[EL] ELB News and Commentary 12/20/20

Sun Dec 20 13:31:23 PST 2020

As I frequently say these days--shocking but hardly surprising.

On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 12:31 PM Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu> wrote:

> Quote of the Day (Conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Brian
> Hagedorn) <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119807>
>
> Posted on December 20, 2020 12:26 pm
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119807> by *Rick Hasen*
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> In interview
> <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/20/us/politics/wisconsin-justice-brian-hagedorn.html>with
> the NY Times about his vote in the Wisconsin election case:
>
> *Yes, I’ve been called a traitor. I’ve been called a liar. I’ve been
> called a fraud. I’ve been asked if I’m being paid off by the Chinese
> Communist Party. I’ve been told I might be tried for treason by a military
> tribunal. Sure, I’ve gotten lots of interesting and sometimes dark
> messages.*
>
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>
> Posted in Uncategorized <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
>
>
>
>
> “Trump says he spoke with Sen.-elect Tuberville, who has hinted at backing
> electoral college challenge next month”
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119805>
>
> Posted on December 20, 2020 12:21 pm
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119805> by *Rick Hasen*
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> WaPo:
> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tuberville-electoral-challenge-trump-conversation/2020/12/20/1658573e-42db-11eb-b0e4-0f182923a025_story.html>
>
> *President Trump said Sunday that he has spoken with Sen.-elect Tommy
> Tuberville, the Alabama Republican who suggested last week that he supports
> a potential challenge to the electoral vote count when the House and Senate
> convene next month to formally affirm President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.*
>
> *Trump said in an interview
> <https://twitter.com/77WABCradio/status/1340686591673724931?s=20> with
> Rudolph W. Giuliani, his personal lawyer, on New York’s WABC radio station
> that he spoke with Tuberville Saturday night.*
>
> *Tuberville’s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for
> comment.*
>
> *The conversation is the latest signal that Trump is exerting pressure on
> Republicans to overturn the results of November’s presidential election….*
>
> *The effort is certain to fail in the Democratic-led House and will meet
> resistance in the Senate, where several Republicans, including Senate
> Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), have dismissed the idea. Both
> chambers would have to vote in favor of any challenge for it to succeed.*
>
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> Posted in Uncategorized <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
>
>
>
>
> Trump Campaign Files Ridiculous New Expedited Cert Petition, Seeking
> Supreme Court Order to Overturn PA Election Results, Relying on Fake
> Electors for Trump from PA as Reported by the Epoch Times
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119802>
>
> Posted on December 20, 2020 12:03 pm
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119802> by *Rick Hasen*
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> John Eastman should be ashamed of this petition
> <https://cdn.donaldjtrump.com/public-files/press_assets/trump-v-boockvar-petition.pdf> for
> cert and motion to expedite
> <https://cdn.donaldjtrump.com/public-files/press_assets/trump-v-boockvar-motion.pdf>
> .
>
> I won’t go through all of the ridiculous things here, but this is an
> attempt to challenge PA Supreme Court cases in October and mid-November.
> There is absolutely no excuse to have waited this long, and to have tried
> to sue after the electoral college slates voted.
>
> And no, a group of people getting together and calling themselves
> “electors” without any state authority to do so are not electors. The
> citation to the *Epoch Times* in support of the choice of the alternative
> slate made me laugh out loud.
>
> Update: Josh Douglas flagged for me some very concerning language about
> “disruption” in the motion to expedite:
>
> “Finally, if this matter is not timely resolved, not only Petitioner, but
> the Nation as а whole may suffer injury from the resulting confusion.
> Indeed, the intense national and worldwide attention on the 2020
> Presidential election only foreshadows the *disruption that may well
> follow* if the uncertainty and unfairness shrouding this election are
> allowed to persist. The importance of а prompt resolution of the federal
> constitutional questions presented by this case cannot be overstated.”
>
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>
> Posted in chicanery <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>, electoral
> college <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=44>, fraudulent fraud squad
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=8>, Supreme Court
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=29>
>
>
>
>
> Michael Malbin Retires After 21 Years as Director of the Campaign Finance
> Institute <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119799>
>
> Posted on December 20, 2020 10:02 am
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119799> by *Rick Hasen*
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Michael Malbin has been one of the most important and careful scholars
> tracking empirical developments in campaign finance as a professor at SUNY
> Albany and for 21 years as director of the influential Campaign Finance
> Institute <http://cfinst.org/>. I rely on CFI analyses in my own work all
> the time. Michael has just retired as CFI director.
