[EL] ELB News and Commentary 2/1/19

Fri Feb 1 08:06:38 PST 2019

Trump’s Presidential Fundraising May Be Unprecedented So Early Before Election, But So Is His Massive Campaign Spending<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=103425>
Posted on February 1, 2019 8:04 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=103425> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

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Wow. Does Trump’s campaign have an 85% burn rate?! How is that possible?

"The latest fundraising disclosures bring the total haul for Trump's reelection effort to more than $129 million...The campaign had more than $19.2 million in cash on hand”
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Trump enters the 2020 election cycle with a massive fundraising lead over Democrats<https://t.co/JmJqyf8OvI>

The latest figures bring his total fundraising haul to more than $129 million, a record amount for a sitting president at this point in the election cycle.<https://t.co/JmJqyf8OvI>
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Posted in campaign finance<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, campaigns<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>

“Adelsons pumped $500K into Trump aides’ legal defense fund”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=103423>
Posted on February 1, 2019 7:58 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=103423> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Politico:<https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/31/sheldon-adelson-trump-aides-legal-defense-1140928>

Billionaire Republican donors Sheldon and Miriam Adelson gave $500,000 to a legal defense fund set up to help aides to President Donald Trump that are involved in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.

The Adelsons each contributed $250,000 on Oct. 1 to the Patriot Legal Expense Fund Trust, which was set up last year to help campaign aides pay for legal bills related to the investigation. The donation came during the height of the midterm elections, when the Adelsons were also the largest contributors to the Republican Party’s political campaigns and committees, shelling out more than $100 million in support of GOP candidates.
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Posted in campaign finance<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, Plutocrats United<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=104>

“America Isn’t Really Set Up For Third-Party Presidential Bids”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=103421>
Posted on February 1, 2019 7:54 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=103421> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

538 reports<https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/america-isnt-really-set-up-for-third-party-presidential-bids/>.
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Posted in third parties<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=47>

“Former Texas Secretary of State Believes Inaccurate Voting List Should Be Rescinded”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=103419>
Posted on February 1, 2019 7:52 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=103419> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Texas Monthly<https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/former-texas-secretary-of-state-believes-inaccurate-voting-list-should-be-rescinded/>:

On a day that Governor Greg Abbott downplayed apparent inaccuracies in a voting list that his secretary of state compiled of potential non-citizens<https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/texas-voter-registration-advisory/>, a former secretary of state said the list should be rescinded.

“I think they need to rescind it, do due diligence and make a more accurate list,” Carlos Cascos, who served as Abbott’s secretary of state from January 2015 to January 2017, said of his former office. “They contact everyone and admit to it and say, ‘We made an honest mistake,’ and recompile the list.” Cascos’ belief that the advisory should be rescinded aligns with the demands<https://texascivilrightsproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Letter-to-SOS-re-Advisory.pdf>made by a number of civil rights groups who point out the data is inherently flawed.
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Posted in fraudulent fraud squad<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=8>

Texas: “State: All 366 on local list of potential noncitizen voters are citizens”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=103417>
Posted on February 1, 2019 7:32 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=103417> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Waco Tribune<https://www.wacotrib.com/news/elections/state-all-on-local-list-of-potential-noncitizen-voters-are/article_20771942-538d-506d-bcad-7e7ca79e261d.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=user-share>:

By the time local elections officials downloaded a list of 366 registered voters the Texas Secretary of State’s Office initially said may not be citizens, the office had called to tell them to disregard the list, Elections Administrator Kathy Van Wolfe said.

The state told her office by phone Monday that the citizenship of everyone on the list is not in question, Van Wolfe said. The office was informed Friday it would get the list and need to contact each voter for proof of citizenship, she said. The list came Monday, and the secretary of state had backed off on its initial request by the time anyone downloaded the list, she said.
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“Latino Turnout Surged. Then Texas Questioned 98,000 Voters’ Citizenship.”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=103415>
Posted on February 1, 2019 7:27 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=103415> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

HuffPost reports<https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/latino-turnout-surged-then-texas-challenged-98000-voters-citizenship_us_5c50cbc4e4b00906b26e490d>.
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Posted in Voting Rights Act<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>

“Donald Trump’s Campaign Cash Machine: Big, Brawny and Burning Money”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=103413>
Posted on February 1, 2019 7:25 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=103413> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

CPI reports<https://publicintegrity.org/federal-politics/donald-trump-money-campaign-2020/>.
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Posted in campaign finance<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, campaigns<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>

“Mitch McConnell Calls Push to Make Election Day a Holiday a Democratic ‘Power Grab’”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=103411>
Posted on January 31, 2019 5:32 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=103411> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT reports<https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/31/us/politics/election-day-holiday-mcconnell.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage>.
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Posted in The Voting Wars<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>

“A Power Grab in Kentucky Sparks a Revolt: Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes expanded her sway over Kentucky’s election process with audacity, a willingness to fight — and a board that didn’t appear to be paying close attention. But the conflict isn’t over.”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=103409>
Posted on January 31, 2019 3:28 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=103409> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Part 2 of 3<https://www.propublica.org/article/kentucky-state-board-of-elections-power-grab> of the ProPublica/Lexington Herald-Leader look at Ky SOS Grimes.
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Posted in election administration<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>

“What’s Mitch McConnell so afraid of?”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=103407>
Posted on January 31, 2019 3:25 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=103407> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Josh Douglas<https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/31/opinions/mitch-mcconnell-wrong-about-democrat-voting-bill-douglas/index.html> for CNN Opinion:

As a professor of election law and voting rights at the University of Kentucky College of Law — your state’s flagship institution and your alma mater — I invite you to come sit in on my election law class. Given your recent commentary on the subject, it might teach you a lot.
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Posted in The Voting Wars<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>, Uncategorized<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>

“Election officials said DMV wasn’t ready to launch Motor Voter. California went ahead anyway”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=103400>
Posted on January 31, 2019 11:35 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=103400> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

SacBee<https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article224696945.html>:

As California prepared to launch its new Motor Voter program last year, top elections officials say they asked Secretary of State Alex Padilla to hold off on the roll-out.

The plan called for the Department of Motor Vehicles to automatically register people who came into its offices, one of several efforts by Democrats controlling California politics to make it easier for more people to vote.

With the June 2018 primary approaching, election officials said they warned that the department that manages car registration and boat licenses was not yet prepared to register voters.

“There wasn’t the appropriate readiness to go forward in April, and that was brought to the Secretary of State,” said Dean Logan, registrar for Los Angeles County, adding that he “definitely expressed concern” to the Secretary of State’s Office, as well as Padilla himself.

“The concern from registrars across the state, including myself, was not a resistance to moving forward. We supported the move to the New Motor Voter program in the long term. The concern was had there been adequate testing and development to be ready for the June election.”

California moved forward anyway.
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