[EL] ELB News and Commentary 9/23/14
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Mon Sep 22 21:35:59 PDT 2014
"Is the Texas voter ID case on a fast-track to the Supreme Court?"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65762>
Posted onSeptember 22, 2014 9:32 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65762>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Tim Eaton reports
<http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/is-the-texas-voter-id-case-on-a-fast-track-to-the-/nhSKY/>for
the /Austin-American Statesman/. My earlier analysis of this question
ishere <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65734>.
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,Supreme
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New Justice Stevens Speech on Campaign Finance
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65760>
Posted onSeptember 22, 2014 9:27 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65760>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Here.
<http://www.supremecourt.gov/publicinfo/speeches/JPS%20Speech%28DC%29_09-12-2014.pdf> (ViaJosh
Blackman
<http://joshblackman.com/blog/2014/09/20/stevens-is-back-and-this-time-hes-going-after-calabresi/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter> andWill
Baude
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/09/22/is-there-a-right-to-contribute-to-out-of-state-elections/>).
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,Supreme
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"Secretary of State Connie Lawson launches voter registration app"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65758>
Posted onSeptember 22, 2014 9:23 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65758>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
News from Indiana.
<http://www.greensburgdailynews.com/news/article_7c2ffbee-da28-5182-84eb-e7e773f116bc.html>
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Posted inelection administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>
"Democrats Relying on Big Money Donors to Win"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65756>
Posted onSeptember 22, 2014 4:58 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65756>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Politico reports.
<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/09/democrats-big-donors-2014-elections-111225.html?hp=t1>
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"Candidates for Elections Chief Spar on Performance, Politics"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65754>
Posted onSeptember 22, 2014 4:45 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65754>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
John Myers reports
<http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2014/09/22/elections-chief-candidates-spar-on-performance-and-politics/>for
KQED on the CA SOS race.
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"Secretary of State Debra Bowen tells of struggle with depression"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65752>
Posted onSeptember 22, 2014 4:45 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65752>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
I missedthis important but sad story
<http://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-pol-debra-bowen-20140906-story.html>a
few weeks ago.
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Posted inelection administration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,election law biz
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=51>
"Attacks on abortion, voting, follow similar paths"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65750>
Posted onSeptember 22, 2014 3:47 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65750>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
MSNBC
<http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/attacks-abortion-voting-follow-similar-paths>:
The laws sound innocuous, even boring. Requiring photo
identification to vote, or hospital credentials to perform an
abortion. Changing building requirements for clinics, or schedules
for elections.
But seen together, state measures that have swept the nation in
recent years restricting access to voting and to abortion could
represent some of the keenest successes of the conservative movement
and the Republican Party.
The bulk of these restrictions have been passed since Republicans
took control of a slew of state legislatures in 2010: Voter ID laws
were passed in states like Texas, North Carolina, and Wisconsin,
along with cuts to early voting in several more. Medically
unnecessary restrictions have also been placed on abortion clinics
in all three of those states, and similar laws threaten to close
clinics in Louisiana, Alabama and Oklahoma.
Many of the laws intentionally push the legal envelope, and are now
wending their way through the federal courts.
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Posted inelection administration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
California Secretary of State Forum to Be Webcast
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65748>
Posted onSeptember 22, 2014 3:45 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65748>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Details via email:
*CALIFORNIA SECRETARY OF STATE CANDIDATE FORUM**IN BERKELEY*
*When:**Thursday, October 9, 2014*
*6:30 PM to 7:30 PM; Doors open at 6 PM*
*Where: University of California Berkeley's Chevron Auditorium,
located in the International House at 2299 Piedmont Avenue,
Berkeley, CA 94720*
*REGISTER FOR THIS FREE EVENT
at**http://californiasecretaryofstateforum-berkeley.eventbrite.com*
<http://californiasecretaryofstateforum-berkeley.eventbrite.com/>
**
*CAN'T ATTEND IN PERSON? THE FORUM WILL BE LIVESTREAMED
AT:**https://www.youtube.com/user/ucberkeleyevents*.
**
For questions contactvotingrights at acluca.org
<mailto:votingrights at acluca.org>. For updates on the Livestream
before the event please check
https://www.aclusandiego.org/2014-california-secretary-state-candidate-forums/.
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Federal Court Denies Citizens United Attempt to Block Colorado
Disclosure Laws <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65745>
Posted onSeptember 22, 2014 2:28 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65745>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The federal court was decidedly unimpressed
<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/cu-disclosure-pi.pdf> with CU's
argument related to the media exemption. The court wrote:
The marketplace of ideas does not function as well if listeners are
unable to discern the private interests behind speech when
determining how much weight to afford it. Aware of this problem, in
1976 the Supreme Court declared that "disclosure requirements
certainly in most applications appear to be the least restrictive
means of curbing the evils of campaign ignorance and corruption that
Congress found to exist."/Buckley/, 424 U.S. at 68. Thirty-four
years later the/Citizens United/Court reaffirmed this sentiment by a
vote of eight to one./See/558 U.S. at 366--71. Today, Citizens
United comes before this Court hoping to unravel forty years of
precedent by reframing the issue as one of content and viewpoint
discrimination. The Court is not persuaded.
This is a ruling on a preliminary injunction, so the case will continue.
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Cocaine-for-Votes Scheme Alleged in School Board Election
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65743>
Posted onSeptember 22, 2014 2:02 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65743>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Federal indictment
<http://www.themonitor.com/donna-campaign-manager-arrested/article_9cdf02f0-428b-11e4-b4ab-0017a43b2370.html#.VCB1HlxI9AQ.twitter>.
