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.
Release the names of every single person in the righrwing group. Its only fair.
It’s nowhere near as far. The odds of someone on the right intimidating voters because of a foreign looking last name has been proven to be near 1 whereas there are no reported instances of the left doing the same.
There are no “both sides” on this issue. Only one side who wants to hurt the other.
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?
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.
So if right wing nuts target the voters it will be treated as premeditated, right?
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!
A reasonable court would have said “that’s a totally legitimate concern” and maybe suggested options for reviewing election integrity concerns without exposing PII to third parties.
This court would probably have waved off public statements by neo-nazis that they would hunt these people for sport as “insufficient cause for concern.”
Hopefully the appeals court judges are on the list.
