[EL] ELB News and Commentary 5/6/15
Steve Hoersting
hoersting at gmail.com
Wed May 6 07:59:59 PDT 2015
Hello, Rick,
If you're going to ding McGahn for following the law, at least include his
piece, of today, in the WSJ ... in the ELB News and Commentary offerings.
(And, by the way, ELB News and Commentary happens to be the subject of my
post; the subject line doesn't need changing)
Best, and good morning,
Steve
On May 6, 2015 10:50 AM, "Rick Hasen" <rhasen at law.uci.edu> wrote:
> “Cash flows in year of SuperPAC 2.0″
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72267>
> Posted on May 6, 2015 7:48 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72267> by Rick
> Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Tarini Parti
> <http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/cash-flows-in-year-of-superpac-20-117612.html?hp=b1_c1>
> for Politico:
>
> The 2016 presidential race has already become the super PAC 2.0 election.
> The election will likely break all outside spending records, but it’s the
> experimental nature of how that money is raised and spent that will have a
> lasting effect on future elections.
>
> From the types of committees created to the timing and number of outside
> money vehicles involved, with billionaire donors now watching more closely
> than ever before, supporters of presidential hopefuls have added innovative
> twists to how they raise and spend outside money. They are going one step
> beyond the model supporters of President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt
> Romney used in 2012 – the first presidential election that used super PACs.
>
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> Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
> “Voter ID Nonsense” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72265>
> Posted on May 6, 2015 7:45 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72265> by Rick
> Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Toledo Blade editoria
> <http://www.toledoblade.com/Featured-Editorial-Home/2015/05/06/Voter-ID-nonsense.html>
> l:
>
> Ohioans face serious threats to the integrity of our democracy: income
> inequality, partisan gerrymandering, big-money politics. Voter fraud is not
> among these threats.
>
> Yet rather than address such pressing concerns, Republicans in the state
> House are again taking up a bill that would require Ohioans to present
> photo identification when they vote. This unnecessary measure would do
> nothing to make elections more secure. But it would do much to keep voters,
> especially poor and minority Ohioans, away from the polls.
>
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> Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, The
> Voting Wars <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>, voter id
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>
> “Williams-Yulee — The Ruling Few Expected . . . & the One Few Will
> Remember” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72263>
> Posted on May 6, 2015 7:42 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72263> by Rick
> Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> More Ron Collins
> <http://concurringopinions.com/archives/2015/05/fan-59-first-amendment-news-williams-yulee-the-ruling-few-expected-the-one-few-will-remember.html>
> on Williams-Yulee.
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> <https://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http%3A%2F%2Felectionlawblog.org%2F%3Fp%3D72263&title=%E2%80%9CWilliams-Yulee%20%E2%80%94%20The%20Ruling%20Few%20Expected%20.%20.%20.%20%26%20the%20One%20Few%20Will%20Remember%E2%80%9D&description=>
> Posted in judicial elections <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=19>, Supreme
> Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
> Neuborne on Williams-Yulee <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72261>
> Posted on May 6, 2015 7:40 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72261> by Rick
> Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Here
> <http://www.acslaw.org/acsblog/the-limits-of-the-williams-yulee-opinion> at
> ACS.
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> Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, federal
> election commission <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=24>
> Bertrall Ross Reviews Robert Post’s Citizens Divided Book in
> Michigan Law Review <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72259>
> Posted on May 6, 2015 7:36 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72259> by Rick
> Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Here. <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2598393>
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> Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, Supreme
> Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
> Is FEC Dysfunction New? <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72257>
> Posted on May 6, 2015 7:34 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72257> by Rick
> Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> NYT reports on record low fines at the FEC.
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/06/us/politics/fec-says-campaign-fines-hit-record-low-in-2014.html?_r=2>
>
> For those who responded to Eric Lichtblau’s earlier report by saying that
> the FEC was always gridlocked and dysfunctional, it’s just not true. It
> never had great enforcement powers, but there was much more cooperation on
> rulemaking, and much more agreement on enforcement matters. (Here’s some
> evidence from Michael Franz.
