(no subject)
DUANE MALETSKI, SHARON LOPEZ, FRANCES M. ZICK, and all others similarly situated, OBAMA FOR AMERICA, and DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE
v.
MACOMB COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY, MICHIGAN REPUBLICAN PARTY, REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE
[...]
Republican operatives have announced that they will seek to strip the right to vote of individuals who reside in homes for which a notice of foreclosure has been issued by making challenges on Election Day to each such citizen’s right to vote. This "lose your home, lose your vote" program is part of a broader scheme - misnamed an “election integrity” program - to harass voters and suppress the vote throughout the State of Michigan in the upcoming election on November 4.... The presence of an address on a list of foreclosures provides no legitimate basis for challenging a voter’s eligibility to vote, and use of such foreclosure lists for mass and systematic challenges can have but one purpose: to threaten, harass, and intimidate voters whom Defendant Republicans believe are unlikely to vote for their candidates....
Defendant Republicans have a long history of engaging in coordinated, systematic campaigns to suppress and deny the right to vote of American citizens. Those campaigns are often targeted at various racial groups, language minorities, or individuals of low or modest economic circumstances whom Defendant Republicans believe are unlikely to support them in political campaigns.... Defendant Republicans in this case appear to have plotted a new type of voter suppression tactic, similar to caging, but which exploits the devastating impact of the Nation’s home-mortgage crisis and threatens directly the rights of those teetering on the edge of losing their homes.
Fuck yeah!
::cheers::
That is some flame throwing! I love, love, love that this lawsuit is framed in broader terms than simply a "this tactic is probably not in compliance with this particular regulation"-type suit. I mean... EXACTLY.
Sing it, Barack-attorneys! ;)
v.
MACOMB COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY, MICHIGAN REPUBLICAN PARTY, REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE
[...]
Republican operatives have announced that they will seek to strip the right to vote of individuals who reside in homes for which a notice of foreclosure has been issued by making challenges on Election Day to each such citizen’s right to vote. This "lose your home, lose your vote" program is part of a broader scheme - misnamed an “election integrity” program - to harass voters and suppress the vote throughout the State of Michigan in the upcoming election on November 4.... The presence of an address on a list of foreclosures provides no legitimate basis for challenging a voter’s eligibility to vote, and use of such foreclosure lists for mass and systematic challenges can have but one purpose: to threaten, harass, and intimidate voters whom Defendant Republicans believe are unlikely to vote for their candidates....
Defendant Republicans have a long history of engaging in coordinated, systematic campaigns to suppress and deny the right to vote of American citizens. Those campaigns are often targeted at various racial groups, language minorities, or individuals of low or modest economic circumstances whom Defendant Republicans believe are unlikely to support them in political campaigns.... Defendant Republicans in this case appear to have plotted a new type of voter suppression tactic, similar to caging, but which exploits the devastating impact of the Nation’s home-mortgage crisis and threatens directly the rights of those teetering on the edge of losing their homes.
Fuck yeah!
::cheers::
That is some flame throwing! I love, love, love that this lawsuit is framed in broader terms than simply a "this tactic is probably not in compliance with this particular regulation"-type suit. I mean... EXACTLY.
Sing it, Barack-attorneys! ;)