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    Text of Hillary Clinton Voting Speech
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73173>

Posted onJune 4, 2015 4:38 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73173>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here 
<https://www.hillaryclinton.com/feed/hillary-clinton-we-should-make-it-easier-vote/>:

    Well today, with the damage to the Voting Rights Act so severe, the
    need for action is even more urgent.

    First, Congress should move quickly to pass legislation to repair
    that damage and restore the full protections that American voters
    need and deserve.

    I was in the Senate in 2006 when we voted 98 to zero to reauthorize
    the Voting Rights Act after an exhaustive review process.

    There had been more than 20 hearings in the House and Senate
    Judiciary Committees. Testimony from expert witnesses. Investigative
    reports documenting continuing discrimination in covered
    jurisdictions. There were more than 15,000 pages of legislative
    record. Now that is how the system is supposed to work. You gather
    the evidence, you weigh it and you decide. And we did 98 to nothing.
    We put principle ahead of politics. That is what Congress needs to
    do again.

    Second, we should implement the recommendations of the bipartisan
    presidential commission to improve voting. That commission was
    chaired by President Obama’s campaign lawyer and by Governor Mitt
    Romney campaign’s lawyer. And they actually agreed. These are
    commonsense reforms, including expanding early, absentee, and mail
    voting. Providing online voter registration. Establishing the
    principle that no one should ever have to wait more than 30 minutes
    to cast your vote.

    Third, we should set a standard across our country of at least 20
    days of early in-person voting everywhere—including opportunities
    for weekend and evening voting. If families coming out of church on
    Sunday before an election are inspired to go vote, they should be
    free to do just that. And we know that early in-person voting will
    reduce those long lines and give more citizens the chance to
    participate, especially those who have work or family obligations
    that make it difficult to get to the polls on Election Day.

    It’s not just convenient—it’s also more secure, more reliable, and
    more affordable than absentee voting. So let’s get this done.

    And I believe we should go even further to strengthen voting rights
    in America. So today I am calling for universal, automatic voter
    registration. Everyone, every young man or young woman, in every
    state in the union should be automatically registered to vote when
    they turn 18—unless they actively choose to opt out. But I believe
    this would have a profound impact on our elections and our
    democracy. Between a quarter and a third of all eligible Americans
    remain unregistered and therefore unable to vote.

    And we should modernize our entire approach to registration. The
    current system is a relic from an earlier age. It relies on a
    blizzard of paper records and it’s full of errors.

    We can do better. We can make sure that registration rolls are
    secure, up to date, and complete. When you move, your registration
    should move with you. If you are an eligible vote and want to be
    registered, you should be a registered voter—period.

    Now, Oregon is already leading the way modernizing its system, and
    the rest of the country should follow. The technology is there.
    States have a lot of the data already. It’s just a matter of syncing
    and streamlining.

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    “The Money in Politics in Big Sky Country”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73171>

Posted onJune 4, 2015 4:26 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73171>byRick Hasen 
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy blogs. 
<https://www.brennancenter.org/blog/money-politics-big-sky-country>

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    “Clinton Rips GOP On Voting Rights While Calling For Universal Voter
    Registration” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73168>

Posted onJune 4, 2015 3:33 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73168>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

TPM. <http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/hillary-clinton-voting-laws>

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    Will Hillary Clinton Call on NY and PA to Adopt 20 Days of Early
    Voting for 2016? <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73166>

Posted onJune 4, 2015 2:04 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73166>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Why not?  It would be a great idea.