InThe Voting Wars,
<http://www.amazon.com/The-Voting-Wars-Election-Meltdown/dp/0300182031>I
talk of one other case of alleged crack cocaine for votes. But I have
not heard of any others since I wrote that.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=43>
"Jessica A. Levinson: Expand free speech by limiting political
money" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65739>
Posted onSeptember 22, 2014 12:05 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65739>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
SacBee oped.
<http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/21/6721114/jessica-a-levinson-expand-free.html>
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"'Pay 2 Play' takes aim at big money's effect in politics"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65736>
Posted onSeptember 22, 2014 11:49 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65736>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
LAT review
<http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-pay-2-play-review-20140912-story.html>.
More fromRoll Call.
<http://blogs.rollcall.com/after-dark/pay-2-play-street-art-and-big-money/?dcz>
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Closing Arguments in Texas Voter ID Case: What's Next? SCOTUS?
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65734>
Posted onSeptember 22, 2014 11:46 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65734>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Nolan Hicks reports on the closing arguments.
<http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Feds-state-clash-over-Texas-voter-ID-law-5772276.php?cmpid=twitter-premium&t=dca2214c3573fef585>
Based on some of the judge's earlier rulings, her appointment as a
Democratic appointee, and reports from argument, I think there is a
fairly good chance that the judge strikes down Texas's voter id law
under the Voting Rights Act. If that happens, the case would go to the
5th Circuit, where there could well be a reversal, given that the 5th
Circuit has many more Republican appointees and is one of the most
conservative courts in the country. The case could end up at the Supreme
Court, although the 7th Circuit Wisconsin case and the 4th Circuit North
Carolina case (not primarily about voter id, but about the meaning of
Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act) could get there first.
Now the really interesting thing is what happens if the district court
enjoins use of the ID requirement for this election in November. If that
happens, I expect an expedited trip to the 5th Circuit and potentially
to the Supreme Court. It would raise the same
/Purcell/issue<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65382>of making changes
just before the election, although unlike in the Wisconsin case, this
would be to remove a requirement already in place not to put in place a
new requirement just before the election---something more likely tocause
electoral chaos <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65563>. [UPDATE:AP
says<http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/justice-department-wraps-up-texas-voter-id-trial/2014/09/22/92ab940a-4269-11e4-8042-aaff1640082e_story.html>the
district court judge has not indicated when she will rule.]
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voter id
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>,Voting Rights Act
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>
"GOP Pushes for Early Voting" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65732>
Posted onSeptember 22, 2014 11:37 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65732>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WSJ reports.
<http://online.wsj.com/articles/gop-pushes-early-voting-1411081503>
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"Campaign Finance Institute Announces Accessible Online Bibliography
of Money in Politics Research" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65730>
Posted onSeptember 22, 2014 10:50 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65730>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Useful <http://t.co/jkQoICBwZV>!
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"State Has No Budget for Voter ID, Agencies Say"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65728>
Posted onSeptember 22, 2014 9:22 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65728>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The latest
<http://journaltimes.com/news/local/state-and-regional/article_e36e566f-fd37-5937-8681-3d664770ac5e.html?mobile_touch=true>from
Wisconsin.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voter id
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>
"GOP candidates play up voter ID" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65726>
Posted onSeptember 22, 2014 7:19 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65726>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
AP reports
<http://www.blueridgenow.com/article/20140922/ARTICLES/140929996?Title=GOP-candidates-play-up-voter-ID>from
NC.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>
"Exclusive: Lois Lerner Breaks Silence"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65724>
Posted onSeptember 22, 2014 7:15 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65724>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Politico interview
<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/09/lois-lerner-breaks-silence-irs-scandal-111181.html>.
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"Thanks, But No: Several WI Counties Decline to Use State-Designed
Ballots" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65722>
Posted onSeptember 22, 2014 7:12 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65722>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
A ChapinBlog.
<http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/electionacademy/2014/09/thanks_but_no_several_wi_count.php>
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
"Super PAC Funding Keeps Democrats Competitive in Senate Races"
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65720>
Posted onSeptember 22, 2014 7:10 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65720>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WSJ reports
<http://online.wsj.com/articles/super-pac-funding-keeps-democrats-competitive-in-senate-races-1411169413>.
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"Wal-Mart Running Illegal PAC Scheme, Watchdog Groups and Employees
Charge in FEC Complaint" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65718>
Posted onSeptember 22, 2014 7:06 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65718>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
"Wal-Mart is running an illegal scheme to prod employees into
contributing to its political action committee, circumventing a federal
law that bars companies from putting corporate funds into political
campaigns, Public Citizen, Common Cause and two Wal-Mart employees and
shareholderscharged today
<http://qz.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=tgSEoM04DVLUU39zdrODltY0VCwsBqZC>. In
acomplaint
<http://qz.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=cgU%2BiZIXA1kZzOfKBfPlEdY0VCwsBqZC>to
the Federal Election Commission (FEC), the public interest organizations
and employee-shareholders Cynthia Murray and Evelin Cruz detailed a
program in which Wal-Mart reportedly solicits managers for contributions
to its political action committee (PAC). In exchange, the company
reportedly donates twice the amount of those contributions exclusively
to its Associates in Critical Need Trust. The trust -- fully controlled
by Wal-Mart -- was started in 2001 by the company to help employees
facing financial distress."
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