[EL] ELB News and Commentary 2/10/16

Rick Hasen rhasen at law.uci.edu
Wed Feb 10 08:51:33 PST 2016 

    “Clinton allies forming group to protect, register voters”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79801>

Posted onFebruary 10, 2016 8:46 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79801>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

AP reports. 
<http://bigstory.ap.org/urn:publicid:ap.org:fcf9e1a73a9e414b8af8cf8a4d0803db>

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    “Will Supreme Court Make America(n Samoa) Great Again?”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79799>

Posted onFebruary 10, 2016 8:45 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79799>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Kimberly Robinson 
<http://www.bna.com/supreme-court-american-b57982067167/>for BNA:

    Thanks toTed Cruz
    <https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/01/11/through-ted-cruz-constitutional-looking-glass/zvKE6qpF31q2RsvPO9nGoK/story.html>,natural-born
    citizenship
    <http://harvardlawreview.org/2015/03/on-the-meaning-of-natural-born-citizen/>is
    now in thelamestream media
    <https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ted-cruz-is-not-eligible-to-be-president/2016/01/12/1484a7d0-b7af-11e5-99f3-184bc379b12d_story.html>(Oh,
    sorry, channeling my innerSarah Palin
    <https://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin/posts/10153596970878588>). And
    now it’s at the U.S. Supreme Court.

    Not Ted Cruz’s citizenship specifically. Or even really natural-born
    citizenship. But birthright citizenship, okay?

    In/Tuaua v. United/States,No. 15-981
    <http://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docketfiles/15-981.htm>,
    a group ofAmerican Samoans
    <https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/aq.html>claim
    they are being denied birthright citizenship guaranteed by the 14th
    Amendment.

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    I Talk to Above the Law About Dirty Tricks, Money in Politics and
    More <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79797>

Posted onFebruary 10, 2016 8:43 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79797>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Listen 
<http://www.atlredline.com/if-you-think-bernie-proves-that-money-doesn-t-buy-elect-1758253360>to 
the scintillating conversation with Elie Mystal and Joe Patrice.

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    “YIKES: Lee County Hacking Controversy”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79795>

Posted onFebruary 10, 2016 8:41 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79795>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Doug Chapin 
<http://editions.lib.umn.edu/electionacademy/2016/02/10/yikes-lee-county-hacking-controversy/>has 
this exactly right. Very troubling on all fronts.

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    Subjecting Plutocrats United to the “Page 99 Test”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79793>

Posted onFebruary 10, 2016 8:39 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79793>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

What can you learn about a book from turning to page 99 in it?

I explore this as toPlutocrats 
United<http://www.amazon.com/Plutocrats-United-Campaign-Distortion-Elections/dp/0300212453/>at 
thePage 99 Test blog 
<http://page99test.blogspot.com/2016/02/richard-l-hasens-plutocrats-united.html>:

    He applied the “Page 99 Test <http://page99test.blogspot.com/>” to
    his new book,/Plutocrats United: Campaign Money, the Supreme Court,
    and the Distortion of American Elections/
    <http://heppas.blogspot.com/2016/01/plutocrats-united.html>, and
    reported the following:

    The Page 99 test works well for my book, because this page tells the
    story of one of our new Plutocrats, created by the United States
    Supreme Court. He’s Shaun McCutcheon, a businessman who sued for a
    right to give $1,776 to every single of the hundreds of Republican
    candidates running for Congress. The Supreme Court eventually agreed
    with him, in a case known as/McCutcheon v. FEC/, holding that the
    government violates the First Amendment by limiting the overall
    amount contributions a person can give to federal candidates in a
    single election. Chief Justice Roberts wrote the opinion for the
    Court’s five conservatives, and celebrated elected officials being
    responsive to the interests of donors, an argument I find quite
    troubling.

    In/Plutocrats United/, I argue instead for the constitutionality and
    desirability of caps on campaign spending. I also want to give every
    voter $100 in campaign finance vouchers to contribute in elections.

