[EL] ELB News and Commentary 11/19/14

Tue Nov 18 21:24:33 PST 2014

    "Perry Judge Rules Prosecutor is Not Disqualified"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68489>

Posted onNovember 18, 2014 9:03 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68489>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The Texas Tribune reports 
<http://www.texastribune.org/2014/11/18/perry-judge-rules-prosecutor-sworn-in/>.

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Posted inUncategorized <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>

    "A handful of bills could bridge the partisan divide. But will they
    start a trend?" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68487>

Posted onNovember 18, 2014 9:00 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68487>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo reports 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-handful-of-bills-could-bridge-the-partisan-divide/2014/11/17/b4fed0da-6e74-11e4-8808-afaa1e3a33ef_story.html>.

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Posted inlegislation and legislatures 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=27>,political parties 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>,political polarization 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=68>

    "The Racist Origins of Felon Disenfranchisement"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68485>

Posted onNovember 18, 2014 8:55 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68485>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Brent Staples 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/opinion/the-racist-origins-of-felon-disenfranchisement.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region&region=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region&_r=0>NYT 
Editorial Observer column.

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Posted infelon voting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=66>

    "Texas ID Law Keeps Hundreds of Ballots From Being Counted"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68483>

Posted onNovember 18, 2014 3:08 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68483>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT First Draft. 
<http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2014/11/18/?entry=5891&_php=true&_type=blogs&partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0>

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Posted inelection administration 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,Supreme Court 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>,The Voting Wars 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voter id 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>,Voting Rights Act 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>

    "The SCOTUS Should Reject Alabama's Congressional Districts"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68479>

Posted onNovember 18, 2014 3:00 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68479>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Jim Sleeper 
writes<http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/ten-miles-square/2014/11/the_scotus_should_reject_alaba052987.php>at 
the Washington Monthly.

As a reader points out, the Alabama case is about state legislative 
districts, not congressional districts.

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Posted inredistricting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>,Supreme Court 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>,Voting Rights Act 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>

    "Mayer Brown, DOJ Fight Over Fees in Lobbyists' Case"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68477>

Posted onNovember 18, 2014 1:05 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68477>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

BLT reports 
<http://www.nationallawjournal.com/legaltimes/id=1202676734139/Mayer-Brown-DOJ-Fight-Over-Fees-in-Lobbyists-Case?cmp=share_twitter&slreturn=20141018155846>.

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Posted inlobbying <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=28>

    "See the GOP's coded tweets" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68475>

Posted onNovember 18, 2014 12:53 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68475>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

CNN screenshots 
<http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/18/politics/gop-tweets-screenshots/index.html>.

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

    "Ron Paul's Presidential Campaign Shells Out for Lawyers in Wake of
    Disclosures" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68473>

Posted onNovember 18, 2014 12:41 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68473>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Open Secrets reports. 
<http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2014/11/ron-pauls-presidential-campaign-shells-out-for-lawyers-in-wake-of-disclosures/>

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    Federal Court in TX Redistricting Case Hints it May Wait for SCOTUS
    to Resolve Alabama Case First <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68470>

Posted onNovember 18, 2014 11:55 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68470>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

See this order. 
<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/court-order-11-18-2014.pdf>

At the rate we are going, the decade will be more than half over before 
the Court decides the redistricting challenge---just in time for a new 
challenge after the 2020 census!

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    "With Midterms Over, Voter ID Law Effects Get Close Look"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68468>

Posted onNovember 18, 2014 11:33 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68468>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Trip Gabriel and Manny Fernandez write 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/us/voter-id-laws-midterm-elections.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=0>for 
the NYT. A snippet:

    Voting rights advocates raised eyebrows about the role of voting
    restrictions in races that were narrowly decided. Wendy Weiser,
    director of the democracy program at the Brennan Center for Justice,
    which has challenged voting restrictions in court, said that in some
    key races, Republicans won tight victories that were close to what
    she called the "margin of disenfranchisement."

