[EL] ELB News and Commentary 1/29/19

Mon Jan 28 20:37:02 PST 2019

More Documents Coming from Lawsuit Challenging Pence-Kobach Voter “Fraud” Commission<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=103358>
Posted on January 28, 2019 5:37 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=103358> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
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Breaking: Court orders President Trump’s disbanded “voter fraud” commission to turn over additional documents to Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap by February 27: https://www.americanoversight.org/document/order-dunlap-v-pacei-release-of-additional-documents …<https://t.co/9mGwjAaJEA>
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8th Circuit Agrees to Rehear En Banc Case Involving Missouri Lobbying Registration<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=103356>
Posted on January 28, 2019 5:36 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=103356> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Press release via email:

The Institute for Free Speech applauds the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals’ significant and unusual decision to rehear Calzone v. Missouri Ethics Commission.

The case concerns a Missouri law that forces unpaid citizen activists to comply with the same registration, reporting, and disclosure requirements as professional lobbyists. In November, a three-judge panel of the Eighth Circuit upheld that law (over a dissent by Judge David Stras) against a challenge by Ron Calzone, a Missouri citizen, who regularly testifies before the Missouri General Assembly. As Judge Stras argued in his powerful dissent, “The [Missouri] law seemingly sweeps up all unpaid political advocacy by anyone who acts on behalf of someone else, no matter how often it occurs and regardless of its purpose.”

On Monday, the Eighth Circuit vacated the panel ruling and granted en banc review.

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Today’s Must-Read from ProPublica: “A Onetime Rising Democratic Star Faces Questions About Voter Privacy”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=103354>
Posted on January 28, 2019 9:05 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=103354> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

ProPublica<https://www.propublica.org/article/alison-lundergan-grimes-kentucky-onetime-rising-democratic-star-voter-privacy>:

In an appearance on MSNBC in July 2017, Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes expressed her vehement opposition to giving voter data to President Donald Trump’s voter fraud commission, which had requested it from election officials in all 50 states. The privacy risks were simply too high, she said.
“There is not enough bourbon here in Kentucky to make this request seem sensible,” Grimes said<https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/880927445091831814>. “Not on my watch are we going to be releasing sensitive information that relates to the privacy of individuals.”
But beginning months before she made that statement, Grimes’ own staff had been looking up hundreds of voters in the very same registration system. One of her former staffers first revealed the practice last summer but provided little detail.
Now, an investigation by ProPublica and the Lexington Herald-Leader shows that the searches were extensive and targeted prominent state politicians, including gubernatorial candidate Rocky Adkins, who could have been Grimes’ opponent in the Democratic primary. Grimes, who had been considering a bid, announced this week that she has decided not to run for the governorship….

Grimes’ staff made questionable use of its unprecedented access to the voter registration system, or VRS. They looked up applicants for non-political positions with the seeming purpose of discovering their party affiliation. State law prohibits inquiring as to whether such applicants are Republicans or Democrats.
Her staff searched for hundreds of voters, mostly state employees outside the secretary of state’s office, for no discernible reason. Documents show they looked up current and former employees, a federal judge, the Kentucky education commissioner and every member of the Kentucky Board of Education.
They even searched for members of the ethics commission who are investigating Grimes herself.
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