[EL] ELB News and Commentary 8/13/15

Rick Hasen rhasen at law.uci.edu
Thu Aug 13 08:29:55 PDT 2015


    “Texas House Battleground Could Hinge on Voter-ID Law in Flux”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75311>

Posted onAugust 13, 2015 8:27 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75311>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

National Journal reports. 
<http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/texas-house-battleground-could-hinge-on-voter-id-law-in-flux-20150813>

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    “Road Ahead Murky After Voter ID Ruling”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75309>

Posted onAugust 13, 2015 8:24 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75309>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The /Austin Chronicle /reports. 
<http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2015-08-14/road-ahead-murky-after-voter-id-ruling/>

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    “Former lawmakers sit on tens of millions in campaign cash”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75307>

Posted onAugust 13, 2015 7:43 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75307>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

USA Today: 
<http://www.news-press.com/story/news/politics/2015/08/12/former-politicians-like-trey-radel-tons-campaign-cash/31522477/>

    At least 141 former members of Congress retain campaign accounts
    containing a total of more than $46 million, a USA TODAY analysis
    found. Twenty are linked to campaign committees with more than
    $500,000 each. Nearly one-third of the ex-lawmakers have been out of
    office at least five years.

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    “Jeb Bush Super PAC Donors Also Spend Big To Influence Washington”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75305>

Posted onAugust 13, 2015 7:42 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75305>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Paul Blumenthal reports 
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeb-bush-super-pac_55ca586be4b0923c12be71c6?utm_hp_ref=politics&kvcommref=mostpopular>for 
HuffPo.

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    Top Recent Downloads in Election Law on SSRN
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75302>

Posted onAugust 13, 2015 7:37 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75302>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/topten/topTenResults.cfm?groupingId=991929&netorjrnl=jrnl>:

*RECENT TOP PAPERS*for all papers first announced in the last 60 
days<http://papers.ssrn.com/publicRss/rssManagerInc.cfm?journalId=991929>
/14 Jun 2015 through 13 Aug 2015/

Rank 	Downloads 	Paper Title
1 	102 	*The Party’s Over: McCutcheon, Shadow Parties, and the Future of 
the Party System* 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2617747>
Joseph Fishkin 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=664357>andHeather 
Gerken <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=101581>
University of Texas School of Law and Yale University – Law School
/Date posted to database: /13 Jun 2015
/Last Revised: /29 Jul 2015
2 	72 	*Election Law’s Path in the Roberts Court’s First Decade: A Sharp 
Right Turn But with Speed Bumps and Surprising Twists* 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2639902>
Richard L. Hasen 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=337>
University of California, Irvine School of Law
/Date posted to database: /6 Aug 2015
/Last Revised: /11 Aug 2015
3 	54 	*Introduction: The Burden of Modern Democracy* 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2618771>
Samuel Issacharoff 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=48053>
New York University School of Law
/Date posted to database: /17 Jun 2015
/Last Revised: /18 Jun 2015
4 	52 	*Voting Rights at 50* 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2635014>
Samuel Issacharoff 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=48053>
New York University School of Law
/Date posted to database: /24 Jul 2015
/Last Revised: /24 Jul 2015
5 	49 	*India’s Participatory Model: The Right to Information in 
Election Law* <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2625837>
Manoj Mate <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1698830>
Whittier Law School
/Date posted to database: /3 Jul 2015
/Last Revised: /3 Jul 2015
6 	48 	*Applying Section 2 to the New Vote Denial* 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2622172>
Daniel P. Tokaji 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=359247>
Ohio State University (OSU) – Michael E. Moritz College of Law
/Date posted to database: /25 Jun 2015
/Last Revised: /30 Jun 2015
7 	43 	*The New Elections Clause* 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2636007>
Michael T Morley 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2159971>
Barry University School of Law
/Date posted to database: /27 Jul 2015
/Last Revised: /27 Jul 2015
8 	26 	*Setting Congress Up to Fail* 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2619421>
Margaret B. Kwoka 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=868438>
University of Denver Sturm College of Law
/Date posted to database: /18 Jun 2015
/Last Revised: /20 Jun 2015
9 	22 	*In Defense of Corporate Persons* 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2639778>
Kent Greenfield 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=41901>
Boston College Law School
/Date posted to database: /5 Aug 2015
/Last Revised: /10 Aug 2015
10 	19 	*Independent Expenditures in Congressional Primaries after 
Citizens United* 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2620791>
Robert G. Boatright 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1189510>,Michael J. 
Malbin 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=557776>andBrendan 
Glavin <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1887624>
Clark University, University at Albany (SUNY) and Campaign Finance Institue
/Date posted to database: /21 Jun 2015
/Last Revised: /21 Jun 2015

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    “Lawmakers offer flurry of amendments to proposed congressional
    districts map” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75300>

Posted onAugust 13, 2015 7:34 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75300>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Miami Herald 
<http://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article30959358.html>:

    After days of listening to how their staff redrew Florida’s 27
    congressional districts in relative seclusion, state legislators
    Wednesday started taking their own turn at re-mapping the state.

