Constitutional Law

Voters Wrongly Yanked From Rolls In Colo. And Mich., Will Be Allowed To Vote, Courts Say

Voters improperly removed from the rolls in Colorado and Michigan will be allowed to cast ballots on Election Day. An agreement approved by a federal court in Denver holds that voters were removed from the rolls within 90 days of a federal election, which is prohibited by federal law. Those voters will be allowed to vote and the onus is on Colorado officials to prove they were ineligible to vote before their ballots could be discarded. A federal appeals court in Michigan ruled that state election officials wrongly tossed out registrations of more than 5,000 voters and concluded they must be allowed to vote.

Full post as published by ACS Blog on October 30, 2008 (boomark / email).