Update: Voting-rights activists cut a deal with Colorado's secretary of state late Wednesday that will ensure some 20,000 voters removed from state rolls will get to cast a ballot.
Colorado is in play with a slight and growing Obama lead, and together with a Virginia win for Obama would all but guarantee a victory for the Democratic nominee.
The GOP is trying suppress voters en masse, courtesy of Colorado's Katherine Harris: Secretary of State Mike Coffman.
Fortunately, the judge hearing the case is Judge John L. Kane, a rule-of-law judge with an honest reputation.
From the Brennan Center for Justice's Susan Lehman:
Colorado may have illegally purged 27,000 voters from the state's voter registration lists.
This afternoon, Colorado District Judge Kane holds a hearing in Common Cause Colorado, et al. v. Sec. of State Coffman. Judge Kane may issue a ruling from the bench.
Common Cause and other voting rights groups say state election board officials violated the National Voter Registration Act by, among other things, removing voters from the rolls within 90 days of a federal election.
The plaintiffs question election officials' alleged reasons for removing voters from the list citing, for example, the state's claim that they removed these names only as part of routine list maintenance.
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Check with the http://www.brennancenter.org/ site or Google tonight for an update.
- via mal contends
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