Monday, October 27, 2008
Federal judges support right to vote in Georgia
There was an earlier story about the state of Georgia purging the voter roles of voters who had discrepencies between their voter registration and other data such a licenses and Social Security. Today a three judge panel of the federal bench ruled that the state must allow those purged to vote, including US born voters who were informed that they were not citizens.
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.Someone should send the Republicans a 90 day calender.
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."
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