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Mon Jun 29 06:32:39 PDT 2020

My New Piece in the NY Times Sunday Review: “Bring on the 28th Amendment”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=112649>
Posted on June 29, 2020 6:28 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=112649> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

I have written this piece <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/29/opinion/voting-rights.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage> for the New York Times Sunday Review (part of their “The America We Need” series on inequality). It begins:

What if we made voting an agent of equality, not inequality? And how can we get there?

If you are a college student or a working recent high school graduate<http://www.electproject.org/home/voter-turnout/demographics>, poor<https://econofact.org/voting-and-income>, Latino<http://www.electproject.org/home/voter-turnout/demographics>, or someone who moves more frequently<https://www.jstor.org/stable/1960778?seq=1>, you are less likely to vote. Seniors are much more<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1l5fpK7ysQhQbZPv9hnZ_-PO1J1zBVPXSSQjNejTXecY/edit#gid=1189109697> likely to vote than young people, in some elections at twice their rate. Those with college degrees vote in higher numbers<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1l5fpK7ysQhQbZPv9hnZ_-PO1J1zBVPXSSQjNejTXecY/edit#gid=701789019> than the less educated. Minority voters are more likely to wait longer in line<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/study-heavily-minority-precincts-endured-longer-wait-times-to-cast-ballots-in-2018/2019/11/04/f8433e1c-fef7-11e9-8501-2a7123a38c58_story.html> to vote in person, sometimes for hours, and they, young people, and first-time voters are more likely to have an absentee ballot rejected<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/05/21/heres-problem-with-mail-in-ballots-they-might-not-be-counted/> for nonconformity with technical rules. Poor voters are less likely to have the time off work to vote at all, much less wait in a long line to vote. Voters in big cities, who tend to be younger, poorer and browner, have coped with more serious election problems than others in voting in person and by mail during our coronavirus-laden primary season, like the voters in Milwaukee voters who saw 175 out of 180 polling<https://fox6now.com/2020/04/08/2-different-cities-milwaukee-had-5-polling-sites-during-covid-19-election-madison-had-60/> places closed during the April 7 Wisconsin primaries.

In a democratic system, we expect our elected officials to be responsive to the views and interests of the voters. If the universe of voters — and, of course, campaign donors — is skewed toward older, wealthier, better educated whiter voters, political decisions will be as well<https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-America-What-Wrong-About/dp/022650896X/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&qid=1593124595&refinements=p_27%3AMartin+Gilens&s=books&sr=1-4&text=Martin+Gilens>. We need equality in voting rights and turnout to assure responsive representation and social policy that reflects everyone’s needs, not just those most likely to turn out with their votes and dollars….

It concludes:

Beyond triage for 2020, longer term change requires bolder thinking. We need a new social movement, that may take a generation or more, pushing a constitutional amendment protecting the right to vote. It would guarantee all adult citizens the right to vote in federal elections, establish a nonpartisan administrative body to run federal elections that would automatically register all eligible voters to vote, and impose basic standards of voting access and competency for state and local elections.

Talking of a constitutional amendment in the current polarized atmosphere may sound like a pipe dream when Congress cannot pass even basic voting rights protections, like restoring the part of the Voting Rights Act that the Supreme Court destroyed. But the current situation is untenable.

We need a 28th Amendment for voter equality around which people can organize and agitate. Organization could emulate the battle<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3501114> for passage of the 19th Amendment, which bars gender discrimination in voting. It took more than generation for that amendment to pass, and along the way activists for equal women’s suffrage got state legislatures to bolster voting rights and the public to change its attitudes about voting.

It has been 100 years since passage of the 19th Amendment and 150 since the passage of the 15th Amendment barring racial discrimination in voting. Despite those accomplishments, every national election features endless angst and litigation over assuring people the right to vote, which puts special burdens on those who already face the greatest barriers. We need to bring that struggle to an end and press forward toward a new voting rights amendment that would assure that our representatives truly reflect the will of the people.
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In “60 Minutes” Segment on Voting Rights During the Pandemic, Trump Lawyer Makes Crazy Claim that Voting is “Safer” in Person<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=112647>
Posted on June 29, 2020 6:24 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=112647> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

60 Minutes<https://www.cbsnews.com/news/election-voting-2019-20-coronavirus-pandemic-60-minutes-2020-06-28/>:

Justin Clark, senior counsel for President Donald Trump’s campaign, advised Wisconsin Republicans. He blames Democratic governor Tony Evers for the chaos and told us the Democrats are cynically using the pandemic to expand their voter base with mail in absentee ballots.

Justin Clark: We have tons and tons of different ways for people to vote if they have a fear of COVID-19. We have early vote that goes on for weeks ahead of an election in– in most places. But make no mistake. Voting in person is far more secure and safer than voting by– by mail.

