Category Archives: campaigns

Ballot Selfies Used to Coerce Voters in Russia (or More Evidence Why Mark Joseph Stern is Wrong)

September 26, 2016, 12:09 pmcampaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

More evidence that Mark Joseph Stern is super wrong on ballot selfies. It is not just about vote buying, but coercion: Instead, Garrels’s subjects follow the time-tested Russian strategies of adaptation and circumvention. On the eve of recent elections,… Continue reading

Presidential Election Law Forum at Fordham on Friday

September 26, 2016, 12:05 pmcampaignsRick Hasen

Announcement via email: Friday, September 30, 2016 at Fordham Law School, 150 West 62 Street, New York City Lunch and Welcome Reception (12:00 to 12:30) Panel 1 (12:30 to 1:50) (Moderated by Professor Jerry Goldfeder): Prof. Edward B. Foley (Third-Party… Continue reading

“FCC Has Failed to Protect Voters’ Right to Know Who Is Behind Political Ads in Election 2016”

September 26, 2016, 8:03 amcampaignsRick Hasen

Release: The Campaign Legal Center, Common Cause, Sunlight Foundation and Benton Foundation today filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission urging the agency to take immediate action against WCPO-TV of Cincinnati for failure to comply with the longstanding public… Continue reading

“Hillary Clinton Endorsed By Campaign Finance Reformers”

September 25, 2016, 3:28 pmcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

HuffPo: The campaign finance reform organization Every Voice made its first endorsement in a presidential election on Friday, backing Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Every Voice, which used to be known as Public Campaign Action Fund, has endorsed candidates from both… Continue reading

“Why it’s so hard to know who is funding the marijuana legalization battle”

September 25, 2016, 3:26 pmcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

OC Register: One published media report this month said the campaign to legalize marijuana in California had raised $18 million. Within days, other major news outlets pegged the total at just one-third that amount, while a nonprofit campaign watchdog group… Continue reading

“Trump campaign quarrels over money woes”

September 25, 2016, 11:36 amcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

Politico reports.

Full Court Press to Get #SCOTUS to Take Up WI #JohnDoe Case (As It Should)

September 25, 2016, 11:34 amcampaign finance, campaigns, judicial elections, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Lincoln Caplan in the New Yorker. Billy Corriher at Think Progress.

Mark Joseph Stern Wrong on Ballot Selfies

September 25, 2016, 11:31 amcampaigns, chicanery, election administrationRick Hasen

Here’s the part in Slate that’s most objectionable to me: Second, the (still relatively rare) instances of voter fraud to which Hasen alludes likely would not have been foiled by a ballot selfie ban. Vote-buying almost always occurs through mail-in… Continue reading

“From Russia With Trump: A Political Conflict Zone”

September 25, 2016, 10:57 amcampaigns, conflict of interest lawsRick Hasen

ABC News investigative report: Donald Trump and his children have for years promoted themselves and their real estate opportunities in Russia and other former Soviet states, and ethics experts say if he is elected President the get-tough U.S. sanctions against… Continue reading

“Campaign mega-donors spill on why they open their wallets”

September 25, 2016, 10:47 amcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

Dave Levinthal on the excellent panel he ran at the Texas Tribune Festival: A small group of campaign super-donors agreed that the campaign finance system in the U.S. needs reform, but said in the meantime, they are following the rules… Continue reading

“Justice Kennedy Laments ‘Hostile, Fractious’ U.S. Politics”

September 25, 2016, 10:42 amcampaigns, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

NLJ: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy decried the current state of political discourse on Friday, telling an audience at the International Bar Association conference in Washington that the country’s divisions had reverberations around the globe. “The verdict on freedom… Continue reading

“Elite ‘bundlers’ raise more than $113 million for Hillary Clinton”

September 25, 2016, 10:28 amcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

Michael Beckel reports for CPI.

“Reforming the Contested Convention: Rethinking the Presidential Nomination Process”

September 25, 2016, 10:27 amcampaignsRick Hasen

Michael Morley has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Fordham Law Review). Here is the abstract: The presidential nomination process used by the Democrat and Republican Parties is an ill-considered, unstable pastiche of competing components that generally operate in fundamentally… Continue reading

“Russian hackers trying to influence U.S. elections, conclude top Intel Democrats”

September 22, 2016, 1:49 pmcampaigns, chicanery, election administrationRick Hasen

Politico reports. The top Democrats on the House and Senate Intelligence panels said Thursday that they are convinced, based on briefings, that senior Russian officials are trying to sway or disrupt the U.S. elections. “Based on briefings we have received,… Continue reading