[EL] ELB News and Commentary 11/25/15
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Wed Nov 25 08:48:02 PST 2015
Happy Thanksgiving! <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77819>
Posted onNovember 25, 2015 8:46 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77819>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
I am thankful for family, friends, and colleagues, and you, my
readers–with your great tips, suggestions, and ever vigilant reading and
willingness to tell me when I’ve gotten something wrong.
Blogging will be light until Monday.
Enjoy the break!
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“Libre, Backed by Koch Brothers, Aims to Raise G.O.P. Standing With
Hispanics” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77816>
Posted onNovember 25, 2015 8:44 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77816>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/26/us/politics/libre-backed-by-koch-brothers-aims-to-raise-gop-standing-with-hispanics.html?ref=politics&_r=0>:
The approach — a free Thanksgiving turkey in exchange for some
personal information — captures the mission of Libre, a
multimillion-dollar effort financed by the conservative billionaire
Koch brothers and devoted to winning over Hispanics, with the
message that economic freedom and smaller-government principles will
yield opportunity and prosperity.
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,campaigns
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
“NAACP seeks to halt implementation of North Carolina voter ID law”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77814>
Posted onNovember 25, 2015 8:43 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77814>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Reuters reports.
<http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/25/north-carolina-election-law-idUSL1N13K0OV20151125#hj8bAuw8HBL4EsIf.97>
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Posted inelection administration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voter id
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>
“Redistricting case brings partisan politics, immigration and
federalism before SCOTUS” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77812>
Posted onNovember 25, 2015 8:34 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77812>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Mark Walsh previews
Evenwel<http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/redistricting_case_brings_partisan_politics_immigration_and_federalism_befo>for
the ABA Journal.
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Posted inredistricting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>,Supreme Court
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
Fraudulent Fraud Squad on the Witch Hunt for Government Campaign
Finance Listserv Emails <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77810>
Posted onNovember 25, 2015 8:30 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77810>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Theusual
<https://pjmedia.com/trending/2015/11/24/conservative-group-empower-texans-faces-political-persecution>
suspects
<http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2015/11/16/state-speech-regulators-demand-names-of-donors-to-conservative-groups/?singlepage=true>.
Myearlier<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60748>experience
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=60581>.
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Posted inchicanery <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>,fraudulent fraud
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“Campaign Watchdogs: Pro-Rubio TV Ads Are Breaking The Law”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77808>
Posted onNovember 25, 2015 8:11 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77808>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NBC News reports.
<http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/campaign-watchdogs-pro-rubio-tv-ads-are-breaking-law-n468526>
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,tax law
and election law <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22>
“A Cautionary Tale About Booking Through @Expedia”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77806>
Posted onNovember 25, 2015 8:08 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77806>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Gary Leff of the always-excellent “View from the Wing” travel
blogwrites<http://viewfromthewing.boardingarea.com/2015/11/24/41371/>of
my “Alice in Wonderland <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77740>experience
with Expedia.”
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“Data-Mining Firm Searches for Voters by Combing High School
Yearbooks” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77804>
Posted onNovember 25, 2015 8:06 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77804>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Sasha Issenberg
<http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-11-24/a-new-data-mining-technique-to-uncover-new-hampshire-influencers>for
Bloomberg.
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“Tax documents show how secret money infects campaigns on both
sides” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77802>
Posted onNovember 25, 2015 8:04 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77802>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Stephen Spaulding blogs
<http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/campaign/261257-tax-documents-show-how-secret-money-infects-campaigns-on-both>at
The Hill.
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and election law <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22>
“Redistricting jury should pick Florida’s new plan”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77800>
Posted onNovember 25, 2015 7:59 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77800>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
J.H. Snider oped
<http://www.sun-sentinel.com/opinion/commentary/fl-viewpoint-redistricting-20151123-story.html>in
the Sun-Sentinel.
He has also written Board, independent of Legislature, key to
constitution fix
<http://www.timesunion.com/tuplus-opinion/article/Board-independent-of-Legislature-key-to-6650698.php> for
the /Albany Times Union./
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“What Today’s CEOs Can Learn from George Steinbrenner”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77798>
Posted onNovember 24, 2015 7:40 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77798>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Ciara Torres-Spellicy blogs.
<https://www.brennancenter.org/blog/what-today%E2%80%99s-ceos-can-learn-george-steinbrenner>
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“Evenwel and Minority Representation”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77796>
Posted onNovember 24, 2015 5:30 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77796>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
David Gans
<http://balkin.blogspot.com/2015/11/evenwel-and-minority-representation.html>:
Next month, the Supreme Court will consider Sue Evenwel’s bid to
change the way state and local governments draw election districts.
Demanding that state and local governments across the nation change
the way they draw legislative lines, Evenwel argues that it is
unconstitutional for states to draw districts based on total
population, creating districts of substantially equal numbers of
people. Evenwel’s arguments—which fly in the face of our
Constitution’s promise ofequal representation
<http://theusconstitution.org/sites/default/files/briefs/Evenwel_v_Abbott_Amicus_Final.pdf>for
all—would undermine minority representation both inTexas
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2015/10/21/the-supreme-court-should-seize-the-chance-to-strike-down-voter-discrimination/>,
the state Evenwel is suing, and throughout the nation. Recent
events in Yakima, Washington, provide a good example.
The town of Yakima—an agricultural community 140 miles east of
Seattle—is forty percent Hispanic, but, until this year, had never
elected a person of Hispanic origin to the town’s city council.
This year, a federal district court held that Yakima’s at-large
system of elections for city council violated the Voting Rights Act
by denying Hispanic voters an equal opportunity to elect their
candidate of choice, and ordered the town to draw single-member
districts composed of substantially equal population. Earlier this
month, in elections held under these court-ordered boundaries,three
<http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/3rd-latina-elected-to-yakima-city-council/>Hispanic
candidates
<http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/in-wake-of-lawsuit-latinos-win-yakima-city-council-seats/>won
election to office, ending the exclusion of Hispanics from elected
office.
