[EL] ELB News and Commentary 4/6/15
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Mon Apr 6 07:41:56 PDT 2015
Paul Looks Likely to Form Joint Victory Fund with His Presidential
Campaign, Senate Campaign, and His PAC
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71559>
Posted onApril 6, 2015 7:40 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71559>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
This <https://twitter.com/AlexPappas/status/585089064405180416>will be
worth watching.
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“Presidential candidates-to-be make the most of fundraising
rule-bending” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71557>
Posted onApril 6, 2015 7:36 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71557>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Evan Halper reports
<http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-campaign-cash-20150406-story.html#page=1>for
the LAT.
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Jeb Bush Registered as Hispanic on Voter Form
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71555>
Posted onApril 6, 2015 7:29 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71555>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Huh?
<http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/04/06/jeb-bushs-deep-ties-to-hispanics-show-even-in-voter-form/?smid=tw-share&_r=0>
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Top Recent Downloads in Election Law on SSRN
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71553>
Posted onApril 6, 2015 7:28 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71553>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Here
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/topten/topTenResults.cfm?groupingId=991929&netorjrnl=jrnl>:
1 605 *Dividing ‘Citizens United': The Case v. The Controversy*
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2575865>
Laurence H. Tribe
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=300050>
Harvard Law School
/Date posted to database: /11 Mar 2015
/Last Revised: /31 Mar 2015
2 142 *The Right to Vote: Is the Amendment Game Worth the Candle?*
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2567394>
Heather Gerken
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=101581>
Yale University – Law School
/Date posted to database: /21 Feb 2015
/Last Revised: /2 Apr 2015
3 80 *‘Rhetoric and Reality': Testing the Harm of Campaign Spending*
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2584069>
Rebecca L. Brown
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=48816>andAndrew
D. Martin <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=390817>
USC Gould School of Law and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor –
College of Literature, Science & the Arts
/Date posted to database: /25 Mar 2015
/Last Revised: /2 Apr 2015
4 75 *Originalist or Original: The Difficulties of
Reconciling/Citizens United/with Corporate Law History*
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2567416>
Leo E. Strine
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=328830>andNicholas
Walter <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1638529>
Government of the State of Delaware – Supreme Court of Delaware and
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
/Date posted to database: /21 Feb 2015
/Last Revised: /10 Mar 2015
5 73 *Secret Votes and Secret Talk*
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2574204>
John A. Ferejohn
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=82789>
NYU Law School
/Date posted to database: /5 Mar 2015
/Last Revised: /5 Mar 2015
6 73 *American Plutocracy*
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2581556>
Timothy K. Kuhner
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=478699>
Georgia State University – College of Law
/Date posted to database: /22 Mar 2015
/Last Revised: /22 Mar 2015
7 71 *The Coordination Fallacy*
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2579296>
Michael D. Gilbert
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1304972>andBrian Barnes
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2371953>
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Virginia – School
of Law
/Date posted to database: /18 Mar 2015
/Last Revised: /18 Mar 2015
8 57 *Institutional Investors and Political Activism*
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2572666>
Rui A. Albuquerque
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=111789>,Zicheng
Lei
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2213035>,Jörg
Rocholl
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=327280>andChendi Zhang
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=334402>
Boston University – School of Management, University of Warwick –
Finance Group, ESMT European School of Management and Technology and
University of Warwick – Finance Group
/Date posted to database: /4 Mar 2015
/Last Revised: /4 Mar 2015
9 57 *Beyond Coordination: Defining Indirect Campaign Contributions
for the Super PAC Era*
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2577075>
Brent Ferguson
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1609799>
New York University (NYU) – Brennan Center for Justice
/Date posted to database: /13 Mar 2015
/Last Revised: /13 Mar 2015
10 56 *Generalized Synthetic Control Method for Causal Inference with
Time-Series Cross-Sectional Data*
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2584200>
Yiqing Xu <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1728397>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – Department of Political
Science
/Date posted to database: /25 Mar 2015
/Last Revised: /1 Apr 2015
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No Surprise: #SCOTUS Refuses to Hear North Carolina Voting Case
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71551>
Posted onApril 6, 2015 7:26 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71551>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Here is the order
list<http://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/040615zor_4315.pdf>and
anAP report
<http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SUPREME_COURT_VOTING_RIGHTS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT>.
