DETROIT -- A federal judge in Detroit has struck down a Michigan law that allowed only the Republican and Democratic parties access to voter information from the state's Jan. 15 presidential primary. The ruling Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds does not affect the primary's outcome. The lawsuit was filed in January by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of other political parties, a weekly newspaper and a political consultant. Edmunds agreed with their claim that it's illegal to allow only Michigan's two major political parties to get information on who voted and whether they took a Republican or Democratic ballot. The dispute over whether to seat Michigan's Democratic delegates at the convention remains unresolved.
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