[EL] ELB News and Commentary 5/27/16
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Fri May 27 08:31:34 PDT 2016
“Federal judge throws out suit against Doe prosecutors”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83214>
Posted onMay 27, 2016 8:29 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83214>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Patrick Marley
<http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/Federal-judge-throws-out-suit-against-Doe-prosecutors-381052271.html>for
the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
A federal judge on Thursdaythrew out a lawsuit
<http://media.jrn.com/documents/Archer+-+Order.pdf>a former aide to
Gov. Scott Walker brought against prosecutors, and said that a
wealth of evidence seized by investigators about Walker’s campaign
and conservative groups could be kept by the court.
That means two courts — the federal judiciary and the Wisconsin
Supreme Court — could possess copies of the records about the inner
workings of Walker’s campaign and conservative groups active in 2011
and 2012 recall elections. The material would remain under seal and
out of the hands of the public, at least for now.
Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm launched two probes
related to Walker under the John Doe law that at the time allowed
prosecutors to operate in secret and compel targets and witnesses to
turn over their records.
I readthe opinion <http://media.jrn.com/documents/Archer+-+Order.pdf>.
While respectful, the federal district court judge pretty strongly
indicates skepticism with the decisions and behavior of the Wisconsin
Supreme Court.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>
ACLU Calls OH SOS Husted’s Statement About Golden Week Litigation
“Appalling” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83212>
Posted onMay 27, 2016 8:25 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83212>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Release
<http://www.acluohio.org/archives/press-releases/aclu-statement-on-secretary-husteds-remarks-regarding-ohio-golden-week-challenge>:
“Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted’s statement that the ACLU
supported the elimination of Golden Week could not be further from
the truth,” said ACLU of Ohio Senior Policy Director Mike Brickner.
“The ACLU has always strongly opposed the elimination of Golden
Week, particularly because its elimination would discriminate
against African Americans. Our organization testified against cuts
to Golden Week in the legislature and filed a lawsuit to restore it.”
“After protracted litigation, we entered into a settlement resulting
in evening and weekend early voting hours for all Ohio counties, and
the parties agreed that the settlement reflected no parties’ views
about the merits of the case. Secretary Husted’s insinuation that we
have actually supported the racially discriminatory elimination of
Golden Week all along is appalling. We oppose all forms of voting
discrimination, no matter what forms they may take.”
You can find Husted’s appalling statementhere
<https://twitter.com/chrisgeidner/status/735930957816041474>. (The ACLU
definitely is right on this one.)
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“Voting rights group: March primary signals problems for NC voters”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83210>
Posted onMay 27, 2016 8:23 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83210>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
News and Observer
<http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article80188707.html>:
Democracy North Carolina, a voting-rights advocacy organization,
recorded the experiences of more than 1,400 North Carolina residents
whose votes in the March primary election did not count and shared
them with a federal appeals court on Thursday.
Bob Hall, the organization’s director, told reporters he thought the
anecdotes and data from thousands of voters bolster the arguments of
the NAACP and others challenging the state’s new voter ID law.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
“Trump is borrowing the GOP brand. He’ll resist bending to party
leaders” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83208>
Posted onMay 27, 2016 8:19 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83208>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Dan Balz
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-is-borrowing-the-gop-brand-hell-resist-bending-to-party-leaders/2016/05/26/b503390c-2347-11e6-aa84-42391ba52c91_story.html>in
WaPo:
It’s been called a hostile takeover of the Republican Party, but
there’s little that has happened since Donald Trump became the GOP’s
presumptive nominee to suggest he wants anything to do with the
party. He’s borrowing the brand for his own purposes.
In all ways, Trump continues to show that he is the anti-conventions
candidate. That’s especially the case with any notions of him
becoming the leader of a political party. Trump is a singular
politician unlike any who has risen as fast and as far as he has in
modern times. In the same way that he has demonstrated no
consistency in his views on issues over time, there is nothing to
suggest that he has much regard for the responsibilities and
opportunities that come with being the leader of a party.
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“They Tilt Right, but Top Chief Executives Don’t Give to Trump”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83206>
Posted onMay 27, 2016 8:18 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83206>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT:
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/business/they-tilt-right-but-top-chief-executives-dont-give-to-trump.html?ref=politics&_r=0>
The C-suite leans right.