> <http://www.law.uci.edu/lawreview/vol3/no3/franz.pdf>)
>
> In my view, we can trace origins of the new era of dysfunction to Don
> McGahn.
>
> It is an ideological split, in the sense that Republican commissioners
> consistently vote for less regulation and Democrats for more, but it is
> partisan in the sense that Republicans tend to believe that deregulation
> works in their favor and Democrats believe it works against them. The two
> cannot be separated.
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> Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, federal
> election commission <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=24>
> “Denver Shows Off ‘Ballot Delivery’ System to National Audience”
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72255>
> Posted on May 6, 2015 7:22 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72255> by Rick
> Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> A ChapinBlog
> <http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/electionacademy/2015/05/denver_shows_off_ballot_delive.php>(with
> great pic).
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> Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>
> “Free Speech For Me, But Not For Thee; Progressives have
> successfully transformed the First Amendment’s restrictions on government
> into an instrument of government speech control.”
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72253>
> Posted on May 6, 2015 7:19 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72253> by Rick
> Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Paul Jossey writes
> <http://thefederalist.com/2015/05/06/free-speech-for-me-but-not-for-thee/>
> for The Federalist.
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> Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, Supreme
> Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
> Mike Huckabee Jokingly Breaks Federal Election Law
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72251>
> Posted on May 5, 2015 7:33 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72251> by Rick
> Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> WSJ
> <http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/05/05/huckabees-pitch-whether-joke-or-not-at-odds-with-federal-election-law/>
> :
>
> Mr. Huckabee said his campaign would be funded by “working people who will
> find out that $15 and $25 a month contributions can take us from Hope to
> higher ground,” he said, a reference to Hope, Ark., where he was speaking.
> But, he cracked: “Rest assured, if you want to give a million dollars,
> please do it.”
>
> That’s illegal whether he’s asking for his own committee (limited to
> $2,700 per election) or for a Super PAC (which can take unlimited
> donations, but per FEC rule a candidate cannot ask for someone to donate
> more than $5,000 to a Super PAC).
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> Posted in campaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,
> campaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
> “Register Minority Voters in Georgia, Go to Jail”
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72249>
> Posted on May 5, 2015 3:42 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72249> by Rick
> Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Spencer Woodman reports
> <http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121715/georgia-secretary-state-hammers-minority-voter-registration-efforts>
> for TNR. It includes this:
>
> Last month, Brian Kemp told the
> <http://www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/georgia-elections-official-resigns-over-misidentif/nkmSY/>
> *Atlanta Journal Constitution* that his elections director, Linda Ford,
> was resigning at his request because of a “technical error” that caused
> nearly 8,000 voters to be improperly removed from the rolls. “It was an
> honest mistake by a hard-working person and, unfortunately, she has to pay
> the price,” Kemp said.
>
> In response to questions about Ford’s resignation, Kemp’s office provided
> me with a 60-page report detailing the findings an internal investigation
> into the incident. It found the cancellation of the thousands of voters
> “could be a potential violation” of the National Voter Registration Act, a
> federal law meant to help ensure equal access to the ballot box. The law
> requires that a state cannot move voters off the rolls within 90 days of an
> election. Kemp’s office had struck thousands of voters, mostly in Georgia’s
> Richmond County, from the rolls six days past this key federal deadline.
>
> Kemp has called the issue
> <http://www.11alive.com/story/news/local/downtown/2015/04/03/elections-director-linda-ford-resigns/25246917/>
> “very serious.” But in public statements, he elided the fact that his
> own office may have violated federal law. Instead, he has emphasized that
> the action was a mistake. The report his office released to me states that
> the matter was discovered only after Project Vote, a non-profit group that
> seeks to increase voter participation among low-income and minority voters,
> requested a related records.
>
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> Posted in election administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, NVRA
> (motor voter) <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=33>, The Voting Wars
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>, voter registration
> <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=37>
>
> --
> Rick Hasen
> Chancellor's Professor of Law and Political Science
> UC Irvine School of Law
> 401 E. Peltason Dr., Suite 1000
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