    In North Carolina, Ms. Weiser noted, 200,000 voters cast ballots
    over seven days of early voting in 2010 -- a window used especially
    by African-Americans -- that was eliminated this year. Thom Tillis,
    a Republican, defeated Senator Kay Hagen by just 48,000 votes.

    Similarly, Ms. Weiser pointed to Kansas, where Gov. Sam Brownback, a
    Republican, was re-elected
    <http://www.kssos.org/ent/kssos_ent.html>by fewer than 33,000 votes,
    or 2.8 percent. At the same time, 22,000 would-be voters, whose
    registrations were suspended for lack of a document to prove their
    citizenship, did not get to cast a ballot. Kansas also has a strict
    voter ID law, which a federal government study
    <http://www.gao.gov/assets/670/665965.pdf> this year said suppressed
    turnout by about 2 percent. It had a greater impact on young and
    black voters.

    "These laws should give us pause," Ms. Weiser said. "They're
    creating disenfranchisement. We have enough information to gauge
    what the order of magnitude is, and it's close to the order of
    magnitude of the margins of victory."

    But Kansas's secretary of state, Kris W. Kobach, who wrote the law
    requiring proof of citizenship to register and a photo ID to vote,
    dismissed the suggestion that it played a role in suppressing
    turnout. "Voter turnout in the November 2014 election was 50
    percent, exactly what it was in the November 2010 election before we
    adopted our photo ID law --- also 50 percent," he said.

    Mr. Kobach said, "The facts show that photo ID did not reduce
    turnout, and proof of citizenship did not stop Kansas from setting
    an all-time high in the number of registered voters."
    <http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/us/voter-id-laws-midterm-elections.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=0#story-continues-8>

    Ms. Weiser said she was not implying that any of last week's
    victories were illegitimate, but other commentators, especially on
    the left, have not been so restrained, implying that voter
    requirement laws are already deciding elections.

    But there are problems in leaping to such conclusions, voting
    experts said. In North Carolina, despite the elimination of seven
    days of early voting, overall early voting was up by 35 percent
    compared with 2010, according to the United States Election Project
    at the University of Florida.

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

    "Court Rulings Impact Elections in 2014?
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68466>

Posted onNovember 18, 2014 10:48 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68466>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

That's the lead story in the November 2014 issue ofThe Canvass 
<http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/states-and-election-reform-the-canvass-november-december-2014.aspx?utm_source=Canvass&utm_campaign=6b017b8c8a-Canvass_April_20134_25_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c27fe8f428-6b017b8c8a-111828865>.

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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,Supreme Court 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>,The Voting Wars 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>

    "Inspector General Cites FEC Management Problems, Staff Vacancies"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68464>

Posted onNovember 18, 2014 10:46 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68464>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bloomberg BNA breaking news via email:

    The Federal Election Commission has serious management problems,
    including a failure to hire a general counsel and fill other top
    staff positions, according to a new assessment from the agency's
    inspector general, Lynne A. McFarland.

    "Critical management positions that are directly linked to carrying
    out the agency's mission have remained vacant for more than a year,"
    McFarland said in a memo quietly posted on the FEC website late Nov.
    17 as part of the agency'sannual financial report
    <http://www.fec.gov/pages/budget/fy2014/FY2014_AFR.pdf>for fiscal 2014.

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    "Illinois treasurer's race close; Kirk seeks probe"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68462>

Posted onNovember 18, 2014 8:05 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68462>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

AP reports. 
<http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/crime/article/Illinois-treasurer-s-race-close-Kirk-seeks-probe-5899593.php>

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Posted inelection administration 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,recounts 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=50>

    "Top Spenders On Capitol Hill Pay Billions, Receive Trillions"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68460>

Posted onNovember 18, 2014 7:50 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68460>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Peter Overby reports 
<http://www.npr.org/2014/11/17/364591114/top-spenders-on-capitol-hill-pay-billions-receive-trillions>for 
NPR.

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