[EL] ELB News and Commentary 8/19/16

Fri Aug 19 08:27:43 PDT 2016

New Trump TV Commercial Suggests Hillary Clinton Rigging Elections<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85560>
Posted on August 19, 2016 8:24 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85560> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The new commercial<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mKzYPt0Bu4#action=share> begins with the words: “In Hillary Clinton’s America, the system stays rigged against Americans.”  This part of the commercial features two pictures, the first a polling place with the words “vote here” and the second with a picture of people waiting on line, apparently a long voting line.  Here are two screenshots:

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There is enough innuendo here that it is not clear precisely what he is saying, but it is enough of a dog whistle to those who believe that Democrats are stealing elections.

But as I explain in this LA Times oped,<http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-hasen-vote-rigging-20160816-snap-story.html> Trump has offered no evidence of vote rigging the way he’s claimed<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85282>, and under a fair definition of vote rigging, it is Trump, with his plans to send people in the polls on election day, who presents<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=85289> the greatest danger of rigging<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/13/how-donald-trumps-bizarre-voter-watch-effort-could-get-the-gop-in-trouble/>.
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Posted in campaigns<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>, chicanery<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>, fraudulent fraud squad<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=8>, The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>

“North Carolina GOP Out to Limit Crucial Early Voting Period”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85558>
Posted on August 19, 2016 8:14 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85558> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Zack Roth <http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/north-carolina-gop-out-limit-crucial-early-voting-period-n633571> for NBC News.
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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>, Voting Rights Act<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>
“Supreme Court is About to Get a Good Look at How North Carolina Messes with Its Voting Rules”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85556>
Posted on August 19, 2016 8:06 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85556> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Cristian Farias<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/supreme-court-north-carolina-voting-rules_us_57b5e8dee4b0fd5a2f41cbd8?section=politics> for HuffPo.
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Posted in election administration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, Supreme Court<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>, The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>, voter id<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>, Voting Rights Act<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>

“Smoking Gun Memo Could Bolster Voting Rights Case Against North Carolina”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85554>
Posted on August 19, 2016 8:02 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85554> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Must-read Tierney Sneed<http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/north-carolina-gop-scotus-voting-rights> for TPM:

North Carolina’s Republican Party has had an interesting response to a recent appeals court ruling that said a number of voting restrictions passed by the state’s GOP legislature were enacted with the intent to discriminate against minorities, specifically African Americans. In their scramble after the ruling, party operatives and local Republican officials have perhaps inadvertently provided more evidence that the restrictions were passed with the intent to discriminate.

The most egregious example was a memo sent by North Carolina Republican Party executive director Dallas Woodhouse to county election officials urging them to continue to push for reductions in voting access, in which he explicitly spelled out a partisan motivation.

The memo came as the state is asking the Supreme Court to reverse the appeal court ruling, and restore for November’s election some of the restrictions the appeals court struck down. And it may provide additional fodder for the voting rights advocates fighting the state’s restrictions.
“It was stunning and stupid,” Daniel Tokaji, an elections law professor at Ohio State University. “Stunning that somebody would be so brazen about his and the party’s objective, and stupid in the sense it really seems to me to undercut their arguments to get the Supreme Court review that the lawyers had made.”…

“Many of the jurisdictions feel that they are on the receiving end of a liberal decision that will help Democrats in elections. They are going to do whatever they can to re-enact the laws within the bounds that the court has allowed,” said Nate Persily, an election law professor at Stanford University. “Their resistance is expected, given that they are afraid that the court’s decision will accelerate a Democratic tide in the presidential election.”

But their efforts, coupled with Woodhouse’s memo, may inadvertently make it easier for the the restrictions’ legal opponents to prove their point to the Supreme Court.

“In the Supreme Court, there’s usually no introduction of material not in the record of the court below. The Supreme Court generally cannot engage in fact finding,” Rick Hasen, a professor at UC-Irvine School of Law who runs the Election Law blog, said in an email to TPM. “Nonetheless, it would not surprise me for some of the plaintiffs to cite news reports on this to make the claim that this is further evidence of discriminatory intent and that the Fourth Circuit got it right. And the Justices (or their clerks) are no doubt aware of this in any case.”

According to Persily, North Carolina’s monkeying with county protocols could invite not just a stay denial, but also a written explanation that backs up the 4th Circuit’s findings.

“The critical question is whether the court, whether five members of the court, think it’s important to send a signal to the lower courts and to the jurisdictions on the run up in this election,” Persily said.