>
> CFI became a division of the National Institute on Money in Politics
> <https://www.followthemoney.org/>in 2018. Michael became a member of
> NIMP’s board on Friday. He will continue teaching at the University at
> Albany. Brendan Glavin will be staying on at CFI/NIMP.
>
> Congratulations Michael!
>
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>
> Posted in campaign finance <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, election
> law biz <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=51>
>
>
>
>
> “2020’s Lessons for Election Security”
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119797>
>
> Posted on December 20, 2020 9:54 am
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119797> by *Rick Hasen*
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Important analysis
> <https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/2020s-lessons-election-security> from
> the Brennan Center.
>
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>
> Posted in voting technology <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=40>
>
>
>
>
> Brook Thomas: “Rule by Law Under a Flawed System to Elect a President”
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119795>
>
> Posted on December 20, 2020 9:28 am
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119795> by *Rick Hasen*
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> In the Dec 18, 2020, *New Yorker*, Steve Coll notes
> <https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-outdated-law-that-republicans-could-use-to-upend-the-electoral-college-vote-next-time?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_121820&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5bea0bed2ddf9c72dc8d2bc4&cndid=44213519&hasha=597db21bf3da09853d6cc05661526bdf&hashb=3f8665be0edbfa594b60dd575b00e09dfc3b0158&hashc=c654999de45334fec4ec14e2e19add53ef4e47043320b725adaa3791faabeae5&esrc=bounceX&utm_term=TNY_Daily> that
> the outdated 1887 Law of Electoral Count enables Trump’s allies to create
> more havoc when the joint session of Congress meets January 6, 2021, for
> the official count of the electors’ votes.
>
>
> Brook Thomas <https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=2519>,
> Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus at UC Irvine, explains the history leading
> to the 1887 law and what he views as the media’s misrepresentation of that
> history in “Rule by Law under a Flawed System to Elect a President.”
> <https://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/brook-thomas.ec_.pdf>
>
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>
> Posted in Election Meltdown <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=127>, electoral
> college <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=44>
>
>
>
>
> “Why race-specific voter turnout data is a challenge to collect”
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119792>
>
> Posted on December 20, 2020 9:17 am
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119792> by *Rick Hasen*
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Poynter:
> <https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2020/why-race-specific-voter-turnout-data-is-a-challenge-to-collect/>
>
> *With vote counting and certification for the 2020 presidential election
> behind us, national and local news outlets have largely framed public
> understanding of what the electorate looked like this year.*
>
> *Media organizations kept track of key facts like the proportion of votes
> cast by mail versus in-person, the rejection rate of absentee ballots,
> turnout rates in given counties and states, as well as the gender,
> education, and age of people who voted in the election. And one of the most
> critical categories for voter self-identification was race.*
>
> *Research shows that race and ethnicity play
> <https://iop.harvard.edu/race-and-ethnicity-still-play-role-political-attitudes> a
> big role in political attitudes. In the key battleground state of
> Pennsylvania, there was overwhelming support for each candidate along
> racial and ethnic lines. According to exit polls
> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/interactive/2020/exit-polls/pennsylvania-exit-polls/>,
> 92% of Black people in Pennsylvania voted for President-elect Joe Biden.
