[EL] ELB News and Commentary 11/12/14

Rick Hasen rhasen at law.uci.edu
Wed Nov 12 07:37:09 PST 2014


    "Supreme Court Case Seeks Source Of Alabama Gerrymandering"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68273>

Posted onNovember 12, 2014 7:35 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68273>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Nina Totenberg reports 
<http://www.npr.org/2014/11/12/363375057/supreme-court-case-seeks-source-of-alabama-gerrymandering>for 
NPR.

More fromBloomberg News 
<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-12/landmark-voting-law-creates-role-reversal-in-court-clash.html>andGoverning. 
<http://www.governing.com/topics/politics/gov-supreme-court-gerrymandering.html>

See also myearlier SCOTUSBlog preview 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/?p=220511>andmy Slate piece 
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2014/11/alabama_redistricting_supreme_court_did_legislators_redraw_district_lines.html>. 
  I will have more analysis after oral argument.

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    "Undo Citizens United? We'd Only Scratch the Surface"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68283>

Posted onNovember 12, 2014 7:34 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68283>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Jedediah Purdy 
<http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/12/undo-citizens-united-we-d-only-scratch-the-surface.html>for 
the Daily Beast.

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    "At Last, a Chance to Get to the Bottom of the IRS Mess"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68281>

Posted onNovember 12, 2014 7:33 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68281>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Cleta Mitchell WSJ oped 
<http://online.wsj.com/articles/cleta-mitchell-at-last-a-chance-to-get-to-the-bottom-of-the-irs-mess-1415666025?KEYWORDS=%22irs%22>.

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    "Top Campaign-Finance Cases to Watch"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68279>

Posted onNovember 12, 2014 7:32 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68279>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Politico reports 
<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/top-campaign-finance-cases-to-watch-112784.html?hp=r2_3>.

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    Read the Full Text of FEC Commissioner Ravel's Letter on New Media
    Regulation to WSJ <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68277>

Posted onNovember 12, 2014 7:29 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68277>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here. 
<http://www.fec.gov/members/ravel/statements/Text_of_AMRs_Letter_to_WSJ.pdf>

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    "Opinion: Christie provokes serious debate on campaign finance"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68275>

Posted onNovember 12, 2014 7:23 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68275>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Carl Golden 
<http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2014/11/opinion_christie_provokes_serious_debate_on_campaign_finance.html>at 
NJ.com.

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    "Colorado Ousts Pro-Gun Republicans, Showing Effect of Turnout"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68271>

Posted onNovember 11, 2014 7:46 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68271>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/12/us/colorado-ousts-pro-gun-republicans-showing-effect-of-turnout.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share>:

    After two Colorado lawmakers who supported strict new gun-control
    laws were voted out of office in a special recall election last
    year, the National Rifle Association and its allies celebrated their
    huge win in the battle over gun laws in state capitols. But that
    particular victory did not last.

    Even as Coloradans elected a Republican senator for the first time
    in a dozen years and handed Republicans control of one chamber of
    the state legislature, voters did an abrupt about-face when it came
    to the recalls. The two pro-gun Republicans elected during the
    recalls were handily beaten this month by Democratic candidates ---
    one of whom once worked for the gun-control group founded by former
    Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York City.

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    Interesting Ed Blum WSJ Oped on Alabama Redistricting Case at SCOTUS
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68267>

Posted onNovember 11, 2014 6:50 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68267>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

In my Slate 
piece<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2014/11/alabama_redistricting_supreme_court_did_legislators_redraw_district_lines.html>andSCOTUSBlog 
preview<http://www.scotusblog.com/?p=220511>of the Alabama redistricting 
case the Supreme Court hears Wednesday morning, I described the 
interesting position conservative Justices are put in by this case: it 
is not clear to me how the conservatives will view this case: through 
the lens of race or party, or whether they will reverse or uphold the 
2-1 ruling in favor of the Alabama legislature.

So I was very interested in seeing what race warrior (and voting rights 
act and affirmative action opponent) Ed Blum 
<http://www.projectonfairrepresentation.org/>had to say in hisnew WSJ 
oped 
<http://online.wsj.com/articles/edward-blum-racial-gerrymandering-switcheroo-1415749920> on 
the case.  And surprisingly, he doesn't really say what the Court should 
do. This is the closest he comes:

    The real question to ask here is about the transformation of civil-
    and voting-rights laws from shields to protect individuals against
    racial discrimination into swords to further racial partisan
    empowerment. While it may be wrong to overpack districts with
    minorities, it is just as wrong to use them as tools to pick off
    political opponents. Congress, the courts, and both Republicans and
    Democrats share the blame for this state of affairs.

