Posted on 10/26/2008 10:00:29 AM PDT by jasonmyos
MADISON, Wis. (Legal Newsline) - Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen said Thursday he will appeal a court ruling today that threw out his lawsuit to force officials to cross-check information on voter rolls.
"I believe today's decision was an erroneous interpretation of the law," the Republican attorney general said. "When a lower court gets the law wrong, parties appeal to a higher court, and that's what I will do.
Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi dismissed the lawsuit Thursday, saying Van Hollen lacked the authority to sue to force the state Government Accountability Board to comply with the federal Help America Vote Act of 2002, known as HAVA.
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Liberal Line: But it would be impossible to verify all those registrations.
Conservative response: And yet you seem to think it’s doable with regards to registering all gun owners.
From a former resident of that county, you’ve got that right in a sense, but its really only a certain segment of Mad City, driven by the campus Commies, socialists and the fringe idiots, comprising the loosely definable populace of the Berkeley of the Midwest, that give the city and county a radical left-wing reputation.
Who would want to sully our own election returns and not validate votes?
Where is J. Edgar Hoover when we need him??
Why should the SoS, or any state election official, have to sue anyone. Just demand a birth certificate of all candidates wishing to run for President. No BC, no name on the ballot.Simple. Let BO sue to *not* need to supply his.
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