[EL] ELB News and Commentary 9/10/20
Rick Hasen
rhasen at law.uci.edu
Wed Sep 9 20:19:19 PDT 2020
“Is Voting Twice a Felony? President Trump suggested that North Carolina voters mail in their ballots and show up in person to test the state’s electoral system. What exactly are the consequences of voting twice?”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=114968>
Posted on September 9, 2020 8:09 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=114968> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT reports.<https://www.nytimes.com/article/voting-twice.html>
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Posted in Uncategorized<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
“Trump reports raising $210 million last month, lagging behind Biden’s record-breaking August haul”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=114966>
Posted on September 9, 2020 8:01 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=114966> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
WaPo:<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-reports-raising-210-million-last-month-lagging-behind-bidens-record-breaking-august-haul/2020/09/09/431c1914-f2cb-11ea-b796-2dd09962649c_story.html>
President Trump’s campaign, the Republican National Committee and two affiliated fundraising committees on Wednesday announced raising $210 million in August — a sizable sum that still lags behind Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s record-breaking haul last month.
The RNC said $76 million of the money raised last month came in during the four days of the Republican National Convention, and noted that August was the best online fundraising month for the reelection effort.
The Biden campaign, the Democratic National Committee and their affiliated fundraising committees announced a staggering $364.5 million haul for August alone<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-announces-record-breaking-august-fundraising-haul-of-3645-million/2020/09/02/58dcd0ae-ed35-11ea-ab4e-581edb849379_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_4>, which shattered monthly presidential fundraising records and underscored the momentum the campaign generated with Biden’s announcement of running mate Sen. Kamal Harris (D-Calif.) and the Democratic National Convention.
Previously, the record was $202.5 million in September 2008 by the Obama campaign, the national party and an affiliated committee, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan research group Campaign Finance Institute. (That amount equates to roughly $244 million in 2020, adjusted for inflation.)
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Posted in campaign finance<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, campaigns<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
“PA senate moving closer to amending state’s mail-in ballot law, even as Gov. Wolf vows to veto changes”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=114964>
Posted on September 9, 2020 7:58 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=114964> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Morning Call:<https://www.mcall.com/news/pennsylvania/mc-nws-pa-election-law-amendment-clash-20200909-tv2o2zkbdregxauowogimfdsia-story.html>
A state Senate committee recommended a bill Tuesday night that would amend the state’s mail-in ballot process ahead of the November election, but a partisan divide remains over how the state will conduct its presidential election.
“The governor plans to veto [the bill] in its current form for a multitude of reasons, including the fact that the bill makes it harder, not easier, for citizens to vote‚” said Lyndsay Kensinger, Wolf’s press secretary.
“He again calls for the Legislature to act on a limited number of priorities to ensure that every vote will be counted, guarantee results will be known in a timely manner, and afford counties flexibility in staffing in-person polling locations.”
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Posted in election administration<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>
“The Deadline That Could Hand Trump the Election; A 133-year-old law creates perverse incentives for the Trump administration—and could make a chaotic postelection period even more tumultuous.”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=114962>
Posted on September 9, 2020 7:55 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=114962> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
The Atlantic:<https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-biden-electoral-count-act-1887/615994/>
Many Americans know that counting all of the votes in this November’s presidential election is going to take extra time<https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/07/new-york-election-failure-mail-in-voting/614446/>. Few people realize there’s a specific deadline by which states must finish.
The 1887 Electoral Count Act seems like an obscure piece of political trivia. But ahead of what could be one of the most contested presidential elections in modern history, some experts worry that this 133-year-old relic of the U.S. Code could endanger the whole republic. The law itself is a relic of the last time the partisan divide got so intense that it nearly ripped apart the country. But no one ever clarified the bits of it that are ambiguous, and no one ever came back to revise or update it. The law is a “morass of ambiguity, which is the exact opposite of what is required in this situation,” a group of legal scholars convened by UC Irvine wrote in an April report of possible election problems<http://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/hasen/2020ElectionReport.pdf>. But it’s still the law.
