A little good news, for a change, re: voting rights:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

http://www.kare11.com/news/article/987215/396/Lawsuit-to-end-same-day-voter-registration-dismissed-

Election-day voter registration will continue in Minnesota this year after a federal judge rejected a lawsuit that sought to end it.

Minnesota Public Radio reported Friday that federal Judge Donovan Frank dismissed the challenge to same-day registration from two conservative groups and seven individuals, who contended that ineligible voters cast ballots in 2008 and 2010.

Frank's ruling found that no federal laws were broken and the groups failed to unearth misconduct or fully pursue their case in state courts.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. A bit of sanity in the midst of all the insanity! Good news indeed...n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Obama will win Minnesota anyhow, so it's not as important

as some other states, but it's nice to see that there are some good judges out there who are willing to throw out these ridiculous lawsuits.

[grantcart]

4. It is important down ticket.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Good point. We definitely want Michele Bachmann to go away.

Also the loathsome Chip Cravaak. And that raving loon Alan Quist has crawled out from under his rock....

[grantcart]

6. Not to belabor athe point by November there will be zero enthusiasm for Romney and only the diehards

will be voting.

I really think that the Republicans are going to take a bath. Polls just don't measure levels of enthusiasm.

[mechtech]

7. Right-on Daddy-O!

I'm from NY and I want Michelle Bachman to go away!!

[ailsagirl]

3. Excellent! n/t

[Jim Lane]

8. So the conservatives were looking for an activist judge who would overrule the legislature?

What I infer from the linked story is that the state legislature balanced the interests in same-day registration: facilitating voters by eligible voters, versus the possibility of fraud. The legislature decided to give more weight to the former. Instead of following the democratic process of trying to elect different legislators who would repeal the law, the conservatives wanted an unelected judge to do it.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. Ha! Yes, I guess they did.

An unelected federal judge, at that.