[EL] ELB News and Commentary 2/20/15
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Fri Feb 20 07:30:02 PST 2015
“Hillary Clinton’s Complex Corporate Ties; Family charities
collected donations from companies she promoted as secretary of
state” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70429>
Posted onFebruary 20, 2015 7:28 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70429>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WSJ reports.
<http://www.wsj.com/articles/hillary-clintons-complex-corporate-ties-1424403002>
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of interest laws <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=20>
“Fine lines: Race and redistricting at the Supreme Court”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70427>
Posted onFebruary 20, 2015 7:21 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70427>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Chelsea Priest and Michael Mestitz column
<http://www.stanforddaily.com/2015/02/19/fine-lines-race-and-redistricting-at-the-supreme-court/>in
/Stanford Daily./
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Posted inredistricting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>,Supreme Court
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
“Forcing Their Hands? Campaign Finance Law, Retirement Announcements
and the Rise of the Permanent Campaign in U.S. Senate Elections”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70425>
Posted onFebruary 20, 2015 7:19 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70425>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
David Karol has writtenthis
article<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07343469.2014.990650#abstract>in
/Congress and the Presidency/. Here is the abstract:
Congressional retirement decisions affect representation and
campaigns. They have long interested scholars. Yet the timing of
retirement announcements has not been explored. In an analysis
dating to 1920 based on an original data set, I show that U.S
senators now announce their retirements far earlier in their final
term than they once did. Beyond documenting this little-noted trend,
I propose and assess explanations for these findings, focusing on
changes in campaign finance law. I discuss implications for
representation and the growth of the “permanent campaign.”
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Live Tweet of Attempt to Get Voter ID in RI
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70423>
Posted onFebruary 20, 2015 7:17 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70423>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Here
<http://www.rifuture.org/hard-times-at-the-dmv-getting-a-non-driving-state-id.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>
WI Supreme Court Candidate Writes OpEd in Favor of Voter ID
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70421>
Posted onFebruary 20, 2015 7:16 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70421>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
It
ends<http://lacrossetribune.com/print-specific/columns/column-supreme-court-should-ratify-voter-id/article_cf71a859-2a6e-5755-b7da-74f1b45c9865.html>like
this:
Until the U.S. Supreme Court acts, Wisconsin must take every voter
at his or her word that they are who they say they are. The issue of
free and fair elections is one which transcends political
philosophy, and voter ID enforces that. Elections should be treated
with respect by the entire electorate − Wisconsin deserves it.
I support the Wisconsin voter ID law, and when decisions like this
come before me you can be assured I will stick to the rule of law
and follow the guidelines of the constitution in all circumstances.
As circuit court judge, this has been my philosophy, and I will not
let my personal beliefs influence my decision making.
I ask for your vote on April 7.
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Posted incampaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>,election
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=19>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
“More than 82,000 votes didn’t get counted in governor’s race, but
did it really matter?” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70419>
Posted onFebruary 20, 2015 7:13 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70419>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Gary Fineout
<http://findout.typepad.com/the_fine_print/2015/02/more-than-82000-votes-didnt-get-counted-in-governors-race-but-did-it-really-matter.html>from
FL.
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Posted inelection administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>
“Democrats Are Already Planning For The Next Round Of Redistricting
Battles” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70417>
Posted onFebruary 20, 2015 7:12 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70417>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
HuffPo
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/19/democrats-redistricting_n_6713154.html?utm_hp_ref=politics>.
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Posted inredistricting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>
“Debbie’s damage control; A top Democratic donor claims the DNC
chair offered to switch positions on medical pot if he took back his
criticism” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70415>
Posted onFebruary 20, 2015 7:11 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70415>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The great Marc Caputo
<http://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/debbie-wasserman-schultz-medical-marijuana-115338.html#ixzz3SHpFehsy>,
now scooping at Politico.
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“California ethics panel rejects exceptions to lobbyist fundraising
rules” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70413>
Posted onFebruary 20, 2015 7:08 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70413>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
LAT
<http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-california-ethics-panel-rejects-exceptions-to-lobbyist-fundraising-rules-20150219-story.html>.
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of interest laws <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=20>,lobbying
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=28>
“The Campaign of the Future: A Roundtable Discussion on the Emerging
Technology of Campaign Communication, Mobilization and Fundraising”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70411>
Posted onFebruary 20, 2015 7:07 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70411>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Livestream from Stanford.
<https://www.law.stanford.edu/event/2015/02/20/the-campaign-of-the-future-a-roundtable-discussion-on-the-emerging-technology-of-campaign-communication-mobiliz>
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“Gov. Scott: No voter rolls lawsuit appeal”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70409>
Posted onFebruary 19, 2015 4:08 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70409>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
See here.
<http://www.pnj.com/story/news/politics/2015/02/19/gov-scott-florida-will-appeal-lawsuit-voter-rolls/23690965/>
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Posted inelection administration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,NVRA (motor voter)
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=33>
“The rich own our democracy, new evidence suggests”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70407>
Posted onFebruary 19, 2015 3:25 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70407>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Sean McElwee column
<http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/2/new-evidence-suggests-that-the-rich-own-our-democracy.html>.
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“Nevada will be latest battleground in voter ID wars”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70405>
Posted onFebruary 19, 2015 10:05 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70405>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WaPo report
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2015/02/18/nevada-will-be-latest-battleground-in-voter-id-wars/>s.
