[EL] ELB News and Commentary 2/19/15

Wed Feb 18 20:29:51 PST 2015

    “The most interesting political stat of the day”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70386>

Posted onFebruary 18, 2015 8:28 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70386>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Aaron Blake 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/02/18/the-most-interesting-political-stat-of-the-day/>:

    Even as the door has swung open wider to big money, there are fewer
    and fewer people walking through the doorway. That is, while the
    amount of money flowing into elections is bigger than ever, the
    number of total donors is actually/shrinking/.

Yup.

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

    “Missouri: Another Try for a Voter ID Measure”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70384>

Posted onFebruary 18, 2015 8:25 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70384>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

AP reports. 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/19/us/politics/missouri-another-try-for-a-voter-id-measure.html?ref=politics>

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Posted inelection administration 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voter id 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>

    “Mitchum sues Capps over election ads, claims defamation”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70382>

Posted onFebruary 18, 2015 8:21 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70382>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Santa Ynez Valley News 
<http://syvnews.com/santamaria/news/local/mitchum-sues-capps-over-election-ads-claims-defamation/article_0a3d9e2a-977c-5008-afb5-c4e6af1119f3.html>:

    Former 24th District congressional candidate Chris Mitchum, a
    Republican, who lost the race for the hotly contested seat to
    incumbent Lois Capps in the November 2014 election, has filed a
    lawsuit against Capps and others for defamation of character.

    In the lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Santa Barbara County Superior Court
    by attorney Joshua E. Lynn of Santa Barbara-based Lynn & O’Brien,
    LLP, Mitchum cites one radio and one television ad in alleging the
    defendants “deliberately edited Mitchum’s film and audio comments to
    completely alter and falsify what Mitchum really said.”

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Posted incampaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>

    “Kate Brown’s deputy, Robert Taylor, takes over as Oregon’s acting
    secretary of state” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70380>

Posted onFebruary 18, 2015 5:31 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70380>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The latest f 
<http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/02/kate_browns_deputy_takes_over.html>rom 
Oregon.

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

    “Clinton Foundation Defends Acceptance of Foreign Donations”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70377>

Posted onFebruary 18, 2015 4:00 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70377>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WSJ reports. 
<http://www.wsj.com/articles/clinton-foundation-defends-acceptance-of-foreign-donations-1424302856>

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    “Voter ID legislation abruptly stops, likely dead in Nebraska”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70375>

Posted onFebruary 18, 2015 3:53 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70375>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

AP reports. 
<http://columbustelegram.com/news/state-and-regional/voter-id-legislation-abruptly-stops-likely-dead-in-nebraska/article_cb702264-cdc6-560b-a127-7bb6fb193132.html>

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Posted inelection administration 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voter id 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>

    “Pa. Supreme Court rejects challenge to electronic voting systems”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70373>

Posted onFebruary 18, 2015 3:42 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70373>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Penn Live 
<http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2015/02/pa_supreme_court_rejects_chall.html>:

    In a unanimous ruling, Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court has denied an
    appeal by a group of 24 voters who asked it to bar the use of some
    types of electronic voting machines.

Read the 35-page opinion. 
<http://www.pacourts.us/assets/opinions/Supreme/out/J-74-2014mo%20-%201021112373130810.pdf?cb=1>

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Posted inelection administration 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,voting technology 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=40>

    “Tenth Circuit Urged to Deny Albuquerque’s Attempt to Fine Litigants
    and Lawyers for Seeking to Vindicate Voting Rights”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70371>

Posted onFebruary 18, 2015 3:36 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70371>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Campaign Legal Center 
<http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/content/tenth-circuit-urged-deny-albuquerque-s-attempt-fine-litigants-and-lawyers-seeking-vindicate>.

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    “New evidence shows election officials are biased against Latino
    voters” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70369>

Posted onFebruary 18, 2015 10:37 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70369>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The Monkey Cage. 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/02/18/new-evidence-shows-election-officials-are-biased-against-latino-voters/>

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Posted inelection administration 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,Voting Rights Act 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>

    Cert. Petition Filed at #SCOTUS in Colorado Secret Ballot Case
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70367>

Posted onFebruary 18, 2015 8:53 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70367>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Read it here. 
<http://www.scribd.com/doc/256135951/Citizen-Center-v-Colo-Sec-of-State>

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Posted inSupreme Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>,voting 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=31>

    “Elementary Statutory Interpretation: Rethinking Legislative Intent
    and History” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70365>

Posted onFebruary 18, 2015 8:52 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70365>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Victoria Nourse has postedthis draft 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2561598>on SSRN 
(/Boston College Law Review/).  Here is the abstract:

    This article argues that theorists and practitioners of statutory
    interpretation should rethink two very basic concepts — legislative
    intent and legislative history. Textualists urge that to look to
    legislative history is to seek an intent that does not exist. This
    article argues we should put this objection to bed because, even if
    groups do not have minds, they have the functional equivalent of
    intent: they plan by using internal sequential procedures allowing
    them to project their collective actions forward in time. What we
    should mean by legislative “intent” is legislative “context.” For a
    group, context includes how groups act — their procedures. Once one
    accepts this position, we must rethink the very concept of
    legislative history. Legislative history is not a search for a
    mental state, behind the words, but a search for decisional context.
    We should give up talking about legislative history, replacing it
    with the far more helpful notion of legislative decision and
    statutory context.

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Posted inlegislation and legislatures 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=27>,statutory interpretation 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=21>

    “More Money, More Problems: Open Mic at the Federal Election
    Commission” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70363>

Posted onFebruary 18, 2015 8:45 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70363>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Great Stephen Spaulding blog post. 
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephen-spaulding/more-money-more-problems_b_6705272.html>

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