[EL] ELB News and Commentary 5/6/16
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Thu May 5 20:44:12 PDT 2016
“Bernie Sanders’s Legacy? The Left May No Longer Need the Rich”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82588>
Posted onMay 5, 2016 8:41 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82588>byRick
Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT’sThe UpShot:
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/upshot/bernie-sanderss-legacy-the-left-may-no-longer-need-the-rich.html?ref=politics>
Mr. Sanders’s weakness among affluent Democrats and his strength
among working-class Democrats might seem unsurprising, given his
class-focused message. Mr. Sanders himself anticipated it in
aninterview
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/12/upshot/class-or-ideology-my-conversation-with-bernie-sanders.html>with
The Upshot in July.
But in broader historical terms, it might be something of a turning
point in Democratic politics: the moment when the party’s left no
longer needs an alliance with wealthy liberals to compete in
national elections.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
“No Trump Effect, Yet, on Supreme Court Stalemate”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82586>
Posted onMay 5, 2016 8:39 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82586>byRick
Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT:
<http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/05/05/no-trump-effect-yet-on-supreme-court-stalemate/?ref=politics>
Those pushing the stalled nomination of Judge Merrick B. Garland to
the Supreme Court had hoped that Donald J. Trump’s triumph in the
Republican presidential primary would lead to a breakthrough with
Senate Republicans who might suddenly see Judge Garland as an
acceptable choice, rather than wait for Mr. Trump to lose and allow
either Hillary Clinton or Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont to make
the pick.
Some conservatives, including the editors of the website RedState,
agreed, urging Senate Republicans to act “before it was too late”
and not allow President Obama to withdraw Judge Garland’s nomination.
But it was not to be — at least not yet.
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“Former Ron Paul aide, Trump super PAC chief convicted in campaign
finance trial” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82584>
Posted onMay 5, 2016 8:38 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82584>byRick
Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
CNN:
<http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/05/politics/jesse-benton-rand-ron-paul-aide-convicted-trump-super-pac/index.html>
A former aide to Ron Paul and current strategist for a pro-Donald
Trump super PAC was convicted Thursday of falsifying campaign
records in a 2012 scheme to pay for a presidential endorsement.
A federal jury in Iowa found Jesse Benton guilty on all counts,
which included conspiracy and false records charges. Benton was
convicted along with John Tate and Dimitrios Kesari, also former
Paul aides.
Benton is chief strategist of the Great America PAC, the primary PAC
backing Trump’s presidential bid.
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“Big Money Pours Millions into Ballot Initiative Battles”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82582>
Posted onMay 5, 2016 8:33 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82582>byRick
Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bloomberg BNA:
<http://news.bna.com/mpdm/MPDMWB/split_display.adp?fedfid=89052893&vname=mpebulallissues&jd=a0j3t7a8p3&split=0>
Political groups have already raised more than $125 million so far
to get issues directly before voters, a Bloomberg analysis of state
campaign finance data shows. That’s a 74 percent increase from what
was raised for initiatives at the same point in the 2014 election cycle.
Ballot measures allow groups to get a popular vote on specific
policy measures rather than go through the arduous process of
lobbying state legislators to take action, which often involves some
form of compromise with members of the opposing party.
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“Will Donald Trump Get Back The $38 Million He Lent His Campaign?”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82580>
Posted onMay 5, 2016 8:16 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82580>byRick
Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Peter Overby
<http://www.npr.org/2016/05/04/476783557/donald-trump-shifts-to-fundraising-after-loaning-his-campaign-38-million>for
NPR:
Donald Trump likes to say he is self-funding his campaign. That
isn’t entirely true. He has actually lent his campaign about
three-quarters of the $49 million or so that he has spent so far.
That means the campaign can pay him back if it has the money. But
there’s a deadline. Trump has 11 weeks to repay himself — exactly at
the moment when he needs to pivot and start raising cash for the
general election campaign.