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Posted in electoral college<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=44>
Janai Nelson Talking About Voting Issues on Meet the Press<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=114960>
Posted on September 9, 2020 7:52 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=114960> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
I had missed this clip from the weekend. Watch.<https://www.naacpldf.org/press/janai-nelson-joins-meet-the-press-to-discuss-the-upcoming-november-election-and-access-to-the-ballot/>
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Posted in election administration<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>
“Judge blocks Tennessee law that limits new voter mail voting”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=114958>
Posted on September 9, 2020 7:45 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=114958> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
AP<https://apnews.com/d5ccfdf45916f1c0619ce8a46fa3a7c0>:
A federal judge on Wednesday blocked a Tennessee law for the November election that bars first-time voters from casting ballots by mail unless they show identification at an election office beforehand.
U.S. District Judge Eli Richardson in Nashville ordered the preliminary injunction in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, assuring that he did so without concern “about how his decisions could aid one side or the other on the political front.”
The judge wrote that the state argued for its law, which plaintiffs say affected an estimated 128,000 newly registered voters last election cycle, through “a non-existent” congressional requirement and congressional intent. Tennessee has about 4.1 million registered voters.
“The Court concludes that the requested injunction would favorably impact the public interest because as discussed above, it would serve to prevent what, based on the current record, likely would be a violation of the First Amendment right to vote enjoyed by the American citizenry,” Richardson wrote.
I haven’t seen the full order yet but I’m surprised to see a reference to a “First Amendment right to vote.”
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Posted in Uncategorized<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
“A delayed mail truck can decide the presidency”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=114956>
Posted on September 9, 2020 6:25 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=114956> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
John Koza Hill oped<https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/515593-a-delayed-mail-truck-can-decide-the-presidency?utm_source=thehill&utm_medium=widgets&utm_campaign=es_recommended_content>:
The National Popular Vote compact has already been enacted into law by 15 states and the District of Columbia (together possessing 196 electoral votes) and will take effect when enacted by states with 74 more electoral votes (for a total of 270).
After the compact comes into effect, every voter in all 50 states and D.C. will acquire a direct vote in the choice of all of the presidential electors from all of the states that enacted the compact. The presidential candidate supported by the most voters in all 50 states and D.C. will thereby win a majority of the presidential electors in the Electoral College (at least 270), and therefore become president.
It is time to immunize our presidential election system from the results of accidental or intentional events deciding the presidency.
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Posted in electoral college<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=44>
“The Electoral College Will Destroy America; And no, New York and California would not dominate a popular vote.”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=114954>
Posted on September 9, 2020 6:17 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=114954> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Jesse Wegman NYT column.<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/opinion/electoral-college-trump-biden.html>
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Posted in electoral college<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=44>
On Thursday: Two APSA Panels Sponsored by the Law and Political Process Study Group (Voting Rights and Redistricting; Bush v. Gore 2.0)<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=114952>
Posted on September 9, 2020 6:15 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=114952> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Hope many of you can join us in these virtual panels:
Protecting Voting Rights in Redistricting and at the Ballot Box: Past and Future
Thu, September 10, 8:00 to 9:30am MDT (7:00 to 8:30am PDT), TBA
Session Submission Type: Created Panel
Session Description
Looking ahead to the 2020 election and the 2021 round of redistricting, this panel considers the ways in which voting and redistricting are and have been shaped by state and federal legislative protections for voting rights. The Supreme Court’s decision rendering inoperative the centerpiece of the Voting Rights Act prompts a fulsome scholarly evaluation of the social and political contributions of the preclearance regime. It also puts the spotlight of the Act even more squarely on Section 2’s protections against diluting minority strength. Finally, that the decision entails significant withdrawal of federal involvement in protecting voting rights amplifies state-level legislative solutions.