Tierney’s piece also links to this new statement from Woodhouse defending his earlier email.
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Posted in Uncategorized<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>

APSA Short Course on State Constitutional Conventions<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85552>
Posted on August 19, 2016 7:59 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85552> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

This looks interesting. Jim Snyder writes about a short course he’s organized, “A Political Primer on the Periodic State Constitutional Convention Referendum,” which will take place from 2 pm to 6 pm on Wednesday, August 31, in Room 202B at the Philadelphia Convention Center. The APSA’s description of it is here<http://www.politicalsciencenow.com/short-course-a-political-primer-on-the-periodic-state-constitutional-convention-referendum/>.

Jim writes: “Three of the eight presenters, Sandy Levinson, John Dinan, and Richard Briffault, are law professors (albeit in Dinan’s case with more of a focus on politics than law).  Levinson will make opening comments arguing that the upcoming New York Constitutional Convention Referendum in New York could be the most important election of 2017.  Dinan will present a brief overview of America’s state constitutional convention tradition.  And Briffault, as Vice Chair of Citizens Union, will speak about why that organization is leading the campaign for a yes vote on that referendum. (In contrast, I’m expecting Craig Holman from Public Citizen to take a more critical view.)”

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Posted in Uncategorized<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>

“FEC opening door to Internet regulation – again?”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85550>
Posted on August 18, 2016 9:30 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85550> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

FOX News<http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/08/19/fec-opening-door-to-internet-regulation-again.html>:

Democrats on the nation’s top campaign finance regulator may be opening the door once again to regulating political content on the Internet, Republicans warn – despite claims to the contrary a year ago.

Federal Election Commissioner Lee Goodman told FoxNews.com that two recent decisions in particular have exposed “a deep-seated desire to regulate all forms of political speech on the Internet.”

The most recent case was considered by the FEC in June, though details were only released this month.

The case involved the Foundation for a Secure and Prosperous America (FSPA) – a conservative nonprofit that ran ads on YouTube criticizing Sen. Rand Paul’s, R-Ky., position on the Iran nuclear deal. A complaint claimed the group violated the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 by not filing reports disclosing its spending on videos posted primarily to YouTube.

The FEC Office of the General Counsel concluded the case should be dismissed, as the ads didn’t contain express advocacy (such as “vote for candidate X”). The counsel also noted the YouTube videos are exempt from disclosure under a pivotal 2006 FEC<http://www.fec.gov/pages/brochures/internetcomm.shtml>rule known as the Internet exemption, which says “an uncompensated individual or group … may engage in Internet activities for the purpose of influencing a federal election without restriction.”

All FEC commissioners agreed the case should be dismissed based on the express advocacy point. But, in a significant disagreement, the commission split 3-3 along partisan lines on the question of whether YouTube videos indeed are exempt under the 2006 Internet rule.
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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, federal election commission<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=24>

“Woodhouse’s gaffe exposes real aim of NC voting law”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85547>
Posted on August 18, 2016 9:25 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85547> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

News & Observer Editorial:<http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/editorials/article96525012.html>

Well, you have to give him this: Dallas Woodhouse, executive director of the North Carolina Republican Party, didn’t try to be clever or subtle when he sent an email to GOP members of county boards of elections and other party members last weekend. No, he basically instructed those board members to use their majorities to curb early voting<http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/under-the-dome/article96394252.html>, keep polling sites closed on Sundays, close college campus voting sites and in general, to, as he put it, “make party line changes to early voting.”

Republican leaders believe college students and African-Americans who favor early voting or Sunday voting are liable to vote Democratic. In the spirit of the voter ID or voter suppression law passed by Republicans in the General Assembly, they’d like to do what they can to limit voting even in the wake of a federal court ruling that threw out the state’s voter ID law.

Woodhouse couches his orders to county elections officials in the terms of guarding against voter fraud. Although that’s a virtually non-existent problem in North Carolina, Republicans use the threat of it as an excuse to tamp down as many Democratic votes as possible.

Why call this a “gaffe”?  He didn’t misspeak. He said exactly what he meant.
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Posted in chicanery<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>, fraudulent fraud squad<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=8>, The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>

“Early voting to start in September”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85545>
Posted on August 18, 2016 9:23 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85545> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:<http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/08/18/early-voting-start-september/88969258/>

Voters in the state’s liberal strongholds will be able to start early voting a month before what would have been allowed under a law that was recently struck down.

Voters in Milwaukee and Madison may also be able to participate in early voting at multiple sites — a practice that hasn’t been allowed in the past. That would give local officials a chance to set up voting stations on college campuses, rather than requiring people to come to clerks’ offices to cast ballots early.