The order is no surprise as the issue was whether the 4th Circuit erred
in putting two parts of North Carolina’s strict voting law on hold for
the 2014 elections, and issue which will likely be mooted by the time we
get to the next election. The federal trial on North Carolina’s voter id
law will take place this summer, followed by an inevitable 4th circuit
appeal, and a chance for the Supreme Court to consider these issues on
the merits.
I discuss why the Supreme Court might or might not have erred in
temporarily blocking the 4th Circuit’s North Carolina order in my
piece,Reining in the Purcell Principle
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2545676>.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
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“Wisconsin Supreme Court Election Raises Partisanship Concerns”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71548>
Posted onApril 5, 2015 8:44 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71548>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/06/us/wisconsin-supreme-court-election-raises-partisanship-concerns.html?ref=politics&_r=0>:
“The Wisconsin Supreme Court, defined in recent years by polarization
and reports of dysfunction, could be profoundly reshaped by an election
on Tuesday. The outcome hinges on two choices — whether voters re-elect
a justice who is seen as part of the court’s liberal minority and
whether they approve a constitutional amendment that seems likely to
lead to the installation of a conservative chief justice.”
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“Political Speech or Corruption?” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71545>
Posted onApril 5, 2015 5:30 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71545>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WaPo editorial
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/political-speech-or-corruption/2015/04/05/ab3b043e-da2a-11e4-ba28-f2a685dc7f89_story.html>on
/Citizens United/and Menendez.
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“Chicago Elections Chief Got Lobbying Contracts from Rahm Emanuel’s
Administration” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71542>
Posted onApril 5, 2015 4:14 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71542>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
IBT reports.
<http://www.ibtimes.com/chicago-elections-chief-got-lobbying-contracts-rahm-emanuels-adminstration-1869898>
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=20>,election administration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>
“Conservative lawmakers weigh bid to call for constitutional
convention” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71540>
Posted onApril 5, 2015 4:03 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71540>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WaPo
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/conservative-lawmakers-weigh-bid-to-call-for-constitutional-convention/2015/04/04/b25d4f1e-db02-11e4-ba28-f2a685dc7f89_story.html?postshare=3831428274284344>:
Conservative state legislators frustrated with the gridlock in
Washington are increasingly turning to a plan to call a convention
to consider a new amendment to the U.S. Constitution — an event that
would be unprecedented in American history and one that could, some
opponents predict, lead to complete political chaos.
Legislators in 27 states have passed applications for a convention
to pass a balanced budget amendment. Proponents of a balanced budget
requirement are planning to push for new applications in nine other
states where Republicans control both chambers of the legislature.
If those applications pass in seven of the nine targeted states, it
would bring the number of applications up to 34, meeting the
two-thirds requirement under Article V of the Constitution to force
Congress to call a convention.
What happens next is anyone’s guess.
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NYT with Two on the Adelson Primary
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71538>
Posted onApril 5, 2015 4:01 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71538>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Jeb Bush as Inevitable Choice?
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/us/politics/jeb-bush-as-inevitable-choice-republicans-say-not-so-fast.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0>
Other wealthy donors, mindful of their power to reshape the
Republican race with “super PAC
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/c/campaign_finance/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier>”
donations, have been more direct: The casino magnate Sheldon Adelson
recently made what two people briefed on it described as an
“animated” call to one of Mr. Bush’s top supporters after former
Secretary of State James A. Baker III, a Bush adviser,criticized
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/28/us/politics/republicans-criticize-james-baker-for-speech-on-benjamin-netanyahu.html>Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in a speech in March.
G.O.P.’s Israel Support Deepens as Political Contributions Shift
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/us/politics/gops-israel-support-deepens-as-political-contributions-shift.html?hpw&rref=politics&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well>
TheEmergency Committee for Israel
<http://www.committeeforisrael.com/board>, led by William Kristol,
editor of the conservative Weekly Standard,spent $960,000 to support
Mr. Cotton
<https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/recips.php?cmte=Emergency+Cmte+for+Israel&cycle=2014>.
