[EL] ELB News and Commentary 8/28/15

Rick Hasen rhasen at law.uci.edu
Fri Aug 28 10:45:36 PDT 2015


    “Redistricting Reform Commission holds first meeting with just 10
    weeks to act” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75677>

Posted onAugust 28, 2015 10:42 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75677>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Maryland Reporter 
<http://marylandreporter.com/2015/08/27/redistricting-reform-commission-holds-first-meeting-with-just-10-weeks-to-act/>:

    Gov. Larry Hogan’s 11-member  Redistricting Reform
    Commission,created on Aug. 6 by executive order
    <https://governor.maryland.gov/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/EO-01.01.2015.21.pdf>,
    met for first time near the State House Thursday where they outlined
    their first steps to reform the process of drawing Maryland’s
    congressional and legislative district lines.

    In order to combat Maryland’s A+ grade in gerrymandering,an unlucky
    subject to be excelling at
    <http://marylandreporter.com/2015/08/16/fairness-is-the-place-to-start-on-redistricting-reform/>,
    the commission plans to hold four to five “regional summits,” or
    public hearings, over the next two months. The final outcome will be
    a report outlining voters concerns with redistricting, due to the
    governor and General Assembly leaders by Nov. 3, less than 10 weeks
    from now.

    The commission will have to produce a quick turnaround with a
    “fairly aggressive” schedule, according to the governor’s office. In
    addition to the report, the commission is tasked with recommending a
    constitutional amendment on congressional and legislative
    redistricting to be introduced during the Maryland General
    Assembly’s next legislative session.

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    “Presidential Ballot Access: 50 Shades of Law”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75675>

Posted onAugust 28, 2015 10:38 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75675>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

That’s the lead story inNCSL’s The Canvass. 
<http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/states-and-election-reform-the-canvass-august-2015.aspx>

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    “FairVote in the Supreme Court” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75673>

Posted onAugust 28, 2015 10:36 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75673>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

FairVote 
<http://www.fairvote.org/research-and-analysis/blog/fairvote-in-the-supreme-court/>:

    FairVote provides its innovative analysis and pro-voter perspective
    to activists, local and state policymakers, and to all three
    branches of the federal government. This month, FairVote
    submitted/amicus curiae/(“friend of the court”) briefs along with
    theCenter for Competitive Democracy
    <http://www.competitivedemocracy.org/>in the Supreme Court for two
    cases, each seeking a full hearing before the highest court in the
    land. Both briefs highlight practical statutory solutions, such as
    forms of ranked choice voting, to the problem of no-choice elections.

    Read FairVote’s brief in/Balsam v. Guadagno/, the New Jersey case
    about closed primaries,here
    <http://www.fairvote.org/assets/FairVote-Balsam-Amicus-Petition-for-Cert.pdf>.

    Read FairVote’s brief in/Rubin v. Padilla/, the California case
    about “top two,” here
    <http://www.fairvote.org/assets/FairVote-Rubin-Amicus-Petition-for-Cert.pdf>.

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    “INVESTIGATION: Is Ohio the Next Home Of Hanging Chads?”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75671>

Posted onAugust 28, 2015 10:35 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75671>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Nicholas Kusnetz of theCenter for Public Integrity 
<http://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/08/27/17899/democracy-inaction-old-equipment-and-partisan-battles-threaten-election-integrity>has 
writtenthis extensive Politico magazine piece. 
<http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/ohio-voter-technology-121819>

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    “Donald Trump Weighing Whether to Sign Pledge to Back Republicans’
    Eventual Nominee” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75669>

Posted onAugust 28, 2015 10:32 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75669>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT reports. 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/28/us/politics/donald-trump-weighing-whether-to-sign-pledge-to-back-republicans-eventual-nominee.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0>

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    “Clarence Thomas, a Supreme Court Justice of Few Words, Some Not His
    Own” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75667>

Posted onAugust 28, 2015 10:31 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75667>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Adam Liptak 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/28/us/justice-clarence-thomas-rulings-studies.html?_r=0>in 
the NYT:

    Mr. Feldman conducted an extensive analysis of overlapping language,
    using anti-plagiarism software to detect similar wording in briefs
    and opinions from 1946 to 2014. The study and related findings were
    based on almost 10,000 briefs and looked for passages of at least
    six words with an overlap of at least 80 percent.

