[EL] Faithless electors

[Smith, Brad]

Rick writes:
“Democratic elector says he may reject Clinton; The Washington State activist says he’d rather violate law — and pay $1,000 fine — than violate conscience”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87435>
Posted on October 13, 2016 8:10 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87435> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Politico reports<http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/washington-elector-hillary-clinton-rejection-229647> on a possible faithless elector.

Reason enough to scrap the current electoral college system.

n  Or perhaps a reason to keep the current electoral college system?

Bradley A. Smith
Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault
  Professor of Law
Capital University Law School
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Columbus, OH 43215
(614) 236-6317
bsmith at law.capital.edu<mailto:bsmith at law.capital.edu>
http://www.law.capital.edu/faculty/bios/bsmith.asp

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“Donald Trump, Slipping in Polls, Warns of ‘Stolen Election’”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87448>
Posted on October 13, 2016 8:34 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87448> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

This NYT story is chilling:<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/14/us/politics/trump-election-rigging.html?ref=politics>

“I haven’t seen it since 1860, this threat of delegitimizing the federal government, and Trump is trying to say our entire government is corrupt and the whole system is rigged,” Mr. Brinkley said. “And that’s a secessionist, revolutionary motif. That’s someone trying to topple the apple cart entirely.”

Roger J. Stone Jr., a close confidant and informal adviser to Mr. Trump, has also highlighted fears of election rigging. In an August column in The Hill,he wrote of voting machine manipulation<http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/291534-can-the-2016-election-be-rigged-you-bet>. And during a panel Saturday at this year’s New Yorker Festival, as he discussed the possibility of such tampering, Mr. Stone hedged when asked whether he would advise Mr. Trump — should he lose in November — to concede the election and accept its legitimacy.

“As long as there is no irrefutable evidence of fraud, yes,” he told his questioner. “He should — unless there is any refutable evidence to the contrary.”

Mr. Stone is one of the people behind Stop The Steal, a movement of 500 grass-roots volunteers who plan to stand outside what they believe could be “suspect precincts” on Election Day and conduct their own exit polls to compare against voting machine results.

“In an election in which Donald Trump<http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/elections/donald-trump-on-the-issues.html?inline=nyt-per> has made it pretty clear that the Clintons are going to prison, I think they would do anything to make sure they win it, even steal it,” Mr. Stone said. But, he added, “Trump cannot just lose and say, ‘They stole it.’ He has to have some tangible evidence — and that’s exactly what we’re trying to collect.”

Democrats fear Mr. Trump’s rhetoric, in the short term, will lead to voter suppression — and, in the long term, could have the corrosive effect of encouraging huge swaths of Americans to view Mrs. Clinton as an illegitimate president if she is elected.

My earlier pieces on this:

Donald Trump’s Dangerous Vote Rigging Comments Follow Years of Republican Voter Fraud Hysteria, TPM, October 6, 2016

If You’re Worried About Rigged Elections, Look at Trump’s Tactics First<http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-hasen-vote-rigging-20160816-snap-story.html>, Los Angeles Times, August 16, 2016
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“As GOP warns of voter fraud, Dems quietly register more poll watchers in ‘fraud-filled’ Philadelphia”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87446>
Posted on October 13, 2016 8:26 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87446> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The latest <http://www.pennlive.com/news/2016/10/as_gop_warns_of_voter_fraud_de.html> from Philly.
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“Hunter pushes Coast Guard to lease or buy ship owned by top campaign donor”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87444>
Posted on October 13, 2016 8:24 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87444> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

San Diego Union-Tribune:<http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/watchdog/sd-me-watchdog-icebreaker-20161013-story.html>

Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Alpine, has been pushing the U.S. Coast Guard to buy or lease a polar ice-breaking ship owned by one of his top campaign contributors, although the Coast Guard has repeatedly said the vessel doesn’t meet its needs.

