Dark money may have bought a judge for State Farm Insurance

https://www.reuters.com/article/legal-us-otc-darkmoney/behind-250-million-state-farm-settlement-a-wild-tale-of-dark-money-in-judicial-elections-idUSKCN1LL2ZQ

 

Consumers lost a class action suit against State Farm Insurance in Illinois’ highest court. It turns out that State Farm financed the campaign of one of the Illinois high court judges. Now the consumers are suing in federal court alleging racketeering by the judge and State Farm.

 

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Get Money Out – Maryland (GMOM)

 “We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” – Louis Brandeis

 

 

Who is to blame for Arizona voting snafus?

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/08/28/election-day-voting-secretary-state-calls-extended-poll-hours-voting-locations/1124910002/

 

Contractor (Insight Enterprises) and the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office are pointing at each other.

 

Charlie Cooper

 

 

 

Vendor fails to set up voting machines in Arizona's Maricopa County

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/28/politics/arizona-extended-voting-issues/index.html

 

The board of supervisors refused to name the vendor or extend voting hours after 62 polling places did not open on time.

 

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Re: Federal District Court find NC congressional districts to be unconstitutionally partisan

That is pretty blatant and disgusting! Of course, living in Maryland it's tough to throw stones.

Unfortunately I can't read the NYT article without subscribing.

Sheila

On Aug 28, 2018, at 11:04 AM, 'Martin Wulfe' via GMOM-volunteers <GMOM-volunteers@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Yes, it will be daunting, and they may need to postpone their actual election until the end of the year.  There's a good article in the NY Times about it: Federal Court Throws Out North Carolina's Congressional Districts, Again. The arrogance of the Republicans was astonishing, according to that article:

 

"I propose that we draw the maps to give a partisan advantage to 10 Republicans and three Democrats, because I do not believe it's possible to draw a map with 11 Republicans and two Democrats," David R. Lewis, a North Carolina state representative who helped lead the remapping, said in 2016.

 

Marty

 

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Wow. Good news for democracy, although the idea of trying to redistrict before November seems daunting.

 

Sheila

On Aug 28, 2018, at 10:02 AM, Charlie Cooper <charlie.coop47@gmail.com> wrote:

 

https://electionlawblog.org/?p=100857

 

"If this opinion stands (and given the current 4-4 split on the Supreme Court, any emergency action could well fail, leaving the lower court opinion in place), the court may well order new districts be drawn in time for the 2018 elections."

 

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RE: Federal District Court find NC congressional districts to be unconstitutionally partisan

Yes, it will be daunting, and they may need to postpone their actual election until the end of the year.  There's a good article in the NY Times about it: Federal Court Throws Out North Carolina's Congressional Districts, Again. The arrogance of the Republicans was astonishing, according to that article:

 

"I propose that we draw the maps to give a partisan advantage to 10 Republicans and three Democrats, because I do not believe it's possible to draw a map with 11 Republicans and two Democrats," David R. Lewis, a North Carolina state representative who helped lead the remapping, said in 2016.

 

Marty

 

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Wow. Good news for democracy, although the idea of trying to redistrict before November seems daunting.

 

Sheila

On Aug 28, 2018, at 10:02 AM, Charlie Cooper <charlie.coop47@gmail.com> wrote:

 

https://electionlawblog.org/?p=100857

 

"If this opinion stands (and given the current 4-4 split on the Supreme Court, any emergency action could well fail, leaving the lower court opinion in place), the court may well order new districts be drawn in time for the 2018 elections."

 

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Re: Federal District Court find NC congressional districts to be unconstitutionally partisan

Wow. Good news for democracy, although the idea of trying to redistrict before November seems daunting.

Sheila

On Aug 28, 2018, at 10:02 AM, Charlie Cooper <charlie.coop47@gmail.com> wrote:

https://electionlawblog.org/?p=100857

 

"If this opinion stands (and given the current 4-4 split on the Supreme Court, any emergency action could well fail, leaving the lower court opinion in place), the court may well order new districts be drawn in time for the 2018 elections."

 

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RE: Federal District Court find NC congressional districts to be unconstitutionally partisan

And if these new districts are used in the 2018 election, that in itself could swing the House Democratic.

 

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Subject: Federal District Court find NC congressional districts to be unconstitutionally partisan

 

https://electionlawblog.org/?p=100857

 

"If this opinion stands (and given the current 4-4 split on the Supreme Court, any emergency action could well fail, leaving the lower court opinion in place), the court may well order new districts be drawn in time for the 2018 elections."

 

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