[EL] ELB Quick Hits, Etc.

Tue Dec 29 15:25:01 PST 2015

    ELB Quick Hits <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78605>

Posted onDecember 29, 2015 3:23 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78605>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The GOP Road To Absolute Chaos … Flirting With a Chaotic GOP Convention 
<http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9d6633511cb02390b72d7f5266ea68e05795bff5c4e5b94cf086bff159260fe2>, 
Ben Ginsberg WSJ oped (“The past nine Republican conventions began with 
a presumptive nominee. And the chances of delegates arriving … in 
Cleveland next July with no clear nominee remain small. But the odds are 
no longer infinitesimal thanks to the multicandidate field, required 
early proportional voting, and the fact that only 16.2% of the delegates 
will have been chosen in … winner-take-all contests.”)

Database of 191 million U.S. voters exposed on Internet: researcher 
<http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-voters-breach-idUSKBN0UB1E020151229>, 
Reuters (“An independent computer security researcher uncovered a 
database of information on 191 million voters that is exposed on the 
open Internet due to an incorrectly configured database, he said on 
Monday. The database includes names, addresses, birth dates, party 
affiliations, phone numbers and emails of voters in all 50 U.S. states 
and Washington, researcher Chris Vickery said in a phone interview.”)

Low turnout prompts initiative extravaganza for November ballot 
<http://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Low-turnout-prompts-initiative-extravaganza-for-6722949.php?t=e49e06ba5e00af33be&cmpid=twitter-premium>, 
/SF Chronicle/

FEC Deadlocks on Ads Using Candidates’ Video 
<http://news.bna.com/mpdm/MPDMWB/split_display.adp?fedfid=81090384&vname=mpebulallissues&jd=a0h7d8n5k6&split=0>, 
Bloomberg BNA (“The Federal Election Commission deadlocked on whether an 
outside group’s use of “b-roll” video footage produced by a candidate’s 
campaign constitutes an illegal campaign contribution.”)

Election 2016 By the Numbers 
<http://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/12/29/18976/election-2016-numbers>, CPI

Elections Are Easy for Queens Prosecutor; Critics Call This a Problem 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/28/nyregion/absence-of-challengers-to-queens-district-attorney-undermines-democracy-critics-say.html?ref=politics&_r=0>, 
NYT

The surprising ineffectiveness of Super PACs in 2016 (so far) 
<http://www.vox.com/polyarchy/2015/12/16/10294606/ad-spending-polls>, 
Lee Drutman, Vox

Webb Attacks Clinton With Eye on Independent Run 
<http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-12-26/webb-attacks-clinton-with-eye-on-independent-run?cmpid=BBD122815_POL>, 
Bloomberg News

Campaign cash in state judicial elections grows 
<http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_2016_JUDICIAL_ELECTIONS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT>, 
AP

Federal judge’s ruling on evidence could fuel John Doe appeal to U.S. 
Supreme Court 
<http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/federal-judge-s-ruling-on-evidence-could-fuel-john-doe/article_7c60ccf2-18fa-5fdc-ac62-b1bad9075075.html>, 
/Wisconsin State Journal/

108 officials face recalls in the US in 2015; 65 ousted in a vote; 15 
resign; At least 435 recall attempts 
<http://recallelections.blogspot.com/2015/12/108-officials-face-recalls-in-us-in.html>, 
Recall Elections Blog

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    Diverse Group of Politicians Sign on to Brief Urging #SCOTUS to Hear
    Blagojevich Case <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78611>

Posted onDecember 29, 2015 3:22 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78611>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

This brief 
<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/Blagojevich_Amicus_Brief.pdf>brings 
together, among others, Bob Barr and Bobby Rush. Here is how the brief 
phrases the question presented:

    Whether, in a case involving solicitation of campaign contributions,
    Evans v. United States, 504 U.S. 255 (1992), modified the holding
    ofMcCormick v. United States, 500 U.S. 257, 273 (1991), that an
    “explicit promise or undertaking” by a public official to perform or
    not to perform an official act is required to prove extortion under
    color of official right (and by extension bribery and honest
    services fraud), and, if so, what is the standard for distinguishing
    lawful attempts to obtain campaign contributions from criminal
    violations.

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    “Who Can Be President of the United States?: Candidate Hillary
    Clinton and the Problem of Statutory Qualifications”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78607>

Posted onDecember 29, 2015 3:01 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78607>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Seth Barrett Tillman has postedthis draft 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2679512>on SSRN 
(forthcoming, /British Journal of American Legal Studies/). Here is the 
abstract:

    Is the Office of President of the United States subject to statutory
    disqualification? If former Secretary of State and former Senator
    Hillary Clinton is convicted under 18 U.S.C. Section 2071, is she
    disqualified from holding the presidency?

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