Judge Sides with Voting Rights Groups

ipsnews.net — A federal judge ruled Monday that the current practices to purge the voter rolls in Michigan are illegal and ordered Republican Secretary of State Terry Lynn Land to immediately stop the cancellation of registered voters whose voter identification cards are returned as undeliverable in the mail. The purging of registered voters, many of whom lost their homes to bank foreclosure, in the state of Michigan prompted the federal lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union, United States Student Association Foundation and the Advancement Project, and resulted in calls in Congress for a Justice Department investigation.

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