[EL] ELB News and Commentary 8/30/19

[Rick Hasen]

Donor Threatens to Sue Candidate for Not Spending Money During Election<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107138>
Posted on August 29, 2019 6:27 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107138> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Orlando Sentinel:<https://www.orlandosentinel.com/politics/os-ne-john-morgan-gillum-spat-20190828-hg4g4wrzofhfvdceligeq3o2ta-story.html>

John Morgan, a political rainmaker, on Wednesday threatened to sue Andrew Gillum, if the Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate runs for office again.

Morgan’s remarks to the Tiger Bay Club in Tallahassee were an escalation of a public tirade over Gillum’s decision to sit on more than $3 million ahead of the November election, which the Democrat narrowly lost to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.

In October 2018, Morgan contributed $250,000 to Gillum’s political committee, Forward Florida. When the powerful Orlando trial lawyer asked Gillum for his money back, Morgan said he was told “no.”

“If he does decide to run again, I do believe I have a cause of action,” Morgan told the crowd of political insiders on Wednesday. “I do believe I will sue him to get that $3.7 million back to the ones that gave at the end. I do believe that.”
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Posted in Uncategorized<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>


“Trump, Constitutional Crisis, and American Democracy”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107136>
Posted on August 29, 2019 6:07 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107136> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

You can watch the CSPAN video of this APSA panel here<https://www.c-span.org/video/?463752-1/president-trump-constitution>. The panelists were Josh Chafetz, Matt Glassman, Henry Olsen, Ilya Somin, Victoria Nourse, and me, with David Karol moderating.
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Posted in Uncategorized<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>


“Uproar Over Anti-Semitic Video Produced by Republicans in N.Y. County”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107134>
Posted on August 29, 2019 6:02 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107134> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT reports<https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/29/nyregion/rockland-county-gop-video.html?emc=rss&partner=rss>.

The video in question<https://twitter.com/ChaimDeutsch/status/1166896721445707777> raises issues of voter registrations and redistricting.
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Posted in Uncategorized<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>


“Ohio Agrees To Let Ballots Of Certain Purged Voters Count In Upcoming Elections”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107132>
Posted on August 29, 2019 11:35 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107132> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

TPM<https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ohio-voter-purge-settlement>:

One of the disputes fueling the war over Ohio’s purge process<https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ohio-voter-purge-use-it-or-lose-it> was resolved Thursday, with the announcement of a settlement in years-long litigation<https://talkingpointsmemo.com/prime-beta/ohio-voter-purge-notices-litigation> related to the purge regime.

Under the settlement, some voters who were removed from the rolls this year and in purges going back to 2011 will still be able to cast provisional ballots and have those ballots counted. The settlement covers votes cast through 2022.

Voting rights advocates cheered the settlement, even as they vowed to continue their outreach to 200,000-plus individuals who are on the list to be purged next month.
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Posted in election administration<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>


“Trump’s revival of claim of voting fraud in New Hampshire alarms some state Republicans”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107130>
Posted on August 29, 2019 11:14 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107130> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo<https://beta.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-revival-of-claim-of-voting-fraud-in-new-hampshire-alarms-some-state-republicans/2019/08/28/0c22107e-c38f-11e9-9986-1fb3e4397be4_story.html?wpmk=MK0000200>:

It was one of the first claims President-elect Donald Trump made about voter fraud in the wake of his 2016 victory: that his whisker-thin loss in New Hampshire was propelled by thousands of illegal ballots cast by out-of-state voters.
Trump’s revival of that false assertion as he ramps up his reelection campaign is now alarming some New Hampshire Republicans, who fear that the president’s allegations could undermine confidence in next year’s election.
“People hold riots after their favorite football team loses the Super Bowl,” said Fergus Cullen, a former New Hampshire GOP chairman and Trump critic. “There’s just no telling what people will do when they’re incited to it. We’ve never been in a situation like this, where there’s so much dry kindling across the landscape and we’ve got someone all too willing to light the match.”
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FEC Commissioner Petersen Intentionally Left Internet Disclosure Regulations Hanging, Knowing He Was Leaving<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107088>
Posted on August 29, 2019 10:26 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107088> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

[Bumped to the top with corrected link]

Mother Jones<https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/08/the-federal-election-commission-is-about-to-partially-shut-down/>:

At the most recent FEC meeting last week, commissioners punted—for the fourth meeting in a row—on the question of how to attach the same kind of disclosures that appear in television political ads to digital political ads. The commission’s lone remaining Democrat, Ellen Weintraub pressed the other three members to address the issue and complained that she hadn’t been able to get any response from Petersen’s staff.

“I can’t say that I have anything new,” Petersen told Weintraub. “I don’t have a lot to add other than that this particular time I have not been able to develop the formulation I think will bring us to consensus. I wish I had more to say but that is about the extent of it right now.”

Any further discussion on how to increase the transparency of internet ads—on which campaigns are expected to spend as much as $1.2 billion this cycle—was tabled. Thanks to Petersen’s resignation, the tabling will continue for the foreseeable future. Commission members are appointed by the president, and although Trump has made one nomination to the commission since his inauguration, the Senate has not scheduled any confirmation hearings.
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Posted in campaign finance<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, federal election commission<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=24>


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