[EL] Georgia registration issue

Fri Oct 10 22:10:11 PDT 2014

Sorry, accidentally hit send before my second point:
2. In my experience, 3rd party registration groups have shown little interest in directing individuals to an online voter registration portal or other official registration route. No way they can do their data collection if people skip the middleman. One example that comes to mind here in Virginia was a registration drive that set up quite literally outside of a DMV office and discouraged people from registering inside. You see the various other drives that set up wanna be online registration options that still require the applicant to print an app and mail it in. All that matters was that they could collect the data from the person on the front end. Would be much easier for them to direct people to the official online portal but they neglect to do so. 

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> On Oct 11, 2014, at 12:56 AM, Justin Riemer <jjustinriemer at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Two things here:
> 1. If no drivers license or DMV IDthen how do you verify identity? 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone.
> 
>> On Oct 10, 2014, at 8:58 PM, Justin Levitt <levittj at lls.edu> wrote:
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>> Barring any more blockbuster SCOTUS decisions this evening, we'll be back tomorrow...
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>> Lawsuit: Over 50,000 GA Voter Registration Forms Not Yet Processed
>> Posted on October 10, 2014 5:52 pm by Justin Levitt
>> The forms in dispute are paper forms submitted by the New Georgia Project, currently in something of a battle with the Georgia Secretary of State.
>> 
>> Some of this might be avoided in the future by using Georgia’s brand-new online voter registration 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.  I'll post the filings once I can get/find it.]
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>> “Chevron Unleashes Campaign Spending to Influence Richmond Election”
>> Posted on October 10, 2014 4:30 pm by Justin Levitt
>> Report from the Contra Costa Times (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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>> Posted in campaign finance
>> “Ads Paid for by Secret Money Flood the Midterm Elections”
>> Posted on October 10, 2014 3:14 pm by Justin Levitt
>> NY Times.  It begins:
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>> 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 a CCP op-ed 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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>> Posted in campaign finance
>> Judge Posner Slam on Judge Easterbrook Includes Defense of Persily and Ansolabehere Article
>> Posted on October 10, 2014 3:11 pm by Rick Hasen
>> Read the whole dissent 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.
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>> 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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>> Posted in Uncategorized
>> “Courts Strike Down Voter ID Laws In Texas, Wisconsin”
>> Posted on October 10, 2014 3:03 pm by Justin Levitt
>> NPR’s latest, on All Things Considered.
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>> Posted in election administration, election law and constitutional law, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id
>> “South Dakota Senate Candidate Lives in D.C.”
>> Posted on October 10, 2014 2:04 pm by Justin Levitt
>> So reports Politico.  (HuffPo does a quick recap of other recent residency kerfuffles.)
>> 
>> As I’ve mentioned before, 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 in residency
>> Josh Douglas on Last-Minute SCOTUS Stays
>> Posted on October 10, 2014 1:55 pm by Justin Levitt
>> Focusing 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 in election administration, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voter id
>> The FEC and Citizens United
>> Posted on October 10, 2014 12:11 pm by Justin Levitt
>> Bauer 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 also discusses Commissioner Ravel’s decision to let the rulemaking move forward, in the Washington Post.
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>> Posted in campaign finance, federal election commission
>> “In the Senate, Campaign Finance is the New Flag Burning”
>> Posted on October 10, 2014 12:11 pm by Justin Levitt
>> Gayle Trotter in The Hill.
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>> Virginia Gov. McAuliffe Talks Redistricting
>> Posted on October 10, 2014 12:10 pm by Justin Levitt
>> In this clip.  The legislature’s going to have to get his support for new districts next year, after the trial court struck down the congressional map (for 2016 elections).
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>> “The Voting Rights Act & Judicial Equity”
>> Posted on October 10, 2014 12:10 pm by Justin Levitt
>> Ned Foley with characteristically smart thoughts about the equitable considerations in last-minute judicial orders before an election.
>> 
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>> Posted in election administration, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights Act
>> Toronto Reports Give Internet Voting a Thumbs-Down
>> Posted on October 10, 2014 12:09 pm by Justin Levitt
>> Al Jazeera America ventures north of the border.
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>> Posted in election administration, internet voting
>> A Wild Week for Voting Rights
>> Posted on October 10, 2014 12:09 pm by Justin Levitt
>> Liz Kennedy, at Demos, reviews what’s happened.  Week’s not over yet.
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>> Posted in election administration, The Voting Wars
>> “Elections Board Launches Voter ID Campaign”
>> Posted on October 10, 2014 12:08 pm by Justin Levitt
>> In Wisconsin.  Funny story…
>> 
>> [Update: This new report 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 my post last night: "'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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