Republican candidates have drawn overwhelming support from the
highest-paid chief executives in the country this election cycle,
according to an analysis by theCenter for Responsive Politics
<http://www.opensecrets.org/?version=meter+at+5&module=meter-Links&pgtype=article&contentId=&mediaId=&referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Fpages%2Fpolitics%2Findex.html%3Faction%3Dclick%26region%3DMasthead%26pgtype%3DHomepage%26module%3DSectionsNav%26version%3DBrowseTree%26contentCollection%3DPolitics%26contentPlacement%3D2%26t%3Dqry325&priority=true&action=click&contentCollection=meter-links-click>conducted
for The New York Times.
That may not be so surprising, given the Republicans’ reputation as
the party of business. But none of the people on this year’s
highest-paid list contributed to the campaign ofDonald J. Trump
<http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/elections/donald-trump-on-the-issues.html?inline=nyt-per&version=meter+at+5&module=meter-Links&pgtype=article&contentId=&mediaId=&referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Fpages%2Fpolitics%2Findex.html%3Faction%3Dclick%26region%3DMasthead%26pgtype%3DHomepage%26module%3DSectionsNav%26version%3DBrowseTree%26contentCollection%3DPolitics%26contentPlacement%3D2%26t%3Dqry325&priority=true&action=click&contentCollection=meter-links-click>,
a fellow businessman and the presumptive Republican presidential
nominee.
Their unwillingness to support Mr. Trump, at least so far, is a
further indication that the party’s new standard-bearer is
struggling to connect with some of its most influential constituents.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
“Virginia Democrats to appeal voter ID case”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83204>
Posted onMay 27, 2016 8:15 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83204>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Daily Press
<http://www.dailypress.com/news/politics/dp-nws-voter-id-appeal-20160526-story.html>:
TheDemocrats
<http://www.dailypress.com/topic/politics-government/democratic-party-ORGOV0000005-topic.html>behind
a lawsuit challenging Virginia’s voter ID law will appeallast week’s
loss in district court
<http://www.dailypress.com/news/politics/dp-nws-voter-id-upheld-20160519-story.html>to
the U.S. Court of Appeals, the lead attorney said Thursday.
The group filed its notice of appeal Wednesday, and will ask for an
expedited review by the 4^t ^h Circuit Court of Appeals, based in
Richmond
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>,voter id
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>
“The Dream is Dead: Can Taxpayer Money Save Presidential Campaigns?”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83202>
Posted onMay 27, 2016 8:07 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83202>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Shorenstein Center report.
<http://shorensteincenter.org/can-taxpayer-money-save-presidential-campaigns/>
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“Democracy 21 and the Campaign Legal Center Challenge Failure of FEC
to Adopt Regulations to Implement Restricted Political Party
Accounts” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83200>
Posted onMay 27, 2016 8:06 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83200>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
See here
<http://www.democracy21.org/money-in-politics/letters-to-the-fec/democracy-21-and-the-campaign-legal-center-challenge-failure-of-fec-to-adopt-regulations/>.
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“The Week in Politics: Dems’ Voting Guy Gets Busy, Mayors Ousted and
More” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83198>
Posted onMay 27, 2016 8:05 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83198>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Alan Greenblatt
<http://www.governing.com/topics/politics/gov-politics-roundup-mayors.html>for
Governing:
Just how much demand there can be for a good campaign lawyer was on
dramatic display this week. Marc Elias has been the go-to attorney
for high-profile Democrats for years. But he’s had a particularly
eventful few days.
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Penn Law Review Special Issue on Campaign Finance
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83196>
Posted onMay 26, 2016 2:10 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83196>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Introduction <https://www.pennlawreview.com/Special_Issue/index.php>:
On the forty-year anniversary of/Buckley v. Valeo/, and in the midst
of a presidential election campaign, the/University of Pennsylvania
Law Review Online/is pleased to present this Special Issue on
Campaign Finance, in collaboration with Demos.
