Voter registration and empowering people a role in their democracy has to take precedent as a form of National Security.
The decision is correctly decided. A voter is a legitimate voter at the time of registration and not when they receive their voter's registration card in the mail. There can be many reasons why people could have their mail interrupted and so long as their registrations are approved by the local precincts. I could list many reasons why a voter card was not delivered including the fact some people use P. O. Boxes to receive their mail and not their physical address, roommates, family residents not involved with deeds and utilities, clerical errors with the Post Office (and don't tell me that doesn't happen) and basically every reason under the sun.
A decision in favor of stressing voter registration cards as proof of the 'right to vote' also places 'the provisional ballot' in a very odd status.
Michigan loses federal appeal over voter rolls (click here)
By ED WHITE – 2 days ago
DETROIT (AP) — Michigan must not throw registered voters off the rolls, even if their voter ID cards were returned as undeliverable, an appeals court said Thursday.
With the election just days away, the court refused to stop an injunction ordered by a federal judge in Detroit. The case involves 5,500 people who have registered since January 2006, just a fraction of the 7.47 million state voters.
The appeals court said Michigan voters are properly registered when applications are approved and names are added to the rolls — not if they receive a card in the mail....
