[EL] more news 10/24/14
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Fri Oct 24 14:49:49 PDT 2014
Sixth Circuit on 2-1 Vote Rejects OH Voting Rights Claim of Jailed
Voters <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67416>
Posted onOctober 24, 2014 2:48 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67416>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The other dayI noted <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67187>a federal
district court ruling holding that those jailed
<https://www.scribd.com/doc/243761181/Fair-Elections-Ohio-v-Husted> (but
not convicted) voters have the same rights to vote absentee as
late-hospitalized Ohio voters.
Today the Sixth Circuit rejected the claim in a2-1 opinion
<http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/14a0268p-06.pdf>. The majority
held that the group bringing the claim lacked standing to bring the
claim. Chief Judge Cole dissented, disagreeing with the majority on the
standing question and agreeing with the trial court on the merits.
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Posted inabsentee ballots <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=53>,election
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"Tennant accused of violating election law"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67414>
Posted onOctober 24, 2014 2:37 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67414>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
News<http://www.journal-news.net/page/content.detail/id/620655/Tennant-accused-of-violating-election-law.html?nav=5006>from
West Va.:
Secretary of State Natalie Tennant's rally on the steps of the
Kanawha County Courthouse on Wednesday to celebrate the start of
early voting may have violated state election law, officials said.
Tennant, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, brought a group
of supporters to the courthouse Wednesday morning and addressed the
group before leading them inside to vote, thanking them for their
support of her and West Virginia.
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Posted incampaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
"Campaign finance officials aim to cure the paper-obsessed Senate
through crowd-sourcing, algorithms"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67412>
Posted onOctober 24, 2014 1:38 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67412>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Fascinating
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/10/24/campaign-finance-officials-aim-to-cure-the-paper-obsessed-senate-through-crowd-sourcing-algorithms/>:
A potential tech-work around to the Senate's inexcusable reluctance to
require electronic filing of campaign finance data.
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"J.H. Snider, Beverly Clay: Constitutional Convention and the
out-of-state-money bogeyman" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67410>
Posted onOctober 24, 2014 12:28 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67410>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Providence Journalopinion piece.
<http://www.providencejournal.com/opinion/commentary/20141024-j.h.-snider-beverly-clay-constitutional-convention-and-the-out-of-state-money-bogeyman.ece>
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Posted inUncategorized <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
"Could non-citizens decide the November election?"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67408>
Posted onOctober 24, 2014 12:27 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67408>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Jesse Richman and David Earnes
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/10/24/could-non-citizens-decide-the-november-election/>t
at the Monkey Cage with some provocative findings on the extent of
non-citizen voting. I will be very interested to hear what others think
of the methodology in thisforthcoming article
<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261379414000973>in
Electoral Studies.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
"Power shifts to outsiders in U.S. Senate fight; Candidates
routinely outspent by super PACs, political nonprofits in pivotal
contests" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67406>
Posted onOctober 24, 2014 10:23 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67406>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Important CPI report.
<http://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/10/24/16040/power-shifts-outsiders-us-senate-fight>
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"Analysis: A Missing Piece in the Voter ID Debate"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67404>
Posted onOctober 24, 2014 9:58 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67404>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Ross Ramsey
<http://www.texastribune.org/2014/10/24/analysis-missing-piece-voter-id-debate/>in
the Texas Tribune: "Republican state officials working to pass a voter
photo ID law in 2011 knew that more than 500,000 of the state's
registered voters did not have the credentials needed to cast ballots
under the new requirement. But they did not share that information with
lawmakers rushing to pass the legislation."
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,Supreme Court
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
Krugman on the Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67402>
Posted onOctober 24, 2014 9:54 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67402>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT column
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/opinion/paul-krugman-plutocrats-against-democracy.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region®ion=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region>:
And now you understand why there's so much furor on the right over
the alleged but actually almost nonexistent problem of voter fraud,
and so much support for voter ID laws that make it hard for the poor
and even the working class to cast ballots. American politicians
don't dare say outright that only the wealthy should have political
rights --- at least not yet. But if you follow the currents of
thought now prevalent on the political right to their logical
conclusion, that's where you end up.
The truth is that a lot of what's going on in American politics is,
at root, a fight between democracy and plutocracy. And it's by no
means clear which side will win.
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Posted inThe Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
"Supreme Court Becomes Night Court in October of Oddities"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67400>
Posted onOctober 24, 2014 8:50 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67400>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
GreatGreg Stohr piece
<http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-10-24/supreme-court-becomes-night-court-in-october-of-oddities>.
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"UPDATED 10-24: Two involved in Stanford fake voter guide scandal
are fellows at right-wing think tank"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67398>
Posted onOctober 24, 2014 8:39 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67398>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
See theCowgirl Blog
<http://mtcowgirl.com/2014/10/23/update-flathead-memo-obtains-stanfords-canned-talking-points-on-the-election-experiment-scandal/>.
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"Groups Challenging FEC Dismissal of Crossroads GPS Complaint File
Reply Brief" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67396>
Posted onOctober 24, 2014 8:31 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67396>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
See here
<http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2665:october-24-2014-groups-challenging-fec-dismissal-of-crossroads-gps-complaint-file-reply-brief&catid=63:legal-center-press-releases&Itemid=61>.
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"Ballot dispute in Georgia heads to courts --- and could be a factor
in state's close Senate race" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67394>
Posted onOctober 24, 2014 8:10 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67394>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WaPo reports
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/10/24/ballot-dispute-in-georgia-heads-to-courts-and-could-be-a-factor-in-states-close-senate-race/>.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voter id
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>
The Premise of Jim Geraghty's Question About Voter Fraud is Wrong
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67391>
Posted onOctober 24, 2014 8:00 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67391>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
He asks
<http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/391088/tiresome-false-democrats-will-steal-election-doomsaying-jim-geraghty>:
"Isn't there some happy medium between Democrats' and liberal
journalists' insistence that there's no such thing as voter fraud, ever,
and the claim that Democrats' election victories are stolen?"