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    Automatic Universal Voter Registration, Especially of 18-Year-Olds,
    is a GREAT Idea <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73163>

Posted onJune 4, 2015 1:18 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73163>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here’s what I wrote 
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2008/10/registering_doubt.html>about 
the idea in 2008 (expanded on in my 2012 book,The Voting Wars) 
<http://www.amazon.com/Voting-Wars-Florida-Election-Meltdown/dp/0300182031/ref=la_B0089NJCR2_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1433449074&sr=1-7>:

    The solution is to take the job of voter registration for federal
    elections out of the hands of third parties (and out of the hands of
    the counties and states) and give it to the federal government. The
    Constitutiongrants Congress wide authority
    <http://supreme.justia.com/constitution/article-1/11-elections.html>over
    congressional elections. The next president should propose
    legislation to have the Census Bureau, when it conducts the 2010
    census, also register all eligible voters who wish to be registered
    for future federal elections.*High-school seniors could be signed up
    as well so that they would be registered to vote on their
    18**^th**birthday*. When people submit change-of-address cards to
    the post office, election officials would also change their
    registration information.

    This change would eliminate most voter registration fraud.
    Government employees would not have an incentive to pad registration
    lists with additional people in order to keep their jobs. The system
    would also eliminate the need for matches between state databases, a
    problem that has proved so troublesome because of the bad quality of
    the data. The federal government could assign each person a unique
    voter-identification number, which would remain the same regardless
    of where the voter moves. The unique ID would prevent people from
    voting in two jurisdictions, such as snowbirds who might be tempted
    to vote in Florida and New York. States would not have to use the
    system for their state and local elections, but most would choose to
    do so because of the cost savings.

    There’s something in this for both Democrats and Republicans.
    Democrats talk about wanting to expand the franchise, and there’s no
    better way to do it than the way most mature democracies do it: by
    having the government register voters. For Republicans serious about
    ballot integrity, this should be a winner as well. No more ACORN
    registration drives, and no more concerns about Democratic
    secretaries of state not aggressively matching voters enough to
    motor vehicle databases.

    Finally, universal voter registration is good for the country, not
    only because it will make it easier for those who wish to vote to do
    so, but because it should end controversy over ballot integrity that
    threatens to undermine the legitimacy of our election process. If
    President McCain or Obama makes this a priority, we can have the
    system ready in time for the president’s re-election.

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    “Hillary leans hard into the battle over voting”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73161>

Posted onJune 4, 2015 1:13 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73161>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Greg Sargent 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/06/04/hillary-leans-hard-into-the-battle-over-voting/>:

    “There’s a good policy reason why Clinton might support universal
    voting, but there’s also a good political reason,” Rick Hasen, a
    voting law expert, tells me. “These are issues that motivate the
    Democratic base. Talking about Republicans suppressing the vote gets
    Democrats excited, just like talking about voter fraud motivates
    Republicans.”

    Indeed, Clinton’s proposal today seems likely to draw opposition
    from conservatives and Republicans. For one thing, they would
    probably seize on the chance to attack her for favoring another
    government mandate and federal encroachment on states, and also to
    argue that government mandated registration could produce other
    types of fraud. The Clinton camp will probably try to pitch this
    proposal — and her push for more voting access in general — in a way
    that rebuffs GOP efforts to turn independents against it, casting it
    as key to maintaining the integrity of the process.

    For another thing,as Hasen has noted elsewhere
    <http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/02/the_new_conservative_assault_on_early_voting_more_republicans_fewer_voters.html>,
    the battle over voting access revolves around a much deeper dispute,
    in which some opponents of increased access have explicitly argued
    that making voting harder actually leads not only to less voter
    fraud but to more informed choices.

    “There are two ways of thinking about voting,” Hasen tells me. “The
    first, which is associated with conservatives, is that voting is
    about choosing the best candidate. If you take that view, you might
    want restrictions that winnow out uninterested or uneducated voters.
    Democrats and liberals are more likely to take the second view —
    that we should all have an easy way to vote and share in political
    power.”

    That seems like an argument the Clinton campaign might want to have.

