Federal judge blocks Indiana from enforcing voter purge lawhttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-indiana-election/federal-judge-blocks-indiana-from-enforcing-voter-purge-law-idUSKCN1J5024Quote
U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt ruled in a legal challenge brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of Common Cause Indiana and other groups that the legislation violates the National Voter Registration Act and threatens to disenfranchise eligible voters.
“The court agrees with Common Cause that the greater public interest is in allowing eligible voters to exercise their right to vote without being disenfranchised without notice,” Pratt wrote in her 28-page ruling.
“While the defendants have a strong public interest in protecting the integrity of voter registration rolls and the electoral process, they have other procedures in place that can protect that public interest that do not violate the NVRA,” Pratt wrote in granting a preliminary injunction.
That injunction bars the state from enforcing the law while the lawsuit is fought in court.
So-called Indiana Senate Enrolled Act 442, which was approved by lawmakers in 2017, amends the state’s voter registration laws to allow elections officials to remove from the rolls any voters found registered in another state by a system called Crosscheck that is administered by the Kansas Secretary of State.
How dare the ACLU think that people would be silly enough to... go vote in more than one state?
Here we have a very intelligent law that would prevent just that, yet the ACLU and ofc the plaintiffs, intend to tie this up in court, until after the Nov 2018 elections.
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The plaintiffs successfully argued that the legislation violated the National Voter Registration Act because that system relied on incomplete and sometimes flawed registration information, did not seek written confirmation from the voter before removing them and was not applied uniformly.
The defendants argued that registering to vote in another state should be considered written confirmation in itself and that the plaintiffs could not demonstrate that any voter had been wrongfully removed so far, arguments that Pratt rejected.
No doubt this is just another, the black man is oppressed, bunch of crap. Yes, the judge that made this ruling is... black, and ofc failed to take into consideration the convenient timing of this suit.
Yep the black man is oppressed when whitey doesn't want him to vote in one state, and then quickly vote in another sate as well.
No, I am not racist. Just kinda tired of this kind of BS.
/e Yeah, I felt the same way about the opposition to the voter ID law. Another good law that will HELP to keep our various elections... fair and on the up and up.
/ee More about this...
https://www.theindianalawyer.com/articles/44712-naacp-asserts-new-state-laws-disenfranchise-indiana-votersThis post was edited by Ghot on Jun 9 2018 08:16am