In that same race, Paul Singer, a hedge fund billionaire from New
York and a leading donor to pro-Israel causes, contributed $250,000
toArkansas Horizon
<https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/contrib.php?cmte=C00547497&cycle=2014>,
another independent expenditure group supporting Mr. Cotton. Seth
Klarman, a Boston-based pro-Israel billionaire, contributed $100,000.
The political action committeerun by John Bolton
<https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/recips.php?cmte=C00542464&cycle=2014>,
the United Nations ambassador under President George W. Bush and an
outspoken supporter of Israel, spent at least $825,000 to support
Mr. Cotton. That PAC is in part financed by other major pro-Israel
donors, including Irving and Cherna Moskowitz of Miami, who
contributed 99 percent of their$1.1 million in 2012 races
<https://www.opensecrets.org/bigpicture/topindivs.php?cycle=2012>to
Republican candidates and causes….
Over all, the most significant contributor by far to Republican
supporters of Israel has been Sheldon Adelson, the casino magnate,
who with his wife has invested at least $100 million in conservative
causes over the last four years. A large chunk was spent on the 2012
presidential campaign, but Senate Republicans also benefited, and
could soon again, particularly those considering a run for president.
The scope of the alliance was evident last month when Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, at the invitation of Speaker John A.
Boehner, spoke to a joint meeting of Congress, over Mr. Obama’s
objections.
After the speech, some of the nation’s most important pro-Israel
donors, including Mr. Adelson, gathered with more than a dozen
Republican members of Congress at the nearby Capitol Hill Club. “It
was a love fest,” saidKenneth J. Bialkin
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.skadden.com%2Fprofessionals%2Fkenneth-j-bialkin&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFincr9b4qyXbZfcxM5ePQ2ed3oVQ>,
a corporate lawyer and donor who attended.
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“GOP donor Charles Munger Jr. finds wealth buys few friends”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71536>
Posted onApril 5, 2015 3:56 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71536>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
LA Times.
<http://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-adv-munger-20150304-story.html#page=1>
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“Wyoming Liberty Group starts national organization”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71534>
Posted onApril 5, 2015 3:55 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71534>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Pillar of Law
<http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/wyoming-liberty-group-starts-national-organization/article_295c0f2e-f5de-5041-92ac-7870e8bb9b62.html>is
coming, and who knows who is backing it? Apparently not its chief employee:
The Wyoming Liberty Group was founded by Susan Gore, whose father
invented Gore-Tex weatherproof fabric, and who is involved in the
family company, W.L. Gore and Associates. Gore will remain in
Cheyenne, Klein said.
Klein said he is not privy to how the Pillar of Law Institute is
funded. The institute accepts donations. Gore is the director and
has been generous, he said.
Noble, of the Campaign Legal Center, said, “There have been other
groups like this. These are groups funded by wealthy individuals,
sometimes corporations.”
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“Suit alleges coercion in teachers unions’ using dues for politics”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71532>
Posted onApril 3, 2015 3:30 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71532>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
John Diaz
<http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/diaz/article/Lawsuit-challenges-teacher-unions-grip-on-6177714.php?t=75f87e154e&cmpid=twitter-premium>SF
Chronicle column.
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“Robert Menendez and the dangers of unlimited campaign
contributions” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71530>
Posted onApril 3, 2015 3:13 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71530>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Stephen Weissman has writtenthis LAT oped.
<http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-weissman-menendez-20150403-story.html>
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“New Jersey’s Constitutional Residency Requirement for State
Legislature Candidates: A Roadmap fo rChallengers and a Cry for
Reform During Redistricting Years” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71528>
Posted onApril 3, 2015 3:09 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71528>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Kevin Miller has writtenthis article
<http://www.rutgerslawreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/010_Miller.pdf>in
the Rutgers Law Review.