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“Election Commission Advisory Board Disagrees With Director Over
Citizenship Rule” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82578>
Posted onMay 5, 2016 8:14 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82578>byRick
Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Pam Fessler for NPR:
<http://www.npr.org/2016/05/05/476933327/election-commission-advisory-board-clashes-with-director-over-citizenship-rule>
It looks like more bad news for the new executive director of the
U.S. Election Assistance Commission. Brian Newby is already being
sued by the League of Women Voters for his decision earlier this
year to allow Kansas and two other states to require residents to
show proof of citizenship when they register to vote using a federal
form. The moveeffectively reversed
<http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/02/02/465353108/as-voting-begins-several-states-voter-id-laws-remain-in-flux%29>a
long-standing EAC policy.
Now, the EAC’s advisory board — composed of election officials from
around the country — has approved a resolution saying that such
changes should be made by the commissioners themselves. The
resolution, passed by a 13-7 vote during a two-day board meeting in
Chicago, is only advisory, but clearly shows dissatisfaction with
Newby’s actions.
Commission Chairman Thomas Hicks says it’s now up to the commission
to take the recommendation “under advisement” and decide what to d
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,Election Assistance Commission
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=34>
“Trump rallies in Charleston, tells people not to vote”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82576>
Posted onMay 5, 2016 8:10 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82576>byRick
Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Huh
<http://www.wvgazettemail.com/news/20160505/trump-rallies-in-charleston-tells-people-not-to-vote>:
Donald Trump loves coal miners and thinks you should not vote in
Tuesday’s elections, he told a crowd of thousands at the Charleston
Civic Center Thursday also hitting all the themes of his campaign —
building a wall between the United States and Mexico, renegotiating
trade deals and his success in the polls and in prior primaries.
Twice during his 45-minute speech, Trump urged the audience not to
vote in next week’s primary elections, instead telling them to “save
your vote” for the fall.
“You don’t have to vote anymore, save your vote for the general
election, forget this one, the primary’s done,” said Trump, who
essentially clinched the Republican nomination this week.
He circled back to his advice 20 minutes later: “Now I can tell you,
stay home but get twice as many people in November.”
Tuesday’s election will decide a seat on the state Supreme Court,
giving the winner a seat on the bench for the next 12 years.
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“Sheldon Adelson Says He Will Support Donald Trump”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82574>
Posted onMay 5, 2016 7:32 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82574>byRick
Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT:
<http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/05/05/sheldon-adelson-says-he-will-support-donald-trump/>
The casino magnate Sheldon G. Adelson said on Thursday night that he
would support Donald J. Trump now that he has become the Republican
Party’s presumptive nominee.
“Yes, I’m a Republican, he’s a Republican,” Mr. Adelson said in a
brief interview. “He’s our nominee. Whoever the nominee would turn
out to be, any one of the 17 — he was one of the 17. He won fair and
square.”
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
After Ken Vogel Story, Politifact Now Rates as Half-True George
Clooney Statement About Clinton Fundraising
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82572>
Posted onMay 5, 2016 7:24 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82572>byRick
Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Politifact:
<http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2016/may/05/george-clooney/george-clooney-decries-big-money-politics-says-mos/>
*/Editor’s note, May 4, 2016/*/*:*We originally published this item
on April 17 and rated it Mostly True. Since then, readers have
contacted us to consider other evidence about the Democratic Party’s
fundraising processes, especially state parties sending money back
to the Democratic National Committee. We have updated and rerated
this fact-check based on new information, changing the rating from
Mostly True to Half True…/
Federal Election Commission records show that in most cases, the
money given to the state parties has been immediately redirected to
the DNC. The money isn’t staying with the states at all.
On May 2,_Politico published a story_
<http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/clinton-fundraising-leaves-little-for-state-parties-222670>reporting
that 88 percent of the state money was immediately passed along to
the DNC. In some cases, the state parties didn’t even know the money
had gone in and out of their accounts until after the fact.