Sub Unit
· Related Groups / Law and Political Process Study Group<https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/apsa/apsa20/index.php?cmd=Online+Program+Load+Selected+Focus&selected_sub_unit_id=64283&program_focus=browse_by_sub_unit_submissions&PHPSESSID=dp59ffdrnci0vftc733rfu8p8e>
Individual Presentations
· The Effect of Political Power on Labor Market Inequality: Evidence from the VRA – Abhay Aneja, UC Berkeley<https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/apsa/apsa20/index.php?cmd=Online+Program+View+Paper&selected_paper_id=1651275&PHPSESSID=dp59ffdrnci0vftc733rfu8p8e>
· Formal Redistricting Criteria and Fairness to Underrepresented Racial Minorities – Bruce E. Cain, Stanford University; Wendy K. Tam Cho, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Emily Zhang, Stanford University; Iris Hui, Stanford University<https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/apsa/apsa20/index.php?cmd=Online+Program+View+Paper&selected_paper_id=1651276&PHPSESSID=dp59ffdrnci0vftc733rfu8p8e>
· Electoral Institutions and Distributive Goods: Evidence from the CVRA – Asya Magazinnik, Princeton University; Michael Hankinson, George Washington University<https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/apsa/apsa20/index.php?cmd=Online+Program+View+Paper&selected_paper_id=1654775&PHPSESSID=dp59ffdrnci0vftc733rfu8p8e>
Chair
· Daniel H. Lowenstein University of California, Los Angeles<https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/apsa/apsa20/index.php?cmd=Online+Program+View+Person&selected_people_id=11287732&PHPSESSID=dp59ffdrnci0vftc733rfu8p8e>
Discussant
· Thad Kousser University of California, San Diego<https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/apsa/apsa20/index.php?cmd=Online+Program+View+Person&selected_people_id=11191257&PHPSESSID=dp59ffdrnci0vftc733rfu8p8e>
Bush v. Gore 2.0? Foreign Interference, Incompetence, and Misinformation in 2020
Thu, September 10, 12:00 to 1:30pm MDT (11:00am to 12:30pm PDT), TBA
Session Submission Type: Roundtable
Session Description
This roundtable considers challenges to the administration of the United States presidential election in 2020. Threats from foreign interference, election maladministration, and the spread of misinformation on social media threaten the integrity and acceptance of the results of the 2020 elections. This roundtable will consider the range of problems that may contribute to an election meltdown, and potential solutions.
Sub Unit
· Related Groups / Law and Political Process Study Group<https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/apsa/apsa20/index.php?cmd=Online+Program+Load+Selected+Focus&selected_sub_unit_id=64283&program_focus=browse_by_sub_unit_submissions&PHPSESSID=dp59ffdrnci0vftc733rfu8p8e>
Chair
· Franita Tolson USC Gould School of Law<https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/apsa/apsa20/index.php?cmd=Online+Program+View+Person&selected_people_id=11203386&PHPSESSID=dp59ffdrnci0vftc733rfu8p8e>
Presenters
· Renee DiResta Stanford Internet Observatory<https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/apsa/apsa20/index.php?cmd=Online+Program+View+Person&selected_people_id=12268975&PHPSESSID=dp59ffdrnci0vftc733rfu8p8e>
· Frederick Douzet University Paris 8<https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/apsa/apsa20/index.php?cmd=Online+Program+View+Person&selected_people_id=12276144&PHPSESSID=dp59ffdrnci0vftc733rfu8p8e>
· Richard L. Hasen UC Irvine School of Law<https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/apsa/apsa20/index.php?cmd=Online+Program+View+Person&selected_people_id=11287742&PHPSESSID=dp59ffdrnci0vftc733rfu8p8e>
· Alex Stamos Stanford University<https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/apsa/apsa20/index.php?cmd=Online+Program+View+Person&selected_people_id=12708221&PHPSESSID=dp59ffdrnci0vftc733rfu8p8e>
· Abby K. Wood USC<https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/apsa/apsa20/index.php?cmd=Online+Program+View+Person&selected_people_id=11275144&PHPSESSID=dp59ffdrnci0vftc733rfu8p8e>
· Emily Zhang Stanford University<https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/apsa/apsa20/index.php?cmd=Online+Program+View+Person&selected_people_id=11306791&PHPSESSID=dp59ffdrnci0vftc733rfu8p8e>
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“Common Cause NC files complaint calling for investigation of U.S. Postmaster DeJoy for alleged ‘straw donor’ scheme in North Carolina”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=114950>
Posted on September 9, 2020 12:22 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=114950> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Release<https://www.commoncause.org/press-release/common-cause-nc-files-complaint-calling-for-investigation-of-u-s-postmaster-dejoy-for-alleged-straw-donor-scheme-in-north-carolina/>:
U.S. Postmaster Louis DeJoy should be investigated immediately for an alleged campaign donation scheme that may have violated North Carolina law, according to a complaint<https://www.commoncause.org/north-carolina/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2020/09/CCNC-v.-DeJoy-letter-to-AG-9.9.2020-FINAL.pdf> filed today by Common Cause NC with the State Board of Elections and also sent to Attorney General Josh Stein requesting a criminal investigation.
While CEO of High Point, NC-based New Breed Logistics from 2003-2014, DeJoy pressured employees of his company to make political contributions and later reimbursed those contributions through bonuses, according to former employees recently interviewed by The Washington Post<https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/louis-dejoy-campaign-contributions/2020/09/06/1187bc2c-e3fe-11ea-8181-606e603bb1c4_story.html>.
Such a ploy would violate North Carolina campaign finance laws, which prohibit making contributions in the name of another person, and may have been a means to illegally circumvent donation limits. State law also prohibits corporations from donating to campaigns, a provision that DeJoy may have violated by using his company’s funds to reimburse employees for making contributions to political candidates he supported.
While there is a five-year statute of limitations on federal campaign finance charges, there is no such statute of limitations in North Carolina.
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Posted in Uncategorized<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
Trump, Urging His Supporters to Be Poll Watchers, Says “Watch All the Thieving and Stealing and Robbing They Do” (Video)<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=114948>
Posted on September 9, 2020 9:44 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=114948> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Video<https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1303477067275792384?s=20>:
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“Trump deploys YouTube as his secret weapon in 2020”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=114946>
Posted on September 9, 2020 9:33 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=114946> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Politico:<https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/06/trumpyoutube-election-comeback-408576>
Most campaigns merely post their television spots on the site. Trump’s YouTube channel, however, is a voluminous and unique collection of news, campaign ads and original web shows. Negative ads like “Don’t let them ruin America” are paired with livestreamed series such as “Black Voices for Trump: Real Talk Online!<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBPtLGSPKiU>” and “The Right View.”<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9C8NJmK0pw> The campaign uploads and then tests hundreds of short videos of the president speaking, while also posting news clips about things like the jobs report<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FrWyCiT2TE> and the recent Serbia-Kosovo<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPZF5i4nDBg> deal.
As Trump’s reelection effort pulled back<https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-dark-tv-advertising-fight-biden-72737849> on television advertising over the past month<https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/26/trump-tv-ads-early-voting-401889>, it is pouring money and staff time into Google’s video platform. The campaign and its joint fund with the Republican National Committee have spent over $65 million on YouTube and Google — about $30 million of it since July. Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee joint committee, by comparison, have spent about $33 million on YouTube and Google during the entire campaign. (Google doesn’t provide an exact breakdown of the spending, but the Trump campaign said most of the money was for YouTube as opposed to search ads.)
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Posted in campaign finance<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, campaigns<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>
USPS in Houston is No Longer Letting League of Women Voters Put Voter Registration Materials in Post Offices<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=114944>
Posted on September 9, 2020 9:29 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=114944> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Just<https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Turner-questions-workers-refusal-to-display-15550980.php?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HC_DailyHeadlines&utm_term=news&utm_content=headlines&sid=599cec122ddf9c6a35e351f9> wow<http://www.houstontx.gov/govtrelations/09.2.2020-turner-letter-postmaster.pdf>.