The ship in question, the Aiviq, is a privately-owned, commercial vessel with mid-level ability to break paths through frozen arctic seas. It made national news in 2012 when it suffered mechanical failure and lost control of an oil rig it was towing. The rig ran aground off Kodiak Island in Alaska.

The Coast Guard says the Aiviq does not meet its needs, in particular because the vessel lacks military capabilities. Hunter has argued that the ship is a necessary and viable fleet option as melting polar ice opens the region to commercial traffic, putting more ships at risk.

Contributors connected to the Aiviq’s owner, Louisiana-based shipbuilder Edison Chouest Offshore, have given at least $18,000 to Hunter’s campaign since January  2015.
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“Odd Texas voting law on interpreters scuttled before November election”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87442>
Posted on October 13, 2016 8:22 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87442> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Texas Tribune<https://www.texastribune.org/2016/10/13/texas-language-rules-voters-under-scrutiny-ahead-e/>:

Das died before the lawsuit was resolved, but her dilemma, laid out in court filings, is part of an ongoing legal battle over a little-noticed provision of Texas election requiring interpreters to be registered voters in the same county in which they are providing help. Ahead of the November election, a federal district judge has blocked Texas from enforcing that provision,ruling it violates<http://aaldef.org/OCAHoustonvTX.pdf> the federal Voting Rights Act. Texas is appealing that ruling to the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.

The requirement will not be in effect during the upcoming election. The Secretary of State’s office has updated poll worker training material to be consistent with the ruling, said spokeswoman Alicia Pierce. And voter education groups that focus on language-minority voters like Asian Texans are working to ensure that voters get the word they can bring just about anyone, including their minor children, to help them vote.

But the case has highlighted a provision of Texas election law that appears to be at odds with federal protections for voters unable to read or write in English. At the heart of the case is whether voters are expected to know the difference between an “interpreter” and an “assistor” in the eyes of Texas election law.
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“Federal judge: Arizona counties don’t have to tally out-of-precinct votes”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87440>
Posted on October 13, 2016 8:20 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87440> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Howard Fischer<http://tucson.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/elections/federal-judge-arizona-counties-don-t-have-to-tally-out/article_ef2f21cf-37ac-5a6b-95aa-64b81c74cca0.html>:

A federal judge rejected a bid by Democrats to force counties to tally the votes of people who show up at the wrong polling place.

In his ruling late Tuesday, Judge Douglas Rayes acknowledged that Arizona has a history of discrimination in voting practices. But Rayes said challengers, led by the state and national Democratic parties, failed to show that the current restrictions affect minorities any more than the population as a whole.

This is the second defeat for the Democrats.

Rayes had earlier refused to block the state from enforcing its new law making it a felony for individuals to collect early ballots from others and bring them to the polling place. On Tuesday the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to disturb that ruling.
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“Google searches for ‘write-in’ are off the charts”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87438>
Posted on October 13, 2016 8:14 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87438> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

CNN reports.<http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/13/politics/google-searches-for-write-in-are-off-the-charts/index.html>
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“Democratic elector says he may reject Clinton; The Washington State activist says he’d rather violate law — and pay $1,000 fine — than violate conscience”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87435>
Posted on October 13, 2016 8:10 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87435> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Politico reports<http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/washington-elector-hillary-clinton-rejection-229647> on a possible faithless elector.

Reason enough to scrap the current electoral college system.
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“Florida Voter Registration Deadline Is Extended, a Win for Democrats”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87432>
Posted on October 13, 2016 8:07 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87432> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT:<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/us/florida-voter-registration-deadline-is-extended-a-win-for-democrats.html>

A federal judge has extended Florida’s voter registration deadline to Oct. 18, agreeing with voting rights advocates and the state Democratic Party that damage from Hurricane Matthew threatened to deprive some residents of their right to cast a ballot.

The decision on Wednesday had major political implications in a swing state where, the party’s lawyers said, Democrats make up a disproportionate share of those who register in the final week.