    Here's a way out: Redistricting must create districts that connect
    compact, contiguous neighborhoods and, in the process, ignore the
    racial results these districts may produce. Think of a process that
    uses elementary-school attendance zones as the building blocks to
    create election districts in cities like Mobile, Houston or Los
    Angeles. Those districts may not have the racial percentages sought
    by political parties, but candidates for office and elected
    representatives would likely be forced to find more middle ground on
    many issues than they do now.

    Until the Supreme Court fixes the baffling jurisprudence it has
    created over the past 40 years regarding race and ethnicity, lower
    courts will be forced to grapple with this confusion. Perhaps the
    Alabama case would be a good place for the justices to start.

UPDATE:Roger Clegg's contribution 
<http://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/392233/thoughts-alabama-redistricting-case-roger-clegg-meriem-l-hubbard>seems 
to want the Supreme Court to use this case as an occasion to declare 
that the Voting Rights Act cannot require the creation of 
majority-minority districts (which would of course render the act a 
nullity in the context of redistricting.)

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    "Barber-McSally vote total likely to trigger recount"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68265>

Posted onNovember 11, 2014 5:20 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68265>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The /Arizona Republic/reports. 
<http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/arizona/politics/2014/11/10/barber-mcsally-race-heads-toward-potential-recount/18833963/?hootPostID=%5B%2719840b760f2b555683f0f6f0a19eb230%27%5D>

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    "(should we cite the crappy Gabor paper here?)"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68262>

Posted onNovember 11, 2014 3:42 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68262>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Poor Gabor <https://twitter.com/davidjayharris/status/531927801037729792>.

and poorer proofreading.

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    "Allegations of voter fraud surface in Illinois Treasurer's race"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68260>

Posted onNovember 11, 2014 3:33 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68260>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

See here. 
<http://www.cinewsnow.com/news/local/Allegations-of-voter-fraud-surface-in-Illinois-Treasurers-race-282340621.html>

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    "How many voters were disenfranchised by Texas' ID law?"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68258>

Posted onNovember 11, 2014 2:45 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68258>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Zack Roth 
<http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/how-many-voters-were-disenfranchised-texass-id-law>for 
MSNBC:

    Both sides are already making claims and counterclaims about the
    impact of Texas <http://www.msnbc.com/topics/texas>' strict voter ID
    law <http://www.msnbc.com/topics/voter-id> in last week's election.

    There's no question that some legitimate voters were disenfranchised
    by the law. But how many? Perhaps a large number --- but the truth
    is, nobody knows.

    The difficulty of gauging the law's effect, at least in the
    election's immediate aftermath, points to an irony that has
    characterized the voter ID controversy nationally: Though lawyers
    challenging ID measures have marshaled reams of compelling evidence
    to show how they could keep voters from the polls, individual
    elections are not well-suited to demonstrating the impact.

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    "Supreme Court to consider political segregation"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68256>

Posted onNovember 11, 2014 1:35 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68256>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

USA Today reports. 
<http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/11/11/supreme-court-alabama-redistricting-black-white/18847991/>

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    "No, Voting Laws Didn't Doom Democrats"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68254>

Posted onNovember 11, 2014 12:50 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68254>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Francis Barry 
<http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-11-11/no-voting-laws-didnt-doom-democrats>for 
Bloomberg View:

    A day after the election, Wendy Weiser
    <http://www.brennancenter.org/blog/how-much-difference-did-new-voting-restrictions-make-yesterdays-close-races> at
    the Brennan Center for Justice argued that "in several key races,
    the margin of victory came very close to the likely margin of
    disenfranchisement." She cited the Senate race in North Carolina as
    one example; here's the gist of her argument: Four years ago,
    200,000 ballots were cast during seven days of early voting that the
    state has since eliminated. The state also ended Election Day
    registration, which 100,000 North Carolinians took advantage of in
    2012, almost one-third of them black. In last week's election, since
    Republican Thom Tillis's margin of victory over Democratic Senator
    Kay Hagan was about 48,000 votes, Weiser implies that Hagan lost
    because so many (Democratic) voters were kept away from the polls.

    Weiser's argument has been picked up by other voting-rights
    advocates
    <http://www.thenation.com/blog/188697/how-new-voting-restrictions-impacted-2014-election> and
    pundits
    <http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/catherine-rampell-voter-suppression-laws-are-already-deciding-elections/2014/11/10/52dc9710-6920-11e4-a31c-77759fc1eacc_story.html>,
    but it falls apart upon closer scrutiny. Even with seven fewer days,
    early voting in North Carolina increased this year compared with
    2010 -- by 35 percent
    <http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2014/11/early-voting-in-nc-midterm-election-tops-1-1-million>.

    Statewide turnout also increased from the previous midterm election,
    to 44.1 percent from 43.7 percent. Even if turnout was lower than it
    would have been without the new voting law --- something that's
    impossible to establish --- it was still higher than it had been in
    four of the five previous midterm elections
    <http://www.ncsbe.gov/ncsbe/voter-turnout>, going back to 1994.

