[EL] ELB News and Commentary 3/10/17

Thu Mar 9 20:46:27 PST 2017

“Iowa House GOP passes voter ID bill, sends to Senate”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=91540>
Posted on March 9, 2017 10:58 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=91540> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
AP:<http://www.nonpareilonline.com/news/state/wire/iowa-house-gop-passes-voter-id-bill-sends-to-senate/article_196dceae-b947-5d08-be6c-bb91a836a562.html>
The Republican-controlled House has approved a contested voter identification bill along party lines after forcing debate to end.
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Posted in election administration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>, voter id<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>

Pam Fessler: “More States Propose Voter ID Laws”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=91538>
Posted on March 9, 2017 8:11 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=91538> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Listen at NPR.<http://www.npr.org/2017/03/09/519382840/more-states-propose-voter-id-laws?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social>
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Posted in election administration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>, voter id<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>

“‘Deep FEC’ Goes After White House Counsel Don McGahn”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=91536>
Posted on March 9, 2017 7:57 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=91536> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Interesting Brad Smith <http://www.nationalreview.com/article/445609/don-mcgahn-fec-allegations-ludicrous> at NRO:
If career staffers at the FEC are now attempting to sabotage the work of the commissioners — who are, by law, entrusted with running the agency — that’s frightening. The establishment of a Twitter group called altFEC that claims to be “the unofficial resistance team of the U.S. Federal Election Commission” suggests exactly that. Current and future commissioners may, quite naturally, see the staff as an opposition that cannot be trusted. It only takes a few such bad eggs on the staff to taint the entire civil service. Wherever these comments originate, the big clue that Cook and her anonymous sources are unserious is the nature of the attacks made on McGahn. He’s “a one-man wrecking crew,” “not going to be a truth-teller,” a “bomb-throwing enabler” — you get the picture. Yet conspicuously absent is any allegation that McGahn behaved unethically, failed to follow the law, or treated staff, investigative targets, or complainants unfairly. Rather, the sources offer the generic griping of people who did not agree with McGahn on policy and were frustrated by his success at the FEC.
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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, federal election commission<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=24>

“The FEC and the Draining of Swamps”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=91534>
Posted on March 9, 2017 7:49 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=91534> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Bauer blogs.<http://www.moresoftmoneyhardlaw.com/2017/03/fec-draining-swamps/>
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Posted in campaign finance<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, federal election commission<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=24>

“Civil rights leaders ask Sessions to scuttle Trump voter fraud probe”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=91532>
Posted on March 8, 2017 9:01 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=91532> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Josh Gerstein<http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2017/03/civil-rights-leaders-trump-voter-fraud-probe-235798> from Politico:
Civil rights leaders who met with Attorney General Jeff Sessions Tuesday asked him to urge President Donald Trump not to proceed with his plans for a blue-ribbon panel to investigate Trump’s own claims that millions of people voted illegally for his opponent in last year’s presidential race….
A White House spokeswoman had no update Tuesday on plans for the task force or its membership.
A spokeswoman for Sessions declined to comment on the meeting, but Ifill said the attorney general was noncommittal.
“Voter fraud has been studied time and again. I repeated to the attorney general what has been found in those studies: that you have a greater chance of being struck by lightning than participating in in-person voter fraud and that any effort by this administration to advance an investigation in search of this mythological voter fraud that targets our communities will be met with our resistance,” Ifill said.
Rev. Al Sharpton, head of the National Action Network, acknowledged the blunt tone of the meeting.
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