The Hillary Victory Fund_sent $214,100 to Minnesota_
<http://www.fec.gov/fecviewer/CandidateCommitteeDetail.do?candidateCommitteeId=C00586537&tabIndex=1>,
for example, and that state party didn’t keep a dime. It was routed
to the DNC, which otherwise wouldn’t have been able to accept the
money “since it came from donors who had mostly had already maxed
out to the national party committee,” Politico reported.
We contacted the DNC and the Clinton campaign to try to understand
what was compelling the states to immediately send funds back to the
DNC. We couldn’t get straight answers.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
“The U.S. political system is flawed but not corrupt”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82570>
Posted onMay 5, 2016 2:46 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82570>byRick
Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Stephen Medvic
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2016/05/05/the-u-s-political-system-is-flawed-but-not-corrupt/>at
WaPo’s In Theory:
Though our political system is flawed and perhaps even “rigged” in
certain important ways, there is very little political corruption in
the United States. This claim is typically met with disbelief. How
can anyone argue that our political process is not corrupted by the
vast amounts of money spent on campaigns and the countless hours
elected officials and their challengers spend raising that money?
MORE in this series:
Trevor Burrus: When it comes to politics, corruption is subtler than you
think
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2016/05/03/when-it-comes-to-politics-corruption-is-subtler-than-you-think/>
Jacob Rowbottom: The U.S. and Britain see corruption very differently.
Here’s why.
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2016/05/04/the-u-s-and-britain-see-corruption-very-differently-heres-why/>
Zephyr Teachout: How the Supreme Court gets corruption totally wrong
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2016/05/05/how-the-supreme-court-gets-corruption-totally-wrong/>
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“Chemerinsky: Should SCOTUS have turned down these election law
cases?” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82568>
Posted onMay 5, 2016 1:49 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82568>byRick
Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Erwin Chemerinsky
<http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/chemerinsky_should_scotus_have_turned_down_these_election_law_cases>in
the ABA Journal:
At the beginning of American history, the Supreme Court was required
to hear every case brought to it. Over time, Congress modified these
statutes, most recently in 1988, so that today the court has
mandatory appellate jurisdiction only when Congress requires that a
case be heard by a three judge federal district court. The Voting
Rights Act requires this for challenges to the drawing of election
districts. But mandatory Supreme Court jurisdiction makes no more
sense here than in any other area. Congress could change this to
have appeals in voting cases, like in all other matters, go first to
a United States Court of Appeals and then to the Supreme Court.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
“Videos showing how voter ID doesn’t work in Indiana.”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82566>
Posted onMay 5, 2016 1:33 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82566>byRick
Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Robbin Stewart blogs.
<http://ballots.blogspot.com/2016/05/today-i-went-to-vote-at-firehouse-down.html>
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“The GOP Is Failing. Democracy Can, Too”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82564>
Posted onMay 5, 2016 1:31 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82564>byRick
Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Important piece
<http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-05-05/republicans-can-drag-democracy-down-with-them-frank-wilkinson>from
Frank Wilkinson at Bloomberg View.
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“Voter ID Bill That Could Disenfranchise 220,000 Sits On Missouri
Governor’s Desk” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82562>
Posted onMay 5, 2016 1:28 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82562>byRick
Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Alice Ollstein for Think Progress:
<http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/05/05/3775525/missouri-voter-id-2/>
Republicans in Missouri have been trying to pass a voter ID bill for
more than a decade, and they may soon claim victory.
This week, a supermajority of lawmakerssent a bill
<http://house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills161/hlrbillspdf/4554S.18F.PDF>to
the desk of Gov. Jay Nixon (D). Even if the governor vetoes, as
hedid to a similar one
<http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/jay-nixon-vetoes-photo-id-voting-measure/article_2beaf0be-dd58-51ea-8716-d55d3e7c6b36.html>in
2011, lawmakers may have the votes tooverride it
<http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2016/05/04/missouri-house-votes-to-pass-voter-id-law/>.