    In addition, based on exit polls and voter turnout data, the overall
    share of the black vote increased
    <http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/08/us/politics/republicans-beat-democrats-at-their-own-ground-game.html> slightly
    compared with 2010.

    Rick Hasen, an expert on election law, says he's skeptical
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68164> about Weiser's analysis, and
    rightly so. When voting-rights advocates fail to include any
    balancing points in their discussion of the election, they undercut
    their credibility and give ammunition to Republicans who suspect
    that they are mostly interested in electing Democrats.

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    "A vote of confidence for mail elections in Colorado"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68252>

Posted onNovember 11, 2014 10:22 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68252>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Denver Post 
<http://www.denverpost.com/editorials/ci_26909639/vote-confidence-mail-elections-colorado>editorial:

    While Colorado's 2014 election was primarily about the candidates
    and initiatives on the ballot, it was also a test of the state's
    all-mail ballot and vote center system.

    Our verdict: It was a success.

    Not only did Colorado buck a national trend of declining voter
    participation compared to the 2010 midterm election, there were no
    scandals involving voter fraud, which was a concern
    <http://www.denverpost.com/ci_23157781/colorado-senate-oks-mail-ballot-voting-gop-maintains> expressed
    by critics of mail balloting.

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    "Appeal hearing set for ex-Indiana elections chief"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68250>

Posted onNovember 11, 2014 10:15 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68250>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

AP on Charlie White 
<http://www.whio.com/news/ap/indiana/appeal-hearing-set-for-ex-indiana-elections-chief/nh5FH/>.

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    "Roberts at 10: Campaign Finance and Voting Rights: Easier to
    Donate, Harder to Vote" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68248>

Posted onNovember 11, 2014 8:54 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68248>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

David Gans 
<http://theusconstitution.org/sites/default/files/briefs/Roberts-at-10-Easier-to-Donate-Harder-to-Vote.pdf>for 
CAC.

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    "Fundraiser bags millions from conservatives, but owes taxes, child
    support' <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68246>

Posted onNovember 11, 2014 8:53 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68246>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Washington Examiner <http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2556004/>:

    A fundraiser for conservative groups who has raised millions of
    dollars
    <http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/30/operatives-raise-cash-for-cain-themselves/?page=all>by
    invoking small-government rhetoric is delinquent on his taxes and
    child support, despite having worked for a federal contractor and
    the District of Columbia tax office.

    Todd Zirkle is executive director of Freedom's Defense Fund, a
    political action committee that has received more than $7.4 million
    in contributions since 2010, most of which went to fundraising firms
    to which he has close ties. The companies are Base Connect in
    Washington, D.C., and a handful of other businesses that largely
    share office space and clients.

    FDF conducts little actual political activity. The only ad on its
    website from this cycle attacks a Michigan candidate as a
    "foreclosure king <http://www.freedomsdefensefund.com/initiatives>."

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    "Why Silicon Valley Can't Put a Techie in Congress"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68244>

Posted onNovember 11, 2014 8:24 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68244>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Will Oremus writes 
<http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/11/10/ro_khanna_larry_lessig_why_silicon_valley_can_t_put_a_techie_in_congress.html>for 
Slate.

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    "2014 midterm election turnout lowest in 70 years"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68242>

Posted onNovember 11, 2014 8:19 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68242>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

PBS News Hour: 
<http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/2014-midterm-election-turnout-lowest-in-70-years/>

Final numbers are still being tallied, but at this point it looks pretty 
clear that turnout in these midterms was the lowest overall in 70 years. 
Turnout of the voting-eligible population was just 36.4 percent, 
according to the projection from the United States Elections Project 
<http://www.electproject.org/national-1789-present>, run by Dr. Michael 
McDonald at the University of Florida. That's down from the 41 percent 
that turned out in 2010. You have to go all the way back to 1942 for 
lower numbers when turnout in that midterm was just 33.9 percent. They 
had a pretty good excuse back then --- many adult-age Americans were 
preoccupied with fighting in a world war.

midterm election Turnout 1940-2014

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    "Catherine Rampell: Voter suppression laws are already deciding
    elections" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68240>

Posted onNovember 11, 2014 7:50 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68240>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo opinion. 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/catherine-rampell-voter-suppression-laws-are-already-deciding-elections/2014/11/10/52dc9710-6920-11e4-a31c-77759fc1eacc_story.html?wpmk=MK0000203> This 
relies on Brennan Center data, andfor reasons I've given 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68164>, I'm very skeptical.

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    "Campaign Finance Deadlock, Part I: 'Undue Influence' Theories and
    the Cost-Benefit Calculation" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68238>

Posted onNovember 11, 2014 7:47 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68238>byRick Hasen 
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Bauer blogs. 
<http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/2014/11/campaign-finance-deadlock-part-undue-influence-theories-cost-benefit-calculation/>

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