> And 69% of Latino voters supported Biden in the state.*
>
> *Racial breakdowns of the vote reflect a shift from 2016. Biden got 89% of
> the Black male vote in the state, compared to the 83% who voted for Hillary
> Clinton. Nationally, Hispanic/Latino women voters produced an uptick in
> support for Biden: 69% compared with 65% for Clinton in 2016
> <https://qz.com/833003/election-2016-all-women-voted-overwhelmingly-for-clinton-except-the-white-ones/>,
> according to data from the National Election Pool.*
>
> *But strategies for accurately estimating voter turnout by race vary by
> state and by media organizations. In Pennsylvania, voter registration
> records do not include any individual-level data on race. That means
> individual counties in the state can not provide exact race-specific
> breakdowns about turnout.*
>
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> Posted in Uncategorized <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
>
>
>
>
> NY-22: “Tenney leads Brindisi by 19 votes after count of Chenango County
> ballots” <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119790>
>
> Posted on December 20, 2020 9:13 am
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119790> by *Rick Hasen*
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Syracuse.com:
> <https://www.syracuse.com/politics/2020/12/tenney-leads-brindisi-by-19-votes-after-count-of-chenango-county-ballots.html>
>
> *Former Rep. Claudia Tenney
> <https://www.syracuse.com/politics/2020/11/tenney-leads-brindisi-by-12-in-first-official-vote-count-in-house-election.html> expanded
> her lead from 12 to 19 votes over Rep. Anthony Brindisi
> <https://www.syracuse.com/topic/22nd%20Congressional%20District/> today
> after three counties reported corrected vote totals in the undecided 22nd
> Congressional District election.*
>
> *For now, Tenney leads Brindisi 155,519 to 155,500, according to
> unofficial returns from the eight counties in the district.*
>
> *Those totals are likely to change again after Oneida County finishes its
> review of disputed ballots ahead of a court-ordered review of disputed
> ballots from all eight counties next week.*
>
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> Posted in Uncategorized <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
>
>
>
>
> “Officials Alarmed Over Trump Talk of a Power Grab”
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119784>
>
> Posted on December 19, 2020 5:41 pm
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119784> by *Rick Hasen*
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Political Wire:
> <https://politicalwire.com/2020/12/19/officials-alarmed-about-trumps-power-grab/>
>
> *Jonathan Swan
> <https://www.axios.com/trump-officials-alarmed-overturn-election-results-a844d1d2-acb2-47a9-87ce-ac579458b1ea.html?utm_campaign=organic&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=twitter>:
> “Senior Trump administration officials are increasingly alarmed that
> President Trump might unleash — and abuse — the power of government in an
> effort to overturn the clear result of the election.”*
>
> *“These officials tell me that Trump is spending too much time with people
> they consider crackpots or conspiracy theorists and flirting with blatant
> abuses of power.”*
>
> *“Their fears include Trump’s interest in former national security adviser
> Michael Flynn’s wild talk of martial law; an idea floated of an executive
> order to commandeer voting machines; and the specter of Sidney Powell, the
> conspiracy-spewing election lawyer, obtaining governmental power and a
> top-level security clearance.”*
>
> *Maggie Haberman
> <https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1340393624706703363?s=20>: “Sources
> who have gotten used to Trump’s eruptions over four years sound scared by
> what’s transpired in the past week when I’ve talked to them.”*
>
> Earlier
> <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/19/us/politics/trump-sidney-powell-voter-fraud.html> from
> the NYT:
>
> *President Trump on Friday discussed naming Sidney Powell
> <https://www.nytimes.com/article/who-is-sidney-powell.html>, who as a
> lawyer for his campaign team unleashed conspiracy theories about a
> Venezuelan plot to rig voting machines in the United States, to be a
> special counsel overseeing an investigation of voter fraud, according to
> two people briefed on the discussion.*
>
> *It was unclear if Mr. Trump will move ahead with such a plan.*
>
> *Most of his advisers opposed the idea, two of the people briefed on the
> discussion said, including Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s personal
> lawyer. In recent days Mr. Giuliani has sought to have the Department of
> Homeland Security join the campaign’s efforts to overturn Mr. Trump’s loss
> in the election.*
>
> *Mr. Giuliani joined the discussion by phone initially, while Ms. Powell
> was at the White House for a meeting that became raucous and involved
> people shouting at each other at times, according to one of the people
> briefed on what took place.*
>
> *Ms. Powell’s client, retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, the former
> national security adviser whom the president recently pardoned
> <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/us/politics/michael-flynn-pardon.html>,
> was also there, two of the people briefed on the meeting said. Some senior
> administration officials drifted in and out of the meeting.*
>
> *During an appearance on the conservative Newsmax channel this week, Mr.
> Flynn pushed for Mr. Trump to impose martial law and deploy the military to
> “rerun” the election. At one point in the meeting on Friday, Mr. Trump
> asked about that idea.*
>
> *Ms. Powell’s ideas were shot down by every other Trump adviser present,
> all of whom repeatedly pointed out that she had yet to back up her claims
> with proof. At one point, one person briefed on the meeting said, she
> produced several affidavits, but upon inspection they were all signed by a
> man she has previously used as an expert witness, whose credentials have
> been called into question.*
>
> *The White House counsel, Pat A. Cipollone, and the White House chief of
> staff, Mark Meadows, repeatedly and aggressively pushed back on the ideas
> being proposed, which went beyond the special counsel idea, those briefed
> on the meeting said.*
>
> *Mr. Cipollone told Mr. Trump there was no constitutional authority for
> what was being discussed, one of the people briefed on the meeting said.