There are very few people on the left who say there is no voter fraud.
The issue is about the kind of voter fraud that voter id laws prevent.
See myopen letter to Jonathan Tobin
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=54875>, whichstill has not been answered
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=64894>.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
Moyers Has Ifill and Berman on Vote Suppression
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67389>
Posted onOctober 24, 2014 7:55 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67389>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Here. <http://billmoyers.com/episode/fight-right-vote/>
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Expect a Long Night of Counting in Illinois
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67387>
Posted onOctober 24, 2014 7:54 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67387>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Illinois AG opinion
<http://www.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/opinions/2014/14-001.pdf>prohibiting
the counting of any absentee ballots before the close of polls on
election day. I hear this may be in contrast to prior practice.
With lots of absentees to be counted, it may be a long night in some places.
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Posted inelection administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>
"Election supervisors are reminded to 'expect the unexpected'"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67385>
Posted onOctober 24, 2014 7:53 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67385>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
We'll always haveFlorida
<http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/election-supervisors-are-reminded-to-expect-the-unexpected/2203446>.
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"Justifying a Revised Voting Rights Act: The Guarantee Clause and
the Problem of Minority Rule" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67383>
Posted onOctober 24, 2014 7:44 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67383>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Jack Chin has postedthis draft
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2506356>on SSRN
(forthcoming,/Boston University Law Review/). Here is the abstract:
In Shelby County v. Holder, the Supreme Court invalidated Section 4
of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which required certain
jurisdictions with histories of discrimination to "preclear" changes
to their voting practices under Section 5 before those changes could
become effective. This Article proposes that Congress ground its
responsive voting rights legislation in the Constitution's Guarantee
Clause, in addition to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. The
Court has made clear that the Guarantee Clause is a power granted
exclusively to Congress and that questions of its exercise are
nonjusticiable. It is also clear from the Federalist Papers and from
scholarly writing -- as well as from what little the Court has said
-- that the purpose of the Guarantee Clause is to protect majority
rule. That is precisely what was at issue after the Civil War when
Congress first used the Guarantee Clause to protect African American
votes. As an absolute majority in three states and over forty
percent of the population in four others, African Americans
possessed political control when allowed to vote; when
disenfranchised, they were subjected to minority rule. African
Americans are no longer the majority in any state. But in a closely
divided political environment, whether African Americans and other
minorities can vote freely may be decisive in many elections. For
this reason, Congress could legitimately ground a revised Voting
Rights Act in the Guarantee Clause, and the Court should treat its
validity as a nonjusticiable political question committed by the
Constitution to Congress.
Can't wait to read this!
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"Still Fighting to Register Voters in Georgia"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67380>
Posted onOctober 24, 2014 7:40 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67380>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
David Firestone writes
<http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/still-fighting-to-register-voters-in-georgia/?_php=true&_type=blogs&smid=tw-share&_r=0>for
the NYT ed blog.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voter registration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=37>
"Election to Cost Nearly $4 Billion, CRP Projects, Topping Previous
Midterms" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67378>
Posted onOctober 24, 2014 7:39 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67378>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Open Secrets:
<http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2014/10/election-to-cost-nearly-4-billion-crp-projects-topping-previous-midterms/?utm_source=CRP+Mail+List&utm_campaign=faa262454e-Newsletter_10_23_1410_23_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_9df8578d78-faa262454e-206469445>
Almost $4 billion will be spent for this year's midterm election,
the Center for Responsive Politics is projecting. That figure makes
this year's election by far the most expensive midterm ever
<http://www.opensecrets.org/bigpicture/>. The candidates and parties
alone will combine to spend about $2.7 billion, while outside groups
<http://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/summ.php?disp=O> will
likely spend close to $900 million on their own --- a figure that
veers close to the $1.3 billion spent by outside groups in 2012
<http://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/fes_summ.php?cycle=2012>, when
the hyper-expensive presidential race was fueling the fire.
By the end of the battle, when totals for every category are added
together, Team Red will outspend Team Blue, CRP projects. GOP and
conservative-leaning candidates, party committees and outside groups
will spend at least $1.92 billion, compared to at least $1.76
billion their rivals on the Democratic and liberal-leaning side will
spend.
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"How to Waste Money and Annoy Voters"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67376>
Posted onOctober 24, 2014 7:35 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67376>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Frank Wilkinson
<http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-10-24/how-to-waste-money-and-annoy-voters>for
Bloomberg View.
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When I Saw the NRO Headline Criticizing FEC Commissioner Ann Ravel
for Touring the Country and Talking Campaign Finance...
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67374>
Posted onOctober 24, 2014 7:33 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67374>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
...I
knew<http://electionlawblog.org/When%20an%20FEC%20Commissioner%20Hits%20the%20Campaign%20Trail%20%20A%20federal%20official%20is%20pushing%20Democratic%20talking%20points%20in%20battleground%20states.>von
Spakovsky would be behind it.
The idea that having an FEC commissioner going around the country
talking about the work for the FEC from the commissioner's own
perspective is some kind of electioneering is ludicrous.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=24>
"On Race and Voter ID, John Roberts Wants It Both Ways"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67372>
Posted onOctober 24, 2014 7:25 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67372>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Garrett Epps writes
<http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/10/on-race-and-voter-id-john-roberts-wants-it-both-ways/381868/?single_page=true>for
/The Atlantic./
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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>
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