ESSAYS IN THIS EDITION
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Introduction: Problems in the Existing Jurisprudence
<https://www.pennlawreview.com/Special_Issue/index.php?id=1>
DEBORAH HELLMAN & DAVID SCHULTZ
First Amendment Freeze Play: Bennett’s Strategy for Entrenching
Inequality <https://www.pennlawreview.com/Special_Issue/index.php?id=2>
FRANK PASQUALE
How Sausage Is Made: A Research Agenda for Campaign Finance and Lobbying
<https://www.pennlawreview.com/Special_Issue/index.php?id=3>
DANIEL P. TOKAJI & RENATA E. B. STRAUSE
Resurrecting the Neglected Liberty of Self‐Government
<https://www.pennlawreview.com/Special_Issue/index.php?id=4>
DEBORAH HELLMAN
Wholly Native to the First Amendment: The Positive Liberty of
Self‐Government <https://www.pennlawreview.com/Special_Issue/index.php?id=5>
TABATHA ABU EL‐HAJ
The Federalism Implications of Campaign Finance Regulation
<https://www.pennlawreview.com/Special_Issue/index.php?id=6>
FRANITA TOLSON
The Media Exemption Puzzle of Campaign Finance Laws
<https://www.pennlawreview.com/Special_Issue/index.php?id=7>
SONJA R. WEST
The Case for a Democratic Theory of American Election Law
<https://www.pennlawreview.com/Special_Issue/index.php?id=8>
DAVID SCHULTZ
Sources of Conservative Thinking on Democracy
<https://www.pennlawreview.com/Special_Issue/index.php?id=9>
STEPHEN E. GOTTLIEB
Justice Kennedy’s Democratic Dystopia
<https://www.pennlawreview.com/Special_Issue/index.php?id=10>
TERRY SMITH
A Locked iPhone; Unlocked Corporate Constitutional Rights
<https://www.pennlawreview.com/Special_Issue/index.php?id=11>
CIARA TORRES‐SPELLISCY
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OH SOS Husted Issues Statement on Why State is Appealing Ruling
Restoring “Golden Week” Voting <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83192>
Posted onMay 26, 2016 1:31 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83192>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Statement <https://twitter.com/chrisgeidner/status/735930957816041474>
andNotice of Appeal
<http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/upload/news/20160526.pdf>(via Chris
Geidner).
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Few Voters See Supreme Court Nominations as One of Two Most
Important Issues Coming Into Presidential Election
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83189>
Posted onMay 26, 2016 1:27 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83189>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
New YouGov poll.
<https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/aumh8lgpb7/tabs_HP_Voting_Rights_20160523.pdf> Republicans
slightly more likely to see this as major issue:
Screen Shot 2016-05-26 at 1.26.06 PM
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See also this earlier pollI linked
to<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83138>of California voter attitudes.
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Fascinating New Poll on Voting Rights Finds Support for Proof of
Citizenship, Preventing Fraud, But Partisan Divide
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83186>
Posted onMay 26, 2016 1:24 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83186>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
[Update: Seethe HuffPo story on the poll
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/democrats-voting-rights_us_57473464e4b03ede44142508?ezj625ywlfln2ke29>.]
Among the YouGov results
<https://today.yougov.com/news/2016/05/26/poll-results-voting-rights/>:
*Do you think people should or should not have to show proof of
citizenship in order to register to vote?*
They should have to show proof of citizenship . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68%
They should not have to show proof of citizenship . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22%
Not sure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10%
*Which of the following do you think is more important?*
Making sure that no one is able to commit voter fraud . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . 53%
Making sure that no one who is eligible to vote is prevented from
doing so 39%
Not sure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8%
On the “more important” question, here are the crosstabs
<https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/aumh8lgpb7/tabs_HP_Voting_Rights_20160523.pdf>by
party:
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“Carl P. Leubsdorf: Texas’ draconian voter ID law retreads LBJ’s
civil rights victory” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83184>
Posted onMay 26, 2016 12:51 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83184>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Leubsdorf Dallas Morning News column
<http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/latest-columns/20160524-carl-p.-leubsdorf-texas-draconian-voter-id-law-retreads-lbjs-civil-rights-victory.ece>.
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“Eight Lessons We’ve Learned About Money in Politics This Election”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83182>
Posted onMay 26, 2016 12:50 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83182>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Fred Wertheimer.
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/fred-wertheimer/eight-lessons-weve-learne_b_10146016.html>
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“Verifying Democracy: Developments in Voter ID and Citizenship
Verification Practices” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83180>
Posted onMay 26, 2016 12:49 pm
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83180>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Great CLE program
<http://shop.americanbar.org/eBus/ABAEventsCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?productId=248922939&sc_channel=email&sc_rec=&sc_sid=&CUSTOMER_NUMBER%3B=&sc_jid=160506F&sc_cid=CE1606VID-A%7D%7D160506F&sc_cid=CE1606VID-A>coming
up from the ABA.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,voter id
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>
“Judge issues stay reinstating campaign contribution limits from
political parties” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83177>
Posted onMay 26, 2016 11:59 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83177>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Surprise in Montana
<http://helenair.com/news/politics/state/judge-issues-stay-reinstating-campaign-contribution-limits-from-political-parties/article_1ea4aa68-28d7-5b7e-813b-ea42f287ee77.html>.
Wonder whether there was a flood of very big contributions in the
interim. I bet that was the point for this election.