Bill Whitaker: Even in the time of pandemic?

Justin Clark: By safer, what I mean is that it’s gonna be a much more secure outcome.

Neil Albrecht: In-person voting should not have happened in the state of Wisconsin on April 7th. It was dangerous. It was reckless.

Neil Albrecht is head of Milwaukee’s election commission. He told us the coronavirus scared so many poll workers – half of them over age 60 – he could man only five polling places. He usually has 180.

Bill Whitaker: Americans take great pride in our democratic system. Did that system suffer on April 7th?

Neil Albrecht: It suffered greatly. A lot of people in the state of Wisconsin had to choose between their health or casting a ballot. I don’t believe that is a good representation of democracy.

The Wisconsin health department reported 71 people tested positive for COVID-19 after voting or working at the polls, but can’t say definitively that was the cause. To avoid the virus, more Wisconsin voters cast absentee ballots in the primary than ever before.

Neil Albrecht: It was about an 800% request in absentee ballots.

Bill Whitaker: Did I hear you correctly? You had requests for 8 times more absentee ballots than normal?

Neil Albrecht: Absolutely. Absolutely. And I can tell you and I don’t think this is unique to Wisconsin. States are not equipped for that type of surge.
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As Expected, Trump Points to Paterson, NJ Absentee Ballot Fraud Scandal (and Tries to Draw Nonsensical Distinction Between Absentee and Mail-in Balloting)<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=112645>
Posted on June 28, 2020 9:25 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=112645> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Trump tweet:<https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1277429217190428673>
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Absentee Ballots are fine. A person has to go through a process to get and use them. Mail-In Voting, on the other hand, will lead to the most corrupt Election is USA history. Bad things happen with Mail-Ins. Just look at Special Election in Patterson, N.J. 19% of Ballots a FRAUD!
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See my earlier post, There’s a Genuine Absentee Ballot Fraud Scandal Going On in Paterson, New Jersey and It Is Going to Get a Lot of National Attention: What Lessons Should We Learn?<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=111528>

Charles Stewart<https://twitter.com/cstewartiii/status/1276476289071939585>:
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Mail ballot fraud case in NJ illustrates how this works. Fraud @ the local level may be tempting b/c of the small # of ballots you need to manipulate -- 800 in this case/6% of those cast. In pres'l election, this is the equivalent of 9M ballots. Crazy. https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politics/paterson-city-council-vice-president-among-4-charged-with-voting-fraud-in-may-special-election-nj-ag/2484797/ …<https://t.co/hBmuVVUNY6>
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Paterson City Council Vice President Among 4 Charged With Voting Fraud in May Special Election: NJ...<https://t.co/hBmuVVUNY6>

A Paterson, New Jersey, councilman and a councilman-elect in the same city, along with two other men, face voting fraud charges in connection with the May 12 special election, the state attorney...<https://t.co/hBmuVVUNY6>
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“Trump Retweets Racist Video Showing Supporter Yelling ‘White Power’”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=112642>
Posted on June 28, 2020 9:20 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=112642> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT:<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/28/us/politics/trump-white-power-video-racism.html>

President Trump on Sunday retweeted a video of one of his supporters yelling “White power!,” once again using the vast reach of his social media platforms to inflame racial divisions in a nation roiled by weeks of protests about police brutality against black people and demands for social justice reforms.

The edited racist video shows a white man riding in a golf cart bearing “Trump 2020” and “America First” signs during what appears to be an angry clash over the president and race between white residents of a Florida retirement community. Mr. Trump deleted the tweet more than three hours after posting it.

In response to a protester shouting “Where’s your white hood?” and other taunts, the man in the golf cart pumps his fist in the air and says “White power!” twice. The two-minute video continues to show profane exchanges between protesters and other Trump supporters riding on more golf carts.

The president retweeted the video to his millions of followers just after 7:30 a.m., thanking “the great people of The Villages,” the Florida retirement community where the clash apparently took place. He added: “The Radical Left Do Nothing Democrats will Fall in the Fall. Corrupt Joe is shot. See you soon!!!”…

The tweet was widely criticized as racist and insensitive, and again demonstrated the president’s willingness use social media to amplify some of the most hateful commentary of some of his followers, even at a moment of national unrest.

Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, the only black Republican senator, called the video “offensive” and asked Mr. Trump to take it off his Twitter page.

“There is no question he should not have retweeted it, and he should just take it down,” Mr. Scott said on the CNN program “State of the Union.” “We can play politics with it or we can’t. I’m not going to. I think it’s indefensible. We should take it down.”

Mr. Trump deleted it less than an hour after Mr. Scott’s comments, but he did not condemn the “white power” statement or specifically disavow the sentiment expressed by his supporter.

Judd Deere, a White House spokesman, said Mr. Trump “is a big fan of The Villages.”