    Here is the excerpt from page 99:

        “Though rich,” Collins and Skover tell us, “McCutcheon cannot be
        counted among the super-rich.” They quote McCutcheon as saying,
        “I do not come from a rich family.”

        Not “super-rich”? Anyone who can spend $384,000 in campaign
        contri­butions and have enough left over to finance a lawsuit is
        plenty rich, even if not at Sheldon Adelson’s or George Soros’s
        levels. In 2011 the amount Mc­Cutcheon spent on federal
        elections was more than seven times the annual median U.S.
        household income. It was just shy of the amount of annual income
        it took to fall in the top one percent of wage earners. But
        $384,000 was not McCutcheon’s/income/; it was the amount he
        could spare that year for political activities (and only those
        that were related to federal elections and were reported).

        Shaun McCutcheon asserts a right to maximize his influence over
        elec­tions and policy by spending as much as he can afford on
        political activities. Millions of other Americans feel just as
        passionately about politics and pol­icy but lack McCutcheon’s
        means. As Professor John Shockley wrote of the/Buckley/decision,
        “In thus striking down limits on expenditures the Court freed
        the wealthy to engage in significant use of the most effective
        modes of communication. But what are the Justices saying about
        the great majority of the American people who cannot spend more
        than $1,000 on candidates they support? By the Court’s own
        words, a majority of the American people are excluded from
        effective communication.”

    Spending limits stop wealthy people such as McCutcheon from
    spend­ing unlimited sums in political campaigns, but their purpose
    is to promote political equality and deter corruption. A $25,000
    contribution limit per election per candidate (actually $50,000 each
    for a primary and a general elec­tion) is quite generous for a
    system also committed to political equality. The same can be said of
    an upper limit of $500,000 on all federal elections in a two-year
    period, aimed at stopping the richest of the rich from having
    totally outsized influence over federal elections, but generous to
    be sure.

    Many readers may find these limits too generous.

    If you too are troubled by Shaun McCutcheon’s argument, you might
    find the rest of the book of interest.

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    “Funny or Die Made a Trump Biopic, Starring Johnny Depp”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79791>

Posted onFebruary 10, 2016 8:36 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79791>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/11/movies/trump-movie-funny-or-die-johnny-depp.html?ref=politics>:

    The humor websiteFunny or Die <http://www.funnyordie.com/>on
    Wednesday began streaming a50-minute comedy
    <http://www.funnyordie.com/trump_movie/>that finds Mr. Depp
    portraying the businessman turned politician, full-blown comb-over
    and all. Kept a secret for months — no small task in Hollywood —
    “Funny or Die Presents Donald Trump’s The Art of the Deal: The
    Movie” was released to coincide with Mr. Trump’s victory on Tuesday
    in the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary.

This season’s “Hillary: The Movie?”

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    New James O’Keefe Video Showing His Staff Trying to Commit Voter
    Fraud <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79789>

Posted onFebruary 10, 2016 8:34 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79789>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Exclusive video 
<http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/10/exclusive-new-okeefe-video-shows-how-easy-it-is-to-commit-voter-fraud-in-new-hampshire-video/>at 
the Daily Caller.

Next, I hope O’Keefe will show us how easy it would be for his staff to 
rob a 7-11.

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    “Beyond Campaign Finance Reform” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79787>

Posted onFebruary 10, 2016 8:24 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79787>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Tatatha Abu el-Haj has postedthis draft 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2729976>on SSRN. 
  Here is the abstract:

    The average American voter is apathetic, ignorant and polarized, or
    so we are told. Except, it turns out, with respect to her views on
    the outsized political influence of the super wealthy: poll after
    poll reveals a bipartisan consensus that wealthy interests exert too
    much political influence and there is good evidence to support these
    concerns. While the public blames the Supreme Court’s decision in
    Citizens United v. FEC for this situation, experts in the field know
    that the constitutional constraints on our ability to limit the
    political influence of moneyed elites long-predate Citizens United
    and pose a formidable barrier to effective campaign finance reform.
    Nevertheless, the most consistent calls in legal circles are for
    just that, more campaign finance reform.

