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Armed Group Can Monitor Arizona Ballot Drop Boxes, Federal Judge Rules (www.pbs.org)
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"A federal judge Friday refused to bar a group from monitoring outdoor ballot boxes in Arizona’s largest county where watchers have shown up armed and in ballistic vests, saying to do so could violate the monitors’ constitutional rights."

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[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

A Trump appointee and Federalist Society member. No surprise there.

Court cannot craft an injunction without violating the First Amendment.

Complete bullshit. Menacing voters at the ballot box is not a freedom of speech concern. There has already been a case that restricted the Republican Party from menacing Black voters in 1981. There's no reason not to do so again to protect the right to vote without having some idiots with guns breathing down voters' necks.