[EL] ELB News and Commentary 10/13/15
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Tue Oct 13 07:55:42 PDT 2015
“Kris Kobach files to prosecute three voter fraud cases in Kansas”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76642>
Posted onOctober 13, 2015 7:54 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76642>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bryan Lowry reports
<http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article38915277.html>.
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Posted inelection administration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,fraudulent fraud squad
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=8>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
“U.S. Supreme Court Won’t Hear California Minor Party Lawsuit
Against Top-Two” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76640>
Posted onOctober 13, 2015 7:51 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76640>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
BAN reports
<http://ballot-access.org/2015/10/13/u-s-supreme-court-wont-hear-california-minor-party-lawsuit-against-top-two/>.
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Posted inballot access <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=46>,political
parties <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>,primaries
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=32>
“Law professor gives away 300 turkeys to encourage voting”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76638>
Posted onOctober 13, 2015 7:50 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76638>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Oh, Canada.
<http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/election/law-professor-gives-away-300-turkeys-to-encourage-voting-1.2606808>
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Posted invoting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=31>
“The Chairwoman Who’s At War With Her Own Agency”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76636>
Posted onOctober 13, 2015 7:45 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76636>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Andy Kroll reports
<http://www.nationaljournal.com/s/84089/chairwoman-whos-war-with-her-own-agency>on
Ann Ravel.
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,federal
election commission <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=24>
“California Considers Tough Campaign-Finance Rules”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76634>
Posted onOctober 13, 2015 7:44 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76634>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WSJ reports
<http://www.wsj.com/articles/california-considers-tough-campaign-finance-rules-1444602199>.
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
“Federal Election Commission Chair Ann Ravel on Record Campaign
Spending and Overcoming Gridlock” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76632>
Posted onOctober 13, 2015 7:42 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76632>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
KQED <http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201510120900>interview.
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,federal
election commission <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=24>
“How campaign finance regulation contributes to congressional
dysfunction” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76630>
Posted onOctober 13, 2015 7:42 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76630>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Jonathan Adler
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/10/11/how-campaign-finance-regulation-contributes-to-congressional-dysfunction/?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_volokh>for
Volokh.
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
“New Rankings Highlight Corporate Transparency In Politics”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76628>
Posted onOctober 13, 2015 7:40 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76628>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Peter Overb
<http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/10/11/447480479/new-rankings-highlight-corporate-transparency-in-politics>y
for NPR.
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
“The New Public Option: Despite hostile courts, can our
campaign-finance system be reformed from the bottom up?”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76626>
Posted onOctober 13, 2015 7:39 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76626>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Justin
Miller<http://prospect.org/article/can-campaign-finance-be-reformed-bottom>forTAP.
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
“Automatic For The People: CA Governor Signs ‘New Motor Voter’ Bill”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76624>
Posted onOctober 13, 2015 7:38 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76624>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
A ChapinBlog
<http://editions.lib.umn.edu/electionacademy/2015/10/13/automatic-for-the-people-ca-governor-signs-new-motor-voter-bill/>.
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Posted inelection administration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
“Filing Deadlines Add to Pressure on Joe Biden”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76622>
Posted onOctober 12, 2015 7:21 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76622>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT reports.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/13/us/politics/filing-deadlines-add-to-pressure-on-joe-biden.html?ref=politics&_r=0>
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Posted inballot access <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=46>,campaigns
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
“The Justice Department Is Now on the Campaign Finance Beat”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76620>
Posted onOctober 12, 2015 7:15 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76620>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy blogs
<https://www.brennancenter.org/blog/justice-department-now-campaign-finance-beat>.
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Posted incampaign finance
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,Department of Justice
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=26>
“Charles Koch Denies Dark Money Donations”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76618>
Posted onOctober 12, 2015 4:34 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76618>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Paul Blumenthal
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/charles-koch-dark-money_561c15b1e4b0dbb8000f879f>for
HuffPo:
“First of all, what I give isn’t ‘dark.’ What I give politically,
that’s all reported,” he said. “It’s either to PACs or to
candidates. And what I give to my foundations is all public
information.”