    This Article argues that it is time for those serious about
    curtailing the influence of money on politics to recognize that the
    struggle for effective campaign finance reforms has run its course.
    Renewed democratic accountability will require an organized,
    informed and representative electorate. Election lawyers should,
    therefore, begin the process of reimagining their roles. It is time
    for the field to come to grips with the evidence that our apparent
    crisis of representation arises out of profound social and political
    changes since the 1970s, foremost among them, the transformation of
    civic associations. More specifically, it is time to wrestle with
    the evidence that this transformation resulted from legal choices
    and changes.

    Our focus needs to shift to the ways that law might encourage civic
    reorganization and facilitate representative turnout – just getting
    voters out on election days is too little too late. Enhanced
    democratic accountability will require both an organized and
    informed electorate and a broad and representative one, especially
    in during party primaries. Increasing the representativeness of the
    electorate that turns out to vote, therefore, must remain a key
    priority for the field of election law.

    In making this argument, the Article defends two controversial
    claims: First, the First Amendment tradition poses a formidable
    barrier to curtailing the influence of moneyed interests regardless
    of the composition of the Court. Second, the widespread skepticism
    in the field that the electorate can be a source of democratic
    accountability is overdrawn: The fact that voters, as individuals,
    are incapable of monitoring elected officials does not foreclose the
    possibility that voters, as groups, could demand democratic
    responsiveness. In fact, the historical record reveals that ordinary
    citizens can exercise influence over the officials elected to
    represent them when they are well organized and vote.

Looking forward to reading this, and to being ona panel 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79350>with Tabatha and others at Penn 
next Thursday.

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    Caution on the Hajnal Voter ID Paper
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79785>

Posted onFebruary 10, 2016 8:20 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79785>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

This 
paper<http://pages.ucsd.edu/%7Ezhajnal/page5/documents/voterIDhajnaletal.pdf>differs 
from others in finding great partisan and racial effects of voter id 
laws. It has been getting a lot of attentionfrom the left 
<http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/voter-id-study-minorities-liberals>, as 
proof that these laws have a big suppressive effect.

The study may well pan out. I think Hajnal is a very good and careful 
scholar. But it is still a working paper that has not yet gone through 
peer review, and it is at odds with other studies, which find modest 
effects or no effects.

That’s how social science is.  There’s generally not one big study which 
solves all of life’s mysteries. It is a slow accretion of knowledge.

Many will want this paper’s conclusions to be validated, because it is 
in line with our world view. It is like the paper from last year which 
purportedly found noncitizen voting likely affecting the outcome of 
elections.  After further scrutiny many believe the paper’s methodology 
is not sound.

So take a breath.

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    “The great money-in-politics myth” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79783>

Posted onFebruary 10, 2016 8:16 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79783>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Dylan Matthews 
<http://www.vox.com/2016/2/9/10941690/campaign-finance-left>for Vox.

    Sanders is the most vocal exponent of this critique currently, but
    he’s hardly the only one. At least since the progressive movement of
    the early 1900s, a prominent strain of American liberalism has
    identified the undue influence of moneyed interests, primarily
    through campaign donations and lobbying, as the fundamental problem
    in American politics, the one issue that needs to be fixed before
    the political system is capable of fixing anything else.

    Sanders’s version is actually more plausible than the one others
    have articulated. He ties it to a broader call forworking-class
    unity and revolution
    <http://www.vox.com/2016/1/28/10853502/bernie-sanders-political-revolution>.
    More typical is the less comprehensive version Harvard law professor
    Lawrence Lessig expressed during hisshort-lived presidential bid
    <http://www.vox.com/2015/11/2/9659014/lawrence-lessig-quits-presidential>,
    which holds that if Congress were to simply pass some good
    government reforms — in particular campaign finance reform —
    legislation that liberals have been pushing for generations would
    suddenly be possible, even easy, to pass.