    By the end of the third day of the 12-day special session on
    redistricting, at least eight state legislators were working on
    alternative redistricting plans that, in some cases, would
    significantly change an initial base map that lawmakers started
    debating Monday. The result is that who represents millions of
    Floridians in Congress is far from being resolved.

    Meanwhile, U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, D-Jacksonville, took a different
    approach to halt the Legislature’s entire redistricting process
    because of how it portends to change the 5th District she has
    represented since 1993. Brown said she was filing a lawsuit calling
    on the federal courts to block the Florida Supreme Court’s directive
    to change her snaking Jacksonville-to-Orlando district because it
    would reduce the percentage of black residents who are of voting age.

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    “Donors Descend on Schumer and Others in Debate on Iran”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75298>

Posted onAugust 13, 2015 7:33 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75298>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT reports. 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/13/us/politics/in-efforts-to-sway-iran-debate-big-money-donors-are-heard.html?_r=0>

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    “Campaign Finance Reform PAC Wants to Be a Player in 2016″
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75296>

Posted onAugust 13, 2015 7:32 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75296>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Roll Call reports. 
<http://atr.rollcall.com/campaign-finance-reform-pac-wants-player-2016/>

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    “When Does a Candidate Become a Candidate?”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75294>

Posted onAugust 13, 2015 7:30 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75294>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Brad Smith 
<http://dailycaller.com/2015/08/12/when-does-a-candidate-become-a-candidate/>for 
the Daily Caller:

    CLC wants the FEC to undertake a “fact-based” investigation to
    determine the moment that Jeb Bush and others became “actual”
    candidates, or began “testing the waters.” If that approach were the
    law, there would be no clear rules defining when one crosses the
    line from thinking about running to actually running, and Governor
    Bush and other candidates could be subject to criminal penalties for
    speaking about issues of importance to them, or for helping
    like-minded candidates raise money.

    In September of 2014, for example, Hillary Clinton appeared at a
    “Steak fry” in the early caucus state of Iowa. Does paying for a
    flight to Des Moines, buying a tank of gas, and eating a steak, more
    than two years before an election make one a candidate? Under CLC’s
    bizarre approach, it might. Or it might not. Guess wrong, and
    Secretary Clinton could be fitted for an orange pantsuit.

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    “Conservatives Beware: The Speech Police Are Coming For You”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75292>

Posted onAugust 13, 2015 7:25 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75292>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Paul Jossey writes 
<http://thefederalist.com/2015/08/13/conservatives-beware-the-speech-police-are-coming-for-you/>for 
The Federalist.

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    “Nine Years Ago, Republicans Favored Voting Rights. What Happened?”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75287>

Posted onAugust 12, 2015 7:08 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75287>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Jim Rutenberg follow up forNYT magazine. 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/12/magazine/nine-years-ago-republicans-favored-voting-rights-what-happened.html?smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0>

As with Rutenberg’s earlier piece, I think this one really misses the 
partisan element of the story, suggesting this Republican opposition is 
really all motivated by race. I make that claim that the analysis needs 
more nuance inthis Slate piece 
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/08/how_to_save_the_voting_rights_act_voting_rights_shouldn_t_rely_on_parsing.html>, 
and more broadly in myRace or Party? 
piece<http://harvardlawreview.org/2014/01/race-or-party-how-courts-should-think-about-republican-efforts-to-make-it-harder-to-vote-in-north-carolina-and-elsewhere/>at 
the /Harvard Law Review Forum./

Also, as I explain in 2006 the writing was already on the wall that 
realignment was causing the Republicans to have partisan reasons to 
oppose a broad voting rights act. This trend only accelerated with the 
first Democratic DOJ in office during a redistricting year dealing with 
preclearance.