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“Lobbyists Are Behind the Rise in Corporate Profits”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83175>
Posted onMay 26, 2016 10:12 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83175>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
James Bessen
<https://hbr.org/2016/05/lobbyists-are-behind-the-rise-in-corporate-profits>in
the Harvard Business Review.
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“How California Is Solving Its Voting Rights Problem”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83173>
Posted onMay 26, 2016 10:06 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83173>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Spencer Woodman
<http://www.vice.com/read/how-california-is-solving-its-voting-rights-problem>for
VICE:
Similar battles over voting rights and election fairness have been
taking place around California, where rapidly shifting demographics
have threatened to upend traditional centers of power in recent
decades. As growing minority populations fight for a place in local
government, the drawing of voter districts has become a major
battleground, determining who gets to have a say in important
aspects of civic life. In the past few weeks alone, California’s
voting rights disputes resulted in a federal voting rights
suitagainst alleged districting
<http://www.courthousenews.com/2016/04/26/latinos-challenge-kern-county-redistricting.htm>discriminationin
Kern County
<http://www.maldef.org/news/releases/2016_04-22_MALDEF_Sues_Kern_County_For_Violating_VRA/>;
aredrawing
<http://www.thecapistranodispatch.com/election-2016-dividing-into-districts/>of
districts in the coastal town ofSan Juan Capistrano
<http://www.thecapistranodispatch.com/city-to-host-first-public-forum-on-district-mapping/>,following
a state voting rights suit; andlegal action
<http://www.latimes.com/tn-gnp-me-complaint-alleges-glendale-unified-viol>by
Shenkman against an allegedly suppressive school district in the Los
Angeles area.
“These things are happening all over the state,” said Richard Hasen,
a professor of law and political science at the University of
California, Irvine. “Inertia is a powerful force, and people who
benefit from the status quo don’t want to change the status quo.
Sometimes it takes a lawsuit to force more equitable forms of
representation.”
Yet despite these districting tiffs, Hasen said, California actually
represents a rare bright spot for many advocates in national
elections policy. In recent years, as other states remained intent
on erecting new barriers to the ballot box, California did pretty
much the opposite, enacting a series of new laws that have put the
state at the cutting edge of progressive voting policy.
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“The fire next time; Today’s voting-rights disputes are less
clear-cut than those of the civil-rights era, but they are
inflammatory all the same” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83171>
Posted onMay 26, 2016 10:03 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83171>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The Economist reports.
<http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21699451-todays-voting-rights-disputes-are-less-clear-cut-those-civil-rights-era>
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Rights Act <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>
Electionline’s Summer Reading List <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83169>
Posted onMay 26, 2016 9:20 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83169>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Some great choices.
<http://www.electionline.org/index.php/electionline-weekly>
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Posted inelection administration <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>
“Hearing for California primary lawsuit set for after voting”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83167>
Posted onMay 26, 2016 9:19 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83167>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
AP <http://www.ocregister.com/articles/primary-717076-hearing-voters.html>:
A federal judge has set an Aug. 18 hearing date in a lawsuit filed
by a Bernie Sanders supporter seeking to extend California’s voter
registration deadline ahead of the primary election, meaning the
plaintiffs likely won’t get a hearing before the state’s June 7 primary.
Attorney William Simpich argued in the filing that the process for
unaffiliated voters to get a presidential primary ballot –
particularly those seeking to cast ballots in the Democratic primary
contest between Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton – was too confusing and would leave many
voters disenfranchised. He said at least two counties failed to
notify some voters of their right to request a ballot to vote in the
Democratic, Libertarian or American Independent Party contests.
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Posted inelection administration
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,political parties
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>,primaries
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=32>
“Judge says voting rules won’t change for August election”
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83165>
Posted onMay 26, 2016 9:18 am
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83165>byRick Hasen
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
AP
<http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_268748/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=AusT5ezp>:
There will be no change to Wisconsin’s voting laws before the Aug. 9
primary, including the requirement that photo identification be
shown at the polls, a federal judge hearing a challenge to more than
a dozen election laws said Thursday.
U.S. District Judge James Peterson told attorneys at the beginning
of the final day of testimony in the two-week trial that he will
make a ruling by the end of July, which won’t leave enough time to
enact any changes he may order before the primary where the field of
candidates running for a host of state and federal races will be
winnowed.
“Obviously I feel urgency in getting the decision out,” Peterson
said, adding that he didn’t think it would be realistic to have it
done before the end of July. He scheduled final arguments for June 30.
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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,The Voting Wars
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