U.S. Asks Judge to Drop Mich. Ballot Case

Ruby Romaine

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Tue Oct-19-04 11:46 AM
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U.S. Asks Judge to Drop Mich. Ballot Case

LANSING, Mich. (AP) - The Justice Department asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Michigan Democrats that seeks to require the state to count provisional ballots cast by voters who go to the wrong polling precinct.

The Justice Department argued in a friend-of-the-court brief Monday that the 2002 Help America Vote Act does not give individuals the right to sue if they believe their state has violated the law. Rather, they should go through a state administrative complaint process or rely on a U.S. attorney to file suit, the government said.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-4561391,00.html

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Boredtodeath

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Tue Oct-19-04 11:55 AM
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1. Woot, and there it is folks - the REAL "November" surprise

HAVA removed the right of the citizen to bring a lawsuit for voter disenfranchisement.

The DOJ fully intends to have every suit brought after the election dismissed for "lack of standing."

The voter is being completely shut out of the process. THAT was the intent of HAVA - not to repair the process of recounts (they eliminated them); not to make voter intent paramount in counting votes (they eliminated that); but to shut the citizen out of the legal process entirely.

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Bandit

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Tue Oct-19-04 12:01 PM
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3. Yes you are quite correct and notice the media source informing us

It ain't American Media....that's for sure.

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Ruby Romaine

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Tue Oct-19-04 03:16 PM
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6. it's ridiculous that we need to look at the Guardian to find out what's

going on at home!

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proReality

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Tue Oct-19-04 12:00 PM
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2. Why is it that we always seem to have to find out what our government

is up to from media across the wide expanse of salty water?!

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hedda_foil

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Tue Oct-19-04 12:30 PM
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4. The judge is a Clinton appointee.

http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/sept00ttb/milestones.html
(Note: Sept 2000 date of announcement)

Appointed: David M. Lawson, as U.S. District Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, August 4.

At least he's not likely to be a wingnut. Does anyone know anything else about his background?

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Steelangel

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Tue Oct-19-04 12:38 PM
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5. I hope that judge will ignore JD's request...

since that is totally unfair.

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librechik

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Tue Oct-19-04 03:23 PM
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7. Judge said NO! all provisional ballots will be counted anywhere

Edited on Tue Oct-19-04 03:27 PM by librechik

today in the FreePress.
heres' the link

http://www.freep.com/news/statewire/sw105910_20041019.htm

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