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En Banc 9th Circuit Unanimously Rules No Anonymous Initiative
Sponsors, Slams Role of Money in Initiative Process
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71526>
Posted onApril 3, 2015 2:58 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71526>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
You can find the ruling in the /Chula Vista /casehere
<http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2015/04/03/12-55726.pdf>. This
overturned an earlier panel decision,a result I expected.
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=66473> Now that the court has ruled this
way, I think Supreme Court review is unlikely.
Footnote 11 is especially interesting—not surprising from Judge
Reinhardt, but it is unanimous:
That the initiative process may not have served its purposes as well
as its original proponents hoped does not affect our decision here.
There is mounting evidence that corporations and ultra-wealthy
individuals have come to dominate the initiative process. See
California Comm’n on Campaign Financing, Democracy By Initiative:
Shaping California’s Fourth Branch of Government 264–74 (1992);
Adam Winkler, Beyond Bellotti, 32 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 133, 137–39
(1998); Jamin B. Raskin, Direct Democracy, Corporate Power and
Judicial Review of Popularly-Enacted Campaign Finance Reform , 1996
Ann. Surv. Am. L. 393, 395–99 (1996); John S. Shockley, Direct
Democracy, CampaignFinance, and the Courts: Can Corruption, Undue
Influence, and Declining Voter Confidence Be Found? , 39 U. Miami L.
Rev. 377, 393–96 (1985); J. Skelly Wright, Money and the Pollution
of Politics: Is the First Amendment an Obstacle to Political
Equality?, 82 Colum. L. Rev. 609, 622–25 (1982); see also Michael
Hiltzik, On California Initiatives, Money Talked, The Public
Interest Walked, L.A. Times, Nov. 5, 2014,
http://tinyurl.com/latimeshiltzik; Norimitsu Onishi, California
Ballot Initiatives, Born in Populism, Now Come from Billionaires,
N.Y. Times, Oct. 17, 2012, at A22; Ina Jaffe, Corporate Bucks Behind
‘Citizens’ Initiatives in Calif., Nat’l Public Radio, May 24, 2010,
http://tinyurl.com/nprjaffe. However, the State of California and
the City of Chula Vista are entitled to continue striving to
guarantee self-government to their citizens, notwithstanding these
shortcomings of direct democracy, and to improve the initiative
process should they so desire.
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“Want More Voters? Pay Them” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71524>
Posted onApril 3, 2015 9:03 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71524>byRick Hasen
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Stephen Carter column.
<http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-04-02/want-more-voters-pay-them>
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“Thousands of Arizona Voting Ballots Going Uncounted Every Election,
Report Says” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71522>
Posted onApril 3, 2015 8:45 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71522>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Phoenix New Times
<http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2015/04/arizona_voting_rights_voter_fraud_report_uncounted.php>:
Thousands upon thousands of votes aren’t counted every election year
in Arizona, according to a newreport
<http://freepdfhosting.com/252ee064ac.pdf>.
The Arizona Advocacy Network, which is run by a onetime Democratic
politician, released a report detailing how Arizona’s election laws
affect voter turnout, and it doesn’t look good — through public
records and voter data, the organization found that more than
100,000 votes haven’t been counted over the last 10 years.
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“Reform Groups Call on IRS to Clarify 49 Percent Approach”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71520>
Posted onApril 3, 2015 8:40 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71520>byRick Hasen
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Release
<http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/news/press-releases/reform-groups-call-irs-clarify-49-percent-approach>.
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“Election law changes fail as Legislature winds to close”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71518>
Posted onApril 3, 2015 8:30 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71518>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
News
<http://www.yourwestvalley.com/valleyandstate/article_0235d1a2-da11-11e4-9685-f3d119f27e23.html>from
AZ: “A proposal to ask voters to scrap the voluntary system of public
financing faltered when it came up two votes short of a majority in the
House. Several Republicans crossed party lines to prevent a new vote on
the measure first approved by voters in 1998.”
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“Ted Stevens Case Looms Over Menendez Indictment”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71516>
Posted onApril 3, 2015 7:49 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71516>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Mike Sacks
<http://www.nationallawjournal.com/id=1202722424024/Ted-Stevens-Case-Looms-Over-Menendez-Indictment> reports
for NLJ.
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