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Related: About this forumAlabama Secretary of State's office posts news release required by court order
The Alabama Secretary of States office Friday sent a news release that a plan to inactivate people the office suspected of not being U.S. citizens had been held up by a court order.
The brief news release, required under a limited preliminary injunction against Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allens efforts, contained links to the earlier news release that was superseded by court order, as well as a link to the federal court order and links to remedial mailers.
Manasco on Wednesday wrote that Allens attempts blew the deadline under the National Voter Registration Act, which requires election law changes to be made no later than 90 days before an election. Allens order came on the 84th day before the election. The judge also noted that the secretary of states office had acknowledged that some citizens had been caught in the process.
The preliminary injunction included other remedies, such as providing remedial mailers to send to some possibly eligible voters. The injunction expires the day after the general election.
https://alabamareflector.com/briefs/alabama-secretary-of-states-office-posts-news-release-required-by-court-order/
Eliot Rosewater
(32,537 posts)Think. Again.
(19,131 posts)... that clearly explained the National Voter Registration Act would have quashed these voter supression tactics (that the doj should have assumed were coming).
I think it's very clear that the doj will be continuing to do the least it possibly can to protect the public over the next few months. Thank goodness that volunteer, civilian groups like Marc Elias' law firm, the American Bar Association, and others, are preparing to do the justice department's work for them.