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    McCaskill Spokeswoman Says Allegation of Illegal Coordinating “Dumb”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75285>

Posted onAugust 12, 2015 3:27 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75285>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Dave Helling 
<http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/the-buzz/article30939288.html>:

    A McCaskill spokeswoman said any allegation of impropriety is dumb.

    “A candidate is always free to give another candidate advice,” she
    wrote.

I don’t think it’sthat simple. <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75272>
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    “Dispute Over Voter Guide Headed to Supreme Court”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75283>

Posted onAugust 12, 2015 3:12 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75283>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

CCP 
<http://www.campaignfreedom.org/2015/08/12/dispute-over-voter-guide-headed-to-supreme-court/>:

    The Center for Competitive Politics (CCP), America’s largest
    non-profit dedicated to protecting political free speech rights,
    issued the following statement in reaction to the Third Circuit
    Court of Appeals ruling in the case of/Delaware Strong Families v.
    Attorney General of the State of Delaware/://

    “We’re disappointed that the 3rd Circuit declined to rehear the
    Delaware Strong Families case, and we’ll now appeal to the Supreme
    Court,”*said Allen Dickerson, Legal Director for CCP and counsel to
    Delaware Strong Families (“DSF”).*

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    “Carl P. Leubsdorf: Why there’s hope for easing Texas’ voter ID law”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75281>

Posted onAugust 12, 2015 3:04 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75281>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Dallas Morning News column 
<http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/latest-columns/20150812-carl-p.-leubsdorf-why-theres-hope-for-easing-texas-voter-id-law.ece>.

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    President Obama Writes Letter to the Editor of NYT Magazine on
    Voting Rights Piece <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75274>

Posted onAugust 12, 2015 10:29 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75274>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here. 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/magazine/president-obamas-letter-to-the-editor.html?smid=tw-share>

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    Did Claire McCaskill Illegally Coordinate with Todd Akin’s Campaign?
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75272>

Posted onAugust 12, 2015 9:06 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75272>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Inan earlier post <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75264>, I described how 
Sen.Claire McCaskill’s Politico oped 
<http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/todd-akin-missouri-claire-mccaskill-2012-121262.html#ixzz3ibuQmzPJ>shows 
how it is possible to get outside groups to follow your lead without 
breaking the coordination rules. The post was a responseto a tweet 
<https://twitter.com/justinamash/status/631330536859009024>by Rep. 
Justin Amash suggesting McCaskill engaged in illegal coordination.

However, when I wrote my post, I did not realize there wasa second 
page<http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/todd-akin-missouri-claire-mccaskill-2012-121262_Page2.html#.VctuXlNVhHw>to 
the McCaskill oped, and that Rep. Amash wasactually referring 
<https://twitter.com/justinamash/status/631490463967637504>to this part 
of it:

    A /Post-Dispatch /poll conducted July 23–25 showed Brunner leading
    the race at 33 percent, followed by Steelman at 27, and Akin at 17.
    But our polling showed the race was tightening, with Brunner still
    up by a point or two and Steelman solidly in third. Then,
    unexpectedly, the Akin camp took down one of his own ads that had
    been so effective. In it Mike Huckabee, the former governor of
    Arkansas and a leading voice in the conservative movement, endorsed
    Akin and explained his reasoning looking straight into the camera.
    It was powerful, but Akin’s camp replaced it with Akin talking about
    “flames of freedom.” What were they thinking? Akin didn’t have money
    for polling, but we had been tracking the numbers carefully and
    concluded that he’d be in trouble if he didn’t get the Huckabee ad
    back up.

    On the Thursday before the election, I called Ron Gladney, the
    husband of Rep. Jo Ann Emerson, a Republican from Missouri. I asked
    him if he could get a message to the Akin camp to put the Huckabee
    ad back up. Of course Gladney started laughing and asked, “Are you
    kidding?” “No,” I replied. “If he gets the Huckabee ad back up by
    Friday, he’s going to win.” I also placed a call to Michael Kelley,
    a Democratic Party and labor operative who was friends with a former
    Akin staffer, and asked him to convey the same message to the Akin
    camp. A short time later my campaign manager, Adrianne Marsh, got a
    call from the Akin campaign. The person on the line wanted to talk
    to our pollster. Adrianne called me, and I gave clearance, allowing
    Kiley to speak in broad generalities. Three hours later the Huckabee
    ad was back up.