    Justice Thomas’s majority opinions had the highest rate of overlaps
    with language in parties’ briefs in the decade since Chief Justice
    John G. Roberts Jr. joined the court.

    Paul M. Collins Jr., a political scientist at the University of
    Massachusetts, Amherst, who helped conduct two more limited studies
    that came to similar conclusions, said there might be a link between
    Justice Thomas’s approach to arguments and the high rates of
    seemingly borrowed language in his opinions.“His lack of engagement
    in oral arguments suggests that he doesn’t find them especially
    useful,” Professor Collins said. “If this is true, his view of cases
    is being heavily shaped by the legal briefs filed in the cases.”

    Justice Thomas is often more expansive when not writing for the
    majority. In the last term, he filed 30 dissents and concurrences,
    more than any other justice. Many concerned major constitutional
    questions, were longer than the majority opinions they critiqued and
    made novel points.

    Over the years, the average rate of nearly identical language
    between a party’s brief and the majority opinion was 9.6 percent.
    Justice Thomas’s rate was 11.3 percent. Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s
    was 11 percent, and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s 10.5 percent. All
    three sometimes produce institutional prose.

In response to my tweeting a link to this piece,Judge Michael Smyth 
<https://twitter.com/JudgeSmyth>tweeted (in a tweet since deleted) 
questioning whether the focus on Justice Thomas was fair, given the 
close rates for Justices Sotomayor and Ginsburg.

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    AALS Election Law Winner <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75665>

Posted onAugust 28, 2015 10:27 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75665>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

 From Josh Douglas:

    I am pleased to announce that the AALS Section on Election Law has
    selected the winner of the Call for Papers:  Hank Chambers (U. of
    Richmond) “Local Officials and Voter ID.”

    Hank will join David Schleicher (Yale Law School), Jocelyn Benson
    (Wayne State), Richard T. Ford (Stanford), and Trey Grayson (former
    KY Secretary of State) at the Section’s program, titled “Election
    Law at the Local Level,” on  Friday, January 8, 2016 from 10:30
    am-12:15 pm at the AALS Annual Meeting in New York City.

    The final paper will be published in the Election Law Journal.  I
    have pasted the abstract below.

    Congratulations, Hank!

    *Local Officials and Voter ID*

    Henry L. Chambers, Jr., Professor of Law, University of Richmond

    The interpretation state and local officials provide of voting laws
    can be just as important as the substance of the law. For example,
    how voter identification laws are interpreted can be just as
    important as the fact that voter identification is required of
    voters at the polls.  Whether a voter can vote or be assured that
    his vote will be counted may depend on the interpretation of voter
    identification laws.  However, whether a voter can vote may also
    depend on how a poll official or poll worker interprets the law. 
    Further, how much time the voter or other voters must devote to
    voting may depend on how the local official or the poll worker
    interprets voter identification laws.

    Virginia’s voter identification law provides an example.  One
    legitimate form of identification under that law is “any valid
    employee identification card containing a photograph of the voter
    and issued by an employer of the voter in the ordinary course of the
    employer’s business.” Va. Code §24.2-643.  The language of the law
    raises many issues.  Two are whether validity requires that the card
    have an unexpired expiration date and whether validity requires that
    the employee continues to be employed by the employer.  Though these
    questions can be answered by state or local officials well before an
    election, poll officials and poll workers must understand how
    officials have interpreted the law.

    However, even if the official interpretation of the law is
    relatively clear, poll officials and poll workers still must
    determine whether the identification the voter presents is
    sufficient.  For example, if the validity of the identification
    requires that the voter be employed by the employer when the
    identification card is proffered, whether the poll worker may deny
    the identification if the voter cannot prove that he or she works
    for the employer or whether the poll worker may deny the
    identification only if there is a reason for the poll worker to
    suspect that the voter does not work for the employer remains an
    issue.  Resolving such issues in the absence of an absolutely clear
    interpretation of the law may take time.

    The length of time necessary for a poll worker to determine whether
    a voter has valid identification matters.  Delays will affect how
    long other voters must wait to vote, the likelihood that those other
    voters will stay in line to vote, and the likelihood that others
    will see long lines and not bother to vote. Media reports of long
    lines may also dissuade potential voters from approaching the polls
    at all.  That is particularly problematic given that voter
    identification is not about voter qualification, but is merely
    supposed to prove that the voter is the person identified in the
    poll book.

