[EL] ELB News and Commentary 7/18/16

[Rick Hasen]

Get Ready for a Big Week on Texas Voter ID<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=84333>
Posted on July 18, 2016 8:21 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=84333> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Reminder<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=84168> on SCOTUS’s soft July 20 deadline to the 5th Circuit.
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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>

“The Republicans waged a 3-decade war on government. They got Trump.”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=84331>
Posted on July 18, 2016 8:15 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=84331> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Ornstein and Mann <http://www.vox.com/2016/7/18/12210500/diagnosed-dysfunction-republican-party> for Vox.
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Posted in political parties<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>, political polarization<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=68>

“As Clinton launches registration effort, community groups focus on Asian Americans”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=84329>
Posted on July 18, 2016 8:10 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=84329> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WaPo reports.<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/democrats-launch-unprecedented-registration-drive-to-defeat-trump-one-target-asian-americans/2016/07/02/6d8a4282-37d3-11e6-9ccd-d6005beac8b3_story.html>
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Posted in campaigns<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>, voter registration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=37>

“Hillary Clinton to Pledge Making Campaign-Finance Overhaul a Priority”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=84327>
Posted on July 18, 2016 8:09 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=84327> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WSJ:<http://www.wsj.com/articles/hillary-clinton-to-pledge-making-campaign-finance-overhaul-a-priority-1468681200>
Hillary Clinton<http://topics.wsj.com/person/C/Hillary-Clinton/6344> on Saturday will pledge to make an overhaul of the campaign-finance system an urgent priority, as she announces plans to introduce a constitutional amendment overturning the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling during the first 30 days of her administration.
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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, campaigns<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>

“Citizens United Muddles What Is Legal In Trump’s Foreign Money Case”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=84324>
Posted on July 18, 2016 7:59 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=84324> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Peter Overby reports for NPR<http://www.npr.org/2016/07/16/486231458/citizens-united-muddles-what-is-legal-in-trumps-foreign-money-case>.
And don’t miss Peter’s earlier How Picking Mike Pence As VP Might Cost The Trump Campaign Donations<http://www.npr.org/2016/07/16/486205890/how-picking-mike-pence-as-vp-might-cost-the-trump-campaign-donations>.
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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, campaigns<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>

“IRS Rejects 501(c)(3) Status For DNC Convention As Too Partisan, Causing Donors To Pull Out Due To Lost Deductions; DNC Devises Workaround To Funnel Contributions Through Philadelphia Convention Bureau”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=84321>
Posted on July 17, 2016 11:16 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=84321> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
TaxProf reports.<http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2016/07/irs-rejects-501c3-status-for-dnc-convention-as-too-partisan-causing-donors-to-pull-out-due-to-lost-d.html>
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Posted in Uncategorized<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>

“Mike Pence used campaign funds to pay his mortgage — and it cost him an election”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=84319>
Posted on July 16, 2016 5:01 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=84319> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WaPo<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mike-pence-used-campaign-funds-to-pay-his-mortgage--and-it-cost-him-an-election/2016/07/15/90858964-49ed-11e6-bdb9-701687974517_story.html>:
Mike Pence was a young lawyer on the rise, challenging a longtime Democratic congressman in a Republican-leaning Indiana district.
And then, scandal.
Campaign finance records from the 1990 effort showed that Pence, then 31, had been using political donations to pay the mortgage on his house, his personal credit card bill, groceries, golf tournament fees and car payments for his wife.
The spending had not been illegal at the time. But it stunned voters — and undermined Pence’s strategy to portray the incumbent, Rep. Philip R. Sharp, as tainted by donations from special-interest political action committees.
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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, campaigns<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>

“Clinton pledges constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United ruling”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=84316>
Posted on July 16, 2016 4:48 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=84316> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Politico reports.<http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/hillary-clinton-citizens-united-225658#ixzz4Eat8H2VD>
Time to re-up my Hillary Clinton’s Bad Campaign Finance Ideas; She’s right that money in politics is a problem. But suggesting a constitutional amendment is foolish<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/04/hillary_clinton_and_campaign_finance_the_democratic_front_runner_s_suggestion.html?wp_login_redirect=0>, Slate, Apr. 16, 2015.
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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, campaigns<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>

“The Wrong Way to Count Prisoners”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=84314>
Posted on July 16, 2016 10:27 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=84314> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT editorial:<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/16/opinion/the-wrong-way-to-count-prisoners.html?ref=opinion>
Voting rights advocates have been pressing the Census Bureau for more than a decade to stop counting prison inmates as “residents” of prisons — where they typically remain for only a short time — instead of the communities they call home. The bureau, in a rejection of common sense and fairness, has proposed rules<https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2016-06-30/pdf/2016-15372.pdf> for the 2020 census that continue this discredited practice.
Counting inmates this way allows legislators who draw electoral lines to inflate the power of certain areas with “constituents” who have been stripped of the right to vote and have no interaction with the larger community.
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Posted in felon voting<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=66>, redistricting<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>