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“Seven Election Day Nightmares; We asked security experts to tell us what keeps them up at night — and what to do about it.”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=114942>
Posted on September 9, 2020 9:26 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=114942> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Very valuable<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/opinion/election-security-trump.html?smid=tw-nytopinion&smtyp=cur> in NYT Opinion.
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Don’t Fall for Von Spakovsky’s “Tip of the Iceberg” Voter Fraud Bullshit Contained in Extensive Reuters Report on the Fraudulent Fraud Squad<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=114940>
Posted on September 9, 2020 9:01 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=114940> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Reuters does a deep div<https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-voter-fraud-special-repo/special-report-how-a-small-group-of-u-s-lawyers-pushed-voter-fraud-fears-into-the-mainstream-idUSKBN2601GZ>e into the small cadre of vote suppressors such as von Spakovsky, Christian Adams and Cleta Mitchell:
This year, the Trump campaign and the Republican Party have cited concerns about voter fraud in a nationwide legal battle with Democrats and voting-rights advocates over election procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic. These lawyers have played an important role, arguing for restrictions on mail-in voting in the closely-watched states of Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina.
Four nonprofits run by or linked to this network of lawyers – the Public Interest Legal Foundation, the American Constitutional Rights Union, Judicial Watch and True the Vote – have been involved in at least 61 lawsuits over election rules since 2012, according to a Reuters examination. More than half have been initiated since Trump took office in 2017, including 11 cases concerning absentee or mail-in voting.
These groups have helped lead a larger movement in the Republican Party that has seen states pass restrictions on voting, including strict voter identification laws passed by nine states since 2005. They have sought purges of voter rolls that could disproportionately affect minority voters, who tend to vote for the Democratic Party, according to voting-rights advocates and election officials who have opposed these efforts.
Reuters examined court records, tax filings and leaked documents from a conservative foundation to piece together for the first time how this tight network of lawyers became a force in American politics, working through nonprofit groups to secure funding from right-wing donors.
The network includes J. Christian Adams, president of the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), an Indiana-based group dedicated to election integrity; Hans von Spakovsky, who runs the election integrity program at the conservative Heritage Foundation; Christopher Coates, a former Department of Justice lawyer who now works with legal advocacy group Judicial Watch; and Cleta Mitchell, a prominent Republican lawyer who chairs PILF.
Trump, saying he wanted an investigation into supposed voter fraud, appointed Adams and von Spakovsky to an election integrity commission in May 2017. It disbanded after less than a year without finding evidence of significant fraud. Adams told Reuters that was not the group’s mission….
This line in the report really caught my eye:
Von Spakovsky said the fraud he has found is just the tip of the iceberg, because “many prosecutors have no interest in investigating or prosecuting such cases.”
As I wrote in Chapter 1 of Election Meltdown (in a chapter called, “The Icicle”), the “tip of the iceberg” line featured prominently in the Fish v. Kobach case in which Kris Kobach tried to defend a Kansas law requiring people to register to vote to provide documentary proof of citizenship first. Kobach claimed the very little amount of noncitizen voting was just the “tip of the iceberg,” a claimed backed up by his expert, von Spakovsky.
The trial judge found von Spakovsky not credible, sanctioned Kobach for misleading the court, and rejected the tip of the iceberg argument. The court wrote:
“Evidence that the voter rolls include ineligible citizens is weak. At most, 39 [non]citizens have found their way onto the Kansas voter rolls in the last 19 years. And, as [plaintiffs’ expert] Dr. [Eitan] Hersh explained, given the almost 2 million individuals on the Kansas voter rolls, some administrative anomalies are expected. In the case of Kansas, this includes 100 individuals in [the state database] with birth dates in the 1800s, and 400 individuals with birth dates after their date of registration.”
