122946P.pdf   08/02/2013  Minnesota Voters Alliance  v.  Mark Ritchie
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  12-2946
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - Minneapolis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Murphy and Smith, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Civil rights. In a Section 1983 action challenging the 
   process by which Minnesota election officials confirm the eligibility of 
   voters who register on election day and a provision of the Minnesota 
   Constitution denying the right of persons under guardianship to vote, the 
   district court did not err in finding that plaintiffs failed to state a 
   claim under Section 1983 with respect to their registration issues as 
   their allegations did not raise any of the aggravating factors this court 
   identified in Pettengill v. Putnam County R-1 School District, 472 F.2d 
   121 (8th Cir. 1973), any discriminatory or other intentional misconduct or 
   any defect that would cause Minnesota's system to be fundamentally unfair; 
   with respect to the guardianship claims, plaintiffs failed to show they 
   had standing to raise them as they failed to allege that any plaintiff had 
   been denied the right vote under the provision.