[EL] ELB News and Commentary 1/27/16

Wed Jan 27 08:05:09 PST 2016

    “Review: How to Stop the Super-Rich from Dominating Presidential
    Politics” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79309>

Posted onJanuary 27, 2016 8:03 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79309>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Larry Norden reviews 
<http://www.thenationalbookreview.com/features/2016/1/26/99b1hitx5xkvsgkegrnowvzw2j8u6e>my 
new book,Plutocrats United 
<http://www.amazon.com/Plutocrats-United-Campaign-Distortion-Elections/dp/0300212453/>, 
at the National Book Review. From the review:

    Fortunately, it may not be necessary for the Court to fully adopt
    the equality rationale.  Previous majorities of the Court embraced a
    far broader definition of corruption, which allowed political
    spending to be limited to prevent money from distorting political
    outcomes.  In the Court’s most recent campaign finance
    ruling,/McCutcheon v. FEC/
    <https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/12-536>, the four
    dissenting justices upheld this view, and took it a step further. 
    They argued that reasonable campaign finance regulations can be
    justified to ensure that elected officials are responsive to the
    concerns of the general public (not just a privileged few) and to
    protect the integrity of elections.

    Regardless of what theory a future Court might embrace, Hasen is
    correct that as inevitable and permanent as the current system might
    seem, big change to our campaign finance laws in the near future is
    not only possible, but quite likely.  Four of the Court’s nine
    justices will be over 80 during the next President’s term.  The
    public – as demonstrated in polls, as well as the recent victories
    in Maine and Seattle – is looking for solutions that will return
    power to everyday Americans and break what many perceive as the
    stranglehold of the elite and super wealthy over our political system.

    The question, then, for all Americans, not just five current
    justices on the Supreme Court, is what we want our democracy to look
    like. The 2016 presidential election offers voters a rare chance to
    have a meaningful say in answering this question – and Hasen’s book
    is a/cri de coeur/urging us all to make the most of it.

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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,Plutocrats United 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=104>,Supreme Court 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>

    “Hogan proposing independent redistricting, tougher opiod laws”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79307>

Posted onJanuary 27, 2016 7:54 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79307>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

News 
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/miller-predicts-battle-over-hogans-budget-proposal/2016/01/26/9a9b803c-c3d5-11e5-a4aa-f25866ba0dc6_story.html>from 
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Posted inredistricting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>

    “What Sanders Doesn’t Say About Campaign-Finance Reform”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79305>

Posted onJanuary 27, 2016 7:52 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79305>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Francis Barry 
<http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-01-26/what-bernie-sanders-doesn-t-say-about-campaign-finance>for 
Bloomberg View:

    For all of Bernie Sanders’ populist crusading against the political
    influence of “millionaires and billionaires,” when faced with a rare
    chance to pass major campaign-finance reform, hevoted against it
    <http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll088.xml>, putting the party’s
    biggest donors first. The vote is worth remembering not only for
    what it says about Sanders, but also as a reminder of the Democratic
    Party’s history of saying one thing about reform and doing another.

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    “North Carolina’s voter ID law on trial”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79303>

Posted onJanuary 27, 2016 7:50 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79303>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Zack Roth 
<http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/north-carolinas-voter-id-law-trial>for MSNBC.

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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voter id 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>

    “Ohio Christian Alliance Urges Delay of Implementation of Online
    Voter Registration in Ohio to Safeguard Ohio’s Vote”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79301>

Posted onJanuary 27, 2016 7:22 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79301>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Press release 
<http://ohioca.org/enews.php?Ohio-Christian-Alliance-Urges-Delay-of-Implementation-of-Online-Voter-Registration-in-Ohio-to-Safeguard-Ohio-s-Vote-513>.

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    “Trade groups to top corporations: Resist political disclosure”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79299>

Posted onJanuary 27, 2016 7:20 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79299>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

CPI: 
<http://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/01/27/19185/trade-groups-top-corporations-resist-political-disclosure>

    Three of the nation’s leading trade associations have a message for
    their member corporations: Resist activists who demand you disclose
    more details about your politicking than the law requires.

    “The strategy of pressuring companies to voluntarily disclose the
    details of their spending on public policy engagement for the
    purpose of reducing that engagement is, in fact, their ultimate
    goal,” wroteU.S. Chamber of Commerce
    <https://www.uschamber.com/about-us/about-the-us-chamber>President
    and CEO Tom Donohue,Business Roundtable
    <http://businessroundtable.org/about>President John Engler
    andNational Association of Manufacturers
    <http://www.nam.org/About/>President and CEO Jay Timmonsin a letter
    dated Oct. 13
    <https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2697724/U-S-Chamber-Letter.pdf>and
    obtained by theCenter for Public Integrity
    <http://www.publicintegrity.org/>.

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and election law <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=22>

    “What Happened to Jane Mayer When She Wrote About the Koch Brothers”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79297>

Posted onJanuary 26, 2016 8:02 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79297>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Jim Dwyer NYT column. 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/27/nyregion/what-happened-to-jane-mayer-when-she-wrote-about-the-koch-brothers.html?rref=collection/sectioncollection/nyregion&action=click&contentCollection=nyregion&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0>

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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>

    “Seeking to End Gerrymandering’s Enduring Legacy”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79295>

Posted onJanuary 26, 2016 11:05 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79295>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT reports. 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/26/us/politics/seeking-to-end-gerrymanderings-enduring-legacy.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fus&action=click&contentCollection=us&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=8&pgtype=sectionfront>

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Posted inredistricting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>

    “Hacking into Supervisors of Elections Office”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79293>

Posted onJanuary 26, 2016 8:34 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=79293>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Oh my 
<http://www.fox4now.com/news/hacking-into-supervisors-of-elections-office>, 
Florida:

    Using a structured query languange.injection, Sinclair and David
    Levin were able to gain immediate access to a server.

     From there, they collected the passwords for everyone that works in
    the Supervisor of Elections office for Lee County.

    Sinclair fears that back door into the system could create chaos
    during an election cycle.

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Posted inchicanery <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>,election 
administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,voting technology 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=40>

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Rick Hasen
Chancellor's Professor of Law and Political Science
UC Irvine School of Law
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