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Related: About this forumComputers sought in redistricting lawsuit
http://www.sheboyganpress.com/viewart/20130129/SHE01/301290222MADISON Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and other officials have been subpoenaed as part of a long-running legal fight over how the states latest election maps were drawn.
Two groups sued the state over the Republican-drawn maps. They want to examine certain state computers for evidence of documents the state may have wrongfully withheld, but contend that state officials wont tell them where those computers are located.
So subpoenas were served last week on Vos; Senate Chief Clerk Jeffrey Renk; Assembly Chief Clerk Patrick Fuller; and the Legislative Technology Service Bureau, according to a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel report.
For five months, the plaintiffs have sought to search the computers used for redistricting to find out why they didnt receive documents that were supposed to be released to them and to find out whether any other records were improperly withheld. But they havent been able to find out where the computers are kept.
Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca said he couldnt understand why the state refused to tell the plaintiffs where the computers were.
This is public property that people pay for, the Kenosha Democrat said. The fact they wont share this information is beyond comprehension.
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Computers sought in redistricting lawsuit (Original Post)
hue
Jan 2013
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hue
(4,949 posts)1. There is much, much more re:Repukes that is beyond comprehension!
Those computers are prob looong gone!! Buried in some junk pile along w/the Ark of the Covenant.
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)2. they are the biggest pack of fking children -
Scuba
(53,475 posts)3. K&R Thanks, hue.
LiberalFighter
(50,916 posts)4. Since there might be immunity from prison for state legislators
hit the others with contempt and long jail time.