[EL] ELB News and Commentary 9/28/14

Sun Sep 28 16:22:39 PDT 2014

    In #MSSEN, MS Supeme Court Oral Argument Oct 2
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65989>

Posted onSeptember 28, 2014 4:21 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65989>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Docket 
<http://courts.ms.gov/appellate_courts/sc/docketcalendar/scs52014.pdf>. 
  Oral argument will be broadcast at 10 am.

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    "True The Vote Proves What's Wrong With Its Voter ID Obsession"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65987>

Posted onSeptember 28, 2014 3:59 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65987>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Miranda Blue blogs 
<http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/true-vote-proves-what-s-wrong-its-voter-id-obsession>.

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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voter id 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>

    "Early-voting sites increase; but hours, days drop"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65985>

Posted onSeptember 28, 2014 3:46 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65985>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The /Orlando Sentinel /reports. 
<http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/os-early-voting-reforms-20140928-story.html>

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Posted inelection administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>

    "Ohio Early Voting in the Supreme Court"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65983>

Posted onSeptember 28, 2014 3:44 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65983>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Important Ned Foley analysis. 
<http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/election-law/article/?article=12927> Two snippets:

    Plaintiffs complain that only one Sunday of early voting is
    available, and that the only evening hours available are on Election
    Day itself. As a matter of policy, I concur with their complaint. If
    it were up to me, I'd provide two weeks of early voting, including
    two Sundays (as well as two Saturdays) and ample evening hours
    throughout the fortnight. But I'm not Election Czar of Ohio, or
    anywhere else, and can I really say that the amount of early voting
    that Ohio provides is constitutionally inadequate to redress the
    disenfranchising effect of overcrowding at the polls on Election
    Day, as occurred in 2004? I think not. As it stands, all Ohio voters
    have the option of voting on a Sunday, or voting in the evening on
    Election Day, or voting on either of two Saturdays, or voting on a
    weekday during regular business hours throughout the four weeks of
    early voting, or voting by mail during that same four-week period.  
    It's not the optimal schedule in my view, but it's hard to see how
    any Ohio voter is disenfranchised by this particular menu of voting
    options.

AND

    My colleague Dan Tokaji sees
    <http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/election-law/article/?article=12915>Ohio's
    current early voting schedule as not a product of bipartisanship,
    but instead one party's imposition of its own preferences through
    its control of the state's legislature (and secretary of state's
    office).   But I think that analysis gives insufficient attention
    that the role that the bipartisan Ohio Association of Election
    Officials (OAEO) played in the development of Ohio's current early
    voting schedule. Like Dan, I deplore manipulation of voting rules by
    a political party in power in an effort to perpetuate that power
    against the wishes of the electorate. But unless and until we adopt
    institutional reforms that remove the power to adopt voting rules
    from partisan legislatures and administrators and instead place that
    power in nonpartisan bodies (as I've discussed elsewhere
    <http://scholarship.law.umt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1006&context=mlr&sei-redir=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bing.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dfoley%2520separation%2520of%2520electoral%2520powers%26FORM%3DDLCBLB%26PC%3DMDDC%26QS%3Dn#search=%22foley%20separation%20electoral%20powers%22>),
    then federal constitutional law will need to be sensitive about when
    conventional partisan legislatures and administrators have crossed
    the line into excessive partisan manipulation of voting rules. Over
    the last decade, Ohio's legislature and secretary of state
    undoubtedly have crossed that line on other occasions. But given
    OAEO's role in the development of Ohio's current early voting
    schedule, I have a hard time seeing that Ohio crossed that line of
    excessive partisanship in this particular context.

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Posted inelection administration 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars 
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    "Jerry Brown signs initiative and student suspension bills; vetoes
    money for UC, CSU" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65981>

Posted onSeptember 28, 2014 3:40 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65981>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

SacBee 
<http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/27/6741606/jerry-brown-signs-initiative-and.html>: 
"Gov. Jerry Brown <http://topics.sacbee.com/Jerry+Brown/> signed 
legislation Saturday giving the proponents of California ballot 
initiatives more time to collect signatures and allowing them to 
withdraw their initiatives or add amendments."

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    "What is a 'Burden' on Voters? Reflections on Ohio's Early Voting
    Litigation" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65979>

Posted onSeptember 28, 2014 3:37 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65979>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Josh Douglas writes 
<http://www.kentuckylawjournal.org/what-is-a-burden-on-voters-reflections-on-ohios-early-voting-litigation/>for 
the /Kentucky Law Journal./

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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voter id 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>

    Ohio Files #SCOTUS Reply Brief in Early Voting Case
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65977>

Posted onSeptember 28, 2014 3:36 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65977>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

You can read ithere 
<http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/14A336-reply-brief-9-28-14.pdf>(viaSCOTUSBlog 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/09/court-urged-to-let-ohioans-vote-early/>).

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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=31>

    "Court urged to let Ohioans vote early"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65974>

Posted onSeptember 27, 2014 3:57 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65974>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Lyle Denniston has writtenthis post 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/09/court-urged-to-let-ohioans-vote-early/> on this 
fifty-four-page brief 
<http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/14A336-response-9-27-14.pdf> opposingOhio's 
motion for an emergency stay <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65883>in the 
early voting case.

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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars 
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    "Judges on the Campaign Trail" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65972>

Posted onSeptember 27, 2014 3:55 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65972>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Adam Liptak hasan important column 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/sunday-review/judges-on-the-campaign-trail.html>in 
the NYT Sunday Review on judicial elections. It discusses, among other 
cases, theWilliams-Yulee case 
<http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/williams-yulee-v-the-florida-bar/>that 
the Supreme Court could agree to take up next week. It also discusses 
the Ninth 
Circuit'sWolfson<http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2014/05/09/11-17634.pdf>case, 
which, after Adam's article went to press, the Ninth Circuitagreed to 
rehear en banc <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65954>.

And in Williams-Yulee, this has to be one of theshortest cert. reply 
briefs<http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Williams-Yulee-reply.pdf>on 
record.

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    Problem with GA Sunday Voting: "a way just to wring out every last
    vote" <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65970>

Posted onSeptember 27, 2014 3:44 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65970>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bibb County election boardrejects early voting 
<http://www.13wmaz.com/story/news/local/macon/2014/09/25/bibb-election-vote-rejects-sunday-voting/16230941/>on 
3-2 vote:

    Rinda Wilson, a Republican, called it "a partisan thing" backed by
    Democrats: "There have been six states that have been targeted,
    Georgia being one of them, that this would be a way just to wring
    out every last vote."

Shouldn't everyone on the elections board have as their goal "wringing" 
out every last vote?

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    "Suarez to be sentenced Oct. 7, request for delay denied"
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65968>

Posted onSeptember 27, 2014 11:48 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=65968>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The latest 
<http://www.cantonrep.com/article/20140926/News/140929415#ixzz3EXX31pHM>from 
Ohio.

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