Posted: October 23, 2008
WI Judge Dismisses Matching Lawsuit
A Wisconsin state trial judge has dismissed Van Hollen v. Government Accountability Board, a suit brought by the state's own attorney general to try to force administrators to go back and perform HAVA database matches on voters who had registered prior to the time the state's infrastructure for performing this type of match had been set up. Van Hollen has indicated he will appeal.
Update: Order and Hearing Transcript now available. (See EL@M case page for more information and case documents).
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Commentary
Silence of the Lambs
Dale A. Oesterle
With the election of 2012 now well over and past the second inauguration of the incumbent President, the historical analysis of the events has begun and will last as long as written human history lasts. An interesting tidbit may already be lost to the majesty of the moment.
The voters of three very different states, Alaska, New Hampshire, and Ohio, all had an opportunity to call state constitutional conventions. In each state the voters turned the opportunity down by very similar votes, 68%, 64% and 68% respectively against.
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