> Other advisers from the White House and the Trump campaign delivered the
> same message throughout the meeting, which stretched on for a long period
> of time.*
>
> Trump promised
> <https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1340185773220515840?s=20>a
> “wild” protest January 6 when Congress counts the electoral college votes:
>
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>
> Posted in chicanery <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>, Election
> Meltdown <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=127>
>
>
>
>
> “Decades of Inequality Shadow Voter Turnout in Rural Georgia”
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119782>
>
> Posted on December 18, 2020 3:59 pm
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119782> by *Rick Hasen*
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Steven Rosenfeld
> <https://billmoyers.com/story/decades-of-inequality-shadow-voter-turnout-in-rural-georgia/> for
> Bill Moyers.
>
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>
> Posted in Uncategorized <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
>
>
>
>
> “Republicans Are Trying to Disqualify Newly Registered Voters from
> Participating in Senate Runoff Elections”
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119780>
>
> Posted on December 18, 2020 11:45 am
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119780> by *Rick Hasen*
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Law and Crime reports.
> <https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/republicans-are-trying-to-disqualify-newly-registered-voters-from-participating-in-senate-runoff-elections/>
>
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>
> Posted in Uncategorized <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
>
>
>
>
> “Trump’s Future: Tons of Cash and Plenty of Options for Spending It”
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119777>
>
> Posted on December 18, 2020 9:32 am
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119777> by *Rick Hasen*
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> NYT:
> <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/18/us/politics/trump-money-future.html>
>
> *Donald J. Trump will exit the White House as a private citizen next month
> perched atop a pile of campaign cash unheard-of for an outgoing president,
> and with few legal limits on how he can spend it.*
>
> *Deflated by a loss he has yet to acknowledge, Mr. Trump has cushioned the
> blow by coaxing huge sums of money from his loyal supporters — often under
> dubious pretenses — raising roughly $250 million since Election Day along
> with the national party.*
>
> *More than $60 million of that sum has gone to a new political action
> committee, according to people familiar with the matter, which Mr. Trump
> will control after he leaves office. Those funds, which far exceed what
> previous outgoing presidents had at their disposal, provide him with
> tremendous flexibility for his post-presidential ambitions: He could use
> the money to quell rebel factions within the party, reward loyalists, fund
> his travels and rallies, hire staff, pay legal bills and even lay the
> groundwork for a far-from-certain 2024 run.*
>
> *The post-election blitz of fund-raising has cemented Mr. Trump’s position
> as an unrivaled force and the pre-eminent fund-raiser of the Republican
> Party even in defeat. His largest single day for online donations actually
> came after Election Day — raising almost $750,000 per hour on Nov. 6. So
> did his second biggest day. And his third….*
>
> *Some campaign finance experts have speculated that Mr. Trump might try to
> use the excess of cash in his new PAC, formally known as a leadership PAC,
> to pay for his own personal future legal quagmires, as he faces
> investigations once he leaves office. (A senior Trump adviser said they
> don’t expect the money to be used for personal legal needs.)*
>
> *“A leadership PAC is a slush fund,” said Meredith McGehee, executive
> director of Issue One, a group that supports increased political
> transparency. “There are very, very, very few limits on what he can’t spend
> money on.”*
>
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>
> Posted in campaign finance <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>,
> campaigns <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
>
>
>
>
> “How did the GOP gain in the House while Trump lost? It’s actually pretty
> simple.” <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119775>
>
> Posted on December 18, 2020 8:22 am
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=119775> by *Rick Hasen*
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
>
> Aaron Blake:
> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/12/18/how-did-gop-gain-house-while-trump-lost-its-actually-pretty-simple/>
>
> *One of the increasingly prevalent arguments spun by President Trump and
> his allies when it comes to supposed voter fraud in the 2020 election is
> this: Republicans had, by and large, a pretty good election below the
> presidential level. They gained significant ground in the House and
> probably held the Senate — as long as they don’t lose both Georgia runoffs
> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2020/georgia-senate-runoff-guide/?itid=sf_the-fix&itid=lk_inline_manual_2>.
> So how on earth did Trump lose?*
>
> *The answer is actually pretty simple: Our elections increasingly look
> more like parliamentary ones, and given that, the results make a ton of
> sense.*
>
> *Data
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sZ6_KTC6N2P940PcSjaSkqqN93-Yhr0oqKVg_dBUs9M/edit> from
> the election-reform group FairVote sheds some light on how the battle for
> the House played out. The big takeaway: Our politics are increasingly less
> about people and incumbents and more about party. We’ve been talking about
> increased polarization for many years, but the 2020 election really drove
> it home. The results for Congress affirm the fact that Republicans writ
> large lost the election, even though it might have been closer than many
> expected.*
>
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