But it is “not a priority
<https://twitter.com/KNPRnews/status/568461020848484352>” for new
Republican AG.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voter id
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>
“The Survey of the Performance of American Elections, 2014 edition”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70403>
Posted onFebruary 19, 2015 9:56 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70403>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Charles Stewart inElectionline Weekly
<http://electionline.org/index.php/electionline-weekly>:
The experience of voters is one of those things that hide in plain
sight.
Despite the fact that more than 100 million voters take part in
presidential elections, and around 80 million voters take part in
midterm congressional elections, very little is actually known about
the experiences voters have when they go to cast a ballot.
Do their machines work? Do they wait in long lines? Are they met by
competent poll workers?
Voters tell each other stories about these things, and sometimes
reporters write news accounts about them, but until 2008 no one had
ever attempted to ask voters about their experience on Election Day
in any comprehensive, systematic way.
Thus was born theSurvey of the Performance of American Elections
<https://thedata.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/SPAE>(SPAE), the first (and thus
far only) comprehensive national public opinion study of voting from
the perspective of the voter.
In 2014, with the financial assistance of thePew Charitable Trusts
<http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/projects/election-initiatives>(which
has generously funded the SPAE since its inception), we have been
able to study in detail the voting experience at midterm. This
report touches on some highlights.
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Posted inelection administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>
Coming Early 2016: My New Campaign Finance Book, “Plutocrats United”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70401>
Posted onFebruary 19, 2015 8:18 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70401>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The book will be published by Yale University Press, and will look not
only at what is wrong with how both the Supreme Court and reformers talk
about campaign finance issues, but also offer a way forward. Details to
come.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,Plutocrats United
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=104>,Supreme Court
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
“Clinton foundation’s global network overlaps with family’s
political base” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70399>
Posted onFebruary 19, 2015 7:52 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70399>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WaPo
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clintons-raised-nearly-2-billion-for-foundation-since-2001/2015/02/18/b8425d88-a7cd-11e4-a7c2-03d37af98440_story.html?postshare=1871424360731329>:
Since its creation in 2001, the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton
Foundation has raised close to $2 billion from a vast global network
that includes corporate titans, political donors, foreign
governments and other wealthy interests, according to a Washington
Post review of public records and newly released contribution data.
The total, representing cash and pledges reported in tax filings,
includes $262 million that was raised in 2013 — the year Hillary
Rodham Clinton stepped down as secretary of state and began to
devote her energies to the foundation and to a likely second run for
president.
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Feb 2015 Issue of NCSL’s “The Canvass” Now Available
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70397>
Posted onFebruary 19, 2015 7:38 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70397>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Here.
<http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/states-and-election-reform-the-canvass-february-2015.aspx>
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Bauer on the Lessig-Smith “Spat” Over MayDay FEC Complaint
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70395>
Posted onFebruary 19, 2015 7:24 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70395>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Here. <http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/2015/02/cause-complaint-fec/>
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“Don’t Let Prosecutors Terrorize Citizens Under Secret Charges”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70393>
Posted onFebruary 19, 2015 7:23 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70393>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Paul
Jossey<http://thefederalist.com/2015/02/19/dont-let-prosecutors-terrorize-citizens-under-secret-charges/>on
WI John Doe investigations.
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and election law <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22>
“Restoration of voting rights ought to be automatic”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70391>
Posted onFebruary 19, 2015 7:22 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70391>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
/Richmond Times Dispatch/editorial.
<http://www.richmond.com/opinion/our-opinion/article_9f383f49-041c-5e2e-a035-96b8ab4a5a87.html>
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Justice Kennedy Channels John Hart Ely: Windsor’s Effort to Clear
the Channels of Political Change <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70389>
Posted onFebruary 19, 2015 5:11 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70389>byHeather Gerken
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=6>
For the last few days, I’ve been blogging about a newpaper
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2565504>of mine
on/Windsor v. United States/over on Balkinization (here
<http://balkin.blogspot.com/2015/02/justice-kennedys-mad-genius-new-take-on.html>,here
<http://balkin.blogspot.com/2015/02/solving-windsors-many-mysteries.html>,
andhere
<http://balkin.blogspot.com/2015/02/windsor-v-united-states-clearing.html>).
I offer a new spin on it, one that invokes Ely’s/Democracy and
Distrust/and depicts/Windsor/as an effort to “clear the channels of
political change.” You might find the posts interesting if you want to
read more about what I call the “interlocking gears or rights and
structure,” which help explain the many mysteries in the opinion, the
democratic purposes federalism serves, and the ways in which Windsor can
be understood as an Ely-like move. Or just think of this as an
invitation to join those of us writing at the intersection of federalism
and election law, includingJessica Bulman-Pozen
<http://harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/vol127.bulman_pozen.pdf>andFranita
Tolson <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1674507>.
Come on in — the water’s warm…
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=55>,guest blogging election law
scholarship <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=64>,political equality
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=69>,Uncategorized
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1> |TaggedEly
<http://electionlawblog.org/?tag=ely>,federalism
<http://electionlawblog.org/?tag=federalism>,First Amendment
<http://electionlawblog.org/?tag=first-amendment>,Windsor
<http://electionlawblog.org/?tag=windsor>
“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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