[EL] ELB News and Commentary 8/8/19

[Rick Hasen]

“The Predominance Test: A Judicially Manageable Compactness Standard for Redistricting”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106821>
Posted on August 7, 2019 4:46 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106821> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Michael McDonald has written this article<https://www.yalelawjournal.org/forum/the-predominance-test> for the Yale Law Journal Forum. Here is the abstract:

Scholars have proposed more than one hundred measures of district compactness to analyze legislative maps, but each of these measures lacks a critical threshold at which a district becomes suspect. To address this deficiency, this Essay proposes an analytical framework, the “Predominance Test,” that compares district compactness in a given legislative map against a near-maximally compact redistricting plan. The test has three virtues: (1) it provides a judicially manageable standard to identify when a compactness violation occurs, in a legal framework familiar to courts; (2) it can be used with any compactness measure; and (3) it evaluates compactness with respect to what is possible in a district’s geographic region. This Essay describes an application of the Predominance Test in a challenge to Virginia’s state legislative districts, where a judge accepted the test and found the evidence it produced compelling. While the Predominance Test is not a cure for gerrymandering, it can help constrain the most egregious gerrymanders.
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Posted in redistricting<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>


Federal Court Rejects Some Challenges, Leaves Other Open, to Mississippi Felon Disenfranchisement Provisions<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106819>
Posted on August 7, 2019 3:19 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106819> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Order granting summary judgment in part to the state here<https://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/athena/files/2019/08/07/5d4b4995e4b09e729740a11c.pdf>. (Via Sam Levine<https://twitter.com/srl/status/1159222735622590464>.)
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Posted in felon voting<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=66>


“LWV of Texas Sues to Fix Improper Rejection of Mail-in Ballots”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106817>
Posted on August 7, 2019 3:14 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106817> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Release.<https://www.lwv.org/newsroom/press-releases/lwv-texas-sues-fix-improper-rejection-mail-ballots?utm_source=PressRelease&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=RichardsonvTX>
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Posted in Uncategorized<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>


North Carolina Governor and Attorney General File Amicus Briefs Supporting Plaintiffs in State Partisan Gerrymandering Case<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106815>
Posted on August 7, 2019 3:07 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106815> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The Democratic governor and AG <https://www.commoncause.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Governor-AG-motion-notice-and-brief-8-7-19.pdf> versus the Republican-dominated North Carolina General Assembly.
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Former North Carolina Governors File Amicus Brief Supporting Plaintiffs in State Partisan Gerrymandering Case<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106813>
Posted on August 7, 2019 10:45 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106813> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Read it here<https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6247224-Common-Cause-v-Lewis-Motion-and-Brief-of-Former.html> (via Melissa Boughton<https://twitter.com/mel_bough/status/1159156668808224768>).
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Posted in redistricting<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>


Top Recent Downloads in Election Law on SSRN<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106807>
Posted on August 7, 2019 8:16 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106807> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/topten/topTenResults.cfm?groupingId=991929&netorjrnl=jrnl>:

Top Downloads For:

LSN: Election Law & Voting Rights (Topic)

Recent Top Papers (60 days)

As of: 08 Jun 2019 – 07 Aug 2019
Rank
Paper
Downloads
1.
Deep Fakes, Bots, and Siloed Justices: American Election Law in a Post-Truth World<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3418427>
Richard L. Hasen<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=337>
University of California, Irvine School of LawDate Posted: 11 Jul 2019
Last Revised: 03 Aug 2019
119
2.
Election Integrity and Electronic Voting Machines in 2018 Georgia, USA<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3426250>
Kellie Ottoboni<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=3629660> and Philip Stark<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=3491238>
University of California, Berkeley – Department of Statistics and University of California, BerkeleyDate Posted: 26 Jul 2019
Last Revised: 05 Aug 2019
92
3.
Framing Trans Rights<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3389958>
Marie-Amelie George<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2462586>
Wake Forest University – School of LawDate Posted: 10 Jul 2019
Last Revised: 10 Jul 2019
60
4.
Hyperpartisan Gerrymandering<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3396178>
Michael S. Kang<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=535746>
Northwestern Pritzker School of LawDate Posted: 13 Jun 2019
Last Revised: 13 Jun 2019
56
5.
The Historical Development of the U.S. Presidential Nominations Process<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3393883>
Richard H. Pildes<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=121253>
New York University School of LawDate Posted: 11 Jun 2019
Last Revised: 11 Jun 2019
33
6.
The Oxford Handbook of Public Choice: A Masterful Compendium (Book Review)<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3412884>
Richard E. Wagner<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=238919>
George Mason University – Department of EconomicsDate Posted: 01 Jul 2019
Last Revised: 01 Jul 2019
31
7.
Criminal Convictions, Incarceration, and the Right to Vote in South Carolina<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3369106>
Elizabeth G. Patterson<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=625096>, Julia Bradshaw<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=3539151>, Chelsea Evans<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=3539154>, Ryan Nash<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=3225389>, William Neinast<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=3539314>, Louei Nmair<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=3539167>, Evan Phillips<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=3539169> and Kaitlin Diaz<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=3539172>
University of South Carolina School of Law, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRNDate Posted: 06 Jul 2019
Last Revised: 06 Jul 2019
20
8.
Defining Nonviolence as a Matter of Law and Politics<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3417398>T<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1418850>
abatha Abu El-Haj<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1418850>
Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of LawDate Posted: 18 Jul 2019
Last Revised: 20 Jul 2019
19
9.
Statement of Commissioners Gail Heriot and Peter N. Kirsanow in the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: Report on Collateral Consequences of Felony Convictions.<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3405441>
Gail L. Heriot<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=20485> and Peter Kirsanow<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2637625>
University of San Diego School of Law and IndependentDate Posted: 18 Jun 2019
Last Revised: 18 Jun 2019
18
10.
Subverting Democracy to Save Democracy: Canada’s Extra-Constitutional Approaches to Battling ‘Fake News’<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3423092>
Michael Karanicolas<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=3448585>
Yale University – Yale Information Society ProjectDate Posted: 22 Jul 2019
Last Revised: 22 Jul 2019


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