[EL] More news 10/10
Justin Levitt
levittj at lls.edu
Fri Oct 10 17:58:30 PDT 2014
Barring any more blockbuster SCOTUS decisions this evening, we'll be
back tomorrow...
Lawsuit: Over 50,000 GA Voter Registration Forms Not Yet Processed
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=66687>
Posted onOctober 10, 2014 5:52 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=66687>byJustin Levitt
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
Theforms in dispute
<http://www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/lawyers-committee-sues-georgia-over-missing-voter-/nhgXj/> are
paper forms submitted by the New Georgia Project, currently insomething
of a battle <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65627>with the Georgia
Secretary of State.
Some of this might be avoided in the future by using Georgia'sbrand-new
<http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/electronic-or-online-voter-registration.aspx>
online voter registration
<http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/electronic-or-online-voter-registration.aspx> process.
Of course, if Georgia expanded its online voter registration process
to include people without driver's licenses, perhaps they'd get fewer
paper forms that need processing...
[Here's the plaintiffs'press release
<http://www.lawyerscommittee.org/newsroom/press_releases?id=0516>. I'll
post the filings once I can get/find it.]
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"Chevron Unleashes Campaign Spending to Influence Richmond Election"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=66683>
Posted onOctober 10, 2014 4:30 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=66683>byJustin Levitt
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
Report from theContra Costa Times
<http://www.contracostatimes.com/west-county-times/ci_26703743/chevron-unleashes-campaign-spending-influence-richmond-election>(it's
Richmond, CA, not Richmond, VA) that Chevron has contributed "nearly $3
million" to independent committees supporting some municipal candidates
and opposing others. California's disclosure law is one of the reasons
that it's known that Chevron made the contributions.
A question: I know that there have been some hefty sums spent by
for-profit corporations on ballot initiatives. But what's the largest
sum that we know of so far given by a for-profit corporation to advocate
for the election or defeat of municipal candidates?
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"Ads Paid for by Secret Money Flood the Midterm Elections"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=66678>
Posted onOctober 10, 2014 3:14 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=66678>byJustin Levitt
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
NY Times
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/11/us/politics/ads-paid-for-by-secret-money-flood-the-midterm-elections.html>.
It begins:
More than half of the general election advertising aired by outside
groups in the battle for control of Congress has come from
organizations that disclose little or nothing about their donors, a
flood of secret money that is now at the center of a debate over the
line between free speech and corruption.
The other day,I mentioned <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=66543>aCCP
op-ed
<http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/219926-dark-money-still-a-bit-player>stating
that over 95% of campaign spending this cycle is funded by groups that
publicly disclose (some) donor info to the FEC.
Some of the discrepancy is due to the denominator: the/Times/ piece is
counting 55% of broadcast ads by outside groups, and the CCP piece
counted candidate and party spending as well as other outside spending.
But on the same denominator, I think that still leaves CCP with "dark
money" tallied at $75 million of the $357 million (21%) of spending by
those who aren't parties or candidates. Has there been that much
general election spending by outside groups this cycle beyond broadcast
ads? And if not, any ideas about what accounts for the difference?
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Judge Posner Slam on Judge Easterbrook Includes Defense of Persily
and Ansolabehere Article <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=66675>
Posted onOctober 10, 2014 3:11 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=66675>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Read thewhole 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>from
Judge Posner, but note this:
Stephen Ansolabehere & Nathaniel Persily, "Vote Fraud in the Eye of
the Beholder: The Role of Public Opinion in the Challenge to Voter
Identification Requirements, 121 Harv. L. Rev. 1727 (2008), finds
that perceptions of voter impersonation fraud are unrelated to the
strictness of a state's voter id law. This suggests that these laws
do not reduce such fraud, for if they did one would expect
perceptions of its prevalence to change. The study also undermines
the suggestion in the panel's opinion (offered without supporting
evidence) that requiring a photo ID in order to be allowed to vote
increases voter confidence in the honesty of the election and thus
increases turnout. If perceptions of the prevalence of voter
impersonation fraud are unaffected by the strictness of a stat'e
photo ID laws, neither will confidence in the honesty of elections
rise, for it would rise only if voters were persuaded that such laws
reduce the incidence of such fraud.
The panel opinion dismisses the Ansolabehere and Persily article on
grounds it was published in the Harvard Law Review, it was not peer
reviewed. So much for peer review. (And what about Supreme Court
opinions? They are not peer reviewed either. Persily, incidentally
was chosen to be research director of [the non-partisan Bauer
Ginsberg commission].