But the town of Yakima is now using every avenue to undo these
historic gains, claiming—as Evenwel does—that the Constitution does
not permit state and local governments to draw districts composed of
substantially equal numbers of people if those districts do not
contain approximately the same number of eligible voters. Yakima
argues that the Hispanic voters’ claim under the Voting Rights Act
should be dismissed because creating single-member districts in
order to make it possible for the Hispanic community to elect its
candidate of choice would result in “severe malapportionment of
eligible voters.” Represented by defense counsel in the Voting
Rights Act litigation, Yakima has even gone so far as to file
anamicus brief
<http://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/14-940-tsac-Yakima-WA.pdf>in
the Supreme Court supporting Evenwel’s attack on the principle of
equal representation for equal numbers of people.
As this example illustrates, Evenwel’s far-reaching arguments, if
accepted by the Court, would not only wreak havoc with our
democracy, requiring states to change the way they draw district
lines, but it would also make it harder to draw election boundaries
that ensure that racial minorities have an equal chance to elect
representatives of their choice. Evenwel’s argument would undermine
the protections afforded by the Voting Rights Act and take political
power away from urban population centers where racial minorities
overwhelmingly live, giving it to whiter, more rural areas. This is
no accident. Ed Blum—the mastermind behind Evenwel’s case—wants
tostop states from creating majority-minority districts
<http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/blum-profile-evenwel-redistricting-supreme-court>that
help ensure equal political opportunities for all regardless of
race. Denying equal representation to unnaturalized immigrants,
children, and others who lack the franchise won’t alone accomplish
Blum’s goal, but it would make it harder to draw election boundaries
that ensure that minorities have a fair chance at the polls. Among
the losers—if Blum succeeds in eliminating the guarantee of equal
representation for equal numbers of people—will be racial minorities
in places like Yakima, who will, once again, find it harder to have
their voices heard.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=31>,Voting Rights Act
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>
“Fee-Fight Fallout From Voting Rights Decision Reaches High Court”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77794>
Posted onNovember 24, 2015 5:28 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77794>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Marcia Coyle
<http://www.nationallawjournal.com/supremecourtbrief/home/id=1202743318550?kw=Fee-Fight%20Fallout%20From%20Voting%20Rights%20Decision%20Reaches%20High%20Court&cn=20151124&pt=Supreme%20Court%20Brief%20Headlines&src=EMC-Email&et=editorial&bu=National%20Law%20Journal&slreturn=20151024202648>:
Fallout from the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2013 blockbuster voting rights
decision has reached the justices in two multimillion-dollar battles
over attorney fees.
If the high court agrees to step into either fight, the justices
could be drawn into a debate over who qualifies as a “prevailing
party” under the fee provision in the Voting Rights Act that’s
designed to encourage private enforcement of the voting guarantees
in the Constitution.
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Rights Act <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>
“Campaign for Accountability Statement on Sheldon Adelson”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77792>
Posted onNovember 24, 2015 5:25 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77792>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Release
<http://campaignforaccountability.org/campaign-for-accountability-statement-regarding-sheldon-adelson/>:
On November 3, 2015, the Campaign for Accountability (“CfA”)
announced that it had asked the Senate Committee on Homeland
Security and Governmental Affairs and the Federal Election
Commission to investigate Sheldon Adelson and the Las Vegas Sands
Corporation to determine the extent of their connection to organized
crime in China and whether funds tied to Chinese organized crime may
be reaching American campaign committees.
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Race and Election Law Case May Come Quickly to #SCOTUS
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77790>
Posted onNovember 24, 2015 9:43 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77790>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Lyle Denniston
<http://www.scotusblog.com/2015/11/hawaiians-protest-vote-on-future-tribal-plan/>@SCOTUSBlog:
A group of Hawiians, some of whom won’t be able to vote in a special
election on November 30 that is a prelude to recognizing a new
Indian-like tribe including many residents, asked the Supreme Court
to temporarily stop the completion of that election until their
challenge can be decided. Inan application
<http://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Akina-Application.pdf>filed
Thursday night, the challengers argued that the election is
based along strict racial lines, and is thus unconstitutional under
the Fifteenth Amendment.
The election — favored by the state and endorsed by the federal
Department of the Interior — will be limited to a voter roll made up
of people who can qualify as “native Hawaiians.” The election will
choose delegates to a convention to write a constitution for what
would be a new government entity, similar to a traditional Indian
tribe. The aim is to give those who qualify a right of
“self-determination.”
The challengers did not ask the Justices to stop the actual
balloting a week from Monday, but did request that the Court
temporarily bar counting and formal certification of the result.
So far, their plea for temporary relief has been denied by a federal
trial judge and by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth
Circuit. The Interior Department entered the case in the Ninth
Circuit to oppose any interruption of the election process. It
intends, the department said in court filings, to start a process
that would recognize a “native Hawaiian” community in Hawaii as a
self-governing, sovereign entity, like an Indian tribe.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=31>
“Supreme Court Digs Into Redistricting”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77788>
Posted onNovember 24, 2015 9:13 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77788>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Kimberly Robinson
<http://www.bna.com/supreme-court-digs-n57982063909/>of BNA digs in to
Evenwel, Harris, and Shapiro v. McManus.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
“Gov. Beshear Restores Right to Vote to Certain Offenders”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77786>
Posted onNovember 24, 2015 8:30 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=77786>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
BIG
news<http://www.lex18.com/story/30594983/gov-beshear-restores-right-to-vote-to-certain-offenders>from
the departing governor of Kentucky.
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