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...There are some dark forces at play here," defense counsel Fabbrith Gomez told TIME, adding that his client is now being detained illegally - an opinion shared by appellate judge Roberto Rodriguez. The U.S. Embassy has weighed in with a letter asking the authorities to "implement a decision as quickly as possible" and assure for Volz's well-being and security while under state custody...
...could be the number, it could be the name was improperly typed in," says senior counsel Elizabeth Westfall with the Advancement Project, a civil rights group that, along with several other lawyers, represents the plaintiffs - Florida's NAACP, the Southwest Voter Registration Project, and the Haitian-American Grassroots Coalition. They are suing Florida Secretary of State Kurt S. Browning, who oversees elections in the state, arguing that the law is unconstitutional and should be immediately suspended. U.S. District Judge Stephen P. Mickle in Gainesville heard roughly four hours of oral arguments in the case on Tuesday...
...Florida law simply takes it one step further, says Lynn Hearn, general counsel for the Florida Department of State. "It wouldn't make sense to go to all that trouble that even if they don't match we're going to go ahead and register them anyway," she says. Hearn also points out that since Jan. 1, 2006, some 1.5 million voters have been registered in Florida. While conceding that 14,000 other applicants have yet to get on the voter rolls, Hearn maintains that her main concern pertains to the potential for fraud with absentee ballots. "Our concerns...
...Brian Mellor, election counsel with Project Vote, has worked on the case and maintains there are enough safeguards in place to prevent someone from filling in a fake voter application and then voting - which explains the fact, he argues, that fraudulent voting has not been a problem. "If a false person submits an application for Dick Tracy, a person has to show up at the polls with Dick Tracy on the driver's license," Mellor says. "There needs to be a lot more than just filling out a fake voter application to get to vote...
...Romney is hardly abandoning Evangelical voters without a fight. This week alone he has David Keane, chairman of the American Conservative Union, coming in to make phone calls; James Bopp, a leading Right to Life lawyer, heading to Iowa to hold activist meetings; and Jay Sekulow, chief counsel for the American Center for Law & Justice, is scheduled to fly in for meetings of his own on behalf of the campaign. That's not to mention the national address Romney gave last week on his faith to try and put to rest worries about Mormonism. Gettemy, who was once leery...