Democrats in the state Senate staged anall-night filibuster
<http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/04/28/3773681/missouri-voterid-filibuster/>last
week to stop the ID bill, but backed down after striking acompromise
deal
<http://www.senate.mo.gov/senate-democrats-force-compromise-on-voter-id/>with
Republicans.
The deal involves amendments to the bill that progressive lawmakers
say will “ensure no voter is denied his or her Constitutional right
to vote.” For instance, the state would be required to provide free
photo IDs and any underlying documents necessary to obtain them,
such as birth certificates and Social Security cards. Additionally,
voters who are unable to get the required ID for whatever reason
would be able to sign a legally-binding affidavit promising they are
who they say they are, and could then vote with regular ballots.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voter id
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>
“Donald Trump’s new finance guru: once a Clinton donor, Soros
employee” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82560>
Posted onMay 5, 2016 1:26 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82560>byRick
Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Woah.
<https://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/05/05/19634/donald-trumps-new-finance-guru-once-clinton-donor-soros-employee>
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
“EAC hosts public hearing on accessibility; Equipment is there, but
obstacles remain for voters with disabilities”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82558>
Posted onMay 5, 2016 1:24 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82558>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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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,voters with disabilities
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=71>
“California DMV Takes Important First Steps Toward
Improving Voter
Registration Services” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82556>
Posted onMay 5, 2016 1:20 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82556>byRick
Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Demos
<http://www.demos.org/press-release/california-dmv-takes-important-first-steps-toward-%E2%80%A8improving-voter-registration-servic>:
The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) took the necessary
first steps toward improving voter registration services offered
online and at its 174 field offices across the state, though it
still will need to address some major issues.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,NVRA (motor voter)
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=33>
“The Long Shadow of Bush v. Gore: Judicial Partisanship in Election
Cases” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82554>
Posted onMay 5, 2016 1:17 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82554>byRick
Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Michael Kang and Joanna Shepherd have postedthis
draft<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2772570>on SSRN
(forthcoming, Stanford Law Review). Here is the abstract:
Bush v. Gore decided the 2000 presidential election and is still the
most dramatic election case of our lifetime, but cases like it are
decided every year at the state level. American law leaves it to
ordinary common-law courts to regularly decide questions of election
rules and administration that effectively decide electoral outcomes
hanging immediately in the balance. Election cases like Bush v. Gore
embody a fundamental worry with judicial determination of these
cases: outcome-driven, partisan judicial decisionmaking. This
Article investigates whether judges decide cases, particularly
political sensitive ones, based on their partisan loyalties. It
presents a novel method to isolate the raw partisan motivations of
judges and identifies their partisan loyalty, as opposed to their
ideology, by studying decisions in a special category of cases
almost entirely about partisan loyalty — candidate-litigated
election disputes. The Article finds that Republican judges display
greater partisan loyalty than Democratic judges in election cases
where ideology is not a significant consideration. This result is
not a function of selection methods, with both elected and appointed
judges behaving similarly, but it is partially a function of party
campaign finance for elected Republican judges, with party loyalty
increasing with party money received. However, the effect of party
campaign finance disappears for more visible election cases and
largely disappears for retiring judges in their final term. What is
more, partisan loyalty is reduced when state supreme court elections
have recently featured more campaign attack advertising. These
findings give reason to re-think judicial resolution of election
disputes that require impartial, nonpartisan settlement and offer
new insight into judicial partisanship as a more general matter.
They have also written a /Michigan Law Review
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2775252>/book review
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2775252>of Melinda
Gann Hall’s/Attacking Judges: How Campaign Advertising Influences State
Supreme Court Elections./
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=5>,judicial elections
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=19>
“KY Campaign Regulator Reinstates Ban on Corporate Contributions to
Political Campaigns; Allows Corporate-Sponsored PACs”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82552>
Posted onMay 5, 2016 1:12 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82552>byRick
Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Eric Lycan explains
<http://dinsmorenews.com/cv/938552980df82e396b1946a29a5b380eeefde7e6>.
