Judge temporarily blocks possible Iowa voter purge

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Fri Sep 14, 2012 8:20pm EDT

(Reuters) - An Iowa judge issued a temporary injunction on Friday blocking the state's plans to verify the citizenship status of voters before the November 6 election in the Midwestern swing state.

The injunction was a setback for Iowa's Republican Governor Terry Branstad, whose government had hoped to check on the citizenship of more than 3,500 people to purge state voter rolls of potential illegal immigrants.

Iowa District Court Judge Mary Pat Grunderson said the effort to verify the legal status of voters could not proceed while a lawsuit against the potential voter purge goes forward.

"The court concludes the harm that granting the temporary injunction may prevent outweighs the harm that may result from denying it," the judge wrote in her 12-page ruling.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/15/us-usa-iowa-voting-idUSBRE88E00120120915

[davidpdx]

1. The Republicans seem to be losing most of these cases

Are there any they have actually won (upheld the laws)? The courts are pushing back on the voter repression laws.

[INdemo]

6. Yep..my first thought..Looks like the wheels are

falling off the Republicans attempts to destroy our Democracy..now on to the ruing in PA.

[chuckstevens]

2. Amendment

We need a constitution amendment that completely gut the electoral process in the USA. It should:

A. Outlaw electronic Voting Machines in al 50 states.
B. Dis-allow all Voter Photo Ids requirements, utility bills as proof of address should still be valid.
C. Get rid of the Columbus Day holiday and make election day a national holiday.
D. Create non-partisan election officials. (No more Katherine Harris calling the shots)
E. Get rid of the Electoral College.
F. Overturn Citizens United.

"You may say, I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."

[randome]

3. That IS dreaming, unfortunately.

Because states will not give up their rights to conduct elections their own way.

[heaven05]

4. chuckie!

chuckie! chuckie! you're spot on. 100 percent correct. Especially columbus day. You got my vote.

[defacto7]

9. I can dream this dream too....

sigh.....

[Coyotl]

5. The Rs are losing a lot of these voter suppression cases, PA is next!

And, they are in the news constantly for voter suppression, creating more and more backlash
Isn't that called shooting yourself in the foot

[47of74]

7. I'm glad to see it too

The current secretary of state sets off all my creepy little fuckstick alarms. And he tried to ram these rules through on an emergency basis instead of going through the process.

[Thor_MN]

8. The increasing illegality of the GOP agenda should be headline news

Of course, the conservatives decry it as Liberals turning to the courts to fight their battles. They refuse to acknowledge that the courts are merely doing their job to overturn bad legislation.

[hrmjustin]

10. good for the judgen/t