[EL] ELB News and Commentary 4/13/20

Sun Apr 12 20:54:56 PDT 2020

“Virginia governor makes Election Day a holiday and expands early voting”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=110690>
Posted on April 12, 2020 8:52 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=110690> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

CNN<https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/12/politics/virginia-election-day-holiday-early-voting/index.html>:

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced Sunday that he signed a series of new measures into law aimed at expanding access to voting in the commonwealth.The new legislation will establish Election Day as a holiday, remove the requirement that voters show a photo ID prior to casting a ballot and, expand early voting to be allowed 45 days before an election without a stated reason.
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“As Pandemic Imperils Elections, Democrats Clash With Trump on Voting Changes”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=110688>
Posted on April 12, 2020 8:44 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=110688> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Carl Hulse<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/us/politics/coronavirus-2020-presidential-election.html> for the NYT.
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“Trump Wants 50 Wisconsins on Election Day”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=110686>
Posted on April 12, 2020 8:36 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=110686> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Jamelle Bouie<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/opinion/sunday/wisconsin-primary-2020-election.html> for NYT Opinion.
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Justice Ain’t Blind, Via Charles Stewart<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=110684>
Posted on April 12, 2020 8:15 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=110684> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

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“Hackers hijack Zoom meeting on Milwaukee absentee ballots”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=110682>
Posted on April 12, 2020 8:07 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=110682> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WBAY<https://www.wbay.com/content/news/Hackers-hijack-Zoom-meeting-on-Milwaukee-absentee-ballots-569581301.html>:

Hackers hijacked a Zoom conference call Sunday afternoon held by the Milwaukee Board of Election Commissioners.

The call was scheduled to provide an update on guidelines related to last week’s primary election.

The commission planned to discuss late-arriving absentee ballots.

The hackers took control of the meeting and posted pornography and vulgar slurs.
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“Worrying about Wisconsin, While Waiting for Its Election Returns”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=110680>
Posted on April 12, 2020 4:45 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=110680> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Ned Foley<https://medium.com/@Nedfoley/worrying-about-wisconsin-while-waiting-for-its-election-returns-9dc94334c8a6>:

Now, as we await results from Wisconsin’s April 7 election (to be released<https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/2020/04/09/wisconsin-election-results-who-won-april-7-supreme-court-milwaukee-mayor-races-released-april-13/5127647002/> starting at 4pm on Monday), we must wonder whether this election is one that fails our national commitment to genuine democracy and, if so, what to do about it.

In my judgment, without yet seeing those results, it is too soon to say that any of the reported vote tallies will require judicial modification or even judicial nullification.

To be sure, just from watching what took place on Tuesday — with Milwaukee voters braving coronavirus infection, perhaps even death, in hours-long lines<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/us/politics/wisconsin-election-coronavirus.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article> at a paucity of polling places because of the pandemic — we know that what happened was an abomination, a civic tragedy, that never should have occurred. But to my mind that does not mean a court should invalidate the election, requiring a do-over, without regard to the results. Indeed, that would be unfair to those voters who, as Sherrilyn Ifill has so movingly described<https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/04/never-forget-wisconsin.html> it, were “risking it all to stand as full American citizens and cast a ballot.”…

While it may be an evidentiary challenge for a court to determine if ballots never cast because of wrongful disenfranchisement would have yielded a different outcome, it is not necessarily impossible. The names and addresses of disenfranchised voters may be identifiable, based on records of their timely absentee ballot requests (and documentation of the too-late date on which the government sent them their ballots). Statistical analysis of the precincts in which these disenfranchised voters reside may yield a high probability that the missing votes, if added to the reported tallies, would have overtaken the apparent margin of victory. Although this kind of statistics might not be enough to award the election to a different candidate than the apparent “winner,” it should suffice for judicial invalidation of the reported result (a point that the ALI project emphasized in section 213(g) of its principles<https://www.ali.org/news/articles/now-available-principles-law-election-administration/>).
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“GOP pushes voting by mail — with restrictions — as Trump attacks it as ‘corrupt’”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=110678>
Posted on April 12, 2020 3:13 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=110678> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gop-pushes-voting-by-mail--with-restrictions--as-trump-attacks-it-as-corrupt/2020/04/12/526057a4-7bf8-11ea-a130-df573469f094_story.html?utm_campaign=wp_politics&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss>:

The same week President Trump told the public that voting by mail is “corrupt<https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/trump-calls-vote-by-mail-efforts-corrupt/2020/04/08/ad9b3706-3072-41a3-87a6-2525ae6be436_video.html?tid=lk_inline_manual_1&itid=lk_inline_manual_1>” and “ripe for fraud<https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1248031484532928514>,” his own party was sending a very different message to Republican voters in Pennsylvania.

“Voting by mail is an easy, convenient and secure way to cast your ballot,” read a mail piece the Republican National Committee distributed across the Keystone State. “Return the attached official Republican Party mail-in ballot application to avoid lines and protect yourself from large crowds on Election Day.”

Despite the president’s rhetoric, state party leaders across the country are aggressively urging their voters to cast ballots by mail, GOP officials confirm. In addition, Republican officeholders in at least 16 states that do not have all-mail elections are encouraging people to vote absentee during the ongoing coronavirus<https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/02/28/what-you-need-know-about-coronavirus/?tid=lk_inline_manual_3&itid=lk_inline_manual_3> pandemic, according to a tally by The Washington Post.

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Mail in ballots substantially increases the risk of crime and VOTER FRAUD!<https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1249132374547464193>

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I can tell you that’s not the case in Ohio. As I’ve said, we’re fortunate that we’ve been doing vote by mail for a long time. We know how to do it, and we know how to get it done securely.

Hope we can get back to normal for November, but we’ll be ready no matter the situation.
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