[EL] Undermining Faith in Democracy
JBoppjr at aol.com
JBoppjr at aol.com
Sun Oct 16 04:41:43 PDT 2016
And of course the false charges by the "reformers" that "money buys
elections," "corporations are buying elections since Citizens United," and "we
have a plutocracy" also undermine faith in elections and voting. But this has
become a partisan game where only one side get criticized for their
rhetoric. Jim Bopp
In a message dated 10/16/2016 1:20:00 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
mark.scarberry at pepperdine.edu writes:
Both of our major party presidential candidates would be rejected in an
instant by Diogenes. He wouldn't bother getting out his lantern.
Claims of massive voter suppression [see the Patriot Majority ad campaign
noted below] undermine faith in democracy just as do claims of massive voter
fraud and rigging of elections. All such claims need to be made with
extreme care.
When an incompetent federal government lets hackers take the personal
information of millions of people from OPM many people wonder whether our
systems (governmental or other) can be trusted. Of course that's only one
example of many that could be given.
And we all know that faith in democracy requires more than faith in the
voting process.
Mark
Mark S. Scarberry
Professor of Law
Pepperdine University
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From: Rick Hasen <_rhasen at law.uci.edu_ (mailto:rhasen at law.uci.edu) >
Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2016 8:59 PM
Subject: [EL] ELB News and Commentary 10/16/16
To: Election Law Listserv <_law-election at uci.edu_
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[snip]
_“Group accuses Mike Pence of voter suppression after state police raid
registration program in Indiana”_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87536)
Posted on _October 15, 2016 1:01 pm_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87536)
by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
_WaPo:_
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/10/15/group-accuses-mike-pence-of-voter-suppression-after-state-police-raid-registrat
ion-program-in-indiana/)
A progressive advocacy group is launching an advertising campaign accusing
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, who also is the Republican vice-presidential
nominee, of allowing voter suppression after state police raided the offices of
a voter registration program aimed at signing up African Americans.
Patriot Majority USA will place the ads on black-oriented radio stations
and in print and online with black newspapers throughout the state starting
Saturday, said the group’s director, Craig Varoga. Patriot Majority is
affiliated with the Senate Majority PAC, a super PAC that supports Democratic
candidates.
(https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87536&title=“Group%20accuses%20Mike%20Pence%20of%20voter%20suppression%20after%20st
ate%20police%20raid%20registration%20program%20in%20Indiana”&description=)
Posted in _campaigns_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59) , _chicanery_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12)
[snip]
_“Donald Trump Is Setting a Time Bomb; His calls for racial voter
intimidation on Election Day could explode in all our faces.”_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87530)
Posted on _October 15, 2016 12:41 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87530) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
_I had missed this excellent Jamelle Bouie_
(http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/10/donald_trump_is_setting_a_time_bomb_for_r
acial_violence_on_election_day.html) piece from Oct. 6.
(https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87530&title=“
Donald%20Trump%20Is%20Setting%20a%20Time%20Bomb;%20His%20calls%20for%20racial%20voter%20intimidation%20on%20Election%20Day%20could%20explode%20in%20
all%20our%20faces.”&descriptio)
Posted in _campaigns_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59) , _chicanery_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12)
_“Americans are losing faith in democracy — and in each other”_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87528)
Posted on _October 15, 2016 12:37 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87528) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
Must-read _Nate Persily and Jon Cohen_
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/americans-are-losing-faith-in-democracy--and-in-each-other/2016/10/14/b
35234ea-90c6-11e6-9c52-0b10449e33c4_story.html?utm_term=.d13a1a0a5e59) in
WaPo:
If there had been any doubt, it has now become clear that this election
campaign is about more than the selection of a president: The values that
support American democracy are deteriorating. Large numbers of Americans
across party lines have lost faith in their democracy, and many will not accept
the legitimacy of this election.
Those were the stark findings from a survey we performed from Oct. 6
through Oct. 8 of more than 3,000 registered voters, fully 40 percent of whom
say: “I have lost faith in American democracy.” Six percent indicate they’ve
never had faith in the system. Overall, barely more than half — just 52
percent — say, “I have faith in American democracy.” (Most respondents
completed the survey before the Oct. 7 release of the video in which Donald
Trump bragged about groping women, but the responses of those surveyed
afterward were indistinguishable from those who answered the day before.)
This cynicism is widely shared across the electorate, but significant
partisan differences emerge on this question, as on so many others. More than 6
in 10 voters backing Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton express faith in
U.S. democracy, compared with just over 4 in 10 of those backing her
Republican rival. Most of Trump’s supporters say they’ve lost confidence in the
basic mechanism of governance in the United States.
(https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87528&title=“Americans%20are%20losing%20faith%20in%20democracy%20—
%20and%20in%20each%20other”&description=)
Posted in _campaigns_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59) , _chicanery_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12)
_“Let’s Dispense With this Notion That The Election is Rigged, Shall We?”
_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87526)
Posted on _October 15, 2016 12:33 pm_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87526) by _Rick Hasen_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3)
_Worthy tweetstorm_
(https://twitter.com/ashbylaw/status/787352959633981440) from Republican lawyer Chris Ashby.
(https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87526&title=“Let’
s%20Dispense%20With%20this%20Notion%20That%20The%20Election%20is%20Rigged,%20Shall%20We?”&description=)
Posted in _campaigns_ (http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59) , _chicanery_
(http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12)
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