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DEL.ICIO.USThurbert Baker to Democrats: Give up the voter ID fight, or else
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Georgia Supreme Court has turned down a request from the state Democratic party for the hurry-up appeal of a Fulton County judge’s decision to toss out its latest lawsuit over the state’s voter ID law.
The decision, written Friday, was filed today.
But that’s not the news — which happened afterwards.
Attorney General Thurbert Baker, a Democrat, followed the high court decision with a formal letter to his own party, advising them to drop pursuit of its lawsuit against Republican Gov. Sonny Perdue and Co. Otherwise, his office warned, Democrats could find themselves paying the legal costs on both sides of the issue.
This is the “frivolous” lawsuit warning that Republicans have been demanding.
The letter from the AG’s office was written by Mark Cohen, a member of the Troutman Sanders law firm and special assistant to the AG’s office.
The letter, addressed to plaintiff’s attorney Emmet Bondurant, reads in part:
“This letter is sent to you and your client to provide you with an opportunity to voluntarily withdraw, abandon, discontinue or dismiss the…above-captioned case.
….The action against these parties lacks substantial justification in that it is substantially frivolous and substantially vexatious, and is interposed for delay and harassment.”
A federal lawsuit on the issue still hangs out there.
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By Voters Rights
October 27, 2008 6:39 PM | Link to this
About time……
By JerryT
October 27, 2008 7:55 PM | Link to this
I think they are pursuing this under the wrong premise. The issue is that there is no standard for measuring how well you match your photograph. There is no training for poll workers in “facial recognition” and no procedure for rectifying the opinion of a poll worker who disallows a ballot.
The way it stands now, if your neighbor is having a feud with you and they are a poll worker, they can deny you a ballot. No recourse.
And especially with being able to renew your license online indefinitely, who knows how long ago your picture was taken.
By WIG MAKER
October 27, 2008 7:56 PM | Link to this
We Democrats will continue our quest. You, Mr. Baker can be replaced. You’re only a politician. Remember who elected you, Wigwearer!!!!
NOTE: It’s time to get that rug on your head cleaned,curled and reset!
By Aaron Burr V. Mexico
October 27, 2008 8:01 PM | Link to this
It is not fair to keep Democrats from stealing elections. I vote early and often and hope that when I die I will continue to vote. It is only ok to point out Republican cheating. Democrat voter fraud and groups like ACORN, and other Democrat dirty tricks are as American as apple pie. YES WE CAN, cheat.
By Race Cop
October 27, 2008 8:31 PM | Link to this
IT IS RACIST TO STOP DEMOCRATS FROM CHEATING.
By Sandra
October 28, 2008 2:08 AM | Link to this
I am going to hate an Obama presidency. He is going to make us a socialist country and give my hard earned money to people who do not work. People who vote for Obama are jerks.
By Sandra
October 28, 2008 2:12 AM | Link to this
I am going to hate an Obama presidency. He is going to make us a socialist country and give my hard earned money to people who do not work. People who vote for Obama are jerks.
By BA
October 28, 2008 2:39 AM | Link to this
Sandra, you’re an ingrate. An insufferable moron that’s been spoon-fed talking points. “Socialist”? They said the same thing about Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Should we go with another four years of Republican rule, just to go ahead and seal the slow death of our economy?
Perhaps you’d prefer Mexico, where the top five percent hold all the wealth, with the other 95 percent living in poverty.
At least they’re not “socialist”.
By bobs
October 28, 2008 7:57 AM | Link to this
I’ll never vote for Thurbert Baker again, we could carve an Attorney General with more backbone out of a banana. ACORN might turn in some faulty registration cards, but that doesn’t lead to voter fraud unless Mickey Mouse actually shows up to vote, guess what no cases of fraud like that actually occur. Karen Handel has actually tried to deny US citizens the right to vote by “flagging” (how appropriate for the Georgia GOP) their records. The GOP actually tries to disenfranchise voters and they ignore absentee voter fraud (where all the cases fraud actually takes place) because more absentee votes are cast for the GOP.
By Jeff
October 28, 2008 8:15 AM | Link to this
BA:
Bad example. FDR WAS a Socialist - in principle, if not in name.
By Copyleft
October 28, 2008 8:44 AM | Link to this
Please. Do you talk-radio drones even know what “socialist” means, or is it just another term your media masters have spoonfed you until you reflexively apply it to anyone left of Mussolini?
By JerryT
October 28, 2008 8:47 AM | Link to this
Whatever FDR was, maybe we need a little bit of that right about now, since the country is in quite similar circumstances.
By Voters Rights
October 28, 2008 9:25 AM | Link to this
bobs, So how did Handle deny US citizens the right to vote? How many courts does it take to say that VoterID is legal for you to be happy? The AG finally showed some back bone, although I believe he was backed into the corner by the political hack Randy Evans.
By Jeff
October 28, 2008 11:08 AM | Link to this
JerryT:
It wasn’t FDR’s unprecedented expansion of the Federal Government and Unconstitutional usuption of Individual Liberties that got us out of the Depression.
Instead, it was a little thing called the Second World War.
By Man with a Brain
November 1, 2008 3:42 AM | Link to this
Whine, cry, moan and groan. We have become a nation of whimps and wussies. People like Jerry T crying about poll workers not being able to recognize a photo ID. My God help that ignorant Jerry. Sounds like he is one of those afraid of self responsibility types that needs the government to think for him.
By JerryT
November 1, 2008 8:54 AM | Link to this
OK tough guy. You go live in a cabin in Montana. The rest of us are trying to build a society in which we can all get along and help each other.