The early voting plans could change, however, because an appeals court is now reviewing a federal judge’s decision that struck down a host of election laws.
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Posted in election administration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>

“A Checklist Manifesto for Election Day: How to Prevent Mistakes at the Polls”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85543>
Posted on August 18, 2016 9:21 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85543> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The final version of Josh Douglas’s article,<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2597767> which I first blogged about here<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=71942>, is now available in the Florida State University Law Review.
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Posted in election administration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>

“Our view: McCrory should drop election-law appeal”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85540>
Posted on August 18, 2016 9:15 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85540> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Winston Salem-Journal editorial:<http://www.journalnow.com/opinion/editorials/our-view-mccrory-should-drop-election-law-appeal/article_98c87f66-26ab-5c99-82d1-70c404588d7a.html>

Gov. Pat McCrory has every right to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision regarding the legislature’s discriminatory election law, as he did Monday, But he should drop his unwise request. The Fourth Circuit has already spoken loudly and clearly on this.

But McCrory wants provisions of the legislature’s rejected law to be reinstated for the coming November election as lawyers for him, legislative leaders and other state officials craft an appeal. The key provisions they want reinstated are requiring the legislature’s chosen forms of ID to vote and reducing early voting to 10 days rather than 17.

Chief Justice John Roberts has responded by asking for a written response from those who sued to overturn the law. We trust they’ll make their case eloquently: The Fourth Circuit ruling was correct. And pivoting back to the restrictive provisions just weeks after they were struck down would create an unjust nightmare of confusion for poll workers and voters.
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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>, Voting Rights Act<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>

“How One Family’s Deep Pockets Helped Reshape Donald Trump’s Campaign”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85538>
Posted on August 18, 2016 8:43 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85538> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Must-read Nick Confessore o<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/19/us/politics/robert-mercer-donald-trump-donor.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news>n how one plutocratic family has great influence over even a purported billionaire.
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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, campaigns<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>

“Trump advisers waged covert influence campaign”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85536>
Posted on August 18, 2016 5:41 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85536> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

AP:<https://apnews.com/6eed1ef61eb744e1aac584f8ac1f7247/Trump-advisers-waged-covert-influence-campaign>

A firm run by Donald Trump’s campaign chairman directly orchestrated a covert Washington lobbying operation on behalf of Ukraine’s ruling political party, attempting to sway American public opinion in favor of the country’s pro-Russian government, emails obtained by The Associated Press show. Paul Manafort and his deputy, Rick Gates, never disclosed their work as foreign agents as required under federal law.

The lobbying included attempts to gain positive press coverage of Ukrainian officials in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Associated Press. Another goal: undercutting American public sympathy for the imprisoned rival of Ukraine’s then-president. At the time, European and American leaders were pressuring Ukraine to free her.

Gates personally directed the work of two prominent Washington lobbying firms in the matter, the emails show. He worked for Manafort’s political consulting firm at the time.

Manafort and Gates’ activities carry outsized importance, since they have steered Trump’s campaign since April. The pair also played a formative role building out Trump’s campaign operation after pushing out an early rival. Trump shook up his campaign’s organization again this week, but Manafort and Gates retain their titles and much of their influence. The new disclosures about their work come as Trump faces criticism for his friendly overtures to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The two men have previously said they were not doing work that required them to register as foreign agents. Neither commented when reached by the AP on Thursday.

The emails show Gates personally directed two Washington lobbying firms, Mercury LLC and the Podesta Group Inc., between 2012 and 2014 to set up meetings between a top Ukrainian official and senators and congressman on influential committees involving Ukrainian interests. Gates noted in the emails that the official, Ukraine’s foreign minister, did not want to use his own embassy in the United States to help coordinate the visits.
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Posted in campaigns<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>, chicanery<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>, lobbying<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=28>

“Hackers targeted Trump campaign, Republican Party groups: sources”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85534>
Posted on August 18, 2016 5:33 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85534> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Reuters<http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-republicans-idUSKCN10T2HY>:

The tools and techniques used to hack Republican targets resemble those employed in attacks on Democratic Party organizations, including the DNC and Clinton’s campaign organization, two sources said. That has led U.S. officials to reach a preliminary assessment that Russia’s military and civilian intelligence agencies or their proxies have targeted both political parties.
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“Internet Voting Leaves Out a Cornerstone of Democracy: The Secret Ballot”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85531>
Posted on August 18, 2016 3:21 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85531> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

MIT Technology Review:<https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602204/internet-voting-leaves-out-a-cornerstone-of-democracy-the-secret-ballot/>

If the risk of hackers meddling with election<https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602142/these-states-are-at-the-greatest-risk-of-having-their-voting-process-hacked/> results is not enough, here’s another reason voting shouldn’t happen on the Internet: the ballots can’t be kept secret.

