[EL] ELB News and Commentary 3/24/15

Tue Mar 24 07:30:27 PDT 2015

    "You’re Totally Mocking Me: College Mock Trial Nationals to Feature
    Contested Election” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71235>

Posted onMarch 24, 2015 7:26 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71235>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

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

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Posted inpedagogy <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=23>

    “Constitution Check: Have voter ID laws survived a new round of
    challenges?” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71233>

Posted onMarch 24, 2015 7:22 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71233>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Lyle Denniston writes 
<http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2015/03/constitution-check-have-voter-id-laws-survived-a-new-round-of-challenges/>for 
the National Constitution Center.

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Posted inelection administration 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,Supreme Court 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>,The Voting Wars 
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    “Secret $1.5 million donation from Wisconsin billionaire uncovered
    in Scott Walker dark-money probe” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71231>

Posted onMarch 24, 2015 7:16 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71231>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Michael Isikoff reports 
<https://www.yahoo.com/politics/secret-1-5-million-donation-from-wisconsin-114429739886.html?soc_src=unv-sh&soc_trk=tw>for 
Yahoo.

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

    Wisconsin Voter ID Cert Denial Roundup
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71229>

Posted onMarch 23, 2015 8:11 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71229>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

At How Appealing. <http://howappealing.abovethelaw.com/032315.html#061075>

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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>,The Voting Wars 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voter id 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>,Voting Rights Act 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>

    “Ritual and Rhythm in Electoral Systems: A Comparative Legal
    Account” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71227>

Posted onMarch 23, 2015 8:04 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71227>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The great Graeme Orr has writtenthis new book 
<http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&isbn=9781409460763&lang=cy-GB>. 
  Here is the description:

    ‘Why do we vote in schools?’ ‘What is the social meaning of secret
    balloting?’ ‘What is lost if we vote by mail or computers rather
    than on election day?’ ‘What is the history and role of drinking and
    wagering in elections?’ ‘How does the electoral cycle generate the
    theatre of election night and inaugurations?’
    Elections are key public events – in a secular society the only real
    coming together of the social whole. Their rituals and rhythms run
    deep. Yet their conduct is invariably examined in instrumental ways,
    as if they were merely competitive games or liberal apparatus.
    Focusing on the political cultures and laws of the UK, the US and
    Australia, this book offers an historicised and generalised account
    of the intersection of electoral systems and the concepts of ritual,
    rhythm and the everyday, which form the basis of how we experience
    elections.

    As a novel contribution to the theory of the law of elections, this
    book will be of interest to researchers, students, administrators
    and policy makers in both politics and law.

Graeme is one of the most important scholars of comparative election 
law.  I look forward to reading this!

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Posted intheory <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=41>,voting 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=31>

    “Supreme Court lets Wisconsin’s voter-ID law stand”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71225>

Posted onMarch 23, 2015 7:22 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71225>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bob Barnes reports 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-lets-wisconsin-voter-id-law-stand/2015/03/23/9d82b8da-d162-11e4-a62f-ee745911a4ff_story.html>for 
WaPo.

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

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