Matthewshas apologized to Lessig 
<https://twitter.com/lessig/status/697447855498387456>for this aspect of 
his column.

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    “Trump, Sanders Wins Not Seen as Clearing Way for Third-Party Run”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79781>

Posted onFebruary 10, 2016 8:10 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79781>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bloomberg 
<http://trump%2C%20sanders%20wins%20not%20seen%20as%20clearing%20way%20for%20third-party%20run/>(!):

    I’s not clear whether the climate of anger would be favorable to a
    third-party bid being considered by former New York Mayor Michael
    Bloomberg, who told the/Financial Times/on the eve of the New
    Hampshire vote that he was “looking at all options.”

    “I find the level of discourse and discussion distressingly banal
    and an outrage and an insult to the voters,” said Bloomberg, the
    founder and majority owner of Bloomberg News parent Bloomberg LP. He
    told the newspaper that the U.S. public deserved “a lot better” and
    that if he decided to go ahead with such a bid, he’d need to start
    in March to put his name on ballots across the nation.

    Last week, a person familiar with his plans who was not authorized
    to speak on the record told Bloomberg News that Bloomberg’s decision
    would depend in part on whether the more ideological candidates won
    the major parties’ primaries. Marc La Vorgna, a spokesman for
    Michael Bloomberg, declined to comment on the/Financial Times/story
    and said there would be no comment on last night’s New Hampshire
    vote, “regardless of outcome.”

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    “U.S. Supreme Court to decide fate of congressional primaries”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79779>

Posted onFebruary 10, 2016 8:09 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79779>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NC Policy Watch reports. 
<http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/2016/02/10/u-s-supreme-court-to-decide-fate-of-congressional-primaries/>

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    Harvard Law Review Includes Texas Voter ID Case in Recent Cases in
    Feb. Issue <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79777>

Posted onFebruary 10, 2016 8:07 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79777>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Read the Veasey v. Abbott profilehere. 
<http://cdn.harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/1128-1135-Online.pdf>

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    4th Circuit Rules ADA Requires Maryland to Allow Online Ballot
    Marking for Disabled Absentee Voters
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79775>

Posted onFebruary 9, 2016 4:06 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79775>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Opinion. <http://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/Opinions/Published/142001.P.pdf>

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    “Virginia Asks Court To Ignore Pre-1965 Discrimination In Voting
    Rights Case” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79773>

Posted onFebruary 9, 2016 3:58 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79773>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Tierney Sneed 
<http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/virginia-voting-rights-motion>for TPM:

    Virginia’s State Board of Elections is asking the court weighing a
    voting rights case being brought in the state to exclude any
    evidence of the state’s history of racial discrimination.

    The board filed a motion Monday to “exclude expert testimony and
    other evidence of Virginia’s history of racial discrimination,”
    particularly anything that happened before 1965, when the federal
    Voting Rights Act was passed….

    “Recent Supreme Court decisions warn against reliance upon
    non-contemporaneous history, on the grounds that such history is not
    probative in a challenge to a more recent legislative action,” the
    motion said.

    However, according to UC-Irvine School of Law professor Rick
    Hasen,who runs Election Law blog <http://electionlawblog.org/>,
    the/Shelby County/did not rule out the consideration of a state’s
    discriminatory history outright.

    “Shelby County tells us obviously you can’t make decisions just
    based on the past, but it doesn’t make it irrelevant for the purpose
    of figuring things out,” Hasen told TPM.

    Indeed, when Congress amended Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in
    1982, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary issued a report withit
    outlining the factors that should be taken into account
    <http://www.justice.gov/crt/section-2-voting-rights-act>when
    assessing possible violations, including “the history of official
    voting-related discrimination in the state or political subdivision.”

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    “North Carolina’s Tainted 2016 Primary Election”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79771>

Posted onFebruary 9, 2016 3:56 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79771>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Brentin Mock 
<http://www.citylab.com/politics/2016/02/north-carolinas-tainted-2016-primary-election-racial-gerrymandering/461976/>for 
CityLab.

