[EL] ELB News and Commentary 7/14/15

Tue Jul 14 07:26:32 PDT 2015

    “In Los Angeles, Voting Is Getting the Silicon Valley Treatment”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74297>

Posted onJuly 14, 2015 7:23 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74297>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bloomberg 
<http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-07-11/in-los-angeles-voting-is-getting-the-silicon-valley-treatment>:

    Last year, a bipartisan commission established by President Obama
    declared that the U.S. faces an “impending crisis in voting
    technology.” After the 2000 Florida recount showed the world that
    the American presidency could be determined by hanging chads,
    Congress set aside $3.3 billion, most of it to help local election
    officials upgrade their voting machinery. Bureaucrats with
    relatively little experience buying advanced technology rushed to
    purchase machines developed to satisfy the sudden demand. Those
    devices, designed in the years when Palm and Nokia owned the
    smartphone market, are mostly outdated. There’s no new money on the
    horizon, and even if local governments had the budgets for upgrades,
    they wouldn’t want the standard products currently available.

    Now, Los Angeles County, the largest voting jurisdiction in the
    U.S., has hired IDEO, a design company with roots in Silicon Valley,
    to overhaul how it serves up democracy. IDEO has developed a
    touchscreen system that incorporates features familiar to voters
    used to scrolling and tapping. Election administrators across the
    country are closely watching the experiment. They want to know if
    L.A. can solve the problem of American voting. “For a long time
    people muttered that somebody should do something about this,” says
    Doug Chapin, who runs the University of Minnesota’s Program for
    Excellence in Election Administration. “What Los Angeles County is
    doing is just that.”

(h/tDoug Chapin 
<http://editions.lib.umn.edu/electionacademy/2015/07/14/los-angeles-county-goes-hollywood-bloomberg-profile-of-new-voting-system/>)

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

    “Justice Scalia: Why he’s a bad influence”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74295>

Posted onJuly 14, 2015 7:16 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74295>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Erwin Chemerinsky LAT oped: 
<http://justice%20scalia:%20Why%20he%27s%20a%20bad%20influence/>

    Justice Antonin Scalia is setting a terrible example for young
    lawyers. Ignore, for now, his jurisprudence, his famously strict
    originalism; it’s his tone that’s the problem.

    I have taught argumentation for many years, first as an instructor
    to high school and college debaters, currently as a law professor.
    Throughout my career I have always cautioned students away from
    nastiness as a crutch for those who cannot win using reason or legal
    precedent. I have told them to stick to persuasion and to dissecting
    the opposition’s logical fallacies.

    But lately my students have been turning in legal briefs laced with
    derision and ad hominem barbs. For this trend, I largely blame
    Scalia. My students read his work, find it amusing and imitate his
    truculent style.

He concludes:

    If legal professionals ignore Scalia’s meanness or — worse — pass
    around his insults at cocktail parties like Wildean witticisms,
    they’ll encourage a new generation of peevish, callous scoffers.

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    “Lobbyists Decamp for Capitol Hill Jobs”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74293>

Posted onJuly 14, 2015 7:01 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74293>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The Hill reports. 
<http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/business-a-lobbying/247757-lobbyists-decamp-for-capitol-hill-jobs>

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Posted inlobbying <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=28>

    “You Can’t Draw Unbiased Districts in Florida Even if You Try”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74291>

Posted onJuly 14, 2015 6:59 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74291>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT’s The UpShot. 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/15/upshot/you-cant-draw-unbiased-districts-in-florida-even-if-you-try.html?rref=upshot&abt=0002&abg=1&smid=tw-upshotnyt&_r=1>

Michael McDonald 
<https://twitter.com/ElectProject/status/620951169536364544>: “Where to 
start why this is so wrong?”

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Posted inredistricting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>

    “Stopping Scam PACs From Ripping Off Donors | Commentary”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74289>

Posted onJuly 14, 2015 6:58 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74289>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

FEC Commissioner Ravel with a Roll Calloped 
<http://www.rollcall.com/news/stopping_scam_pacs_from_ripping_off_donors_commentary-242791-1.html>.

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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,campaigns 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>,chicanery 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>

    Bauer Critical of 4th Circuit McDonnell Opinion
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74287>

Posted onJuly 14, 2015 6:56 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74287>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Read it here. 
<http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/2015/07/judging-politicians-judges/>

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Posted inbribery <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=54>,chicanery 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>

    “Sides Dispute Basis of North Carolina Voting Laws as Trial
    Contesting Them Opens” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74285>

Posted onJuly 13, 2015 8:19 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74285>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Erik Eckholm reports for the NYT. 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/14/us/sides-dispute-basis-of-north-carolina-voting-laws-as-trial-contesting-them-opens.html>

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

    Scalia’s Poetry Slam <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74283>

Posted onJuly 13, 2015 7:57 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74283>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Worth your minute and 22 seconds. 
<http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/03/1398543/-Cartoon-Scalia-s-poetry-slam?detail=email>

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

    Watch Archived Video of 5th Annual #SCOTUS Review @UCILaw
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74281>

Posted onJuly 13, 2015 7:51 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74281>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

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    “Federal trial set to start over NC’s election law”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74277>

Posted onJuly 13, 2015 9:24 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74277>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The News & Observer reports. 
<http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article27044170.html>

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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voter id 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>,Voting Rights Act 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>

    In the Election Law Mailbag <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74275>

Posted onJuly 13, 2015 9:09 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74275>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Albert W. Alschuler,Limiting Political Contributions after McCutcheon, 
Citizens United, and Speech Now 
<http://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1945&context=public_law_and_legal_theory>(Florida 
Law Review)

Eric Berger,The Rhetoric of Constitutional Absolutism 
<http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3573&context=wmlr> (William 
and Mary Law Review)

James A. Gardner,Partitioning and Rights: The Supreme Court’s Accidental 
Jurisprudence of Democratic Process 
<http://archive.law.fsu.edu/journals/lawreview/vol42/gardner.pdf>(FSU 
Law Review)

Eitan D. Hersh,Hacking the Electorate: How Campaigns Perceive Voters 
<http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/american-government-politics-and-policy/hacking-electorate-how-campaigns-perceive-voters>(Cambridge)

David B. Magleby, ed.,Financing the 2012 Election 
<http://www.brookings.edu/research/books/2013/financing-the-2012-election>(Brookings)

Damon Root,Overruled: The Long War for Control of the Supreme Court 
<http://www.amazon.com/Overruled-Long-Control-Supreme-Court/dp/1137279230>(Palgrave 
MacMillan)

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Posted inUncategorized <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>

    “Partisan Polarization and Supreme Court Legitimacy (and What About
    Judicial Rhetoric and Celebrity)? <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74273>

Posted onJuly 13, 2015 9:01 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=74273>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Calvin TerBeek blogs. 
<https://constitutionalpoliticsdotcom.wordpress.com/2015/07/13/partisan-polarization-and-supreme-court-legitimacy-and-what-about-judicial-rhetoric-and-celebrity/>

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