[EL] ELB News and Commentary 10/27/14

Rick Hasen rhasen at law.uci.edu
Sun Oct 26 20:28:38 PDT 2014


    "A Call to Expose the Unnecessary Secrets of the Supreme Court; One
    justice publicly announced an error in her dissent, but such candor
    is rare." <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67447>

Posted onOctober 26, 2014 8:15 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67447>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

I have writtenthis oped <http://t.co/wYVIkdfNSB>for the National Law 
Journal.  It begins:

    Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court made news
    twice with her six-page dissent
    <http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14a393_p860.pdf> to a
    court order allowing Texas to implement a restrictive voter
    identification law that a lower federal court found racially
    discriminatory.

    The first time the justice made news by releasing her fiery dissent
    at 5 a.m
    <http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2014/10/ginsburg_s_dissent_in_texas_voter_id_law_supreme_court_order.html>.
    on a Saturday morning after having worked on it throughout the
    night. The second time was when she corrected a minor error
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67275> in her opinion (which I had
    flagged on the Election Law Blog
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67193>) and announced through the
    Supreme Court's press office that she had made such a change.

    Justices commonly correct and change opinions after release. But
    Ginsburg's announcement of a correction was so rare that The
    National Law Journal
    <http://www.nationallawjournal.com/legaltimes/home/id=1202674247925>, The
    New York Times
    <http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2014/10/22/?entry=3270&_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0> and
    National Public Radio
    <http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2014/10/22/358150014/justice-ginsburg-revises-texas-voter-id-dissent-then-announces-it>ran
    stories about it. For the most part, as New York Times reporter Adam
    Liptak has detailed
    <http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/25/us/final-word-on-us-law-isnt-supreme-court-keeps-editing.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3As&_r=0>,
    the court simply makes changes to published opinions with no
    announcement, sometimes months or years
    <http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/rlazarus/docs/articles/LazarusRichardTheNonFinalityOfSupremeCourtOpinionsFullVersion22Oct14.pdf> after
    the original publication.

    The Supreme Court has no excuse for being so opaque about its
    practices. There is a whole set of ways that it could improve on its
    transparency.

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    #SCOTUS Could Well Decide Another Emergency Election Case Soon, This
    One With a Unanimous Reversal <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67457>

Posted onOctober 26, 2014 7:54 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67457>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Derek 
Muller<http://excessofdemocracy.com/blog/2014/10/virgin-islands-supreme-court-ignores-federal-court-on-election-dispute>explains 
some amazing doings out of the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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    Must-Read Article on Potential Impersonation Voter Fraud and More in
    Kiryas Joel <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67453>

Posted onOctober 26, 2014 4:18 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67453>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Just wow 
<http://www.recordonline.com/article/20141026/NEWS/141029573> (via 
Failed Messiah).

My earlier coverage <http://electionlawblog.org/?s=satmar&x=0&y=0>.

This merits further investigation, if not by the state of New York than 
by the federal government.  I have not seen any credible allegations of 
impersonation fraud schemes anywhere else in the country. But this does 
not seem to be getting any better.

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    About That Monkey Cage Item on Non-Citizen Voting, Calm Down
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67451>

Posted onOctober 26, 2014 3:50 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67451>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

On FridayI linked <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67408>to an item on the 
Washington Post's Monkey Cage blog by Jesse Richman and David Earnes 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/10/24/could-non-citizens-decide-the-november-election/>t 
with some provocative findings on the extent of non-citizen voting. The 
  post was based on this forthcoming article 
<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261379414000973> in 
Electoral Studies.

When I initially posted, the link, I wrote that I would be interested in 
hearing about the methodology behind this report, because it seems to 
find a much higher rate of non-citizen voting than any previous evidence 
I have seen, and the quick description of the piece made me wonder if 
the authors were making some leaps with their inferences from the evidence.

Conservatives pounced on the report (it even got a link from the Drudge 
Report) as "proof" of voter fraud and and indication that conservatives 
were right all along about a voter fraud epidemic. The extra bonus was 
that the report was appearing in the "liberal" Washington Post! Well 
here's a call to slow down.  A few points.

1. I'm really glad the authors did this study and think the issue merits 
further investigation investigation. As I indicated in my book,The 
Voting Wars 
<http://www.amazon.com/Voting-Wars-Florida-Election-Meltdown/dp/0300182031/ref=asap_B0089NJCR2_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1414362853&sr=1-5>, 
non-citizen voting is a real, if relatively small, problem.I wrote in a 
2012 New York Times oped 
<http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/a-dtente-before-the-election/?_php=true&_type=blogs&module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3As%2C%7B%221%22%3A%22RI%3A6%22%7D&_r=0>,

