[EL] ELB News and Commentary 3/11/16

Thu Mar 10 21:32:12 PST 2016

    “North Carolina Exemplifies National Battles Over Voting Laws”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80766>

Posted onMarch 10, 2016 9:29 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80766>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Must-read 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/11/us/north-carolina-voting-rights-redistictricting-battles.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fus&action=click&contentCollection=us&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront>NYT 
Richard Fausset:

    The purest distillation of the nation’s wars over voting rules and
    legislative gerrymandering is playing out in North Carolina.

    A high-profile lawsuit is taking on a voter identification law and
    other voting changes. There are four other suits challenging North
    Carolina’s congressional or state legislative districts on racial
    grounds. Three more allege unconstitutional gerrymandering of local
    races. And on March 4, a new law changing how judges are elected was
    struck down by a three-judge state panel.

    When voters go to the polls for the North Carolina primaries on
    Tuesday, any votes for congressional candidates will not count
    because a federal panel threw out the state’s congressional map in
    February. A separate congressional primary will be held June 7.

    States around the nation are embroiled in legal battles over voting
    requirements, district lines and the rules governing elections. But
    North Carolina feels like the center. It is a place where
    hyperpartisanship, the focus on voting rules after the disputed
    election of President George W. Bush in 2000 and the Supreme
    Court’sdismantling of a crucial section of the Voting Rights Act
    <http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/us/supreme-court-ruling.html>have
    created an incessant state of combat over the way elections are
    conducted.

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Posted inelection administration 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,redistricting 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>,Supreme Court 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>,The Voting Wars 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voter id 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>

    “In Md. and Va., efforts to end gerrymandering face major obstacles:
    Lawmakers” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80764>

Posted onMarch 10, 2016 9:24 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80764>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo reports. 
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/in-md-and-va-efforts-to-end-gerrymandering-face-major-obstacles-lawmakers/2016/03/10/a1ffec30-e236-11e5-9c36-e1902f6b6571_story.html>

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

    “Realities Of Voter Fraud, Voter Suppression”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80762>

Posted onMarch 10, 2016 9:21 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80762>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Interview with me 
<http://kjzz.org/content/276681/realities-voter-fraud-voter-suppression>on 
KJZZ’s Steve Goldstein on AZ ballot harvesting bill.

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Posted inelection administration 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>

    “The best laid plans; Court ruling once again splits North Carolina
    primaries” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80760>

Posted onMarch 10, 2016 9:03 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80760>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

That’s the lead story in this week’sElectionline Weekly 
<http://www.electionline.org/index.php/electionline-weekly>.

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

    “Will a Conservative Court Uphold Texas’ Discriminatory Voter ID
    Law?” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80758>

Posted onMarch 10, 2016 8:59 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80758>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Ari Berman 
writes<http://www.thenation.com/article/will-a-conservative-court-uphold-texas-discriminatory-voter-id-law/>for 
The Nation.

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Posted inelection administration 
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voter id 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>,Voting Rights Act 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>

    Rescheduled Ky Law Review Symposium Mar 25
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80756>

Posted onMarch 10, 2016 8:57 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80756>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Great lineup! 
<http://www.kentuckylawjournal.org/index.php/symposium-schedule/>

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

    “GOP donors pushing Condoleezza Rice to run independent campaign”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80754>

Posted onMarch 10, 2016 8:55 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80754>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Politico reports. 
<http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/florida/2016/03/8593476/gop-donors-pushing-condoleezza-rice-run-independent-campaign>

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Posted incampaigns <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>,third parties 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=47>

    “Understand The Electoral College, Finally”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80752>

Posted onMarch 10, 2016 8:53 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80752>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

See Political video. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peOB-SVd1yM>

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Posted inelectoral college <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=44>

    “The FEC and the Case of the LLC” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80750>

Posted onMarch 10, 2016 10:16 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80750>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bauer: <http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/2016/03/fec-case-llc/>

    The Federal Election Commission’s job is hard, harder than many will
    admit, but the agency somehow manages to make it even harder. So
    now, five years after the fact,the FEC has decided not to
    investigate
    <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/03/07/the-fec-just-made-it-easier-for-super-pac-donors-to-hide-their-identities/>a
    donor’s alleged use of an LLC to mask a $1 million contribution to a
    Super PAC.  The word of the non-decision got out before any member
    of the FEC could explain it or any of the case materials were released.

    So naturally the agency looks somewhat silly.  Some might and do
    ask: how could it be that the alleged establishment of an LLC to
    mask the true source of a large contribution isn’t even subject to
    an investigation?  And why would it take almost five years for that
    inconclusive result to be reached?  Maybe the case files once
    released, along with the explanations of the different
    Commissioners, will provide some answer to those questions.

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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,federal 
election commission <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=24>

    Texas Voter ID En Banc 5th Circuit Argument Week of May 23
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80747>

Posted onMarch 10, 2016 10:07 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80747>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Today’s order 
<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/veasey-order.pdf>:

    Under Fifth Circuit Local Rule 41.3, the court’s order filed
    yesterday directing this case be reheard en banc with oral argument
    vacates the previous opinion and judgment of this court and stays
    the mandate. Appellants will have until April 8, 2016, to file an en
    banc brief, with a blue cover, with appellees’ en banc briefs, with
    a red cover, due in this office not later than May 9, 2016. You will
    be directed to furnish twenty (20) copies of your en banc brief
    after the electronic filing is reviewed and processed. The case will
    be heard during the week of May 23, 2016. Counsel for the parties
    will receive adequate notice as to the exact date and time for the
    presentation of the oral argument. Please forward twenty (20) copies
    of your briefs and record excerpts previously filed, for the use of
    the en banc court. Appellants do not need to forward additional
    copies of their redacted brief. As you did previously, we request
    that all copies be spirally bound. These additional copies are due
    in the Clerk’s Office by not later than Friday, March 25, 2016.

Here <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80712>is my post from yesterday 
analyzing what this all means.

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

    “For John Kasich, a battle over signatures to appear on Pa. primary
    ballot” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80745>

Posted onMarch 10, 2016 9:43 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80745>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
<http://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-state/2016/03/09/For-John-Kasich-a-battle-over-signatures-to-appear-on-Pa-primary-ballot/stories/201603090216>:

    Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s own lawyer agrees the presidential campaign
    submitted fewer valid signatures than are required for the candidate
    to appear on Pennsylvania’s primary ballot. But he argued in court
    Wednesday that it doesn’t matter because an objection to Mr.
    Kasich’s nominating petitions was filed 13 minutes too late.

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Posted inballot access <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=46>,primaries 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=32>

    Sanders Campaign Files TRO in Ohio 17-Year-Old Voters Case
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80742>

Posted onMarch 10, 2016 8:45 am 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=80742>byRick Hasen 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Read it here. <http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/husted-tro.pdf>

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Posted invoting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=31>

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