[EL] ELB News and Commentary 6/25/15

Thu Jun 25 06:57:29 PDT 2015

    “Carl P. Leubsdorf: Assessing Clinton’s call for automatic voter
    registration” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73753>

Posted onJune 24, 2015 7:50 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73753>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

/Dallas Morning News /column. 
<http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/latest-columns/20150624-carl-p.-leubsdorf-assessing-clintons-call-for-automatic-voter-registration.ece>

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

    Thought of the Day <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73751>

Posted onJune 24, 2015 7:46 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73751>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Getting rid of the confederate flag on government grounds is nice. 
Fixing the Voting Rights Act would be much, much better.

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Posted inVoting Rights Act <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>,VRAA 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=81>

    “This Quirky New Hampshire Law Might Keep Bernie Sanders Off The
    Ballot” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73747>

Posted onJune 24, 2015 2:23 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73747>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NPR reports. 
<http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/06/24/416929786/this-quirky-new-hampshire-law-might-keep-sanders-off-the-ballot>

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Posted inballot access <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=46>,political 
parties <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>,primaries 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=32>

    #SCOTUS is Not Transparent Enough <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73745>

Posted onJune 24, 2015 2:06 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73745>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The latest from AP’sMark Sherman 
<http://bigstory.ap.org/article/3f9432f72afb4d8bac3ffb773bba99a3/5-weeks-after-filing-justices-finances-still-not-public>:

    Supreme Court justices’ annual reports on investments, paid travel
    and other financial matters remain shielded from public view more
    than five weeks after they were filed.

    For the first time since John Roberts became chief justice in 2005,
    the justices probably will leave town for their summer break before
    the reports are released.

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

    “Supreme Court Watchers Are Tired of This Redistricting Case”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73743>

Posted onJune 24, 2015 1:58 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73743>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

National Journal 
<http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/supreme-court-arizona-redistricting-20150623>:

    June has brought a new, unwelcome routine for Mary Jo Pitzl, a
    political reporter for the/Arizona Republic/. Her beat includes
    congressional redistricting, the subject of a major Supreme Court
    decision three time zones away that has been eagerly anticipated for
    weeks—but hasn’t yet come.

    “I’m a night owl. This is bad,” Pitzl says. “I set my alarm for
    6:45, stumble out of bed, get to my computer and open all the
    relevant windows.”

    Pitzl and a small community of Western political professionals,
    elected officials, and journalists have been rising with the sun
    every Monday this month (and a few other days, too), waiting to see
    whether the Court junks congressional maps in Arizona, California,
    and possibly other states. A case from Arizona could invalidate the
    independent commissions that drew the maps in several states where
    voters used ballot measures to take gerrymandering power away from
    state legislators. Depending on how the Court rules, those
    legislators and their aides could start redrawing congressional maps
    any day.

    But because the Court never announces which opinions it will release
    on a given day, interested parties have spent early mornings waiting
    for a decision on five days so far this month. After weeks primed in
    the starting blocks without an answer, they’re starting to get antsy….

    Technology has made the wait for Supreme Court opinions both faster
    and more torturous, in a way. Rick Hasen, an election law professor
    at the University of California, Irvine who writes
    at/ElectionLawBlog.org/, recalled that he had to wait half an hour
    after the landmark/Bush v. Gore/decision was announced in 2000 to
    read the opinion. It was first available online on/The//Washington
    Post/‘s website. Now, quick reports are immediately available
    on/SCOTUSblog/and Twitter, and opinions are posted to the Supreme
    Court’s website minutes after they are announced.

    “It’s fun to gripe about it, but there are a lot more things to
    complain about how SCOTUS conducts itself,” Hasen said. (The morning
    of June 15, Hasentweeted
    <https://twitter.com/rickhasen/status/610449058755293185>: “As an
    election law person about to get on a plane, I am THRILLED #SCOTUS
    did not decide AZ redistricting case today.”) It would help if the
    Court simply said which opinions would come out each day, Hasen
    continued.

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

    “Three Philly Election Officials Face Voter Fraud Charges”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73741>

Posted onJune 24, 2015 1:48 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73741>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

/Philadelphia Magazine /reports. 
<http://www.phillymag.com/news/2015/06/24/philadelphia-voter-fraud-charges/> Election 
fraud by election officials. Awful.

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

    Sensenbrenner Declines to Endorse Democrats’ Alternative VRAA
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73739>

Posted onJune 24, 2015 1:43 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73739>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Ari Berman 
<http://www.thenation.com/article/210673/congressional-democrats-introduce-ambitious-new-bill-restore-voting-rights-act>:

    In a statement to/The Nation/, Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI), the
    lead GOP sponsor of the 2006 VRA reauthorization and the 2014 VRAA
    bill, reiterated his support for the VRA but declined to endorse the
    new bill. “Restoring the VRA is critically important,” Sensenbrenner
    said. “Every American needs to know that we understand their right
    to vote is sacred. However, I stand by the legislation I introduced
    last Congress. Passing any bill on voting rights will be a Herculean
    task and there is no chance of succeeding if we abandon our
    bipartisan approach.”

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Posted inVoting Rights Act <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>,VRAA 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=81>

    “Senate passes online voter registration bill”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73737>

Posted onJune 24, 2015 1:41 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73737>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

News from Ohio 
<http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2015/06/24/online_voter_registration.html>. 
  Prospects less certain in the Ohio House.

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Posted inelection administration 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,voter registration 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=37>,voting technology 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=40>

    The Real Reason #SCOTUS Justices Don’t Want Live Broadcast of
    Opinion Announcements <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73735>

Posted onJune 24, 2015 9:25 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73735>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Tony Mauro 
<http://www.nationallawjournal.com/legaltimes/id=1202730341900/Supreme-Court-Urged-to-Allow-Broadcast-of-Historic-Opinion-Announcements?cmp=share_twitter&slreturn=20150524122322>:

    Release of opinion announcements is an especially prickly issue with
    the justices. The announcements are summaries written by the justice
    who wrote the majority, and the other justices in the majority don’t
    sign off on the wording.

    Current and former justices have said they are sometimes surprised
    to hear the announcement, which may overstate or oversimplify the
    holding in ways they don’t approve. As a result, some justices don’t
    want the opinion announcements to be featured in the news media as
    an accurate representation of court decisions.

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

    Judicial Watch Files Partisan Gerrymandering Lawsuit Against MD
    Congressional Districting <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73732>

Posted onJune 24, 2015 9:20 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=73732>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Complaint. <http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/md-complaint.pdf>

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

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