Posted on 10/26/2004 6:20:18 PM PDT by 11th_VA
MIAMI Florida election officials will not be required to process incomplete voter registration forms for the presidential election, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
U.S. District Judge James Lawrence King said the three prospective voters for whom the lawsuit was filed did not have the legal standing to pursue the case, which was backed by the AFL-CIO. But he gave the union group a chance to file a new version of the lawsuit next month with people who meet the standard.
That leaves the AFL-CIO and the Advancement Project, a social action group, on the losing side of an attempt to force election officials to accept applications from people who failed to check a citizenship box on registration forms in time for the Nov. 2 election.
Sheila Thomas, an attorney with the Washington-based Advancement Project, said the plaintiffs were considering an appeal. The group argued that the rejections had a disparate effect on minorities. Nearly 45 percent of the challenged forms in one county, Duval, came from blacks.
"Our goal is still to see if we can get relief for our clients before Election Day," she said.
The decision is the latest from courts across the state that rejected attempts to broaden voter rights on touch-screen recounts, provisional ballots and early voting.
"Once again, federal and state laws are very clear on which sections of the voter registration forms have to be filled out to deem that application complete," said Alia Faraj, spokeswoman for Secretary of State Glenda Hood.
She also said the state recognized that it was a procedural move by the judge, who left the unions and other groups options to come back to court later.
Applicants filling out registration cards are required to sign a form that, among other things, attests to U.S. citizenship, but the form also has a separate box to be checked by citizens.
The union coalition sued Hood and election supervisors in Duval, Orange, Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties.
Just more efforts on the part of the democrats to ignore the Rule of Law and attempt to steal the election.
Why do these idiots think the rules are put into place. To ensure that only legally registered voters are able to vote. So the democrats work to delete the rules so anyone can vote - even if an illegal alien, or alien as far as that goes.
It sounds like it is beginning to suck to a Dem lawyer.
Man those sound familiar.
beginning?
Everything has a negative effect on someone and a positive effect on someone to one degree or another. That's the way it is and the way it always will be. It's called reality.
That's what the legal system has become. It's just a game with winners and losers. The law is strictly secondary.
I hate when the law is followed.
Save your sympathy. They are being well paid.
G-D says world ends. NY slimes says women and minorities hit hardest. Wall St. Journal says markets to close early. credit to Rush for this one.
Now that's funny!
Federal law requires an absentee voter to include a copy of their driver's license (or other identification)when the voter is a new voter to a location.
Just encountered this law this week when helping family members fill out absentee ballots. Does anyone have any idea how long this has been in existence? This is a GREAT law -- should cut down on fraud. It appeared that the first time voter would also have to show ID if voting in person.
I caught a report on FOX the other day that said the democrats had filed something like 25 seperate lawsuits. Judges had ruled against them in 22 of those cases.
I think the democrats have decided to screw the law and judges aren't happy about it at all.
Damn it, why should Democrats be subject to election laws!!!
DISENFRENCHFRIEMENT!!!
AS it should be! I'm sick and tired of cowtowing to those who don't want to follow instructions but expect to get their way after a bit of whining!
The law is on the side of the good: Bush!!!!!!
I wonder if this has anything to do with the rumor of Kerry pulling out of Flordia
i'll take fries with that too.
one who assimilates into society will understand how to vote and not have to be told.
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