Court pushes back on GOP dirty tricks in Georgia - voter suppression will not be allowed!

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Georgia must allow thousands of people whose citizenship was questioned by the state's new voter verification system to vote in the upcoming election, a panel of federal judges ruled Monday.

The court ruling will affect about 4,500 people in Georgia who had been "flagged" by the new voter verification system and faced being denied a chance to vote Nov. 4 because their citizenship was questioned.

It could also affect more than 50,000 other registered Georgia voters also flagged by the new system because of mismatches in their personal identification information, such as discrepancies in addresses.

The three-judge panel also ordered Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel to inform all the flagged voters that they can vote.

"We are very pleased that the court agreed with our legal position that the state violated the Voting Rights Act," said Elise Shore, a lawyer with one of the civil right groups who brought the lawsuit.

Shore said the ruling applies to the 4,500 Georgians that were flagged for citizenship reasons and she was uncertain whether it applied to the some 50,000 others that were flagged for other reasons.

The issue was raised in a lawsuit filed on behalf of a Georgia college student who claimed that the secretary of state's voter verification system violated the Voting Rights Act and the National Voter Registration Act and caused an illegal purge of voters in the weeks before the election.

Federal law prohibits widespread voter purges within 90 days of the election. In Georgia, that has become a heated issue with some calling the purge "voter suppression."

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/...te-court-rules/

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Thank God.

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Viva Democracy.

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Good for them. However, this doesn't count the millions who will be yet again disenfranchised for the smallest and more trivial errors, either made themselves or administratively.

However, voting is now politicized too, and look no further than the example of Florida with their heavy fines for stupid #######. Evidently the people who are in charge of representing the people only care to let the people that will vote for them vote.

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Viva Democracy.

Y viva la revolucion!

This time next year we'll all be wearing red socks and smokin' Cubans.