Florida and North Carolina, which also has a tight presidential race, were two of the five states battered last week as Hurricane Matthew moved up the coast, lashing northeastern Florida<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/09/us/hurricane-matthew-georgia-south-carolina.html> and causing severe flooding in North Carolina<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/10/us/north-carolina-saturated-and-surprised-reels-from-hurricane-matthew.html>.

North Carolina officials said on Tuesday that they would address any problems. “We are working with each county with damage or anticipated damage to ensure they have polling places available for early voting and Election Day,” the executive director of the State Board of Elections, Kim Westbrook Strach, said.

You can find the trial court’s 3-pager granting the preliminary injunction, lacking in any real legal analysis, here.<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/florida.pi_.pdf>
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“Deficiencies of Proportional Division of Electoral Votes”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87430>
Posted on October 13, 2016 7:58 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87430> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The following is an extended guest post from John Koza:<http://www.genetic-programming.com/johnkoza.html#anchor6007605>

Some have suggested that presidential elections would be improved if every state passed a law dividing its electoral votes in proportion to each candidate’s share of the popular vote in the state.

When you analyze the actual numbers, you find that a proportional system would work very differently than one would expect:
•         Although it might appear that the proportional system would give presidential candidates a reason to campaign in all 50 states, candidates would only campaign in about half the states.
•         In the 26 or so states where candidates would actually campaign, the proportional system would almost always be a battle for just one electoral vote—thus giving a small state as much influence as a big state.
•         The proportional system would not necessarily deliver victory to the candidate receiving the most popular votes nationwide (and would not have done so in the most recent close election, namely 2000).
•         Enactment of the proportional system on a state-by-state basis would be a self-arresting process because each enacting state would increase the influence of the remaining winner-take-all states.

The reason that presidential candidates would campaign in only about 26 states arises from three facts.

First, absent a federal constitutional amendment abolishing the office of (human) presidential elector, a state’s electoral votes can only be cast in whole-number increments.

Second, the average number of electoral votes per state is about 10 (538 divided by 51).  Thus, in an average-sized state, one electoral vote would correspond to a 10%-share of the state’s popular vote.  Moreover, one electoral vote would correspond to considerably more than 10% of the popular vote in the 33 states with a below-average number of electoral votes.  In the eight smallest states (with 3 electoral votes), one electoral vote would correspond to a 33.33%-share of the popular vote.

Continue reading →<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87430#more-87430>
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Disgraceful If True Dept: “Did Right-Wing Group Citizens United Target Dementia Sufferers for Fundraising?”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87428>
Posted on October 13, 2016 7:51 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87428> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Daily Beast:<http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/12/did-citizens-united-prey-on-the-elderly.html>

And it has a history of sending out mailers that raise serious ethical questions—and that may prey on senior citizens with dementia and Alzheimer’s.

Citizens United, David Bossie, and the Trump campaign did not respond to multiple requests for comment on this story….

Charity Navigator, a non-ideological organization that tracks philanthropies’ spending, gives Citizens United an unfortunate one-star rating<https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=7169>—meaning donors should be wary about contributing to it, because it doesn’t use money efficiently. Part of the reason for its low score is that the group spends tons of money on fundraising. Charity Navigator calculated that for every dollar it raises, the organization spends 38 cents to raise more money. That’s because it relies heavily on expensive fundraising methods, including mailers and telemarketer calls…..

Jennifer Bell, who runs the blog Drowning in Junk<https://drowndinginmail.wordpress.com/>, knows all about this. She helped care for an elderly relative—now deceased, who we will not name out of respect for the family’s privacy—who once wrote a $100 check to Citizens United. Bell said the relative suffered from dementia, and after writing that first check, received frequent mailings and phone calls asking her to give more. Sometimes she would get five pieces of mail per week from the group. The woman was eventually hospitalized, so Bell had her mail redirected to her own address to help her manage the onslaught.

