[EL] Breaking News: Florida early voting case

[Bill Maurer]

Wouldn't such a selective early voting regime violate Bush v. Gore?  Maybe the drought of citations to that case is finally over.

Next thing you know, the Nationals will be in the World Series.

Bill

From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Rick Hasen
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 9:16 PM
To: law-election at uci.edu
Subject: [EL] Breaking News: Florida early voting case

Breaking News: 3-Judge Court in DC Blocks Florida Elimination of Early Voting Days in 5 Counties Covered by Voting Rights Act<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=38698>
Posted on August 16, 2012 9:13 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=38698> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

AP reports<http://www.startribune.com/nation/166500506.html?refer=y&refer=y> a 119 page decision, but right now on the DC court website there is a link to only 38 pages<https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2011cv1428-149-1> (including the Findings of Fact) from that opinion.  The website indicates the opinion is written by Judge Kollar-Kotelly.  It is not clear if there are any dissents, or if the Court addressed any constitutional issues related to the Voting Rights Act.  The opinion must have been released very late this evening.

If this opinion stands, it would require longer early voting hours in just the five Florida counties covered by the Voting Rights Act.

But that raises some interesting equal protection questions: can Florida have extended early voting only in these five counties?

MORE to come
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