[EL] ELB News and Commentary 5/15/15
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Fri May 15 07:27:55 PDT 2015
NH Supreme Court Strikes Voter Registration Language Tying Right to
Register to Possession of Driver’s License
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72483>
Posted onMay 15, 2015 7:26 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72483>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Guare v. State of New Hampshire
<http://www.courts.state.nh.us/supreme/opinions/2015/2015038guare.pdf>:
Thus, not only has the State failed to establish that the challenged
language is necessary to comply with HAVA, but it also has failed to
demonstrate that the challenged language actually addresses HAVA
compliance. Accordingly, because the challenged language
unreasonably burdens the fundamental right to vote, and because,
even if we assume that the burden is not severe, the State has
failed to advance a sufficiently weighty interest to justify the
language, we affirm the trial court’s determination that the
challenged language violates Part I, Article 11 of the State
Constitution.
(h/tMarc Elias <https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/599217626175406080>)
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Posted invoting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=31>
“Does the First Amendment provide special protection for the media —
or the same protection for all speakers?”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72481>
Posted onMay 15, 2015 7:17 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72481>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
This should be good:Volokh v. West.
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/05/14/does-the-first-amendment-provide-special-protection-for-the-media-or-the-same-protection-for-all-speakers/>
I come down on West’s side inPlutocrats United
<http://www.amazon.com/Plutocrats-United-Campaign-Distortion-Elections/dp/0300212453/ref=la_B0089NJCR2_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1430416698&sr=1-7>.
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,Supreme
Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
Alternative Voting System Day <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72479>
Posted onMay 15, 2015 7:07 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72479>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bloomberg Businessweekadvocates PR
<http://www.fairvoteblog.com/2015/05/bloomberg-magazine-editorial-uk-should.html>for
the UK, and the Washington Postadvocates instant runoff voting
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/instant-runoff-voting-makes-sense-for-washington/2015/05/14/81d2aa9a-f5e4-11e4-b2f3-af5479e6bbdd_story.html>for
DC.
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Posted inalternative voting systems <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=63>
“Hillary Clinton’s litmus test for Supreme Court nominees: a pledge
to overturn Citizens United” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72477>
Posted onMay 14, 2015 6:53 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72477>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
A very interesting development.
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/05/14/hillary-clintons-litmus-test-for-supreme-court-nominees-a-pledge-to-overturn-citizens-united/?postshare=6751431650998216>
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,Supreme
Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
“Republicans reject another way to expand voting access”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72475>
Posted onMay 14, 2015 2:10 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72475>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
MSNBC
<http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/republicans-reject-another-way-expand-voting-access>:
Democrats and Republicans have battled in recent years over almost
every major aspect of voting rules. But they/have/found one rare
area of agreement: allowing people to register to vote online—an
innovation that a growing number of states are adopting.
Now though, key officials in some big Republican-led states are
getting cold feet about the idea. In Florida, Gov. Rick Scott’s
administration has used some outlandish claims in opposing an online
registration measure. In Texas, GOP lawmakers voted down a similar
bill citing concerns about fraud. And in Ohio, an online voter
registration bill being pushed by the Republican secretary of state
is stalled in the GOP-controlled legislature.
The emerging intra-party split on the issue underscores a stark
reality: Despite record low turnout last November, there are now
essentially no policies for significantly expanding access to the
polls—save perhaps uncontroversial proposals to help service-members
vote—that the GOP wholeheartedly supports.
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Posted inelection administration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voter registration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=37>
WI John Doe Special Prosecutor Asks for Justice Prosser Recusal
Because of Alleged Coordination Between His Campaign and Those Under
Investigaton <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72472>
Posted onMay 14, 2015 10:41 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72472>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
See this documen
<https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B4SPUjrf3og4fjVfMGllU09MSXVHRmk4dWt2VEphUzBrZGkwNDVSOHNldmYyRzVJeVlRMnc&usp=drive_web&tid=0ByK7QUjL3cZOfmZ2eVNlMkZTTFloZU5TU2ZuTEJZSGxQYTZ5bmY1Q0JlRkgtWlZuSXBIeFk#list>t,
beginning at page 20. (h/tgnarlytrombone
<https://twitter.com/gnarlytrombone/status/598903703928700929>)
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Posted inUncategorized <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
“Party Activists as Campaign Advertisers: The Ground Campaign as a
Principal-Agent Problem” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72470>
Posted onMay 14, 2015 10:36 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72470>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Ryan Enos and Eitan Hersh have writtenthis article
<http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9671629&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0003055415000064>for
APSR. Here is the abstract:
As a key element of their strategy, recent Presidential campaigns
have recruited thousands of workers to engage in direct voter
contact. We conceive of this strategy as a principal-agent problem.
Workers engaged in direct contact are intermediaries between
candidates and voters, but they may be ill-suited to convey messages
to general-election audiences. By analyzing a survey of workers
fielded in partnership with the 2012 Obama campaign, we show that in
the context of the campaign widely considered most adept at direct
contact, individuals who were interacting with swing voters on the
campaign’s behalf were demographically unrepresentative,
ideologically extreme, cared about atypical issues, and
misunderstood the voters’ priorities. We find little evidence that
the campaign was able to use strategies of agent control to mitigate
its principal-agent problem. We question whether individuals
typically willing to be volunteer surrogates are productive agents
for a strategic campaign.
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“Trevor Potter and the Magic Briefcase”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72468>
Posted onMay 14, 2015 8:57 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72468>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Q&A.
<http://www.superlawyers.com/washington-dc/article/Trevor-Potter-and-the-Magic-Briefcase/9f530f9e-d2bc-479e-919a-95f461be8336.html>
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“Protecting the Right to Vote on Election Day”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72466>
Posted onMay 14, 2015 8:00 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=72466>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Frank Askin has writtenthis article
<http://www.law.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/upload_documents/Frank%20Askin%20-%20Protecting%20the%20Right%20to%20Vote.pdf>for
the /Clinical Law Review/. Here is the abstract:
Every General Election Day, students from the Rutgers Law School
Constitutional Rights Clinic, under faculty supervision, represent
voters who need orders to vote. These are voters who believe they
have a right to vote but are turned away at their polling place
because their names are not on the rolls. The majority of the
clients claim they registered before the deadline but the
registrations were never processed. Other clients visited a motor
vehicle agency in New Jersey or some other “voter registration
agency” designated as such by the National Voter Registration Act
(NVRA) but were not offered an opportunity to register. Pursuant to
New Jersey statute, assigned Election Day Judges have the authority
to issue orders to vote to applicants who made a “good faith” effort
to register to vote. The article describes the mechanics and
pedagogical value of this project, surveys election law in other
states and suggests ways in which other programs could emulate the
Rutgers project.
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Posted inpedagogy <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=23>
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