[EL] ELB News and Commentary 6/12/19

Tue Jun 11 20:57:15 PDT 2019

Question of the Day<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=105577>
Posted on June 11, 2019 8:52 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=105577> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

From Dale Ho<https://twitter.com/dale_e_ho/status/1138639775005585408>, who argued the census case for plaintiffs in the Supreme Court:
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Anyone else think it’s weird that Justices Thomas & Gorsuch think that the VRA doesn’t prohibit vote dilution (see Abbott v Perez), but may vote to uphold the citizenship question on the census on the grounds that it would help DOJ enforce the VRA’s prohibition on vote dilution?
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Posted in census litigation<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=125>, Supreme Court<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>

“This Deepfake of Mark Zuckerberg Tests Facebook’s Fake Video Policies”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=105575>
Posted on June 11, 2019 5:01 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=105575> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

VICE:<https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ywyxex/deepfake-of-mark-zuckerberg-facebook-fake-video-policy>

Two artists and an advertising company created a deepfake<https://www.instagram.com/p/ByaVigGFP2U/?utm_source=ig_embed> of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg saying things he never said, and uploaded it to Instagram.

The video, created by artists Bill Posters and Daniel Howe in partnership with advertising company Canny, shows Mark Zuckerberg sitting at a desk, seemingly giving a sinister speech about Facebook’s power. The video is framed with broadcast chyrons that say “We’re increasing transparency on ads,” to make it look like it’s part of a news segment.

“Imagine this for a second: One man, with total control of billions of people’s stolen data, all their secrets, their lives, their futures,” Zuckerberg’s likeness says, in the video. “I owe it all to Spectre. Spectre showed me that whoever controls the data, controls the future.”
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Posted in social media and social protests<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=58>

“The End of the Polling Booth; States are making voting more accessible by allowing citizens to vote at home.”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=105573>
Posted on June 11, 2019 12:33 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=105573> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Tina Rosenberg NYT column.<https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/opinion/the-end-of-the-polling-booth.html>
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Posted in absentee ballots<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=53>

“John Lewis’s tears over ancestor’s voter card stir emotions in Democratic caucus”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=105571>
Posted on June 11, 2019 11:25 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=105571> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo:<https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/john-lewiss-tears-over-ancestors-voter-card-stirs-emotions-in-democratic-caucus/2019/06/11/8f568332-8c60-11e9-adf3-f70f78c156e8_story.html?utm_term=.d6026a6d43bc&wpmk=MK0000200>

Rep. John Lewis and several of his Democratic colleagues broke down in tears during a closed-door meeting Tuesday after a historian described the congressman’s reaction when he saw his great-great-grandfather’s voter registration card for the first time.

The House Democratic caucus invited Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Henry Louis Gates Jr., who heads the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University, to preview a new film on reconstruction. Gates spoke about Lewis’s appearance on his PBS show, “Finding Your Roots,” researching the Georgia lawmaker’s family tree and presenting him with his ancestor’s voter card from 1867.

During reconstruction, African Americans were briefly allowed the benefits of full citizenship, including voting and holding seats in Congress.
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Posted in Voting Rights Act<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>

“Texas Tried to Mess with Voting. It Failed.”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=105569>
Posted on June 11, 2019 10:59 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=105569> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

TAP reports.<https://prospect.org/article/texas-tried-mess-voting-it-failed>
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Posted in election administration<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, fraudulent fraud squad<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=8>, The Voting Wars<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>

“Judge Hints Trump Admin Misled Court About Voter Fraud Panel Appointment Dates”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=105567>
Posted on June 11, 2019 10:46 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=105567> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

TPM<https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/muckraker/trump-voter-fraud-commission-appointments-date-order>:

President Trump’s voter fraud commission has been dead<https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/trump-dissolves-voter-fraud-commission> for nearly a year and a half.

But the litigation spurred by its lack of transparency continues, with a judge on Tuesday suggesting that the administration misled the court about the appointment of certain commissioners. The discrepancy appears to be the date the administration gave for the appointment of Hans von Spakovsky, one of the commission’s most controversial members.

U.S. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly brought up the discrepancy in the lawsuit brought by a Democratic commissioner who accused the panel of excluding him from some of its work. She said in an order that internal communications about the commission she had recently viewed “raised a question about the timeline of appointments to the Commission.”
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Posted in chicanery<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>, fraudulent fraud squad<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=8>

“NJ’s secret big-money donors will now be named after Phil Murphy backs down”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=105564>
Posted on June 11, 2019 10:28 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=105564> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Gannett:<https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/11/nj-dark-money-groups-must-soon-name-secret-donors/1285449001/>

Big-spending “dark money” political groups in New Jersey will have to reveal who is funding them after all, lawmakers agreed Monday.
Gov. Phil Murphy, despite vetoing the exact same legislation last month, has now committed to signing it, but his office did not say why. Murphy’s reversal came after it appeared the Democratic-controlled Legislature had the votes to override his veto, which would have been the first override in more than 20 years.

In Murphy’s May 13 conditional veto<https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2018/Bills/S1500/1500_V1.PDF>, he said aspects of the bill “may infringe” on “constitutionally protected speech” and that it also did not “go far enough in mandating disclosures of political activity that can be constitutionally required.”

“Dark money” refers to untraceable, unreported dollars spent to influence politics and voter decisions. So when New Jersey residents see a television ad featuring an ominous voice criticizing a legislator and urging New Jerseyans to “call Senator X and say you disapprove,” a viewer has no way of knowing what special interest is behind those words.
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Posted in campaign finance<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>

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