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submitted 18 hours ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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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[-] riodoro1@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago

Get ready for the night of long knives now.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

They are serving appetizers, enjoy

[-] Roopappy@lemmy.world 56 points 13 hours ago

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!

[-] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 20 points 12 hours ago

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.”

[-] drdiddlybadger@pawb.social 163 points 17 hours ago

Release the names of every single person in the righrwing group. Its only fair.

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 12 hours ago

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.

[-] krashmo@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

You know the saying; be the change you want to see in the world. Get out there and start punching some Nazis for sport.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 77 points 16 hours ago

So if right wing nuts target the voters it will be treated as premeditated, right?

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 34 points 16 hours ago

Of course not. They're just lone wolfs who had a bad day.

[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 99 points 17 hours ago

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?

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 21 points 16 hours ago

Oh, they won't do anything as crass as that.

They'll just kill 'em.

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago

If someone is harmed an enormous lawsuit against the state will follow and the reputation of the court and judge will collapse.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Welcome to sovereign immunity

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 10 points 13 hours ago

We keep talking about reputations of courts and judges, “legitimacy”, but I’m just not seeing it matter.

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

That’s part of the fall into fascism. We can hopefully head that off today.

[-] SaltySalamander@fedia.io -1 points 11 hours ago

Kick the can*

[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 15 hours ago

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.

[-] Red_October@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

That will all just be ruled coincidence and unrelated.

[-] Linktank@lemmy.today 22 points 14 hours ago

Did he try gesturing broadly at the general situation as proof?

[-] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 41 points 17 hours ago

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.

[-] SoupBrick@yiffit.net 6 points 17 hours ago

I would hope so.

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 43 points 18 hours ago

Hopefully the appeals court judges are on the list.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 10 points 17 hours ago

I am curious why he didn’t appeal the ruling further.

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