http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/q-and-a/2012/11/2/electronic-registration-information-center-eric-frequently-asked-questions>.

As with the controversy over the recent non-citizen voting study, I 
agree this merits further investigation, and at this point I'm 
withholding my judgment.

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    "The Supreme Court Will Be a Disaster If a Justice Dies During a
    Republican Congress" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67880>

Posted onNovember 3, 2014 1:03 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67880>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Jeff Rosen writes 
<http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120102/republican-senate-2014-could-stall-supreme-court-vacancies>.

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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=68>,Supreme Court 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>

    Richard Epstein Podcast on Voting Rights and 2014 Elections
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67878>

Posted onNovember 3, 2014 1:02 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67878>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here. 
<http://www.hoover.org/research/libertarian-voting-rights-and-midterms>

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

    Justice Ginsburg Makes Technical Change to Her North Carolina Voting
    Dissent <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67875>

Posted onNovember 3, 2014 12:33 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67875>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

You can see theminor change 
<https://twitter.com/SCOTUS_servo/status/529368116137316353>in this 
tweet by SCOTUS_Servo.

B1ixfwICAAANAPW 
<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/B1ixfwICAAANAPW.png>

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    NYT Editorial Comment Calls Dem Get Out the Vote Efforts
    "Intimidating" and "Creepy" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67873>

Posted onNovember 3, 2014 11:50 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67873>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Interesting 
<http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/03/democrats-try-scaring-voters-to-the-polls/?smid=tw-share>David 
Firestone comment.

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    "Capitol Book Club, With a Bonus" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67871>

Posted onNovember 3, 2014 11:29 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67871>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT 
<http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/11/02/capitol-book-club-with-a-bonus/?ref=politics>:

      It's the first Tuesday of the month, and the book club is in
    session. Between bites of their lunch buffet, two dozen members leaf
    through classics, best sellers and the latest nonfiction.

    The scene, though, seems more country club than book club: a
    shoeshine man, an ornate rug, a picture of John A. Boehner, the
    House speaker. That's because this book club gathers at a Republican
    social parlor in the Capitol's shadow. And unlike a local library's
    book club, this event doubles as a political fund-raiser.

    For the book club's members --- an A-list of lobbyists from banks
    and insurance companies --- the main attraction is access to the
    House Financial Services Committee. The cost of admission is a
    campaign donation to whichever committee member is playing host that
    month.

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    "Mueller: We must end political gerrymandering"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67869>

Posted onNovember 3, 2014 11:00 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67869>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Nicholas Mueller has writtenthis /Times Dispatch /oped 
<http://www.timesdispatch.com/opinion/their-opinion/columnists-blogs/guest-columnists/mueller-we-must-end-political-gerrymandering/article_1faa2dc4-09dc-5c78-88e1-462f82be2a4c.html>.

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    "Wilson Elser, Bingham Win Voting Help For Native Alaskans"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67867>

Posted onNovember 3, 2014 10:59 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67867>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Law 360 reports. 
<http://www.law360.com/articles/579697?ta_id=398411&utm_source=targeted-alerts&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=case-article-alert>

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    "What's Ahead in Texas Voter ID Battle"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67865>

Posted onNovember 3, 2014 10:58 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67865>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Tim Eaton <http://t.co/ztAULVPYbL>for the Austin-American Statesman:

    Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott won the most recent round in the
    fight to require voters to show valid photo identification to cast
    ballots, but a potentially much bigger fight looms beyond Tuesday.

    Abbott's victory has only short-lived implications, since last
    month's U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allowed Texas to enforce its
    voter ID law will affect only Tuesday's election. But later a
    federal judge may decide whether Texas should once again be required
    to ask for permission from the federal government before enacting
    changes to election laws, a ruling that could affect Texas and
    possibly other states for years.

Related: My TPM piece,Messing with Texas Again: Putting It Back Under 
Federal Supervision. 
<http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/messing-with-texas-voter-id>

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    "5 myths about voter fraud, early voting"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67861>

Posted onNovember 3, 2014 8:43 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67861>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The Cincinnati Enquirer reports. 
<http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/elections/2014/11/02/myths-voter-fraud-early-voting/18393659/>

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    Grimes Campaign Denied Relief on "Election Violations" Mailers
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67857>

Posted onNovember 3, 2014 8:23 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67857>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

So reportsJosh 
Douglas<https://twitter.com/JoshuaADouglas/status/529305859005112320>via 
Twitter,citing conversation 
<https://twitter.com/JoshuaADouglas/status/529306435768053761>with 
lawyer. (McConnell campaign confirms withSahil Kapur 
<https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/529307916772593664>).

My earlier coverage and skepticism of the suit ishere 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67776>.

UPDATE:More 
<http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/judge-grimes-mcconnell-lawsuit-kentucky>fromTPM.

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    "Court Rejects Appeal Over Senate Filibuster Rules"
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Posted onNovember 3, 2014 8:15 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67855>byRick Hasen 
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<http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/11/03/us/politics/ap-us-supreme-court-filibusters.html?ref=politics&_r=0>: 
"The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a public interest 
group and four members of Congress who challenged the Senate filibuster 
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/f/filibusters_and_debate_curbs/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier> as 
unconstitutional. The justices let stand a lower court ruling that said 
Common Cause and the lawmakers did not have legal standing to pursue the 
case."

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