THU., OCT 23, 2008 - 1:33 PM
Judge tosses lawsuit challenging voter registration checks
Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen may appeal Thursday's ruling directly
to the state Supreme Court, a spokesman said today.
A Dane County circuit judge today dismissed a lawsuit by Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen to require the state elections agency to check voter registrations against other state databases dating to 2006, which critics said could have thrown hundreds of thousands of registrations into doubt.
Full story here.
Guess which subset of the population of voter registrations would be more likely to be put into doubt? Those who move more often -- the young, those who rent, i.e., those more likely to vote Democrat.