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    “Has Lessig Lost It? The Marriage of Larry and the Donald”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75663>

Posted onAugust 28, 2015 10:26 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75663>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Steven Rosenfeld 
<http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/has-lessig-lost-it-marriage-larry-and-donald>at 
Alternet:

    Given the arc of Lessig’s activism, it’s not surprising that an
    individual who is driven to address one of the fundamental flaws in
    American politics is willing to embrace one of America’s most
    divisive politicans because he’s saying the right things about his
    issue. While that may be predictable or inevitable, it also a bit
    desperate and naïve—which has always been the danger of single-issue
    politics.

    Let’s imagine that Lessig somehow links up with Trump. Are people
    who want to see a fundamental restructuring of interplay between
    private money and political candidates suppose to ignore Trump’s
    racism, sexism, elitism, and war-mongering, just because Trump has
    been bombastically telling Americans that he’s invested and gotten
    results from politicians, and “that’s a broken system”?

    This is the danger of single-issue politics: seeing the light and
    being blinded by it. The problem is not that Lessig’s analysis of
    the problem is wrong. His remedies, including a national system of
    publically financed elections, are also correct—that, too, has been
    proven over the years in states and cities to be a generally better
    approach than the endless dialing-for-campaign-dollars status quo.

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    “We the Sheeple” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75661>

Posted onAugust 28, 2015 10:25 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75661>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WSJ editorial: <http://www.wsj.com/articles/we-the-sheeple-1440718082>

    Wisconsin’s Supreme Court shut down the John Doe investigation of
    conservative groups in July, but it turns out the probe was even
    worse than the judges knew. Documents filed at the state Supreme
    Court opposing Special Prosecutor Francis Schmitz’s motion to
    reconsider show that partisan motives ran through those who
    conducted their operations in secret while using gag orders to
    silence targets….In an email to Mr. Schmitz on Nov. 27, 2013, GAB
    staff counsel Shane Falk encouraged the special prosecutor to keep
    up the good work and “stay strong” in his pursuit of conservative
    nonprofit groups and allies of Mr. Walker. “Remember, in brief, this
    was a bastardization of politics and our state is being run by
    corporations and billionaires,” Mr. Falk wrote. “That isn’t
    democracy to say the least, but due to how they do this dark money,
    the populace never gets to know.” “The cynic in me says the sheeple
    would still follow the propaganda even if they knew,” Mr. Falk
    continued, “but at least it would all be out there so that the
    influences on our politicians is clearly known.” By “the sheeple”
    Mr. Falk means Wisconsin voters.

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    “Evenwel, Voting Power and Dual Districting”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75659>

Posted onAugust 28, 2015 10:18 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75659>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Paul Edelman has postedthis 
draft<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2631666>on 
SSRN.  Here is the abstract:

    With the noting of probable jurisdiction in Evenwel v Abbott it
    appears that the Supreme Court will finally make clear what “one
    person, one vote” is meant to accomplish. Is it supposed to equate
    representation between districts, or is it supposed to equate voting
    power between districts? Having side-stepped this issue for 50 years
    it is time for the Court to make clear what its doctrine is about.

    One possibility raised by the plaintiffs in Evenwel is that, at
    least in the context of the Texas state senate districts, one
    achieve both ends simultaneously. That is, the plaintiffs claim that
    it is possible to draw the districts so as to have both equality of
    total population as well as equality of citizen voting age
    population in every district. To support this claim they provide an
    affidavit claiming it can be done in this case as well as an appeal
    to the increasing power of the districting software.

    If the Court wishes to go down the road of accommodating both
    interests it may need to be reassured that the option is available
    not only in Texas but in any districting situation. And even if the
    Court does not require that districting plans consider the power of
    the vote, individual states themselves may wish to if they can do
    that as well as achieve equality of representation. That is what I
    provide in this paper. I will show that there are very good
    theoretical reasons to believe that it will always be possible to
    draw districts that will be simultaneously close in both total
    population and citizen voting age population (or, indeed, any other
    additional population that the Court desires.)

    Some of this analysis, however, depends on how the Court chooses to
    assess the deviation in voting power. I argue that the choice of a
    threshold for total deviation in the voting age population is
    intimately related to one’s model of voting power. I show that the
    relationship between the deviation of voting power and the deviation
    of voting populations is linear in the variable that characterizes
    the voting model. Thus, the Court must choose, either explicitly or
    implicitly, a model of voting power should it decide to take the
    power of the vote into consideration. Even so, I show that the
    standard of 10% deviation in the voting population leads to a
    deviation of less than 10% in voting power over a broad range of models.