That’s when she started to notice how disturbing some of the mailers were. One mail piece, which had Bossie’s name on it, said the relative had sent Citizens United a $50 check which was lost in the mail.
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“I am writing this letter to ask for your forgiveness and understanding with a recent mix-up with the Post Office,” Bossie wrote. “As a result, we were unable to receive your $50 donation.”

“Citizens United was the victim of a clerical mistake that temporarily decreased our ability to receive all of our mail,” the letter continues. “I would say I am shocked but what do you expect from a government run organization!”

Then comes the kicker:

“If you can see it in your heart to re-send your $50 in the included postage-provided envelope it would be a blessing to us,” the letter concludes.

Bell said her relative never sent that $50 check in the first place. Bell’s family had taken away the relative’s checkbook before she was hospitalized, so they knew she hadn’t sent a check. Moreover, how would Bossie know she had sent one if it never actually got to him?
 Bossie, of course, is now working for Donald Trump.
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“David Jolly blasts ‘false’ Democratic ad tying Republican congressman to Donald Trump”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87426>
Posted on October 13, 2016 7:45 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87426> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Tampa Bay Times:<http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/stateroundup/david-jolly-blasts-false-democratic-ad-tying-republican-congressman-to/2297770>

So when the incumbent Republican congressman saw an image Tuesday night that depicted him shaking hands with Trump flicker across a TV screen while attending an event at Bella Brava restaurant, he did a double-take.

“Not only have I never met Donald Trump,” Jolly said Wednesday. “I don’t own a red-and-white striped tie.”

The 30-second TV spot shows several images that depict Jolly standing next to Trump. But they’re all fabricated: Software was used to superimpose Jolly’s head over whoever was actually meeting Trump, making them seem buddy-buddy.

However, Jolly has long criticized Trump, the Republican nominee for president, and has said he won’t vote for him. But that didn’t stop the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee from creating the ad and adding more fire to the already contentious race in the 13th Congressional District.

That crosses a legal line, Jolly said. His attorneys wrote to local television stations, demanding they stop showing the ad because it portrays a false and misleading message.
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“Feds believe Russians hacked Florida election-systems vendor”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87424>
Posted on October 13, 2016 7:42 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87424> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

CNN:<http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/12/politics/florida-election-hack/index.html>

Federal investigators believe Russian hackers were behind cyberattacks on a contractor for Florida’s election system that may have exposed the personal data of Florida voters, according to US officials briefed on the probe.
The hack of the Florida contractor comes on the heels of hacks in Illinois, in which personal data of tens of thousands of voters may have been stolen, and one in Arizona, in which investigators now believe the data of voters was likely exposed.
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7th Circuit, in Frank v. Walker Voter ID Appeal, Wants to Know About Post-District Court Developments<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87422>
Posted on October 13, 2016 7:40 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87422> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

An unusual order issued yesterday: “Order issued DENYING motion to strike brief. Both of the parties’ remaining briefs should address which events following the close of the record in the district court is subject to judicial notice, and what role (if any) events not so subject may properly play in the decision of the appeal.”

Usually facts outside the district court record are forbidden.
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“Danger on November 9”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87420>
Posted on October 13, 2016 7:37 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87420> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Important Josh Marshall at TPM:<http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/danger-on-november-9th>

It now seems quite likely that Hillary Clinton will win the November election and become the next President of the United States. But Donald Trump has been for months pushing the idea that the election may be stolen from him by some mix of voter fraud (by racial and ethnic minorities) or more systemic election rigging by persons unknown. Polls show that large numbers of his supporters believe this.