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    “Hillary Clinton Pushes for Universal Voter Registration”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73159>

Posted onJune 4, 2015 1:10 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73159>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bloomberg reports. 
<http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-06-04/hillary-clinton-pushes-for-universal-voter-registration>

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    “Poll: 8-in-10 back voter ID” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73156>

Posted onJune 4, 2015 1:00 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73156>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

TheWashington Examine 
<http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/poll-8-in-10-back-voter-id/article/2565542?custom_click=rss>r 
reports on aRasmussen poll, 
<http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/questions/pt_survey_questions/may_2015/questions_immigrant_voters_may_27_28_2015>which 
also appears to have polled on the one person, one vote issue 
in/Evenwel/.  I have not seen the full results or crosstabs of the poll, 
however, which are only available to subscribers.

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    Quote of the Day: Celebrity Justice Division
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73154>

Posted onJune 4, 2015 12:50 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73154>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

    “Nino Scalia, at one point, was hounded by me on one case and Ruth
    on another,” Sotomayor recounted. “And he looked at me and he said,
    ‘you know why I love you? You are a bulldog. You put your head down
    and push right in. She yaps at me.’

Justice Sotomayor 
<http://www.metrocorpcounsel.com/articles/32523/sotomayor-sounds-how-lack-professional-diversity-hurting-high-court#.VXCnLBsBNgg.twitter>, 
speaking at an ABA meeting.

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    Watch Hillary Clinton’s Voting Rights Speech
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73152>

Posted onJune 4, 2015 12:49 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73152>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here. 
<http://www.c-span.org/video/?326400-1/hillary-clinton-remarks-voting-rights>

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    “Democrats’ Supreme Court Litmus Test: Citizens United”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73150>

Posted onJune 4, 2015 12:48 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73150>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Sahil Kapur writes 
<http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-06-04/democrats-supreme-court-litmus-test-citizens-united>for 
Bloomberg.

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    “How Jeb Bush’s Presidential Announcement Will Change His Money
    Game” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73148>

Posted onJune 4, 2015 11:47 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73148>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Shane Goldmacher 
<http://www.nationaljournal.com/2016-elections/how-jeb-bush-s-presidential-announcement-will-change-his-money-game-20150604>for 
National Journal.

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    “Dispute over ‘dark money’ oversight escalates”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73146>

Posted onJune 4, 2015 10:14 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73146>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The latest 
<http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/arizona/politics/2015/06/03/dark-money-oversight-dispute/28447545/>from 
AZ.

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    “Jan Brewer Following The Money After Stint As Arizona Governor; As
    Gov, She Directed $3.3M To Law Firm That Now Hires Her”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73144>

Posted onJune 4, 2015 10:13 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73144>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Arizona’s Politics: 
<http://arizonaspolitics.blogspot.com/2015/06/jan-brewer-following-money-after-stint.html>

    There is a goodarticle in the Arizona Republic
    <http://bit.ly/1eQjC5p>today updates readers on former Governor Jan
    Brewer getting used to being out of the public eye, and getting
    hired by a national law firm. The article quotes Joe Kanefield – the
    “attorney and longtime Brewer adviser”.* And, the article discusses
    some of the interesting ethical and lobbying issues presented by
    Brewer’s new career.

    What the article does NOT touch on is the Governor’s relationship
    with Ballard Spahr** WHILE she was Arizona’s Governor.  Her new
    employer was one of the two law firms that most benefited from her
    term as Governor, billing the State of Arizona approximately $3.3
    million in the last 3 1/2 years of Brewer’s governorship.

Update: The headline of the Arizona’s Politics post has beenupdated 
<http://arizonaspolitics.blogspot.com/2015/06/jan-brewer-following-money-after-stint.html>and 
this responseposted 
<http://arizonaspolitics.blogspot.com/2015/06/update-ballard-spahr-law-firm-responds.html>.

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    “First Person Singular: Tammy Patrick Traveling the country,
    listening to elections folks and some music”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73142>

Posted onJune 4, 2015 10:11 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73142>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

That’s the lead story in this week’sElectionline Weekly. 
<http://www.electionline.org/index.php/electionline-weekly>

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