This statement, however, is an almost impossible pill to swallow.
Koch has indeed made publicly disclosed contributions of more than
$580,000 to federal political parties, candidates and political
action committees since 1997, according to Federal Election
Commission records. In 2014, he also contributed $5 million to his
Freedom Partners Action Fund super PAC, which must disclose its donors.
But Koch and his brother are best known for the network of
nonprofits they operate and raise money for that do not disclose
their donors.
These include grant distribution hubs likeFreedom Partners Chamber
of Commerce
<http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/behind-the-curtain-exclusive-the-koch-brothers-secret-bank-096669>,
Center to Protect Patient Rights and TC4 Trust. The three groups
have distributed more than $450 million in grants to other
nonprofits, many of them active in elections, since 2009, according
to nonprofit tax forms compiled by the Center for Responsive
Politics. Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, a 501(c)(6) trade
association that hosts the Koch brothers’ annual donor summit, is
currently the only hub that remains operational and is still
affiliated with the Koch brothers.
Nonprofit tax forms also reveal that the large majority of these
grants went to Koch-connected groups that have spent money on
elections, like Americans for Prosperity, American Energy Alliance,
Concerned Veterans for America, Generation Opportunity and The
LIBRE Initiative. Other major recipients included big election
spenders like 60 Plus Association, American Future Fund, Americans
for Job Security, Republican Jewish Coalition and the U.S. Chamber
of Commerce.
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,tax law
and election law <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22>
“What Alabama Can Learn From California on Voting Rights”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76616>
Posted onOctober 12, 2015 9:32 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76616>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Ari Berman writes
<http://www.thenation.com/article/what-alabama-can-learn-from-california-on-voting-rights/>for
The Nation.
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Posted inelection administration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
“Sidelined by Democrats, Larry Lessig considers running against
them” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76614>
Posted onOctober 12, 2015 8:23 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76614>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Wapo
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/10/12/sidelined-by-democrats-larry-lessig-considers-running-against-them/>:
“Trump said he would stay in the party, and refuse to run as an
independent, as long as the Republicans treated him fairly,” said
Lessig. “I’m beginning to have a sense of what he was talking
about. If the party won’t allow me to run as a Democrat, that
creates a lot of pressure to think about a different way of running
that would allow me to make this case to the American people. I’ve
received as lot of advice and suggestions from people as to how to
spread this message. When I first got into this, I frankly didn’t
expect that this would be an issue, but it’s something I
increasingly have to think about.”
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,campaigns
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
Wisconsin Legislature Rushes to Dismantle Nonpartisan Election
Agency, Kill Campaign Finance Regulation
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76612>
Posted onOctober 12, 2015 8:04 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=76612>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Common Cause Wisconsin
<http://www.commoncausewisconsin.org/2015/10/public-hearing-this-tuesday-october.html>:
Very late Friday, when few people were paying attention, state
legislative Republicans posted *this notice for a public hearing
<http://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/raw/cid/1203699>*on*Tuesday,
October 13th*in the Capitol for measures to eviscerate the
non-partisan GAB, and to destroy any meaningful contribution limits
or limits on special interest money in WI elections, while
effectively ending most disclosure and transparency of that money.
Because they have so little regard for you or for the public
interest, the GOP has scheduled a “joint” hearing for Tuesday so
they only have to hear from citizens opposed to these horrible
measures just once and they will likely limit testimony. The two
hyper-partisan bills that will destroy the GAB are*Assembly Bill 388
<http://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2015/related/proposals/ab388>*and*Senate
Bill 294
<http://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2015/related/proposals/sb294/>*.
The two that will deform campaign finance law are*Assembly Bill 387
<http://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2015/related/proposals/ab387/>*and*Senate
Bill 292
<http://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2015/related/proposals/ab292//>*.
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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,election
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
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