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"Courts Strike Down Voter ID Laws In Texas, Wisconsin"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=66676>
Posted onOctober 10, 2014 3:03 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=66676>byJustin Levitt
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
NPR's latest, onAll Things Considered
<http://www.npr.org/2014/10/10/355187900/courts-strike-down-voter-id-laws-in-texas-wisconsin>.
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Posted inelection administration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,election law and constitutional law
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=55>,Supreme Court
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voter id
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>
"South Dakota Senate Candidate Lives in D.C."
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=66673>
Posted onOctober 10, 2014 2:04 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=66673>byJustin Levitt
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
So reportsPolitico
<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/larry-pressler-dc-resident-111775.html>.
(HuffPo
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/10/larry-pressler-senate-_n_5967002.html>does
a quick recap of other recent residency kerfuffles.)
As I've mentioned before <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=66338>, there's
often a difference between where someone may live and their legal voting
address. This story, about Sen. candidate Larry Pressler, is a bit more
meaty based on a claimed homestead tax deduction for Pressler's
"principal residence." Still, the tax laws and voting laws may have
different standards, and you need to know more about both South Dakota
and D.C. legal requirements to actually understand whether this is a
problem or not.
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Posted inresidency <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=38>
Josh Douglas on Last-Minute SCOTUS Stays
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=66671>
Posted onOctober 10, 2014 1:55 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=66671>byJustin Levitt
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
Focusing
<http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/supreme-court-voter-rulings-election>on
the distinction between stays that allow restrictive laws to go forward
and those that keep restrictive laws at bay.
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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>
The FEC and Citizens United <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=66669>
Posted onOctober 10, 2014 12:11 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=66669>byJustin Levitt
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
Bauer
<http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/2014/10/functioning-agency-sources-dysfunction/>reviews
the FEC's choice to adjust existing regulations in line with/Citizens
United/'s narrow holding, without also proceeding to modify disclosure.
Dana Milbank
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-the-fec-is-the-poster-child-for-a-broken-washington/2014/10/10/9966d646-5084-11e4-8c24-487e92bc997b_story.html>also
discusses Commissioner Ravel's decision to let the rulemaking move
forward, in the Washington Post.
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election commission <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=24>
"In the Senate, Campaign Finance is the New Flag Burning"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=66667>
Posted onOctober 10, 2014 12:11 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=66667>byJustin Levitt
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
Gayle Trotter
<http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/campaign/220334-in-the-senate-campaign-finance-is-the-new-flag-burning>in
The Hill.
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Virginia Gov. McAuliffe Talks Redistricting
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=66665>
Posted onOctober 10, 2014 12:10 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=66665>byJustin Levitt
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
In this clip
<http://www.wdbj7.com/news/local/web-extra-governor-terry-mcauliffe-talks-about-redistricting/29036806>.
The legislature's going to have to get his support for new districts
next year, after the trial courtstruck down
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=66456>the congressional map (for 2016
elections).
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"The Voting Rights Act & Judicial Equity"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=66663>
Posted onOctober 10, 2014 12:10 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=66663>byJustin Levitt
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
Ned Foleywith characteristically smart thoughts
<http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/election-law/article/?article=12971>about the
equitable considerations in last-minute judicial orders before an election.
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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>
Toronto Reports Give Internet Voting a Thumbs-Down
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=66661>
Posted onOctober 10, 2014 12:09 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=66661>byJustin Levitt
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
Al Jazeera America
<http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/10/8/latest-internet-votingreportsshowfailuresacrosstheboard.html>ventures
north of the border.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,internet voting
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=49>
A Wild Week for Voting Rights <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=66659>
Posted onOctober 10, 2014 12:09 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=66659>byJustin Levitt
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
Liz Kennedy
<http://www.demos.org/blog/10/10/14/wild-week-voting-rights>, at Demos,
reviews what's happened. Week's not over yet.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
"Elections Board Launches Voter ID Campaign"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=66657>
Posted onOctober 10, 2014 12:08 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=66657>byJustin Levitt
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
In Wisconsin
<http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/politics/elections/2014/10/09/elections-board-voter-id-campaign/16991031/>.
Funny story <http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14a352_i42k.pdf>...
[Update: Thisnew report
<http://www.channel3000.com/news/clerks-working-to-clear-voter-id-confusion/29060056>describes
election clerks' latest attempts to communicate to voters exactly what
voters will need to show.
Of potential relevance to a coming /Purcell/decision in Texas, in line
with mypost last night <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=66613>: "'There
was confusion in the first place. It is going to be easy to tell our
election officials. Don't worry about the voter ID for this election,
and focus on all the Election Day processes that you've already been
trained in and that you already know,' said Maribeth Witzel-Behl, city
of Madison clerk."]
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,Supreme Court
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>,The Voting Wars
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>
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Justin Levitt
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