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General Category => Elections 2020 => Topic started by: Free Vulcan on September 18, 2020, 03:45:48 pm
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Sept. 18, 2020, 9:56 AM CDT
By The Associated Press
LANSING, Mich. — A federal judge has blocked Michigan’s longstanding ban on transporting voters to the polls, ruling it conflicts with U.S. election law.
District Judge Stephanie Dawkins Davis in Detroit issued an injunction Thursday against enforcing the restriction in November’s presidential election. A form of the prohibition has been on the books since 1895.
The ban had been challenged by groups including Priorities USA — a liberal super PAC that has said it plans to spend millions mobilizing and turning out voters in the battleground state — and the Detroit/Downriver chapter of the union-affiliated A. Philip Randolph Institute.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/judge-blocks-michigan-s-ban-transporting-voters-polls-n1240432 (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/judge-blocks-michigan-s-ban-transporting-voters-polls-n1240432)