[EL] ELB News & Commentary 10/7/17

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    Putting ID in the hands of voters <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=95322>

Posted onOctober 7, 2017 2:17 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=95322>byJustin Levitt 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>

When I’ve spoken about voter ID rules in the past, I’ve consistently 
been asked why advocates haven’t put time and energy into helping people 
without the right ID get the right ID.  And while it’s next to 
impossible for direct services to fully correct for a systemic problem, 
my inevitable reply is that advocatesdo indeeddo this work.  There’s 
even a nonprofit that has as its sole mission making sure that voters 
understand what they need, and helping those without the right ID get 
the right ID.  It’s calledVoteRiders <https://www.voteriders.org/>.  And 
they’relooking for an Executive Director 
<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/VoteRiders-Executive-Director-job-description.pdf>…

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    “An Exodus From Puerto Rico Could Remake Florida Politics”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=95320>

Posted onOctober 7, 2017 2:16 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=95320>byJustin Levitt 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>

There have been afew pieces recently 
<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/us/politics/puerto-rico-florida-voters.html>on 
migration after Hurricane Maria. Some compare 
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2017/09/28/daily-202-trump-s-katrina-influx-of-puerto-ricans-after-hurricane-maria-could-tip-florida-toward-democrats/59cc037c30fb0468cea81c2f/?utm_term=.e5319f2f3e32>these 
political shifts to migration after Hurricane Katrina.

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Posted invoting <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=31>


    “Florida’s population grows but list of active voters shrinks.
    Here’s why.” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=95318>

Posted onOctober 7, 2017 2:15 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=95318>byJustin Levitt 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>

A tour throughregular list maintenance 
<http://www.bradenton.com/news/local/article177640366.html>in Florida.

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<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>,NVRA (motor voter) 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=33>,voter registration 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=37>


    The ‘Resistance,’ Raising Big Money, Upends Liberal Politics
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=95316>

Posted onOctober 7, 2017 2:15 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=95316>byJustin Levitt 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>

The NYT discusses thefundraising prowess 
<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/07/us/politics/democrats-resistance-fundraising.html?>of 
the insurgent left.

Interesting on the heels of theWaPo RNC feature 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=95285> on small donors.

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Posted incampaign finance <http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>


    National Popular Vote push <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=95312>

Posted onOctober 7, 2017 2:13 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=95312>byJustin Levitt 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>

A team at Covington has started anew organization 
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByywRBbsxDL8bHZZMjVycUtlSVU/view>–Making 
Every Vote Count <https://makingeveryvotecount.com/>— pressing for a 
national popular vote for President.  Sam Wang wason CNN 
<http://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2017/10/07/electoral-college-leads-to-land-of-the-ignored.cnn>this 
morning talking about some related new research, finding that one out of 
every three elections where the popular vote margin is within 3% will 
feature a popular vote – electoral college mismatch.  I’ll post the 
research itself as soon as I can find it.

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    And the chaser… <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=95314>

Posted onOctober 7, 2017 2:14 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=95314>byJustin Levitt

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Aaron Blakereminds Democrats 
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/10/07/dear-democrats-its-time-to-stop-dwelling-on-the-popular-vote/?utm_term=.a6c9e0d3112f>that 
if the 2016 election had been up to a national popular vote, campaign 
strategies would have been very different.

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    “The Democrats’ Gerrymandering Obsession”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=95310>

Posted onOctober 7, 2017 2:12 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=95310>byJustin Levitt 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>

It’s a day full of would-be reminders for Democrats, for some reason.  
Jeff Greenfieldpoints out 
<http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/10/06/supreme-court-gerrymandering-democrats-obsession-215686>that 
Democrats have lost races for reasons other than gerrymandering.  I’m 
not sure anyone disagrees.

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    More on Gill <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=95308>

Posted onOctober 7, 2017 2:12 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=95308>byJustin Levitt 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>

This 
<http://www.nationalreview.com/article/452413/gerrymandering-dont-blame-republicans>is 
yet another article attempting to explain/Gill/away by saying that the 
cause of the gerrymandering problem is natural concentration of 
Democrats in urban areas.

The challenge in/Gill/, of course, is limited to those plans in which it 
can be proven that one party deliberately set out to entrench its own 
power, and expressly excludes those in which an advantage is gained by 
happenstance.

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    Gill and amici <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=95306>

Posted onOctober 7, 2017 2:11 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=95306>byJustin Levitt 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>

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    Wisconsin partisan gerrymandering case had, by far, most amicus
    briefs of any SCOTUS case since
    2013.https://empiricalscotus.com/2017/10/01/fast-out-of-the-gates/ …
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    “Gerrymandering and ‘gobbledygook’”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=95304>

Posted onOctober 7, 2017 2:10 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=95304>byJustin Levitt 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>

I had the chance to speak yesterday with theDaily Journal’s Weekly 
Appellate Report podcast 
<https://soundcloud.com/losangelesdailyjournal/gerrymandering-and-gobbledygook-1>, 
about/Gill/and also a bunch of other stuff.  For your consideration…

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    “How Computers Turned Gerrymandering Into a Science”
    <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=95300>

Posted onOctober 6, 2017 8:28 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=95300>byJustin Levitt 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>

A post from Jordan Ellenberg,in the weekend NYT 
<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/opinion/sunday/computers-gerrymandering-wisconsin.html>.

FWIW, I’m hardly a Luddite, but I’m a little skeptical of the 
gerrymandering-and-technology story, at least in its strongest form.  It 
is unquestionably true that technology has democratized both 
gerrymandering and gerrymandering analysis, by allowingmore peopleentry 
into what had been an exclusive world even within an exclusive world.  
And it’s true that technology has helped both gerrymanderers and 
gerrymandering detectivestest their intuitions, pretty rigorously (which 
is really Jordan’s point), to ensure that they’re not unwittingly making 
mistakes.

But there have long been political savants who knew constituents’ voting 
and turnout habits street by street, including an assessment of the 
differential extent to which particular incumbents could withstand an 
otherwise generic partisan storm.  And those folks could construct 
astonishingly effective gerrymanders to protect personal and partisan 
power, without much supercomputing and without much screwing up.  I’m 
not sure how heavily California’s Burton-driven maps of the 80s depended 
on technology, and I’m not sure how much more effective at achieving 
their purpose they would have been with GIS.

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    The other costs of voter ID <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=95298>

Posted onOctober 6, 2017 8:16 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=95298>byJustin Levitt 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>

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    Jessica Huseman*✔*@JessicaHuseman <https://twitter.com/JessicaHuseman>

    1/9 Texas has spent more than *$4 million* to date defending
    its#voterID <https://twitter.com/hashtag/voterID?src=hash>law,
    according to#s <https://twitter.com/hashtag/s?src=hash>I received in
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    “William Jefferson ordered released from prison after judge drops 7
    of 10 counts” <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=95296>

Posted onOctober 6, 2017 7:54 pm 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=95296>byJustin Levitt 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>

Another shoe drops 
<http://www.nola.com/national_politics/2017/10/william_jefferson_ordered_rele.html>, 
on the centipede that is theMcDonnell decision 
<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83878>.  This time it’s former U.S. Rep. 
Bill Jefferson, from New Orleans.

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