“He did not hear the one statement made on the video,” Mr. Deere said. “What he did see was tremendous enthusiasm from his many supporters.”

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“Zuckerberg once wanted to sanction Trump. Then Facebook wrote rules that accommodated him”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=112640>
Posted on June 28, 2020 9:12 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=112640> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo<https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/06/28/facebook-zuckerberg-trump-hate/>:

Facebook has constrained its efforts against false and misleading news, adopted a policy explicitly allowing politicians to lie, and even altered its news feed algorithm to neutralize claims that it was biased against conservative publishers, according to more than a dozen former and current employees and previously unreported documents obtained by The Washington Post. One of the documents shows it began as far back as 2015, when as a candidate Trump posted a video calling for a ban of Muslims entering the United States. Facebook’s executives declined to remove it, setting in motion an exception for political discourse.

The concessions to Trump have led to a transformation of the world’s information battlefield. They paved the way for a growing list of digitally savvy politicians to repeatedly push out misinformation and incendiary political language to billions of people. It has complicated the public understanding of major events such as the pandemic and the protest movement, as well as contributed to polarization.

And as Trump grew in power, the fear of his wrath pushed Facebook into more deferential behavior toward its growing number of right-leaning users, tilting the balance of news people see on the network, according to the current and former employees.

Facebook is now confronting a mounting advertiser boycott<https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/06/26/facebook-advertising-boycott-unilever/?itid=lk_inline_manual_16> that has pushed down its stock price as companies demand stricter policies against hate speech. Starbucks became the latest on Sunday<https://stories.starbucks.com/stories/2020/creating-welcoming-and-inclusive-online-communities/> to say it would hit pause on social media advertising.
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Election Commissioner in Jones County, MS: “The blacks are having lots of events for voter registration. People in Mississippi have to get involved too.”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=112638>
Posted on June 28, 2020 8:55 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=112638> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

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"The blacks are having lots of events for voter registration. People in Mississippi have to get involved too."

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ASAP: Seeking Law Students Nationwide to Recruit Student Poll Workers<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=112635>
Posted on June 28, 2020 8:44 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=112635> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Important announcement via email:

ASAP: Seeking Law Students Nationwide to Recruit Student Poll Workers.
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William & Mary Law students have formed the Alliance of Students at the Polls (ASAP). ASAP is building a national network of law students to recruit student poll workers in their state to address critical shortages expected in the fall. ASAP seeks to inspire a new generation of poll workers to step up in November and beyond.

If you or a law student you know are interested in joining ASAP, please email ASAP at wm.edu<mailto:ASAP at wm.edu> for more information and details about the launch meeting on Tuesday, July 7.
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“The County Line: The Law and Politics of Ballot Positioning in New Jersey”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=112633>
Posted on June 28, 2020 8:38 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=112633> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Brett Pugach has posted this draft<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3613994> on SSRN (Rutgers L. Rev.). Here is the abstract:

In New Jersey, unelected and unaccountable party bosses and political machines have for years relied on arcane state laws related to the design of primary election ballots to maintain complete control over the state’s politics. They are able to wield unprecedented power in large part because New Jersey is the only state in the nation that does not organize its primary election ballots by listing the office sought, followed immediately by the names of all candidates running for that office. Instead, New Jersey’s primary election ballots are organized by convoluted columns or rows of groupings of candidates running for different offices. The political machines have learned how to use this unique ballot structure to manipulate the ballot to ensure favorable ballot position for party-endorsed candidates, and to punish everyone else.

Here is how it works. The county party organizations endorse candidates for every office, who are then all featured together on the same column or row of the ballot, with the same slogan. This grouping of party-endorsed candidates is known as the “County Line” and it provides a significant advantage to these candidates through favorable ballot position (often the highly-coveted first row or left-most column) and the visual effects of grouping all of the candidates together on the same line with the same slogan (referred to as “bracketing”). By contrast, candidates who are not endorsed by the party and who are not bracketed with other candidates are precluded from receiving the first ballot position, and may not even be placed in the next available column or row. Instead, many unbracketed candidates in the past have found themselves being relegated to “Ballot Siberia,” with their names listed multiple columns or rows away from all other candidates running for the same office.

Over the years, this system has afforded a virtually unbeatable advantage to candidates endorsed by the county party organizations. These county party organizations are controlled by unelected county chairs who remain unaccountable to voters and party members directly. Because being offered a spot on the County Line almost always guarantees a victory in the primary election, what matters most to political candidates, at least as far as primary elections go, is that they have the support of their party’s county chair, rather than earning the support of voters. It is a system that is antithetical to democracy and the ability of citizens to control their government. Moreover, the county chairs maintain the ability to severely punish any candidates who do not provide their unwavering support, by withholding the county party endorsement and subsequent placement on the County Line. These legal and political realities pose an enormous threat to democracy, as they remove voters and party members from meaningful participation in deciding who their party’s nominees for elected office will be.

