[EL] ELB News and Commentary 8/20/15

Thu Aug 20 07:38:27 PDT 2015

    "Battle for voting rights continues”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75463>

Posted onAugust 20, 2015 7:37 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75463>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

E.J. Dionne 
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/no-retreat-on-voting-rights/2015/08/19/f0339280-46a0-11e5-846d-02792f854297_story.html>:

    This month, theU.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th
    Circuit<http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20150805-texas-voter-id-law-discriminates-against-minorities-5th-circuit-panel-rules.ece>ruled
    that Texas’s voter ID law “has a discriminatory effect” and amounted
    to a poll tax. But it also sent the case back to a lower-court judge
    asking her to meet a high standard of showing that the law was
    passed with an explicitly discriminatory intent. You can bet that
    the Texas voting case or another in North Carolina, or both, will
    make their way to a Supreme Court that has already gutted the Voting
    Rights Act once in a2013
    decision<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/us/supreme-court-ruling.html?_r=0>written
    by Roberts.

    Will he do it again? And will voters in 2016 realize just how
    important a president’s power to name future Supreme Court justices
    is to the very right they will be exercising on Election Day?

    It would have been lovely if Berman’s book could simply have
    celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act. Instead,
    it is even more useful as a guide to what still needs to be done.

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Posted inThe Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,Voting 
Rights Act <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>

    “Uncertainty Reigns as Court Takes Over Virginia Redistricting”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75461>

Posted onAugust 20, 2015 7:26 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75461>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Roll Call reports. 
<http://atr.rollcall.com/uncertainty-reigns-court-takes-virginia-redistricting/?dcz=>

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    “Federal Election Commission refuses to release computer security
    study” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75459>

Posted onAugust 20, 2015 7:23 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75459>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Dave Levinthal reports 
<http://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/08/20/17880/federal-election-commission-refuses-release-computer-security-study>for 
CPI.

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    “Hillary Clinton campaign fundraisers: Cash bar only?”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75457>

Posted onAugust 19, 2015 2:46 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75457>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Squeeze 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2015/08/19/hillary-clinton-campaign-fundraisers-cash-bar-only/>every 
hard money dollar.

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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,campaigns 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>

    “NC voter ID law topic of negotiations”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75453>

Posted onAugust 19, 2015 2:24 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75453>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The News and Observer reports 
<http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article31532189.html>.

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Posted inUncategorized <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>

    “Deez Nuts is running for president”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75451>

Posted onAugust 19, 2015 10:51 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75451>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

As if we didn’tknow that already 
<http://www.cbsnews.com/news/deez-nuts-is-running-for-president/>.

But just look atthe results 
<http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2015/PPP_Release_NC_81915.pdf>of 
this PPP poll in NC:

Q32 If the candidates for President next year were Democrat Hillary 
Clinton, Republican Donald Trump, and independent Deez Nuts who would 
you vote for?

Hillary Clinton 38%

Donald Trump 40%

Deez Nuts 9%

Not sure 12%

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    Must-Read Maggie Haberman on Hillary Clinton and #BlackLivesMatter
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75449>

Posted onAugust 19, 2015 10:01 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75449>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Fascinating window 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/20/us/politics/hillary-clinton-takes-on-civil-rights-generation-gap.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=1>into 
what appears to be a more genuine take by Hillary Clinton on race issues.

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    7th Circuit Denies En Banc in Blagojevich Appeal
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75446>

Posted onAugust 19, 2015 9:44 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75446>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

AP reports. 
<http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_BLAGOJEVICH_ILOL-?SITE=ILBLO&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-08-19-12-40-04>

No judge<https://twitter.com/mtarm/status/634042682474631169>requesteda 
vote. 
<http://pdfserver.amlaw.com/nlj/7th%20Circuit%20Blagoyevich%20no%20en%20banc.pdf>

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    “Prison population affecting Florida’s redistricting fight”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75444>

Posted onAugust 19, 2015 8:21 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75444>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Miami Herald 
<http://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article31489022.html>:

    Florida’s prison population is fast becoming a point of contention
    in the Legislature’s attempt to redraw the state’s congressional
    districts.

    The last Census counted more than 160,000 people in Florida
    correctional facilities, and they cannot vote. But they can skew how
    districts are drawn, and ultimately who represents the state in the
    U.S. House of Representatives. That is exactly what U.S. Rep.
    Corrine Brown, D-Jacksonville, is convinced is happening in North
    Florida.

    Brown said the proposed new Congressional District 5 stretching from
    Jacksonville to Tallahassee will see a reduction in the percentage
    of black residents who are of voting age — a key measure used to
    ensure black voters can elect who they want to represent them in
    Congress — from 50 percent to 45 percent under the map that passed
    the House on Tuesday and is expected to be before the Senate on
    Wednesday.

    But Brown, who is suing the Legislature to block the redrawing of
    her district, said the reduction of the black voting age population
    in her district could be even greater because her new district would
    have 17,000 prisoners in it — giving it one of the highest prison
    populations in the state. Her current district has just 10,000.

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