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    “Election Sciences, Election Administration, and Election Law Panels
    at APSA” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75657>

Posted onAugust 28, 2015 10:17 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75657>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Paul Gronkerounds them up. 
<http://blogs.reed.edu/earlyvoting/commentary/election-sciences-election-administration-and-election-law-panels-at-apsa/>

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    Tom Mann Pulls No Punches in Attacking @Lessig Candidacy
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75655>

Posted onAugust 27, 2015 9:55 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75655>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Election 2016: Dumbing Down American Politics: Lawrence Lessig and the 
Presidency: 
<https://igs.berkeley.edu/news/election-2016-dumbing-down-american-politics-lawrence-lessig-and-the-presidency>

    The hubris of the Harvard Professor is breathtaking. In virtually
    every respect, his strategy is absurd. Lessig’s political reform
    agenda is stymied by Republicans, not Democrats.  Why not direct his
    energies where the opposition resides? All of the current Democratic
    presidential candidates support the thrust of these reforms. But
    saying that this is their highest priority is likely to harm, not
    boost, their candidacies. Why would even the most ardent supporter
    of the three pillars of Lessig’s reform agenda cast a ballot solely
    on this basis? Big and important issues divide the two parties today
    and the stakes of public action or inaction are huge. We don’t have
    the luxury of using the election to try to build a mandate for a set
    of political reforms that would have no chance of passing in the
    face of GOP opposition and would be of only incremental utility if
    they did.  …

    Lessig is a far less commanding presence but his ambition burns no
    less than that of Trump. The notoriety, celebrity, and adoring
    audiences are heady stuff, even if on a much smaller scale. Lessig
    toldBloomberg
    <http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-08-24/larry-lessig-says-he-d-give-joe-biden-a-third-term-as-vp>that
    Trump’s candidacy is evidence that his reform message is taking
    hold. Lessig said, Trump “strikes people as credible when he says
    all these people (politicians) are bought – I used to buy them…Trump
    is saying the truth.”  Lessig will be a minor figure in this
    election and the causes for which he fights are unlikely to advance
    from it. Both Lessig and Trump, despite their differences in
    visibility and importance in the election, will have contributed to
    the dumbing down of American politics, a reality that will bring
    tears to the eyes of civics teachers and political science
    professors across the country.

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    “Amelia Boynton Robinson, activist beaten on Selma bridge, dies at
    104″ <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75653>

Posted onAugust 27, 2015 9:54 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75653>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Obituary 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/amelia-boynton-robinson-activist-beaten-on-selma-bridge-dies-at-104/2015/08/26/9478d25e-4c11-11e5-bfb9-9736d04fc8e4_story.html>of 
a voting rights icon.

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    ACLU of Indiana Targets State Ballot Selfies Law
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75651>

Posted onAugust 27, 2015 8:30 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75651>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The Indiana Law Blog reports. 
<http://indianalawblog.com/archives/2015/08/ind_lcourts_acl.html>

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    Gov. McDonnell #SCOTUS Reply Brief Now Posted in His Bid to Stay Out
    of Jail Pending Cert. Decision <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75649>

Posted onAugust 27, 2015 7:47 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75649>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here. <http://pub.bna.com/lw/15A218Reply.pdf>

(via Kimberly Robinson 
<https://twitter.com/KimberlyRobinsn/status/636912343927103488>)

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    “Parties Play Politics With FEC Complaints”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75647>

Posted onAugust 27, 2015 7:25 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=75647>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Roll Call: 
<http://blogs.rollcall.com/rothenblog/parties-playing-politics-fec-complaints/?dcz=>

    But the recent complaints could signal a shift from how the parties
    have approached complaints in the past.

    “A general truce was in place for a number of years as both parties
    realized it wasn’t in their interest,” explained veteran campaign
    finance attorney Michael Toner, who is also a former FEC chairman,
    about the cost and burden of pursuing and defending
    complaints. “That truce is breaking down.”

    The source believes the creation of the American Democracy Legal
    Fund is a sign that filing FEC complaints could become an
    establishment-endorsed tactic in campaigns.

    “That would up the ante,” Toner said.

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