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Instead, the appellate court sent the case back to the same three-judge panel of the 6th Circuit that earlier refused to block a preliminary injunction against the law, issued by U.S. District Judge Gershwin Drain in Detroit, who said it was likely the law would unconstitutionally disadvantage black voters.
. . . Drain ruled that banning straight-party voting would result in longer lines and waiting times to vote. That would disadvantage all voters, but especially black voters because data show the use of straight-party voting is strongest in large Michigan cities such as Detroit, where blacks are concentrated, he said.Can we just say what we all know here? We might as well since every party in this matter has a partisan interest. Black voters have a much higher tendency than white voters to vote straight-party ticket, and almost all of them are voting the Democrat ticket. The Republican-controlled Legislature knew this when they passed the bill, and I have no doubt they were motivated in part by their knowledge of this. Mark Brewer, the man who represented the aggrieved parties in this case, is the former chairman of the Michigan Democratic Party. His interest is to make sure that Democrat constituenicies can continue to vote straight party ticket, and can cycle in and out of the voting booth as quickly as possible so more like-minded voters can cycle in and do the same.
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