Despite the ubiquitous nature of the County Line in New Jersey politics, scholars have not carefully explored the justifications behind this system or chronicled the effects that it has had on the state’s politics. This Article seeks to explore the history of the County Line system of ballot positioning in New Jersey and to explain how and why it poses a threat to the rights of voters and candidates throughout the state. It also sets forth a blueprint for how a constitutional challenge can be brought to New Jersey’s ballot order and ballot bracketing system. Part I provides a history of how New Jersey’s election laws have regulated political parties throughout the state. Part II discusses the implications of the County Line system on primary elections in New Jersey, using various examples to demonstrate the effect of the County Line on democratic practice. Part III turns to examining the associational freedoms at issue in perpetuating the County Line and weighs them against other important rights that are at stake in guaranteeing free and fair elections. Part IV proposes various ways that New Jersey’s primary election ballots can be changed so that party-endorsed candidates are not granted state-conferred advantages over other candidates. Finally, Part V concludes by explaining why New Jersey’s current system of bracketing primary election candidates together and affording them preferential ballot position over all others running for the same offices places an unconstitutional burden on the right to vote.
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“Simulated Packing and Cracking”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=112630>
Posted on June 28, 2020 6:38 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=112630> by Nicholas Stephanopoulos<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=12>

A new paper<https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.10665> by Jeffrey Buzas and Gregory Warrington. Here’s the abstract:

We introduce simulated packing and cracking as a technique for evaluating partisan-gerrymandering measures. We apply it to historical congressional and legislative elections to evaluate four measures: partisan bias, declination, efficiency gap, and mean-median difference. While the efficiency gap recognizes simulated packing and cracking in a completely predictable manner (a fact that follows immediately from the efficiency gap’s definition) and the declination does a very good job of recording simulated packing and cracking, we conclude that both of the other two measures record it poorly. This deficiency is especially notable given the frequent use of such measures in outlier analyses.
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“The Election Day nightmare scenarios”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=112627>
Posted on June 28, 2020 12:21 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=112627> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

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“Blind Michigan Supreme Court Justice turned away by clerk’s office while trying to get absentee ballot”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=112625>
Posted on June 28, 2020 12:19 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=112625> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WDIV reports.<https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2020/06/26/blind-michigan-supreme-court-justice-is-turned-away-by-clerks-office-when-trying-to-get-absentee-ballot/>
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“Four ways William Barr is already subverting the 2020 elections”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=112623>
Posted on June 27, 2020 4:22 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=112623> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Joshua Geltzer WaPo oped<https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/barr-attorney-general-election/2020/06/26/7ad4fc7e-b6fb-11ea-a510-55bf26485c93_story.html?wpmk=MK0000200>.
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Watch Jack Doppelt Talk on CBSN About Recommendations of Our “Fair Elections During a Crisis” Report<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=112621>
Posted on June 27, 2020 4:21 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=112621> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Watch here<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbeeCkwvyI0>:
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Jim Bopp in True the Vote Fundraising Email: “Leftists are illegally diluting voter rights — it’s just plain wrong, and frankly, illegal and unconstitutional.”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=112618>
Posted on June 27, 2020 2:42 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=112618> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
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Tweet of the Day: Texas Voter Suppression Edition<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=112616>
Posted on June 26, 2020 4:53 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=112616> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
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The Supreme Court expands its “you must be willing to risk a lonely death on a ventilator to cast a ballot” doctrine to Texas. https://www.texastribune.org/2020/06/26/us-supreme-court-rejects-texas-democrats-effort-expand-absentee-voting/ …<https://t.co/PG3MdVyxeR>
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U.S. Supreme Court rejects Texas Democrats' effort to expand voting...<https://t.co/PG3MdVyxeR>

The high court declined to immediately reinstate a federal judge's order that would have allowed all Texans to request absentee ballots if they fear catching COVID-19 at crowded polling places.<https://t.co/PG3MdVyxeR>
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Montana Republicans Violated State Campaign Finance Laws to Qualify Green Party for the Ballot without Green Party’s Knowledge<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=112614>
Posted on June 26, 2020 2:40 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=112614> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

AP reports.<https://apnews.com/301e1e48b792f61d7a94604eddee015e>
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“Conducting Elections During the Pandemic”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=112612>
Posted on June 26, 2020 2:34 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=112612> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

New policy brief <https://scipol.org/track/policy-brief/conducting-elections-during-pandemic> from Maria Carnovale of Duke.
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“Looming Election Challenge: Mail Ballots That Never Reach Voters”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=112610>
Posted on June 26, 2020 2:21 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=112610> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Steven Rosenfeld reports<https://www.nationalmemo.com/looming-election-challenge-mail-ballots-that-never-reach-voters>.
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