[EL] ELB News and Commentary 10/12/15

Mon Oct 12 07:39:09 PDT 2015

    Koch Political Network Takes A Deep Dive Into Community Organizing”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76610>

Posted onOctober 12, 2015 7:38 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76610>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Peter Overby reports 
<http://www.npr.org/2015/10/12/447911161/koch-political-network-takes-a-deep-dive-into-community-organizing>for 
NPR.

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

    “BuzzFeed launches native video political advertising”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76608>

Posted onOctober 12, 2015 7:35 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76608>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

This 
<http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2015/10/buzzfeed-launches-native-video-political-advertising-214658>does 
not seem to be a salutary development.

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Posted incampaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>

    “America’s Aging Voting Machines” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76606>

Posted onOctober 12, 2015 7:34 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76606>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT editorial. 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/12/opinion/americas-aging-voting-machines.html?ref=opinion>

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Posted inelection administration 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,voting technology 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=40>

    “Nonprofit Masks Source of Ads Backing Rubio”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76604>

Posted onOctober 12, 2015 7:32 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76604>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/12/us/politics/nonprofit-masks-dark-money-ads-backing-marco-rubio.html?ref=politics>:

    But as the fall campaign unfolds, voters in states like New
    Hampshire and Iowa have been left largely in the dark about who is
    putting the most money behind Mr. Rubio. Of all the television
    advertisements aired in support of the Florida senator so far this
    year — $5.5 million worth — none have been paid for by Mr. Rubio’s
    own campaign. Even the “super PAC
    <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/c/campaign_finance/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier>”
    supporting him has not yet spent a dime on ads.

    Instead, the money has flowed through a political nonprofit group
    called the Conservative Solutions Project, formed by a former Rubio
    aide and now overseen in part by a Republican strategist who is
    close to Mr. Rubio’s campaign manager.

    Unlike candidates andsuper PACs
    <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/c/campaign_finance/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier>,
    the nonprofit — which has raised more than $18 million — will never
    be required to disclose anything about its donors.

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Posted inBush v. Gore reflections 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=5>,campaign finance 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,campaigns 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>

    “Senate Republicans open door to weakening the filibuster”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76602>

Posted onOctober 12, 2015 7:27 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76602>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The Hill reports. 
<http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/256631-senate-gop-opens-door-to-weakening-the-filibuster>

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Posted inlegislation and legislatures <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=27>

    “A.C.L.U.’s Own Arguments May Work Against It in Voting Rights Case”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76600>

Posted onOctober 12, 2015 7:25 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76600>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Adam Liptak NYT Sidebar column 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/13/us/politics/aclus-own-arguments-may-work-against-it-in-voting-rights-case.html?_r=0>on 
Evenewel:

    TheAmerican Civil Liberties Union
    <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/a/american_civil_liberties_union/index.html?inline=nyt-org>weighed
    in
    <http://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Evenwel-ACLUbrief092515.pdf>last
    month on this term’s bigSupreme Court
    <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/s/supreme_court/index.html?inline=nyt-org>voting
    rights case, the one that will decide the meaning of “one person,
    one vote.” It took the position embraced by most liberals: that
    states should be allowed to count everybody in drawing election
    districts, including unauthorized immigrants, rather than only
    people eligible to vote.

    But the group seemed to take the opposite position in a pair of
    recent lawsuits it filed inRhode Island
    <https://www.aclu.org/legal-document/davidson-v-city-cranston-complaint>andFlorida
    <http://d35brb9zkkbdsd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/2015-03-09-ACLUFLPrisonGerrymanderingComplaint.pdf>,
    in which it objected to counting prisoners when drawing voting
    districts. Counting prisoners in one district, the lawsuits said,
    “dilutes the voting strength and political influence” of eligible
    voters in other districts.

    There may be good reasons for treating prisoners differently from
    other people who cannot vote. But it is also true that counting
    prisoners, often housed in rural areas, tends to amplify the power
    of Republican voters. Counting unauthorized immigrants, who often
    live in urban areas, generally helps Democrats.

    What is certain is that neither side in the voting rights case,
    Evenwel v. Abbott, No. 14-940, has paid much attention to the more
    than two million people behind bars in the United States

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Posted inredistricting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>,Supreme Court 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>,voting 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=31>

    “True Independent Speech” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76598>

Posted onOctober 12, 2015 7:16 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76598>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bauer blogs. 
<http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/2015/10/true-independent-speech/>

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    “Local TV Stations Booming From Super-PAC Windfall”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76596>

Posted onOctober 12, 2015 7:15 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76596>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bloomberg reports. 
<http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-10-12/local-tv-stations-booming-from-super-pac-windfall?cmpid=BBD101215_POL>

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

    “Justice Kennedy’s Political Casino”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76594>

Posted onOctober 11, 2015 3:58 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76594>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Frank Wilkinson 
<http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-10-11/justice-kennedy-s-roadmap-for-overturning-citizens-united>writes 
for Bloomberg View:

    The 2016 presidential campaign is unfolding in Supreme Court Justice
    Anthony Kennedy’s world.

    Kennedy’s majority opinion inCitizens United
    <https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/pdf/08-205P.ZO>, the court’s 2010
    ruling on campaign finance, gave corporations, unions and
    billionaires more leeway in their political spending habits. And
    while the decision is sometimes credited, orblamed
    <http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/10/dont-blame-citizens-united/64906/>,
    for more impact than it actually delivered, there’s no question that
    big money has been running wild and free ever since it was decided.

    In his decision, Kennedy pointed out why a previous court
    ruling,Austin
    <http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/494/652.html>, should
    be overturned and supplanted even in the face of stare decisis, the
    principle that precedent guides the court.

    “Our precedent is to be respected unless the most convincing of
    reasons demonstrates that adherence to it puts us on a course that
    is sure error,” he wrote.

    Fair enough. Five years later, in the thick of free-wheeling
    campaigns for presidential nominations, let’s subject Kennedy’s
    ruling in Citizens United to the same test. Does it deserve respect?
    Or has it put the court on a course of “sure error”?

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Court <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>

    Who Knew? Dept. <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76591>

Posted onOctober 11, 2015 10:10 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76591>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Turns 
out<http://email.precisiondatamanagement.com/hostedemail/email.htm?CID=29674434234&ch=10E3AC0695A5B3F569151348BA88E2AC&h=32af8b2cb3679a433dbd6f0b22681e97&ei=sKKHVxmwN>“disparate 
impact” is “the Left’s Latest Strategy to Subvert Voters Rights.” 
  (courtesy of John Fund and True the Vote)

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Posted inchicanery <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>,fraudulent fraud 
squad <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=8>

    “Gov. Brown approves automatic voter registration for Californians”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76589>

Posted onOctober 10, 2015 1:15 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76589>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

LAT reports. 
<http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-gov-brown-on-motor-voter-bill-20150917-story.html>

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