[EL] ELB News and Commentary 10/15/19

[Rick Hasen]

"The Cybersecurity 202: Lawmakers head to ground zero for election security"<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107695>
Posted on October 15, 2019 7:29 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107695> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo reports.<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-cybersecurity-202/2019/10/15/the-cybersecurity-202-lawmakers-head-to-ground-zero-for-election-security/5da50fe688e0fa3155a71140/>
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Posted in election administration<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, voting technology<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=40>


"Why 'faithless electors' have little power to change the winner of presidential elections"<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107693>
Posted on October 14, 2019 4:59 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107693> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Derek Muller blogs.<https://excessofdemocracy.com/blog/2019/10/why-faithless-electors-have-little-power-to-change-the-winner-of-presidential-elections>
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Posted in electoral college<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=44>


"Ohio Was Set to Purge 235,000 Voters. It Was Wrong About 20%."<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107691>
Posted on October 14, 2019 4:18 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107691> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT:<https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/us/politics/ohio-voter-purge.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage>

Ohio, where the Democratic presidential candidates are set to debate Tuesday<https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/11/us/politics/october-democratic-debate.html?module=inline>, is both a battleground state and the site of some of the country's strictest voting laws, from voter ID requirements to a "use-it-or-lose-it" provision that lets officials drop voters seen as inactive.

The combination has led voting rights advocates to contend that parts of the state are regularly disenfranchised, largely in purges aimed at those who have died or moved away, but which also hit real voters who don't learn they can't vote until Election Day. Election officials in other battlegrounds such as Florida, North Carolina, Georgia and Texas regularly purge their voter lists as well.

This year, a group of elected officials in the state, mostly all moderate Republicans, tried to answer the concerns with an experiment of their own: Rather than purge the voter rolls behind closed doors as had been done in the past, the government released the full list of those to be removed this summer, and gave the list to advocacy groups. The groups said they found the list was riddled with errors.

The result: Around 40,000 people, nearly one in five names on the list, shouldn't have been on it, the state determined. And it only found out before anyone was actually turned away at a polling place largely because of volunteer sleuthing.

Few people had expected a problem at that scale.

But the process gave hope to people working on voting rights, who for years had pushed the state to be more transparent in how it was maintaining its voter rolls. Moderate Republicans, caught between advocacy groups pushing for fewer purges and more conservative leaders in other states urging for more, think they may have found a way to thread the needle.
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Posted in election administration<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>


State Court Temporarily Enjoins Kentucky Creation of Inactive Voter List for Use in the Upcoming Election<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107689>
Posted on October 14, 2019 2:08 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107689> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Court order<https://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/athena/files/2019/10/14/5da4d5f8e4b080c90e3d3c3e.pdf> (via Sam Levine<https://twitter.com/srl/status/1183837800321433602>).
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Live Webcast of Harvard Law School Electoral College Symposium Coming Saturday<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107687>
Posted on October 14, 2019 10:59 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=107687> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

You will be able to find the webcast at this link <http://hlselectoral.wpengine.com/> on Saturday.

Here is the agenda:<http://hlselectoral.wpengine.com/agenda/>

Friday, October 18th (5:15 PM - 6:45 PM)
5:15 PM     Welcome Reception

Saturday, October 19th (9:00 AM - 5:30 PM)
A light, continental breakfast will be available starting at 8:45 AM.

9:00 AM    Introductory Remarks
Danielle Root (Associate Director, Voting Rights for Democracy and  Government at the Center for American Progress)

9:15 AM     Panel I: The Electoral College and Majority Rule: Past, Present, and Future
Edward Foley (Professor, Ohio State University Moritz College of Law)
Jack Rakove (Professor Emeritus, Stanford University)
Franita Tolson (Professor, USC Gould School of Law)
Sam Wang (Professor, Princeton University)
Sean Wilentz (Professor, Princeton University)
10:45 AM     Break

11:00 AM     Panel II: Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? A Discussion
Alexander Keyssar (Professor, Harvard University)
David Boies (Chairman, Boies Schiller Flexner LLP)Barry Burden (Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Daniel Carpenter (Professor, Harvard University)
Charles Stewart (Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
12:30 PM     Keynote Luncheon with Professor Lawrence Lessig & Political Consultant Stuart Stevens

2:00 PM     Panel III: The National Popular Vote Compact and the Electoral College: End Run or Dead End?
Richard Hasen (Professor, University of California-Irvine School of Law)
Amel Ahmed (Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
Reed Hundt (Former Chairman, Federal Communications Commission)
Derek T. Muller (Associate Professor, Pepperdine School of Law)
Rob Richie (President & CEO, FairVote)
3:30 PM     Break

3:45 PM     Panel IV: Courting & Selecting the Electoral College
Samuel Issacharoff (Professor, New York University School of Law)
Victoria Bassetti (Fellow, Brennan Center for Justice)
Guy-Uriel Charles (Professor, Duke University School of Law)
Rebecca Green (Professor of Practice, William & Mary Law School)
Danielle Lang (Voting Rights & Redistricting Co-Director, Campaign Legal Center)

5:15 PM     Concluding Remarks
Jesse Wegman (Editorial Board Member, New York Times)
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