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    “Jeb’s Campaign-Finance Solution Falls Flat with Reform Advocates”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79769>

Posted onFebruary 9, 2016 3:55 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79769>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Justin Miller 
<http://prospect.org/blog/checks/jeb%E2%80%99s-campaign-finance-solution-falls-flat-reform-advocates>for 
TAP.

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    “As Candidates Vie For the ‘Anti-Establishment’ Label, Real
    Establishment Lives On” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79767>

Posted onFebruary 9, 2016 3:53 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79767>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy blogs 
<https://www.brennancenter.org/blog/candidates-vie-anti-establishment-label-real-establishment-lives>.

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    Sending Best Wishes and a Speedy Recovery to Beth Garrett
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79765>

Posted onFebruary 9, 2016 3:30 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79765>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Our good friend Beth, 
<http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2016/02/cornell-president-elizabeth-garrett-has-colon-cancer.html>election 
law and legislation prof, and president of Cornell University, is ill. 
We wish her a full and speedy recovery!!!

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    NC Seeks #SCOTUS Stay in Congressional Redistricting Case
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79762>

Posted onFebruary 9, 2016 3:26 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79762>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

North Carolina has filedthis emergency stay request 
<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/nc-petition.pdf>with 
Chief Justice Roberts.  The three-judge lower courthas denied the stay 
<http://www.wral.com/nc-redistricting-case-heads-to-us-supreme-court/15343601/#1> filed 
in that court.

I think the Supreme Court is very likely to grant the stay even if, as 
likely, it upholds the judgment in this case on the merits.As I’ve 
explained <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79650>, absentee voting has 
already occurred in these elections. The Supreme Court has been very 
wary of allowing court changes to election rules just before the 
election. (Seethis 
paper<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2545676>on the 
Purcell Principle).

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    “Public campaign funding is so broken that candidates turned down
    $292 million in free money” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79760>

Posted onFebruary 9, 2016 12:39 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79760>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Kathy Kiely 
piece<https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/02/09/public-campaign-funding-is-so-broken-that-candidates-turned-down-292-million-in-free-money/>for 
WaPo.

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    “The Primary Campaign: What You Need to Know”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79758>

Posted onFebruary 9, 2016 12:38 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79758>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

BPC event 
<http://bipartisanpolicy.org/events/the-primary-campaign-what-you-need-to-know/?_cldee=bXdlaWxAYmlwYXJ0aXNhbnBvbGljeS5vcmc%3d&utm_source=ClickDimensions&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Democracy%20%7C%20Primaries%20%7C%202.22.16>Feb. 
22 with Ben Ginsberg and Joe Sandler.

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    “Stealth Christie group attacks Rubio ahead of New Hampshire
    primary” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79756>

Posted onFebruary 9, 2016 10:27 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79756>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

CPI reports. 
<http://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/02/09/19276/stealth-christie-group-attacks-rubio-ahead-new-hampshire-primary>

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    Read the Opposition to NC Redistricting Stay
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79754>

Posted onFebruary 9, 2016 10:18 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79754>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Read it here 
<http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/REdistricting-challengers-response.pdf>(viaNC 
Policy Watch 
<http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2016/02/09/redistricting-challengers-respond-to-states-request-for-a-stay-of-order-requiring-new-plans/>).

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    “IRS gives nonprofit status to Rove’s controversial dark money
    group” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79752>

Posted onFebruary 9, 2016 8:08 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79752>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Robert Maguire 
<http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2016/02/irs-gives-nonprofit-status-to-roves-controversial-dark-money-group/>:

    After languishing in limbo for nearly five-and-a-half years, one of
    the most controversial, politically active 501(c)(4) social welfare
    organizations in the country has been granted nonprofit status by
    the IRS. The ruling was made official last Nov. 4, according to
    documents viewed by/OpenSecrets Blog/, giving an air of legitimacy
    to the more than $330 million that Crossroads GPS has raised and
    spent over the years, most of it on election-related ads and
    candidate support.

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