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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFederal judge green-lights collection of voter data
The commission's vice chairman, Kris Kobach, sent a letter to all 50 states requesting a slew of voter roll data in late June. Kobach said he was only asking for what was publicly available under the laws of each state, but the request nevertheless triggered rapid-fire litigation in federal courts, including a suit by a privacy rights group in which claimed the commission had failed to comply with federal law and the request violated constitutionally-protected privacy rights.
The commission ceased all collection efforts earlier this month and opted to switch from using a Defense Department website to host the voter data to having it maintained by an existing system within the White House.
US District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly concluded Monday that the Electronic Privacy Information Center did not have standing to sue on all of its claims under existing case law.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/24/politics/judge-denies-restraining-order-on-voter-data/index.html
pangaia
(24,324 posts)haele
(12,688 posts)I'm sure she's sleeps very soundly with her ideas of what constitutes morality, privacy, as well as what constitutes a citizen and a native born non-citizen.
Haele
pangaia
(24,324 posts)For god sakes that's ugly.
Tanuki
(14,926 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,131 posts)LenaBaby61
(6,979 posts)We won't be able TO vote.
2018 & 2020 looking more like thuglicans/putin & the ruskies completely destroying the last of our democracy and cementing in a permanent thuglican majority in control of EVERYTHING.
Igel
(35,383 posts)It makes the judge's ruling fairly clear.
(Do *not* read what the media say the request was, what Twitter says the request was, what most posts on DU say the request was. Find the original source, the citation text, and read that.)
Sailor65x1
(554 posts)Anyone who actually reads the article will see that the judge did not find "For" trump, nor did she state that he was right. The ruling is only that the plaintiff did not have standing on all points, and that her court could not exercise judicial review because of technical points.
But hey, now that she's the "Enemy," lets' make fun of her hair, her clothes, her age, her face, because we're so right!
Eliot Rosewater
(31,131 posts)also, my bad.
MindPilot
(12,693 posts)For years the courts have made it more and more difficult to demonstrate standing. Thereby making the courts less and less accessible to the average citizen, and essentially finding for the government by default.
So yes, she is one of "them" and should be treated as such.
I'm calling my local registrar of voters tomorrow to see if I can de-register.
dragonlady
(3,577 posts)I would be interested in knowing more about your thought process here. Losing my right as a citizen to vote for the candidates I favor would absolutely crush me and I would never do it voluntarily.
MindPilot
(12,693 posts)Or more accurately you've lost your right to cast a vote that counts for anything.
Did the person who won the election move into the office? Do the people you voted for actually represent your interests? Unless you live in Iowa, you have virtually no input regarding who runs.
Here in California, the primaries are pretty much already decided by the time we get to cast our ballots.
I've voted in every election since I turned 18, and over the years it has become more and more a meaningless exercise in futility that serves only to make me feel like I'm doing something worthwhile...like recycling.