Now, here at TPM we’ve been writing and reporting about the GOP’s ‘vote fraud’ scam going back almost 15 years. It’s a hugely important issue. But to date it has mainly been used to heat up Republican voters and drive state-based voter suppression measures. After a decade-plus pushing the idea, Republicans passed various voter suppression measures in numerous states after the 2010 midterm election. But to date, the ‘voter fraud’ scam has never been fully weaponized as a way to delegitimize and even resist a specific election, certainly not a national election. As Rick Hasenexplains here<http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/trump-rigged-election-republican-voter-fraud-hysteria>, Donald Trump is doing that now. And he is succeeding in as much as he’s convinced substantial numbers of his supporters that if he loses it will be because the election was stolen.

It is a very, very dangerous step when a presidential nominee openly threatens to jail his opponent if he wins. It’s no less dangerous when a candidate pushes the idea that an election will be stolen and lays the groundwork for resisting the result. That’s happening. It is difficult to overstate the societal benefit of being able to take it almost as an absolute given and assumption that no matter how intense and close-fought an election gets, virtually everyone will accept the result the day after. Undermining that assumption is of a piece with introducing into the political arena the idea that people who lose election might lose more than the election: loss of money, freedom, or worse etc.
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“Lawyers’ Committee Files Suit Seeking Emergency Extension of Voter Registration Deadline in Georgia”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87418>
Posted on October 13, 2016 7:33 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87418> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Release:

The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Lawyers’ Committee), together with the law firm of Bryan Cave LLP, filed suit<http://lccrul.pr-optout.com/Tracking.aspx?Data=HHL%3d80629%26JDG%3c%3b28493%3e%26SDG%3c90%3a.&RE=MC&RI=4572568&Preview=False&DistributionActionID=3363&Action=Follow+Link> in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, seeking emergency relief extending the time for voter registration in Chatham County, Georgia, in the wake of Hurricane Matthew.  The storm had resulted in the closing of County government offices for what would have been the last six days of the voter registration period.  Despite requests to extend the deadline, both Governor Nathan Deal and Secretary of State Brian Kemp, refused to do so.  Chatham County, which includes the city of Savannah, has over 200,000 citizens of voting age, of whom more than 40 percent are African American or Latino.  It was hit particularly hard by the devastating storm.  Almost half of its residents lost power, and it was one of six counties subject to a mandatory evacuation order.

Other states that were subject to the storm’s effects, have had their voter registration deadlines moved, either voluntarily (in the case of South Carolina), or by court order (in the case of Florida).  The complaint alleges that the failure to extend the voting deadline violates the fundamental constitutional right to vote and the provisions of the National Voter Registration Act, which require states to receive and process voter registration forms for a full 30 days prior to Election Day.

“We had hoped that Georgia would do the right thing by its citizens and not penalize aspiring voters impacted by Hurricane Matthew,” said Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee.  “There is no right more important than the right to vote, and this suit seeks to ensure that those who wish to exercise that right are not arbitrarily blocked by the vicissitudes of a hurricane and the hardened stance of elections officials.”

The complaint is available here<http://lccrul.pr-optout.com/Tracking.aspx?Data=HHL%3d80629%26JDG%3c%3b28493%3e%26SDG%3c90%3a.&RE=MC&RI=4572568&Preview=False&DistributionActionID=3362&Action=Follow+Link>.
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“Facebook’s voter registration push pays off big time”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87416>
Posted on October 13, 2016 7:31 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87416> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The CS Monitor reports.<http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2016/1012/Facebook-s-voter-registration-push-pays-off-big-time>
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Breaking: WI Voter ID Judge Won’t Scrap Law for Election, Will Order State to Give Better Information to Voters<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87413>
Posted on October 13, 2016 7:27 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87413> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

See the series of tweets from Patrick Marley.<https://twitter.com/patrickdmarley/status/786572629998043137>

The judge apparently invoked the Purcell Principle<https://twitter.com/patrickdmarley/status/786572217563787265> against making changes too close to the election, but said plaintiffs could go back to 7th Circuit for emergency relief.

Marley: “Judge says he will “patch up” system that handles getting voting credentials to people with the most difficulty getting IDs.”

More to come.
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