[EL] ELB News and Commentary 11/26/14

Tue Nov 25 21:10:09 PST 2014

    "Almost 800 cast provisional ballots because of voter ID law"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68674>

Posted onNovember 25, 2014 8:41 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68674>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

News from Va 
<http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/state-regional/virginia-politics/almost-cast-provisional-ballots-because-of-voter-id-law/article_c93b3725-966a-5b20-ba63-c8f28e16c6f9.html>.

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Posted inelection administration 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voter id 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>

    'Alabama's photo voter ID law declared a success; not everyone
    agrees" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68672>

Posted onNovember 25, 2014 4:53 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68672>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

AL.com reports 
<http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2014/11/alabamas_new_photo_voter_id_la.html>.

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Posted inelection administration 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voter id 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>

    "Colorado District Court Urged to Reject Another Challenge to
    Electioneering Communications Disclosure Provisions"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68670>

Posted onNovember 25, 2014 1:35 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68670>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

See here 
<http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2707:november-25-2014-colorado-district-court-urged-to-reject-another-challenge-to-electioneering-communications-disclosure-provisions&catid=63:legal-center-press-releases&Itemid=61>.

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

    Democracy North Carolina Responds to My Post on Its New Report
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68667>

Posted onNovember 25, 2014 12:57 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68667>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Following up onmy post <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68650>from this 
morning, linking to Democracy NC'snew report 
<http://www.democracy-nc.org/downloads/RejectedVoters2014.pdf>, I 
received the following response via email:

    The 30K to 50K estimate is not based on assuming an equal number of
    voters who used same-day registration or out-of-precinct voting in
    North Carolina's 2010 midterm would have done so in the more
    contested election of 2014, but certainly many thousands who would
    have, maybe even more -- we'll never know.

    We should have explained more clearly that the estimate is also
    based on hotline calls, news articles and field reports from
    hundreds of poll monitors in all the large counties and many smaller
    ones who saw thousands of voters leaving long lines, being sent away
    from polling places, etc.  At just one polling site, the monitors
    counted over 300 voters leaving without voting. We'll be reviewing
    these reports in more depth and checking the lists some monitors
    gathered of names of voters leaving to see what percent actually
    voted at another precinct.

    So our "preliminary report" is a work in progress with some ballpark
    numbers to indicate the seriousness of the impact of the new law.
    The real point is not whether it's 15,000 or 50,000 but that the new
    rules, along with the confusion and lack of preparation related to
    those rules, led the election process to become dysfunctional in too
    many ways, in too many places, and harm too many voters.

    Bob Hall and Isela Gutierrez, Democracy North Carolina

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

    "Is Eight Enough?" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68665>

Posted onNovember 25, 2014 12:50 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68665>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Jerry Goldfeder <http://www.stroock.com/SiteFiles/Pub1561.pdf>:

    Thirty years ago there was a TV program called Eight Is Enough. It
    comes to mind because now that the gubernatorial candidates of the
    Stop Common Core Party (Rob Astorino) and the Women's Equality Party
    (Andrew Cuomo) each exceeded 50,000 votes, they join the  currently
    constituted parties on the ballot, giving New York a total of eight
    political parties. One can say voters here have a rich variety of
    choices. One can also say the ballot, already crowded, will be even
    more confusing. This is especially true because ours is one of only
    a handful of states that permits "fusion"---allowing parties to
    cross-endorse one another's candidates. This can lead voters to
    wonder what a candidate or party actually stands for.

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Posted inballot access <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=46>,political 
parties <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>,third parties 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=47>

    "Making Ohio's Electoral System a National Model"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68663>

Posted onNovember 25, 2014 12:47 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=68663>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Dec. 10 Bipartisan Policy Instituteevent 
<http://bipartisanpolicy.org/events/making-ohios-electoral-system-a-national-model/> at 
Ohio State:

    Ohio is at the epicenter of electoral policy discussions in the
    United States. Over the next two years, Ohio will again engage in
    debates about redistricting reform, early voting, voter registration
    and provisional ballots.

    Please join Secretary of State Jon Husted and a panel of experts
    that follows for a conversation about prospects for electoral reform
    in Ohio in 2015 and beyond. The secretary, who was recently
    re-elected to a four-year term, will focus on his vision for making
    redistricting reform a reality in 2015.

    ------------------------------------------------------------------------

    /Discussion with:/

    *Jon Husted*
    Ohio Secretary of State

    *Karen Kasler*
    Statehouse Bureau Chief, Ohio Public Radio and TV

    /Panel discussion featuring:/

    *Herb Asher*
    Senior Vice President for Government Affairs and Counselor to the
    President, The Ohio State University
    Member, Ohio Constitutional Modernization Commission

    *Senator Mark D. Wagoner, Jr.*
    Former Senator, Ohio Senate, District 2
    Member, Ohio Constitutional Modernization Commission

    *Edward B. Foley*
    Charles W. Ebersold and Florence Whitcomb Ebersold Chair in
    Constitutional Law
    Director, Election Law @ Mortiz

    *John Fortier*
    Director, BPC's Democracy Project

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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,redistricting 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>,The Voting Wars 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>

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