[EL] ELB News and Commentary 11/21/19

Thu Nov 21 07:18:50 PST 2019

“Debating in Georgia, Democrats Make Their Case on Voting Rights”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108159>
Posted on November 21, 2019 7:14 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108159> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT<https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/21/us/politics/voting-rights-voter-suppression-purge.html> reports.

During the debate Sen. Cory Booker stated: “Right here in this great state of Georgia it was the voter suppression, particularly of African-American communities, that prevented us from having a Gov. Stacey Abrams right now. “

Politifact<https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2019/nov/21/no-proof-voter-suppression-kept-stacey-abrams-gove/>: “We previously found<https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2019/may/10/fact-checking-kamala-harris-claim-stacey-abrams-an/> it isn’t possible to prove if any election law or policy in Georgia cost Abrams her narrow loss to Republican Brian Kemp.”
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Posted in The Voting Wars<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>

“Nebraska is 1st to share drivers’ records with Census Bureau”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108157>
Posted on November 21, 2019 7:03 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108157> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

AP:<https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2019/11/20/nebraska-st-share-drivers-records-census-bureau/40656727/>

Nebraska is the first state to publicly acknowledge it will share drivers’ license records with the U.S. Census Bureau as the federal agency tries to comply with President Donald Trump’s order to count the number of U.S. citizens.
The Associated Press has learned that the Census Bureau and Rhonda Lahm, Nebraska’s motor vehicles director, signed an agreement to share the records earlier this month.
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Posted in census litigation<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=125>

“Ending Foreign-Influenced Corporate Spending in U.S. Elections”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108155>
Posted on November 21, 2019 6:51 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108155> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

New CAP report.<https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/democracy/reports/2019/11/21/477466/ending-foreign-influenced-corporate-spending-u-s-elections/>
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Posted in campaign finance<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>

“Google to Restrict Political Ad Targeting on Its Platforms”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108153>
Posted on November 20, 2019 5:55 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108153> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WSJ:<https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-to-restrict-political-ad-targeting-on-its-platforms-11574293253?&mod=djemalertNEWS>

Alphabet <https://quotes.wsj.com/GOOGL> Inc.’s Google said Wednesday it plans to stop allowing highly targeted political ads on its platform, further fragmenting the rules being set by Silicon Valley tech giants for guarding against misinformation.
Google will roll out the ban within a week in the U.K., in advance of a Dec. 12 general election. The ban will take effect in the European Union by the end of the year and in the rest of the world on Jan. 6, the company said in a blog post<https://blog.google/technology/ads/update-our-political-ads-policy?mod=article_inline>.
Under the new policy, political ads can only be targeted based on users’ age, gender, and location at the postal-code level. Political advertisers will also still be able to display ads based on the content of the page a user is viewing.
Advertisers would no longer be able to target political ads based on users’ interests inferred from browsing or search history.
So-called microtargeting, in which advertisers can limit their messaging to narrow slices of people based on their personal preferences or online behavior, has been criticized as enabling campaigns to single out groups susceptible to misinformation.
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Posted in Uncategorized<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>

“Bloomberg spending $15M-$20M to register half million voters”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108151>
Posted on November 20, 2019 5:53 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108151> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

AP reports.<https://apnews.com/16abd2f36e624f2e8065303d4b8d9c50>
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Posted in Uncategorized<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>

Three-Judge North Carolina State Court Delays Congressional Filing Period in State as It Considers Partisan Gerrymandering Challenge<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108149>
Posted on November 20, 2019 5:48 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108149> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Hearing is set for December 2 (which would have been the filing deadline), per the court’s order<https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6555665-191120-Order-19-CVS-12667.html> (h/t Melissa Boughton<https://twitter.com/mel_bough/status/1197280424956968960>).
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Posted in redistricting<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>

“Joe Biden’s super PAC stumble”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108147>
Posted on November 20, 2019 4:47 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108147> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Steve Weissman oped<https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/471092-joe-bidens-super-pac-stumble>:

By reversing his long-held opposition to accepting assistance from super PACs — independent political groups turbocharged by unlimited contributions from well-heeled donors — Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden<https://thehill.com/people/joe-biden> is wounding American democracy and jeopardizing his political standing. He ought to rethink it.
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Posted in Uncategorized<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>

California Supreme Court Issuing Opinion Thursday Morning Likely Blocking CA Law Requiring Presidential Candidates to Produce Their Tax Returns<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108145>
Posted on November 20, 2019 11:10 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108145> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Filing tomorrow (h/t At the Lectern<http://www.atthelectern.com/tax-return-disclosure-opinion-filing-tomorrow/>).
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Posted in campaigns<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>

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