[EL] ELB News and Commentary 4/19/17

Wed Apr 19 08:07:16 PDT 2017

“Sheldon Adelson Gave $5 Million for Trump’s Inauguration”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=92150>
Posted on April 19, 2017 8:02 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=92150> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT:<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/us/politics/trump-inauguration-sheldon-adelson-fundraising.html?action=Click&contentCollection=BreakingNews&contentID=65180733&pgtype=Homepage&_r=0>
Sheldon G. Adelson<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/a/sheldon_g_adelson/index.html?inline=nyt-per>, the casino magnate and stalwart Republican donor, gave $5 million to support the festivities surrounding President Trump’s inauguration.
The gift was the largest single contribution ever given to an inauguration, but far from the only seven-figure check deposited by the committee responsible for carrying out much of the pomp leading up to Mr. Trump’s swearing in.
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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, Plutocrats United<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=104>

“CFI On the State of the Political Parties: Is It Working Out After All?”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=92148>
Posted on April 19, 2017 7:56 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=92148> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Fascinating Bauer.<http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/2017/04/cfi-state-political-parties-working/>
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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, political parties<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>

“Democracy NC Calls for Criminal Investigation of McCrory Conspiracy Against NC Voters”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=92146>
Posted on April 18, 2017 1:26 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=92146> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Democracy North Carolina:
Voting rights group Democracy North Carolina released a report providing a first, county-by-county look at the human cost of hundreds of false voter fraud allegations leveled by the 2016 reelection campaign of former North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory. The report entitled The Deceit of Voter Fraud<http://nc-democracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/FraudReport.pdf> is a product of a five-month investigation into false allegations of voter misconduct and uncovers a pattern of unsubstantiated charges of election fraud and irregularities, without regard for the harassment and harmful impact on innocent voters. Democracy North Carolina is calling for a criminal investigation by state and federal agencies into these findings of wrongdoing
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Posted in election administration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>

“One Person, No Votes: Unopposed Candidate Statutes and the State of Election Law”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=92144>
Posted on April 18, 2017 7:33 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=92144> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Noah Lindell has posted this draft<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2954347> on SSRN (forthcoming, Wisconsin Law Review).  Here is the abstract:
In thirty-six states and the District of Columbia, state laws allow candidates running unopposed for certain offices to be “declared elected” without appearing on the ballot. These “unopposed candidate statutes” come in many varieties, but all deny people the ability to vote for the affected offices. This Article surveys the nation’s unopposed candidate statutes for the first time, exploring their idiosyncrasies and their interactions with other election laws. It then analyzes the statutes under four constitutional doctrines––the Burdick right-to-vote doctrine; the congressional voting clauses; one person, one vote; and the Guarantee Clause––showing how the statutes illuminate, and could change, the scope of each. Finally, the Article uses unopposed candidate statutes as a lens through which to examine two major debates in election law: whether courts should focus on encouraging competitiveness, and whether the purpose of voting is tabulative or expressive. Across both doctrine and theory, these unusual laws force us to reconsider our approach to the act of voting, stripped of its ability to affect the outcome of an election.
This is a great piece. Highly recommended!
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Posted in theory<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=41>, voting<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=31>

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