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Summary
Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, a Democrat, was compelled by a court order to release the names of about 218,000 voters to lawyers representing right-wing activists.
The appeals court upheld a lower court’s decision, which requires disclosing voter information due to a coding error that incorrectly classified some voters’ ballot access.
Fontes, who expressed serious concerns over potential harassment and violence against these voters, unsuccessfully tried to block the request.
The court ruled that Fontes had not provided sufficient proof that releasing the list posed a danger to voters.
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The court ruled that Fontes had not provided sufficient proof that releasing the list posed a danger to voters.
(24 hours later)
Holy crap! They’re going after the voters! Nobody could have seen this coming!
Did he try gesturing broadly at the general situation as proof?
So if right wing nuts target the voters it will be treated as premeditated, right?
Of course not. They’re just lone wolfs who had a bad day.
Release the names of every single person in the righrwing group. Its only fair.
The court ruled that Fontes had not provided sufficient proof that releasing the list posed a danger to voters.
Will he have enough proof after people on the list find threats in their mailboxes, their houses catching on fire, their car’s tires slashed?
That will all just be ruled coincidence and unrelated.
Oh, they won’t do anything as crass as that.
They’ll just kill 'em.
If someone is harmed an enormous lawsuit against the state will follow and the reputation of the court and judge will collapse.
We keep talking about reputations of courts and judges, “legitimacy”, but I’m just not seeing it matter.
That’s part of the fall into fascism. We can hopefully head that off today.
But that will have already been too late. The information will be out there, intimidation and silencing of people in fear will do it’s job and keep them quiet, and out of polling booths.
From the wording it sounds like it wasn’t made public, just presented to the lawyers. It’s similar to how jehovah witnesses tried to pierce anononimity for the antijw reddit posters to identify defendants in a copyright lawsuit and the judge said something akin to “It’s understandable that you don’t want your name publicly associated with this post, but the court system imparts trust on lawyers to act as good stewards of this information and so plaintiffs council may have access to your identity.” If this information is leaked they should be disbarred on the spot for mishandling the data.
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I would hope so.
Hopefully the appeals court judges are on the list.
I am curious why he didn’t appeal the ruling further.