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“Alleged Voter Intimidation by Local Sheriff In Edwards County,
Texas” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82550>
Posted onMay 5, 2016 1:11 pm <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82550>byRick
Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
VRI release.
<http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/news/press-releases/alleged-voter-intimidation-local-sheriff-edwards-county-texas>
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“Often-secret donors spend big to push elected officials’ pet
projects” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82548>
Posted onMay 5, 2016 7:19 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82548>byRick
Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Must-read from Fredreka Schouten and Mary Troyan USA Today
<http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/05/05/often-secret-donors-spend-big-push-elected-officials-pet-projects/83918246/>:
The Alabama political scandal that has cost the state’s governor his
marriage and now threatens his job has thrust politicians’ growing
use of often-secretly funded nonprofits into the spotlight.
Gov. Robert Bentley’s former aides created the tax-exempt Alabama
Council for Excellent Government last year to promote the governor’s
agenda, but some of its funds went to pay the governor’s senior
political adviser, exposed in recent weeks as his extramarital love
interest. And like any other “social-welfare” group created under
the 501(c)(4) section of the tax code, it does not have to disclose
its donors.
Nonprofit groups have become a fixture in federal politics, allowing
secret donors to pump unlimited sums into advertising and
get-out-the-vote efforts in elections. But their use has spread
rapidly to statehouses from Lansing, Mich., to Nashville, Tenn., and
city halls from New York to Los Angeles, as another source of cash
that elected officials of both parties can tap to help shape public
policy.
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“Justice Department Wants Suit Alleging Georgia Illegally Purges
Voters” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82546>
Posted onMay 5, 2016 7:03 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82546>byRick
Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
<http://www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/justice-department-wants-suit-alleging-georgia-ill/nrHZB/>
The U.S. Justice Department has asked a federal judge to deny a
request to dismissa lawsuit accusing Georgia of illegally bumping
voters off the state’s rolls
<http://www.myajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/georgia-secretary-of-state-brian-kemp-sued-over-vo/nqNk6/>ahead
of the 2016 presidential election.
In a court filing, U.S. Attorney John Horn and members of the
Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division indicated concerns with
the state’s policy toward kicking voters off the rolls due to
inactivity. The filing came in response to a request by Georgia
officials to dismiss the suit after it was filed in February.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,NVRA (motor voter)
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=33>
Bauer on Kinsley on CU <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82544>
Posted onMay 5, 2016 6:40 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82544>byRick
Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Here.
<http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/2016/05/michael-kinsleys-defense-citizens-united/>
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“Voter ID laws are reaction to nonexistent problem”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82542>
Posted onMay 5, 2016 5:10 am <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82542>byRick
Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Greg
Smith<http://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/contributors/2016/05/04/voter-id-laws-reaction-nonexistent-problem/83845374/>in
The Tennessean:
Von Spakovsky and others are persuading the public, as well as state
legislatures and courts, that illegal immigrants, unscrupulous voter
registration activists and vote buyers are stealing
elections. Claims of voter malfeasance have “justified” tighter
voting restrictions. Yet, these claims have been found repeatedly
and empirically to be “myths” (and I can cite 28 scholarly or
empirical sources). The evidence is astonishing.
In a 2015 personal communication, von Spakovsky expressed clearly
that not even a single, empirical or peer-reviewed research report
supporting his viewpoints existed, nor had even one university press
published a book. It appears self-incriminating that he offers no
specific rebuttal to the endless empirical evidence specifically
against his unsupported claims. Additionally, I could find nothing
to indicate that neither von Spakovsky — nor anyone on his behalf or
support from him of anyone else making similar claims — has
attempted to argue the merits of his claims against his critics. The
only exception is when he insisted nebulously that he never has
“been credibly rebutted nor shown to be incorrect.”
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