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malaise

(268,930 posts)
Mon Jan 14, 2013, 03:58 PM Jan 2013

Supreme Court Rejects Republican National Committee Attempt To End Anti-Voter Intimidation Order

Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah hahahahaha
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/14/supreme-court-voter-intimidation_n_2471791.html
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The Supreme Court has turned down an effort by the Republican National Committee to end a 30-year-old court order aimed at preventing intimidation of minority voters.

The justices did not comment Monday in rejecting an appeal of lower court decisions that left the order in place at least until 2017.


The order stems from a lawsuit filed by Democrats in New Jersey in 1981 that objected to a "ballot security" program the RNC ran in minority neighborhoods.

Republicans said the order hampers efforts to combat voter fraud, but U.S. District Judge Dickinson Debevoise said voter intimidation remains a threat and preventing it outweighs the potential danger of fraud.

The court action is unrelated to legal challenges to Republican-inspired voter identification laws in the 2012 campaign.
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Supreme Court Rejects Republican National Committee Attempt To End Anti-Voter Intimidation Order (Original Post) malaise Jan 2013 OP
k/r rec sasha031 Jan 2013 #1
You're welcome malaise Jan 2013 #3
Geee, I wonder why? Coyotl Jan 2013 #2
And the order remains in place malaise Jan 2013 #4
Thank Goodness.. Pleasantly Surprised the Cha Jan 2013 #5
Yep malaise Jan 2013 #6
K & R Scurrilous Jan 2013 #7
K&R Kurovski Jan 2013 #8

Kurovski

(34,655 posts)
8. K&R
Tue Jan 15, 2013, 05:43 AM
Jan 2013

There's something about the RNC I don't care for. just can't figure it out.

I guess I'm just a hater.

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