(CNN) – A federal appeals court has agreed with a lower court and ordered the state of Michigan to add the names of 5,500 voters back onto the voters rolls.
Click here to read the appeals court's opinion
The names were purged when mail sent to the voters by local election officials was returned as undeliverable. Purging the names was permitted under Michigan law but violated the federal National Voter Registration Act which limits the circumstances under which a state may remove a voter from the rolls.
The appeals court explained that Michigan’s practice caused affected voters to “face wrongful disenfranchisement.”
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Hell yeah they need to add the names back. I betcha its the democrats whose names got purge. Can't trust these thieving Repugnants!
Nice try, Republicans. Points for the effort, but better luck next time. Besides, you were going to lose Michigan anyway, so no big deal.
Looks like the rethuglican plot of trying to hijack this election too is not working everywhere. hahaha
Uh... medical records released from Palin yet? You know, like every other VP candidate has done since the modern times? You know, since Palin promised to release her medical records 9 days ago?
WHERE ARE PALINS MEDICAL RECORDS??
CNN, why are you letting them get away with this? You know Palin is hiding something yet you refuse to make her follow through on her word.
Republican scum, anything to steal the election!
Good.
Senator McCain you are no hero, you are a terrorist.
Your campaign advisor was a Saddam Hussein lobbyist for 5 years.
You pal around with Gordon Liddy, domestic terrorist.
You are a member of "The Project for a New American Century" – a radical extremist terrorist orginization.
Your VP candidate's husband Todd Palin is a domestic terrorist in the Alaskan Independence Party.
You have given $500,000 to PLO, a group that McCain himself says are terrorists.
You have met with Chilean Dictator Pinochet, a terrorist.
Your using FOX NEWS, the Bush Administration, The Justice Department to commit voter intimidation & suppression is a act of terrorism.
John McCain you are a disgrace to your uniform!
Now that's what you call BEING AMERICAN!
BLAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
TAKE THAT REPUBLICANS
Nice! Another GOP suppression scam foiled. NOT THIS TIME GOP...win on your own merit. If McCain and Palin are such great candidates why are trying to find other ways for them to win?
Obama/Biden 08 & 12
Strike One RNC!!!!!!!!
What's with Michigan? A jailed mayor; Chrysler sinking into oblivion; punishment for not following primary election dates, giving Hillary a hard time and then lavishing Obama. Now returning the purged. No wonder McCain pulled out.
Voter suppression is a GOP tool. Take this tool from their hands and they lose elections.
So...TAKE THIS TOOL FROM THEIR HANDS!
Nice try, Michigan. I'd make a bet that most of those names were registered Democrats and independents.
GOOD
And to those trying to cast doubt by speaking of ACORN: it was REGISTRATION fraud, not VOTER fraud. Mickey Mouse can't vote unless he has a valid ID, and that is doubtful. What is more voter fraud was the flyers in DC telling Democrats to vote on the wrong day.
ENOUGH
THE SHOW MOVED ME & MY HUSBAND TO TEARS, IT GAVE ME HOPE FOR HUMANITY. I KNOW OBAMA WILL HELP US MORE THAN MR. MCCAIN. HE JUST GETS IT! "AND THOSE AMBER WAVES OF GRAIN" SPOT ON!
"THAT IS THE ONE" 08
Looks like the Republican's dirty tricks are not going to stand this time, or ever again!
It's time to take our country back, vote Obama!
I am glad they have to add the names back to the voter rolls. I am tired of the GOP croonies trying to deny citizens their rights to vote.
People, please vote and take someone else with you. This election is too important to not exercise your right to vote.
Obama/Biden 2008!
YESSSSS!!! Great to see the Courts checking and balancing and pushing back the republican's ACTUAL attempts to suppress the vote. MILLIONS have already been disenfranchised by RETHUGLICANS. ACORN's acts are CHILD'S PLAY compared to what these people are doing, because the one thing the HYSTERICAL McShalin Ticket either doesn't realize or chooses to blatantly ignore is the fact that ACORN'S FAKE NAMES WON'T SHOW UP AND VOTE ANYWAY! BUT THE PURGED VOTERS ARE REAL PEOPLE WHO CAN AND SHOULD VOTE!!!!!!! THANK GOD FOR THE LAW-
Obama's message has been positive and solution-oriented–McShalin has done nothing but lob petty attacks and scramble to find a new attack message of the day..ONE MORE THING
MCCAIN'S ORGANIZATION PAID KHALIDI 500k–HE HAS FARRR MORE EXTENSIVE CONNECTIONS TO THAT MAN THAN BO
JOE THE STUDENT APPROVES THE COURT'S MOVES-A REAL JOE–AND A REAL AMERICAN FOR THE REAL TICKET OF CHANGE OBAMA/BIDEN!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, where ARE Sarah Palin's medical records? Cutting it kinda close, eh? wink wink
good job>>>>> not this time Crooks.. gop are full of crooks
respect for the law and people. Can you afford four more years?
Precisely what i said in the previous ticker. Voter registration fraud in't voter fraud. But purging votes, that's down right criminal.
Yet another good thing about Early Voting: some of the cheating that the Rape-ublicans have been doing for years can be rectified by Election Day.
I'm so excited to have participated in Obama's Campaign, I hope and pray he wins BIG!