Federal Judge Says No Right To Secret Ballot, OKs Barcoded Ballots

doug141 writes "A Colorado county put bar codes on printed ballots in a last minute effort to comply with a rule about eliminating identifying markings. Citizens sued, because the bar codes can still be traced back to individual voters. In a surprise ruling, Denver U.S. District Judge Christine Arguello said the U.S. Constitution did not contain a 'fundamental right' to secret ballots, and that the citizens could not show their voting rights had been violated, nor that they might suffer any specific injury from the bar codes."

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Re:Federal Judges Need to Go Back to School

[BlueStrat]

No if a right is not enumerated in the constitution than government has every right to restrict that right.

The Ninth Amendment to the US Constitution seems to disagree.

"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."

But then, there are a large number of people who believe that the government should not be hog-tied by Constitutional restrictions to it's power.

They call themselves "Progressives", as in progressing past the restrictions on government power in the Constitution.

Strat