Judge blocks Michigan's ban on transporting voters to polls

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/judge-blocks-michigan-s-ban-transporting-voters-polls-n1240432

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.

“Congress implemented a statutory scheme and gave citizens the right to spend money on transporting voters to the polls,” Davis wrote.

The judge separately rejected the nonprofits’ challenge to the state’s restrictions on helping people apply for absentee ballots.

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[RhodeIslandOne]

1. Good! Fuck all Republicans!

[Sherman A1]

2. +1

[VMA131Marine]

3. How has this ban been in place so long?

Seems to violate basic rights to freedom of association.