[EL] ELB News and Commentary 4/20/15

Sun Apr 19 21:31:12 PDT 2015

    “New Book, ‘Clinton Cash,’ Questions Foreign Donations to
    Foundation” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71855>

Posted onApril 19, 2015 9:25 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71855>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT: 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/20/us/politics/book-questions-clinton-donations.html?ref=politics&_r=0>

    “Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments
    and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich,” by Peter
    Schweizer — a 186-page investigation of donations made to the
    Clinton Foundation by foreign entities — is proving the most
    anticipated and feared book of a presidential cycle still in its
    infancy…

    But “Clinton Cash” is potentially more unsettling, both because of
    its focused reporting and because major news organizations including
    The Times, The Washington Post and Fox News have exclusive
    agreements with the author  to pursue the story lines found in the book.

    Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which includes
    Mr. Paul and Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, have been briefed on
    the book’s findings, and its contents have already made their way
    into several of the Republican presidential candidates’ campaigns.

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    “Wayne Williams a contrast to former SOS”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71853>

Posted onApril 19, 2015 5:05 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71853>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Colorado Statesman 
<http://coloradostatesman.com/content/995603-wayne-williams-contrast-former-sos>:

    Three months after being sworn in, Secretary of State Wayne Williams
    has mostly stayed out of the news, and that’s the way he likes it.

    It’s a marked contrast from Williams’s predecessor, fellow
    Republican Scott Gessler, an election law attorney who embraced the
    nickname “honey badger,” a varmint known for the relentlessness of
    its attack. Where Gessler seemingly courted controversy — and was
    the target of one complaint after another from Democrats — Williams
    is taking a more conciliatory approach, working closely with county
    clerks across the state and stressing his office’s mission providing
    services to voters, businesses and nonprofit groups.

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

    Quote of the Day: Gyrocopter Guy Edition
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71851>

Posted onApril 19, 2015 3:45 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71851>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Chicago Tribune 
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-gyrocopter-pilot-20150419-story.html>:

    Asked Sunday if he too thinks he’s a patriot or simply crazy, Hughes
    said “everyone gets to make up their own mind about me, that’s what
    I’d say.”

    “But do you consider yourself a patriot?” a reporter asked.

    “No, I’m a mailman,” he said.

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    “Big money in politics emerges as a rising issue in 2016 campaign”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71849>

Posted onApril 19, 2015 3:32 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71849>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Matea Gold WaPo A-1. 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/big-money-in-politics-emerges-as-a-rising-issue-in-2016-campaign/2015/04/19/c695cbb8-e51c-11e4-905f-cc896d379a32_story.html?postshare=3341429482353259>

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    “State Sen. Jamie Raskin announces run for Van Hollen seat”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71847>

Posted onApril 19, 2015 2:44 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71847>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Not 
only<http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/state-sen-jamie-raskin-announces-run-for-van-hollen-seat/2015/04/19/e678c290-e6b7-11e4-9767-6276fc9b0ada_story.html>a 
state Senator, but quite anaccomplished election law professor 
<https://www.wcl.american.edu/faculty/raskin/>(and a very nice guy).

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Posted inelection law biz <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=51>

    “Time to make voting easier for everyone, including Ohio’s college
    students: State Rep. Kathleen Clyde”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71845>

Posted onApril 19, 2015 10:46 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71845>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Oped <http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2015/04/post_296.html>in 
Cleveland Plain Dealer.

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    “Video: Newly-Elected Hasidic Village Trustee Refuses To Answer
    Questions On His Alleged Voter Fraud”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71842>

Posted onApril 19, 2015 10:41 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71842>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

More from Bloomingburg 
<http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2015/04/video-newly-elected-hasidic-village-trustee-refuses-to-answer-questions-on-his-alleged-voter-fraud-123.html>. 
  (Video. 
<https://www.facebook.com/ExposingTheIssues/videos/840946965976908/>)

(Background on the dispute fromthe NYT 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/20/nyregion/vote-fails-to-end-fight-over-growth-in-catskills.html?_r=0>).

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    “Obituary in North Carolina paper: Don’t vote for Hillary Clinton in
    2016″ <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71837>

Posted onApril 19, 2015 7:54 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71837>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Obituary: 
<http://www.examiner.com/article/obituary-north-carolina-paper-don-t-vote-for-hillary-clinton-2016> “Also, 
the family respectfully asks that you not vote for Hillary Clinton in 
2016. R.I.P. Grandaddy.”

More here 
<https://twitter.com/DavidWhisenant/status/589231246280110080>, via 
David Wiseanant, WBTV.  The comments to this Twitter post crack a lot of 
jokes about how the dead grandfather will now be voting Democratic from 
the grave.

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Posted inelection law "humor" <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=52>

    NYT Editorial Relies on Morgan Kousser Voting Rights Data to
    Criticize #SCOTUS <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71835>

Posted onApril 19, 2015 6:40 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71835>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Editorial 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/opinion/sunday/voting-rights-by-the-numbers.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share>:

    The chief justice’s destructive cure for this was to throw out
    theformula
    <http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/vot/misc/sec_4.php#bailout>Congress devised
    in 1965 that required all or parts of 16 states with long histories
    of overt racial discrimination in voting, most in the South, to get
    approval from the federal government for any proposed change to
    their voting laws. This process, known as preclearance, stopped
    hundreds of discriminatory new laws from taking effect, and deterred
    lawmakers from introducing countless more.

    But Chief Justice Roberts, writing for a 5-4 majority, invalidated
    the formula because “today’s statistics tell an entirely different
    story.”

    Well, do they? Acomprehensive new study
    <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2592829> by a
    historian of the Voting Rights Act provides a fresh trove of
    empirical evidence to refute that assertion. The study byJ. Morgan
    Kousser <http://www.hss.caltech.edu/content/j-m-morgan-kousser>, a
    professor of history and social science at the California Institute
    of Technology, examines more than 4,100 voting-rights cases, Justice
    Department inquiries, settlements and changes to laws in response to
    the threat of lawsuits around the country where the final result
    favored minority voters.

    It found that from 1957 until 2013, more than 90 percent of these
    legal “events” occurred in jurisdictions that were required to
    preclear their voting changes. The study also provides evidence that
    the number of successful voting-rights suits has gone down in recent
    years, not because there is less discrimination, but because several
    Supreme Court decisions have made them harder to win.

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    “Election dispute highlights broader issue; Chula Vista’s case
    showed differences in counting of provisional ballots”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71833>

Posted onApril 18, 2015 2:57 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71833>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Greg Moran writes 
<http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2015/apr/17/cv-ballot-statewide-implications/?#article-copy>for 
UT San Diego.

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