    While Republicans have been more to blame than Democrats,
    partisanship runs both ways. Democrats reflexively oppose efforts to
    deal with ineligible voters casting ballots, likely out of fear that
    the new requirements will make it harder for casual voters
    supporting Democrats to cast a ballot. They have adamantly opposed
    the efforts of Florida and other states
    <http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/us/politics/us-to-let-florida-use-homeland-security-data-for-voter-check.html> where
    Republican election officials want to remove noncitizens from the
    voting rolls. Noncitizen voting is a real, if small
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=10253>, problem: a Congressional
    investigation found that some noncitizens voted
    <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/keyraces98/stories/cahouse020598.htm> in
    the close 1996 House race in California between Robert K. Dornan, a
    Republican, and Loretta Sanchez, a Democrat, but not enough
    <http://articles.latimes.com/1997-05-11/news/mn-57795_1_indiana-vote> to
    affect the outcome. Unlike impersonation fraud, noncitizen voting
    cannot be dismissed as a Republican fantasy....Florida should hold
    off on its plan to remove noncitizens until the off-season. Purging
    the rolls now risks removing many more eligible citizens
    <http://electionsmith.wordpress.com/2012/07/16/you-want-numbers-florida-secretary-of-state-voter-purge-netted-10-potential-noncitizens-who-may-have-voted/>than
    noncitizens.

2. This was not a story vetted by the Washington Post.  This was not 
even the regular Monkey Cage bloggers. These were guest bloggers who 
were (perfectly appropriately) guest blogging about their new article in 
Electoral Studies. So let's be careful in terms of who is making what 
claims.

3. The Electoral Studies piece went through peer review. That's an 
indication that someone looked at the authors' methodology to make sure 
it passed muster. But peer review is not perfect.  I have heard from a 
number of political scientists who have raised issues about a number of 
the assumptions and statistics used in the article. It is not clear to 
me from what I have heard so far that all of the article's conclusions 
(or any of them) will withstand full academic scrutiny.  We'll have a 
better sense in a year or two---that's normal with contested claims made 
in political science.  There can be no immediate confirmation or 
rejection of these studies. Caution is in order.

4. Even if the authors' methodology and conclusions are correct, that 
does not mean that there is a voter fraud epidemic. It also doesn't mean 
that voter id makes sense. To begin with, the authors seem to think 
voter id would not help.  In a number of states, for example, 
non-citizens can get drivers' licenses which can be used for ID.  To 
handle the problem of non-citizen voting, the key is to confirm 
citizenship at the time of registration. Some states are doing that, and 
KS and AZ are fighting the federal government in the Kobach v. EAC case 
over how this may be done.

5. Checking citizenship before registering voters is not costless. Aside 
from the costs to the state of such a program and the costs to voters to 
provide proof of citizenship, such a requirement no doubt 
disenfranchises eligible voters. The question is whether the number of 
non-citizens voting justifies the risk of eligible voters who will not 
be able to (easily or affordably) produce the documentary proof of 
citizenship needed to vote. That is a balance I suspect conservatives 
and liberals would strike differently.

6. We could solve this problem and more if we moved to a national voter 
identification program run by the federal government which paid for all 
the costs associated with establishing identity and citizenship. I'd 
couple national voter id, with a unique voter id number and universal 
voter registration proactively implemented by the federal government. 
Voters could provide their thumb print if they wanted and use that to 
verify ID instead of using their actual card.  I don't expect we will 
see this program in my lifetime, but I believe it is the sound way to 
move beyond many of these fights.

UPDATE:More 
<http://blogs.reed.edu/earlyvoting/commentary/more-on-the-non-citizen-voting-article/>from 
Paul Gronke.

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    Role of Lobbyists Issue in AZ Governor's Race
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67449>

Posted onOctober 26, 2014 12:38 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67449>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Seethis Arizona Republic report. 
<http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/arizona/politics/2014/10/26/lobbyists-aid-campaigns-ducey-duval/17951005/>

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    "New Jersey e-vote experiment after Sandy declared a disaster"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67445>

Posted onOctober 26, 2014 10:51 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67445>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Aljazeera reports. 
<http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/10/26/new-jersey-e-voting.html>

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    "Squadrons form for voter ID fight"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67443>

Posted onOctober 26, 2014 10:33 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67443>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The Hill reports. 
<http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/221847-squadrons-form-for-voter-id-fight>

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    Judge Kopf Calls Dahlia Lithwick a "Tiresome Scold"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67439>

Posted onOctober 25, 2014 4:12 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67439>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Keeping itclassy 
<http://herculesandtheumpire.com/2014/10/25/the-evisceration-of-dahlia-lithwick/>,as 
usual. <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=63487> (More 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=63070>here 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=63457>.)

Here'sDahlia's column 
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2014/10/supreme_court_and_circuit_court_rulings_on_voter_id_and_abortion_poor_and.single.html>andWill 
Baude's response. 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/10/25/free-speech-vs-voting-rights-and-abortion-rights/>

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    CNMI Battle Continues Over Non-Indigenous Residents Voting in Ballot
    Measure Elections <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67437>

Posted onOctober 25, 2014 4:06 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67437>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

As the case 
<http://www.nmid.uscourts.gov/documents/decisions/1-14-cv-00002-15.pdf>awaits 
a Ninth Circuit appeal, the partiesare fighting 
<http://www.mvariety.com/cnmi/cnmi-news/local/70414-injunction-sought-is-not-in-the-public-interest-says-lawyer-opposing-sequestration-of-article-xii-ballots>over 
what happens in the interim.

