Federal judge green-lights collection of voter data

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(CNN)A federal judge in DC declined to block President Donald Trump's voter integrity commission from collecting data on voters from 50 states in a ruling on Monday, handing a win to an administration inundated by lawsuits over the commission's request.

The commission's vice chairman, Kris Kobach, sent a letter to all 50 states requesting a slew of voter roll data in late June. Kobach said he was only asking for what was publicly available under the laws of each state, but the request nevertheless triggered rapid-fire litigation in federal courts, including a suit by a privacy rights group in which claimed the commission had failed to comply with federal law and the request violated constitutionally-protected privacy rights.

The commission ceased all collection efforts earlier this month and opted to switch from using a Defense Department website to host the voter data to having it maintained by an existing system within the White House.

US District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly concluded Monday that the Electronic Privacy Information Center did not have standing to sue on all of its claims under existing case law.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/24/politics/judge-denies-restraining-order-on-voter-data/index.html

[pangaia]

1. That's a judge?

[haele]

2. Dolores Umbridge's Muggle cousin.

I'm sure she's sleeps very soundly with her ideas of what constitutes morality, privacy, as well as what constitutes a citizen and a native born non-citizen.

Haele

[pangaia]

3. Plus she has no taste on clothes.

For god sakes that's ugly.

[Tanuki]

5. Looks like something from the Hunger Games.

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. If states have to do this, the democracy is done, no point in voting.

[LenaBaby61]

7. "If states have to do this, the democracy is done, no point in voting."

We won't be able TO vote.

2018 & 2020 looking more like thuglicans/putin & the ruskies completely destroying the last of our democracy and cementing in a permanent thuglican majority in control of EVERYTHING.

[Igel]

13. Read the request.

It makes the judge's ruling fairly clear.

(Do *not* read what the media say the request was, what Twitter says the request was, what most posts on DU say the request was. Find the original source, the citation text, and read that.)

[Sailor65x1]

6. Yes, bring on the now-common DU misogyny

Anyone who actually reads the article will see that the judge did not find "For" trump, nor did she state that he was right. The ruling is only that the plaintiff did not have standing on all points, and that her court could not exercise judicial review because of technical points.

But hey, now that she's the "Enemy," lets' make fun of her hair, her clothes, her age, her face, because we're so right!

[Eliot Rosewater]

8. Misogyny , yes. I focused on the content and should have remarked about the misogyny

also, my bad.

[MindPilot]

10. True, but that's how the courts function to deny these cases.

For years the courts have made it more and more difficult to demonstrate standing. Thereby making the courts less and less accessible to the average citizen, and essentially finding for the government by default.

So yes, she is one of "them" and should be treated as such.

I'm calling my local registrar of voters tomorrow to see if I can de-register.

[dragonlady]

12. Do you really want to give up your right to vote?

I would be interested in knowing more about your thought process here. Losing my right as a citizen to vote for the candidates I favor would absolutely crush me and I would never do it voluntarily.

[MindPilot]

14. You've already lost your right to vote.

Or more accurately you've lost your right to cast a vote that counts for anything.

Did the person who won the election move into the office? Do the people you voted for actually represent your interests? Unless you live in Iowa, you have virtually no input regarding who runs.

Here in California, the primaries are pretty much already decided by the time we get to cast our ballots.

I've voted in every election since I turned 18, and over the years it has become more and more a meaningless exercise in futility that serves only to make me feel like I'm doing something worthwhile...like recycling.

[rickford66]

9. She should have recrused herself. She shares Trumps hairdresser.

[MindPilot]

11. Looks like she could use some eyebrow pencil too... n/t