Court Strikes Down Michigan January Primary

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Source: Detroit Free Press

Michigan's star-crossed bid to leap to the head of the presidential primary nominating process appeared to go up in smoke Wednesday as an Ingham County Circuit Court judge ruled that a provision in the law giving the Democratic and Republican parties exclusive access to voter lists from the Jan. 15 primary was unconstituional.

Judge William Collette said giving the parties exclusive access to the lists was equivalent to transferring public property to private interests and would have required 2/3 votes in the Legislature when the law was enacted last summer.

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The list provision presented "a clear injury to the public interest," Collette said, shutting out citizens, journalists and activists for the benefit of the two major political parties.




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This will get interesting...

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. is is is that SANITY that I sense?

cooooool.

[LisaM]

2. Great. More white Protestant men forever and ever.

Sigh.