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    "Fairfax Elections Office reportedly embroiled in infighting"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67435>

Posted onOctober 24, 2014 6:43 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67435>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Oy 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/fairfax-elections-office-reportedly-embroiled-in-infighting/2014/10/24/bc570438-3de6-11e4-9587-5dafd96295f0_story.html?hpid=z3>.

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    McDaniel Doesn't (Yet) Rule Out Further Legal Action in #MSSEN
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67433>

Posted onOctober 24, 2014 5:53 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67433>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Clarion-Ledger: 
<http://www.clarionledger.com/story/politicalledger/2014/10/24/mcdaniel-loses-appeal/17858671/>

    McDaniel in statement said, "Republicans are still left wanting
    justice" by the decision and said he hopes "conservatives in
    Mississippi will view this decision as a driving factor to get
    involved in Republican politics."

    Neither McDaniel nor his lead attorney Mitch Tyner answered
    definitively on Friday whether the ruling will put end to his trying
    to overturn the election, but McDaniel said, "now is time to turn
    the page and work to enact true conservative change." Tyner said
    that while he disagreed with the ruling, "we are glad the Supreme
    Court finally ruled and Mississippi conservatives can move forward
    into 2015."

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    Chiat on Lowry on Voter ID and Poll Taxes
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67431>

Posted onOctober 24, 2014 5:40 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67431>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here. 
<http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/10/how-conservatives-justify-poll-taxes.html>

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    Horwitz on Murphy on Justice Scalia
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67429>

Posted onOctober 24, 2014 5:31 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67429>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

A spot-on 
review<https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/book-reviews/scalia-court-one>of 
an interesting but flawed book.

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    "Campaigns scramble with new Colorado election laws"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67427>

Posted onOctober 24, 2014 4:48 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67427>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

AP reports. 
<http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Campaigns-scramble-with-new-Colorado-election-laws-5845986.php>

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    "Why arguments for Voter ID laws don't add up"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67425>

Posted onOctober 24, 2014 4:17 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67425>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Wonkblog 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/10/24/why-arguments-for-voter-id-laws-dont-add-up/>.

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    Breaking: MS Supreme Court Rejects McDaniel Challenge in #MSSEN Race
    on 4-2 Vote: My Analysis <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67418>

Posted onOctober 24, 2014 3:37 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=67418>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

You can read the opinionat this link 
<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/mssen-mssct.pdf>.  Here 
are some thoughts.

1. *The plurality, concurrence and dissent. *The Court's opinion broke 
down 3-1-2, with 3 Justices not participating.

The plurality opinion held that it was bound by a 1959 case establishing 
a 20 day deadline for filing an election challenge. Although the 
legislature amended the statute since 1959, the plurality held that the 
legislature acted in light of this 1959 statute, and the deadline 
remains part of the statutory scheme.

A concurring Justice issued an opinion essentially reaching the view 
that this was a nonjusticiable political question to be decided by the 
political branches, not the courts.

The two dissenting Justices believed that the 1959 case was not binding 
on the courts, because the legislature made too many changes in the 
statutory scheme for it still to apply. Those justices would have sent 
the case back for further proceedings.

2. *What's next? *In the normal world, I would say that this case is 
over.  Here, the state's highest court has declared definitively what 
the meaning of the statute is, and the contest is over. But McDaniel has 
not operated in a normal world. So here are two ways the case can go on. 
First, an amicus in the Court raised a federal constitutional question 
which should remind everyone of /Bush v. Gore/. Under the Elections 
Clause, it is the state legislature to set the rules for congressional 
elections, unless the Congress has spoken. The amicus argued that the 
20-day deadline was judicially created, and therefore violated the 
election's clause requiring that the legislature set the deadline. The 
Supreme Court disagreed, saying it was resolving an ambiguity in the 
statute, not creating a new deadline. (This was very much an issue in 
the Florida 2000 rulings.) So if McDaniel wanted, he could go to the 
U.S. Supreme Court seeking emergency relief. I do not expect he would 
get it.  Second, McDaniel could file a contest with the U.S. Senate, 
though I can't imagine that body giving him any relief.

3. *Why not reach the merits?*As I indicated when the trial court kicked 
McDaniel's case out on timing issues, sometimes these rulings are a 
mercy killing. McDaniel's evidence of fraud seemed weak, and his legal 
theories about crossover voting even weaker. This timing ruling was a 
way for the courts to end the process without going through a long drawn 
out trial.  Not that the courts would ever admit they were doing that, 
but I guess this was in the back of at least some Justices' minds.

4. *What's next for McDaniel?*Talk radio? Fox news contributor? Running 
for office when Cochran dies or retires?  I leave that to people who 
know MS politics.

[This post has been updated.]

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    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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