[EL] ELB News and Commentary 8/13/19

Tue Aug 13 07:55:01 PDT 2019

“The Cybersecurity 202: Here’s the political bind Democrats face when talking about election security”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106875>
Posted on August 13, 2019 7:46 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106875> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo reports.<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-cybersecurity-202/2019/08/13/the-cybersecurity-202-here-s-the-political-bind-democrats-face-when-talking-about-election-security/5d51712d602ff1306728b142/>
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Posted in election administration<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, voting technology<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=40>

Tom Steyer Buys His Way into Dem Debates<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106873>
Posted on August 13, 2019 7:44 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106873> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Mark Murray<https://twitter.com/mmurraypolitics/status/1161253429609672704>:
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The lesson here: Being a billionaire with a big email list matters more than any previous debate performance -- or campaign work on the ground in the early states. https://twitter.com/IsaacDovere/status/1161247599065796610 …<https://t.co/R8Z14kvUZO>
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NEWS from me - through a big injection of money into buying & working data and placing ads, @TomSteyer has hit the 130,000 donor threshold and is now just one poll short of qualifying for the Dem debate in September and almost certainly headed to the stage https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/08/tom-steyer-democratic-debates-houston/595999/ …<https://twitter.com/IsaacDovere/status/1161247599065796610>

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Posted in campaign finance<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, campaigns<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>

“Stacey Abrams’s Fight for a Fair Vote”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106871>
Posted on August 12, 2019 6:37 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106871> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Jelani Cobb<https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/08/19/stacey-abrams-fight-for-a-fair-vote?utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Magazine_081219&utm_medium=email&bxid=5be9e1e324c17c6adf66f728&cndid=24624644&esrc=auto_auth_de&utm_term=TNY_Magazine> in the New Yorker.
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Posted in The Voting Wars<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>

Ninth Circuit Upholds Montana Campaign Finance Disclosure Law Against First Amendment Challenge; Strikes Provision Requiring that Organization Treasurer Be a Registered Montana Voter<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106869>
Posted on August 12, 2019 3:06 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106869> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Unanimous opinion in National Association for Gun Rights v. Mangan<http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2019/08/12/18-35010.pdf>.
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Posted in campaign finance<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>

Josh Marshall: “Third Party Spoilers Are the Whole Deal, People”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106867>
Posted on August 12, 2019 2:05 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=106867> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Josh Marshall<https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/third-party-spoiler-are-the-whole-deal-people>:

As we’ve seen both before his election and since, Trump is a minority candidate, essentially a factional leader, who has incredibly durable support of between 35% and 45% of the population. He really, really needs the presence of spoiler candidates to pull the contest down into the mid-40s where it was in 2016. I’d never say never. But I think there’s a good argument that a significant third party/spoiler candidacy — or ideally more than one — are the necessary predicate of Trump’s reelection.
People probably think mostly of a third party left candidate like Jill Stein. But just as plausible and just as dangerous is a “center” candidate like Starbucks baron Howard Schultz wanted to be. Stein-type candidates could flourish with a Biden ticket and a Bloomberg or Schultz type could with a Sanders or Warren one.
Ideally for Trump you’d have both — a billionaire centrist to peel off preenish Never Trumpers who don’t want higher taxes and a Jill Stein wrecker-type candidate to peel off purism voters on the left. Yes, the Electoral College is a big deal. But third party candidates are what make an Electoral College victory at roughly 45% of the vote plausible.
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