That’s according to a new report<http://www.secretballotatrisk.org/> from Verified Voting, a group that advocates for transparency and accuracy in elections.
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Posted in election administration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, internet voting<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=49>, voting technology<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=40>

“Citizens United, Foreign Money, and Your Voice”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85529>
Posted on August 18, 2016 12:40 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85529> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

FEC Commissioner Ann Ravel<https://medium.com/@AnnMRavel/citizens-united-foreign-money-and-your-voice-4361d0e7c94d#.ix1ganxmp> on Medium.
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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, federal election commission<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=24>

“Episode 156: The battle for Native American voting rights”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85527>
Posted on August 18, 2016 11:54 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85527> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Podcast:<http://www.decodedc.com/punish-the-republicans/>

When San Juan County, Utah made the move to all mail-in voting in 2014, it seemed like a great idea.  The county is almost 8,000 square miles with about 15,000 residents and voting by mail meant you no longer had to travel to a polling place. But for residents of the Navajo reservation, about half the county’s population, that change actually made voting more difficult.

Gone were the six in–person polling places on the reservation and gone were the translators to help the many Navajo-only speakers vote. The mail-in ballot was English only, Navajo is a predominantly spoken language. “My first reaction was what about those people that don’t speak English? What happens to those people?” said Terry Whitehat, who lives in a part of the reservation called Navajo Mountain.  The one place left to vote in person was located off the reservation, which for Whitehat meant up to a 10-hour return trip drive. How were these voters going to be able to vote wondered Whitehat. “Basically, it’s impossible,” he said.

This week on the podcast, in collaboration with News21, we take you to the frontlines of the battle for voting rights where Native Americans, are still fighting for equal access to the ballot box.

This report is part of a project on voting rights in America produced by the Carnegie-Knight News21<http://news21.com/> program. Make sure to check out News21’s full story here<http://www.newsnet5.com/decodedc/native-americans-continue-to-battle-for-voting-equality-in-court>.
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Posted in voting<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=31>, Voting Rights Act<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>

Talking at Texas Tribune Festival on “Voting Rights and Wrongs”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85524>
Posted on August 18, 2016 11:49 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85524> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Really looking forward to being on this panel<https://www.texastribune.org/festival/tracks/diversity-the-law/#voting-rights-and-wrongs> Sept. 24. There’s so much to say about Texas and voting rights!

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CAC Files Amicus Brief Supporting Supreme Court Review in WI John Doe Case<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85521>
Posted on August 18, 2016 11:46 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85521> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The brief<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/Chisholm-Amicus.pdf> focuses on the judicial recusal rules.
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Posted in conflict of interest laws<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=20>, judicial elections<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=19>, Supreme Court<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>

Google Partners with Perkins Coie to Offer Voting Information<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85519>
Posted on August 18, 2016 11:39 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85519> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

This looks to be super useful to voters<http://www.businessinsider.com/google-rolls-out-new-voter-registration-tools-2016-8>, and a fantastic project, but I suspect we will hear some Republican complaints on the partnership with one of the top Democratic law firms:

We’re less than three months away from the election and Google is trying to make it as easy as possible for people to figure out how to vote.

Deadlines and ID requirements<http://www.businessinsider.com/texas-struck-deal-to-remedy-discriminatory-voter-id-law-2016-8> vary significantly from state to state, and it can be hard or confusing to track down clear, up-to-date information, so Google is putting a new  a new toolbar front and center for anyone who searches for “how to vote.”

“We’ve been putting significant resources behind driving voter turnout,” Emily Moxley, the Googler leading the company’s efforts, tells Business Insider. “We’re developing a whole new suite of tools that make the registration process easier and more accessible to everyone.”

Google partnered with law firm Perkins Coie to get the information for the new in-depth search tool, which lets users sort by state for info on ID requirements, deadlines, mail-in ballots, and early voting.

It’s also dumping all that data here<https://docs.google.com/a/businessinsider.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5hF4w1LuO_d4KSlbX1aGtv67XasNjhJc73QbWlkrYVldX_Q/viewform>, to make it easier for other organizations to spread it.
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“Have North Carolina Republicans Found a Way to Reinstate Discriminatory Voting Rules?”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85517>
Posted on August 18, 2016 8:40 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85517> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

David Graham<http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/08/north-carolina-voting/496415/> for the Atlantic.  My alternate headline:

Have North Carolina Republicans Found a Way to Reinstate Federal Oversight of Their Voting Rules?
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