“The RNC Will Be a First Amendment Disaster”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=84312>
Posted on July 16, 2016 10:05 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=84312> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Tabatha Abu el-Haj for Slate.<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2016/07/rnc_protesters_are_facing_a_first_amendment_disaster.html>
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Posted in political parties<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>, social media and social protests<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=58>

“Trump raised $32 million with RNC, but kept only a fraction”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=84310>
Posted on July 16, 2016 10:03 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=84310> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Vogel:<http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/donald-trump-fec-fundraising-225648#ixzz4EZCH3ZjV>
Of that, Trump Victory transferred only $2.2 million to Trump’s presidential campaign committee, as compared to $10.1 million to the RNC, though $5.8 million of that went to funds that can’t be used for campaign activity, and are earmarked instead for the party’s buildings and legal and convention expenses. Trump Victory didn’t transfer any money at all to the 11 state parties participating in it. Meanwhile, Trump Make America Great Again Committee, which comprises only the Trump campaign and the RNC, did not transfer any money to either.

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

“GOP convention organizers apologize to Sheldon Adelson”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=84308>
Posted on July 15, 2016 2:01 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=84308> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Oops:<http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/sheldon-adelson-rnc-convention-225629>
The last-minute plea for $6 million from Las Vegas billionaire Sheldon Adelson<http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/rnc-begs-adelson-for-6-million-to-cover-convention-shortfall-225571> to rescue the Republican convention has erupted in controversy, as four of the five signatories to the letter from party organizers never saw it before it was sent and major donors flagged serious errors that forced the convention hosts to apologize to one of the GOP’s most influential financiers.
The episode has opened a window into a host committee that is scrambling and still millions shy of its fundraising target, only days before tens of thousands of Republicans arrive in Cleveland, as it acknowledges for the first time that presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has put a damper on donations.

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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, campaigns<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>, political parties<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>

“Democrats Have a Plan to Register 50 Million New Voters”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=84306>
Posted on July 15, 2016 12:30 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=84306> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Ari Berman writes<https://www.thenation.com/article/democrats-have-a-plan-to-register-50-million-new-voters/?nc=1> for The Nation.
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Posted in election administration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, voter registration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=37>

“Palm Beach County Elections chief Bucher: We were warned of bomb scare if mosque used for voting”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=84301>
Posted on July 15, 2016 11:42 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=84301> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Sigh.<http://eyeonpbc.blog.palmbeachpost.com/2016/07/13/palm-beach-county-elections-chief-bucher-we-were-warned-of-bomb-scare-if-mosque-used-for-voting/>
See also an editorial, Editorial: Bucher too quick to abandon mosque polling plac<http://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/news/news/opinion/editorial-bucher-too-quick-to-abandon-mosque-polli/nrx2r/>e

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Posted in election administration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>

“What looks good on paper may fall apart in practice.'”–Voter ID in NC and Elsewhere<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=84298>
Posted on July 15, 2016 11:00 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=84298> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Kelly Fetty<https://medium.com/@kellyfetty/what-looks-good-on-paper-may-fall-apart-in-practice-a48f4da04912#.1mcpkulcz> deep dive into how the “reasonable impediment” exemption from voter id requirements works in practice. Oy.
This is in line with my essay, Softening Voter ID Laws Through Litigation: Is it Enough?, Wisconsin Law Review Forward (forthcoming 2016) (draft available<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80636>).

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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>

Trump Campaign, By Adding Pence, Now Faces Pay-to-Play Rules Limiting Campaign $<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=84295>
Posted on July 15, 2016 10:29 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=84295> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Jason Abel and Scott Sinder<http://www.steptoe.com/publications-11399.html> of Steptoe:
Today, Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, announced that Governor Mike Pence of Indiana will be his running mate.  By virtue of the fact that Pence is a current governor, the presumptive Republican vice president nominee will now subject the Republican ticket to various pay-to-play rules:
·         Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 206(4)-5 for investment advisers
·         Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board Rule G-37 for municipal securities dealers and – effective on August 17, 2016 – municipal advisors
·         Commodity Futures Trading Commission Rule 23.451 for swap dealers
Those in the donor community who are subject to pay-to-play rules (specifically those in the financial services sector) may be limited in how much they can contribute to the Trump-Pence ticket.  Companies should have in place compliance policies and procedures to safeguard against the negative consequences resulting from prohibitions that can be triggered by certain contributions (including bans on business), and employees should be aware of the actions that could lead to violations of the rules….
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