Rep. Amash contends this should count as illegal coordination, and I 
think this does raise a serious question about coordination. The 
Senator’s campaign was sending a message to the Akin campaign about what 
strategy to follow.  I hope that Sen. McCaskill’s campaign can respond 
to questions about whether this communication crossed the line. If she 
does, I will post or link to the response.

UPDATE: Here are the ruleson coordinated communications. 
<http://www.fec.gov/pages/brochures/indexp.shtml#CC>

FURTHER UPDATE:  I linked to the coordinated communications rules just 
before I had to step away from the computer for a few hours. Those rules 
might not apply to these facts (here’s Marc Elias arguingthey don’t 
<https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/631569632747495425>and Justin 
Amisharguing that they do 
<https://twitter.com/justinamash/status/631582976745340928>). On 
reflection, I think the stronger issue is whether McCaskill made an 
unreported and excessive in kind contribution to the Akin campaign by 
sharing the results of her polling data. If she gave the campaign 
something worth more than the limit (which was probably $2600 in that 
election) she’d be giving an in-kind contribution, and a contribution 
worth that much would have to be reported.

Well did the Senator give Akin something of value? It looks like it.  
After all, we know it is valuable to him because the Senator writes 
“Akin did not have money for polling,” and she provided the information 
he needed to clinch the primary (at least in the Senator’s telling). 
Elias’s response 
<https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/631572680202973184>to this point 
is: “There’s no suggestion she shared ‘polling data’. She only ‘gave 
clearance, allowing [pollster] to speak in broad generalities.”  Perhaps 
that distinction will work, but I still think the issue is a serious one 
and merits a fuller analysis (and certainly fuller than I can give it 
now).  I’m not suggesting the Senator broke the law, but there is enough 
here to justify a closer look.

I should add that there’s the potential to look not only at McCaskill’s 
campaign but also Akin’s campaign.

P.S. Motive does not matter.Here’s a case 
<http://openjurist.org/903/f2d/1247/goland-v-united-states>I worked on 
as a clerk in which one contributor made an excessive in kind donation 
in a California Senate race to a fringe candidate and claimed it was not 
illegal because he was doing it to help draw votes away from the 
Republican candidate to help the democratic candidate. He went to jail. 
Michael Goland v. FEC.

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    Quote of the Day–@Lessig Edition <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75270>

Posted onAugust 12, 2015 7:31 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75270>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

“Ideally, I would resign in a day.”

–Larry Lessig, quoted in Politico, Dissent in Bernie Sanders’ camp; The 
candidacy of Sanders adviser Larry Lessig could complicate matters. 
<http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/bernie-sanders-larry-lessig-2016-campaign-121280.html#ixzz3ibxRCzrg>

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    “Now eligible to lobby, Eric Cantor chooses investment banking
    instead” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75268>

Posted onAugust 12, 2015 7:28 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75268>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Politico reports. 
<http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/now-eligible-to-lobby-eric-cantor-chooses-investment-banking-instead-121273.html>

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    “The Voting Rights Act Turned 50, But There’s Not a Lot to
    Celebrate” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75266>

Posted onAugust 12, 2015 7:27 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75266>byRick Hasen 
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Brentin Mock 
<http://www.nationaljournal.com/next-america/economic-empowerment/50th-anniversary-of-voting-rights-act-still-not-a-lot-to-celebrate-201508011>for 
the National Journal.

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    How Candidates Get Outside Groups to Help Without Coordinating
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75264>

Posted onAugust 12, 2015 7:24 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75264>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Sen. Claire McCaskill 
<http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/todd-akin-missouri-claire-mccaskill-2012-121262.html#ixzz3ibuQmzPJ>on 
her strategy to boost Akin in the Republican primaries:

    My consultants put together a $1.7 million plan. Four weeks out we
    would begin with a television ad boosting Akin, which my campaign
    consultant Mike Muir dubbed “A Cup of Tea.” The production costs
    were pretty low, about $20,000, because we didn’t have to film
    anything. We just used pictures and voice-overs. We would spend
    $750,000 at first and run it for eight or nine days. Then we’d go
    back into the field and test to see if it was working. If it was,
    we’d dump in more “McCaskill for Senate” money, and we’d add radio
    and more TV in St. Louis and Kansas City. The second TV buy would
    approach $900,000. We hoped that some of our friends watching the TV
    ads would catch on and some of the outside groups would augment the
    last week with mail and radio. Sure enough, a radio ad calling Akin
    “too conservative” that went on the air in the closing days of the
    primary was paid for by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign
    Committee. We would later find out that their rural radio buy was
    $250,000.

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