[EL] ELB News and Commentary 5/18/18

[Rick Hasen]

“Court Rules Santa Clara Violated the California Voting Rights Act”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=99099>
Posted on May 17, 2018 8:19 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=99099> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NBC Bay Area:<https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Court-Rules-Santa-Clara-Violated-the-California-Voting-Rights-Act-482815201.html>

A Santa Clara County Superior Court judge announced Tuesday that he believes Santa Clara’s at-large voting system violates the California Voting Rights Act and has impaired the Asian-American population from getting elected.

Santa Clara registered voters Ladonna Yumori Kaku, Michael Kaku, Wesley Kazuo Mukoyama, Umar Kumal and Herminio Hernando filed a complaint against the city in October after attorney Robert Rubin notified the jurisdiction four times that his clients believed the system caused vote dilution.

The basis of Rubin’s argument was rooted in the fact that not a single Asian-American had been elected in Santa Clara since 1951. He said the city had denied the community of its constitutional rights.

The plaintiffs proved by a “preponderance of the evidence” that the at-large method had failed the demographic as a result of dilution, Judge Thomas Kuhnle wrote in his formal proposed decision….
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Posted in Voting Rights Act<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>


“Not Just Ballots: Tennessee Hack Shows Election Websites Are Vulnerable, Too”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=99097>
Posted on May 17, 2018 7:53 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=99097> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
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Miles Parks<https://www.npr.org/2018/05/17/611869599/not-just-ballots-tennessee-hack-shows-election-websites-are-vulnerable-too?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=politics&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20180517> for NPR:

When a WWE wrestler, especially one known for his demonic antics<https://www.wwe.com/superstars/kane> and a move called<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHTwXWdzqxg>the “tombstone piledriver,” runs for mayor of your county, you know your election is going to get more attention than usual.

But in Knox County, Tenn., it wasn’t the fact that Glenn Jacobs, also known to wrestling fans as Kane, was running for mayor that gained national attention on the county primary day, May 1.

It was that the county’s election website, at the time the site was supposed to begin posting election results, came under attack.

Malicious cyber actors shut down the county website and broke into the web server, according to county officials and a report done<https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4457442-Knox-County-election-night-security-report.html> by the cyber security firm Sword and Shield.

The episode didn’t have an effect on the outcome of the election, but it shut down the website for an hour and illustrated how malicious actors in the cyber-sphere can have an impact on democracy without actually affecting vote tallies.
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Posted in chicanery<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>, election administration<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>


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