“There is no iceberg,” the judge concluded, “only an icicle, largely created by confusion and administrative error.”
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Sept. 22 Event: “A Government Of, By, and For [Some] People: Systems of Voter Disenfranchisement”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=114937>
Posted on September 9, 2020 8:30 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=114937> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Brooklyn Law School event:<http://brooklaw.imodules.com/controls/email_marketing/view_in_browser.aspx?sid=1286&gid=1&sendId=1658326&ecatid=17&puid=da97341d-b406-49f9-ba64-b9c0645166d8>
About the Forum
Leading up to a highly-contested presidential election, the Sparer Forum will focus on access to voting, particularly structural barriers to equal access such as poverty, disability, and criminal records. This systemic disenfranchisement of significant communities—disproportionately racial minorities and other marginalized groups—limits local, state, and federal democracy. The discussion among experts and advocates on election law and voting equality will also include reform and activism efforts.
This program is a two hour-long Zoom discussion with ample opportunity for audience questions.
Panelists
Christina Asbee<https://www.dropbox.com/s/m5r5kg8clq9hu9q/ChristyAsbee_Bio.pdf?dl=0>, Director (Assistive Technology and Voter Access Programs), Disability Rights New York (DRNY)
Wilfred U. Codrington III<https://www.brooklaw.edu/Contact-Us/Codrington-Wilfred>, Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
Jan Combopiano<https://bkvotersalliance.org/>, Senior Policy Director and member of the Executive Committee, Brooklyn Voters Alliance
Date & TimeTuesday, September 225:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Virtual Event (Zoom)
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Ohio: “Votes outstanding to be announced; State’s election night reporting will include the information.”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=114935>
Posted on September 9, 2020 8:04 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=114935> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Dayton Daily News:<https://epaper.daytondailynews.com/popovers/dynamic_article_popover.aspx?guid=2c8c1d4f-1512-41d3-b087-c55d752c40eb&pbid=66ab59ea-5cfc-438d-83e4-dc9e4a34f79d&utm_source=app.pagesuite&utm_medium=app-interaction&utm_campaign=pagesuite-epaper-html5_share-article>
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose will announce the number of absentee ballots requested but not received at local boards of elections by Election Day so Ohioans will know how many valid outstanding votes might still need counted.
LaRose on Tuesday said Tuesday that highlighting that information will give people an idea of how close races are after the polls close on Nov. 3.
It will be the first time Ohioans will see that information on the state’s election night reporting website.
This should be the rule everywhere. Great idea!
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“Study Finds Transgender Americans Face Voting Barriers in 2020 Presidential Election”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=114933>
Posted on September 9, 2020 7:05 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=114933> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
VOA:<https://www.voanews.com/2020-usa-votes/study-finds-transgender-americans-face-voting-barriers-2020-presidential-election>
One segment of the electorate may be unable to vote if poll workers are not able to certify their identity.
It is the reality facing hundreds of thousands of transgender Americans in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
An estimated 378,000 eligible transgender voters do not have identification such as a driver’s license that reflects their name, appearance or new gender identity, according to a study by the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law.
“If those poll workers decide that those ID’s don’t adequately or accurately reflect the person who is standing in front of them, they wouldn’t be able vote,” said Jody Herman, a research scholar and co-author of the report.
The article does not link to the study, but I believe it is this one<https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/trans-voter-id-impact/> from Feb. 2020.
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“Running an Election in a Pandemic, in 10 Steps”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=114931>
Posted on September 9, 2020 7:00 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=114931> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Useful<https://publicintegrity.org/politics/elections/ballotboxbarriers/running-election-lessons-pandemic-10-steps>, from CPI and Stateline.
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“Four questions before the courts that will shape how we vote”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=114929>
Posted on September 9, 2020 6:58 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=114929> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Amber Phillips for WaPo<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/09/four-questions-courts-are-deciding-that-will-shape-how-we-vote-by-mail-november/>.
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