[EL] ELB News and Commentary 1/30/15

Thu Jan 29 19:31:58 PST 2015

    “W.Va. GOP wants election changes in possible Manchin gov bid”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70016>

Posted onJanuary 29, 2015 7:30 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70016>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

AP <http://www.wvgazette.com/article/20150129/GZ01/150129138>: “As U.S. 
Sen. Joe Manchin considers a 2016 return bid for governor, Republicans 
hope to block West Virginia’s most prominent Democrat from handpicking 
his Senate successor for two years.”

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Posted inballot access <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=46>,campaigns 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>

    “Kobach pushing bills to limit ballot withdrawals and to allow
    straight-party voting” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70014>

Posted onJanuary 29, 2015 7:28 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70014>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

News from Kansas. 
<http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2015/jan/28/kobach-pushing-bills-limit-ballot-withdrawals-allo/>

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Posted inelection administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>

    “Want to Vote? Get Fingerprinted.” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70012>

Posted onJanuary 29, 2015 7:27 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70012>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bloomberg View. 
<http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-01-29/fingerprinting-could-end-debate-over-voter-id-laws>

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Posted inelection administration 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voter id 
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    “Critics of NC’s voter ID law to present their case in court Friday”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70010>

Posted onJanuary 29, 2015 7:06 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70010>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

This 
<http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2015/01/29/5481074/critics-of-ncs-voter-id-law-to.html#.VMr0xF7F-fI>is 
a state court case. The federal case goes to trial in July.

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Posted inelection administration 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voter id 
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    California Appellate Court Rejects Minor Party Challenge to Top-Two
    Primary <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70005>

Posted onJanuary 29, 2015 4:51 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70005>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

You can read the opinion inRubin v. Padilla here 
<http://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/documents/A140387.PDF>. (More fromBAN 
<http://www.ballot-access.org/2015/01/california-minor-parties-lose-lawsuit-in-state-court-of-appeals-against-top-two-system/>.) 
  UPDATE:More criticism from BAN here. 
<http://www.ballot-access.org/2015/01/decision-upholding-california-top-two-system-is-based-on-two-important-areas-of-misinformation-by-the-judges/>

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Posted inpolitical parties 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>,primaries 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=32>,third parties 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=47>

    “THE FEC Hears from Someone Besides the 1%”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70003>

Posted onJanuary 29, 2015 3:32 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70003>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Meredith McGehee blogs. 
<http://www.clcblog.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=595:the-fec-hears-from-someone-besides-the-1>

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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,federal 
election commission <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=24>

    “New Study Highlights Need for Expanded Voter Information in
    Judicial Races” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70001>

Posted onJanuary 29, 2015 3:30 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70001>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Court News Ohio 
<http://www.courtnewsohio.gov/bench/2015/voterEducation_012915.asp#.VMrCLl7F-fK>:

    The biggest reason Ohioans say they don’t vote for judges is because
    they don’t know enough about the candidates. These and other results
    from a survey of 1,000 registered Ohio voters were discussed today
    at the annual Associated Press Legislative Preview by Ohio Supreme
    Court Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor.

    The survey
    <http://www.uakron.edu/dotAsset/f119f1fd-14ed-45e6-95ac-5fc6636e8634.pdf>,
    which was conducted in October last year by the Ray C. Bliss
    Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron, focused on
    the drop off in votes cast in judicial races.

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elections <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=19>

    “The Koch Paradox” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69999>

Posted onJanuary 29, 2015 3:24 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69999>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Frank Wilkinson 
<http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-01-29/the-koch-brothers-paradox>for 
Bloomberg View.

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

    “How Fair Rules Can Be Designed for Photo Identification at the
    Ballot Box” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69997>

Posted onJanuary 29, 2015 3:20 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69997>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Theodore Arrington writes 
<http://www.scholarsstrategynetwork.org/content/how-fair-rules-can-be-designed-photo-identification-ballot-box>at 
SSN.

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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>

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