[EL] ELB News and Commentary 3/17/15

Rick Hasen rhasen at law.uci.edu
Tue Mar 17 07:52:33 PDT 2015 

    “Meet the man taking aim at campaign finance regulations”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71045>

Posted onMarch 17, 2015 7:50 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71045>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The Hill 
<http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/fundraising/235886-keating-gets-pacs-wants-more>profiles 
CCP’s David Keating.

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    “U.S. District Court Upholds Ohio Ballot Access Law”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71043>

Posted onMarch 17, 2015 7:43 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71043>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Ballot Access News reports 
<http://ballot-access.org/2015/03/16/u-s-district-court-upholds-ohio-ballot-access-law/>.

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Posted inballot access <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=46>,third 
parties <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=47>


    “What a Kentucky Presidential Caucus Would Mean For Overseas Voters”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71041>

Posted onMarch 17, 2015 7:39 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71041>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Ashley Lopez commentary 
<http://wkyufm.org/post/what-kentucky-presidential-caucus-would-mean-overseas-voters>.

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


    “When It Pays to Pretend You’re Not Running for President”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71039>

Posted onMarch 17, 2015 7:38 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71039>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Shane Goldmache 
<http://www.nationaljournal.com/2016-elections/when-it-pays-to-pretend-you-re-not-running-for-president-20150316>r 
for National Journal.

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    “‘Drop-In’ Issue Advocacy in Election Seasons and The Disclosure
    Alternatives” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71037>

Posted onMarch 17, 2015 7:37 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71037>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bauer blogs. 
<http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/2015/03/drop-issue-advocacy-election-seasons-disclosure-alternatives/>

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    Leiter on the US News Rankings, Including UCI
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71035>

Posted onMarch 17, 2015 7:34 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71035>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Brian writes: 
<http://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2015/03/usnewscom-rankings-came-out-last-week.html>

    Last week, a website, USNews.com, released its annual rankings of
    law and other professional schools.  (Since I was off-line last
    week, my comments had to wait.)  Commentary, predictably, focused on
    the overall rank assigned by the website–what is known to “insiders”
    as the “nonsense number,” since it is the upshot of an inexplicable
    weighting of 12 different factors, many self-reported and so of
    dubious accuracy anyway, but the amalgamation basically
    stipulative.  Fortunately for USNews.com, many superficial
    journalists report the nonsense number, and changes in the nonsense
    number, as though they meant something….

    The most interest was in the nonsense number for UC Irvine, ranked
    for the first time this year.  UCI came in at #30, the highest
    nonsense number debut I’ve ever seen in USNews.com.  In USNews.com
    land, this puts UCI third in the UC system–behind Berkeley and UCLA,
    and ahead of UC Davis (31st) and UC Hastings (59th).  (Hastings has
    probably been the most dramatic victim, over many years, of the
    small, private school bias in the USNews.com rankings.) 
    Interestingly, UCI got this result despite weaker reputational
    scores:  29th in reputation among lawyers/judges (a rather good
    result, though, for a new school), and only 42nd among academics.
    Almost every school with a nonsense number around UCI had a higher
    academic reputation score, and my guess is UCI’s will now improve
    accordingly.  (The evidence for the echo chamber effect of the
    “overall rank” on the reputation scores in subsequent yeras is even
    greater now than in the past.)  My guess is all those annoyed by the
    UC system starting a new law school penalized UCI in the
    reputational survey–if USNews.com published the median and mode,
    we’d have some idea, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the distribution
    was skewed in that way.  Counting against UCI is that it is still
    very small, and will presumably have to grow, which may affect other
    metrics.

My earlier thoughts on the rankings of UCI Law arehere 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=70919>.

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    “EAC’s Masterson on ‘Training the Funders’ About Voting Technology:
    ‘We’re Here to Help'” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71032>

Posted onMarch 17, 2015 7:30 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71032>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

A ChapinBlog. 
<http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/electionacademy/2015/03/eacs_masterson_on_training_the.php>

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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,Election Assistance Commission 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=34>


    March Issue of NCSL’s The Canvass Now Available
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71030>

Posted onMarch 16, 2015 2:57 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71030>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here 
<http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/states-and-election-reform-the-canvass-march-2015.aspx>.

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    “Activist, voter turnout expert Curtis Gans dies at 77″
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71028>

Posted onMarch 16, 2015 11:42 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71028>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Very sad news. 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/activist-voter-turnout-expert-curtis-gans-dies-at-77/2015/03/16/5505b5da-cbfe-11e4-8730-4f473416e759_story.html>

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    Burt Neuborne Book Event With Jeff Rosen in DC
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71024>

Posted onMarch 16, 2015 11:39 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71024>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Details <https://www.brennancenter.org/madisons-music-burt-neuborne>for 
March 20 event on Madison’s Music: On Reading the First Amendment.

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    “Huckabee Pursues Unconventional Ways to Fund a Campaign”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71022>

Posted onMarch 16, 2015 7:26 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71022>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Fascinating Trip Gabriel NYT piece 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/16/us/politics/huckabee-pursues-unconventional-ways-to-fund-a-campaign.html?ref=politics&_r=0>.

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    “California secretary of state refuses to open arcane data systems;
    We asked Alex Padilla’s office to show us how to use their database
    tracking money in politics. They said no.”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71020>

Posted onMarch 16, 2015 7:21 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71020>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Interesting. <http://www.californiacivicdata.org/2015/03/15/closed-data/>

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    “City race highlights murky role of political committees”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71018>

Posted onMarch 16, 2015 7:20 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71018>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

News from Tampa. 
<http://tbo.com/news/politics/city-race-highlights-murky-role-of-political-committees-20150315/?page=1>

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    “Electoral College-Rigging Bill Makes Comeback in Michigan”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71016>

Posted onMarch 16, 2015 7:19 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71016>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Weigel. 
<http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-03-10/electoral-college-rigging-bill-makes-comeback-in-michigan> [corrected 
link]

Looks like it is time for me to re-up my /Slate/piece:Democrats, Don’t 
Freak Out! Why Fears that Republicans Will Gerrymander the Electoral 
College are Overblown 
<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2013/01/republican_plans_for_electoral_college_reform_democrats_shouldn_t_worry.html>.

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    “Symposium on Voting Rights in the States”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71014>

Posted onMarch 16, 2015 7:16 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71014>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Great lineup forthis ACS 
event<https://acslaw.secure.force.com/rsvp?id=a0YG0000007sGXD>in Atlanta 
on March 19.

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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars 
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    “Eyeing White House run, Cruz says he favors unlimited campaign
    contributions” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71012>

Posted onMarch 16, 2015 7:14 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71012>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

AP reports. <http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/296372661.html>

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