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Will early voting rules in Ohio produce the next Bush v. Gore?

 

By Jonathan H. Adler September 4 at 1:00 PM

 

Thursday morning, in Ohio State Conference of the NAACP v. Husted, a federal district court in Ohio enjoined enforcement of new election rules that curtailed the early voting period in Ohio, concluding that the changes violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and principles of equal protection. The Ohio rules cut back the early voting period from 35 days before the election to 28 days and, in an effort to ensure uniform voting rules throughout the state, eliminated night voting and voting on the Sunday before election day. These changes, the court concluded, were unconstitutional and in violation of the VRA.

 

Rick Hasen has some early analysis of the decision. His post begins: Scissors-32x32.png


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Lyle Denniston Reporter

Posted Sat, September 27th, 2014 6:54 pm

 

Court urged to let Ohioans vote early (UPDATED)

UPDATED Sunday 11:48 a.m. State officials filed a final brief on Sunday morning, replying to the challengers’ pleas to allow early voting to go ahead on Tuesday. The state’s reply argued again that the challengers had created the time crunch by moving slowly to respond to changes that the state sought to implement in February. The new filing also repeated arguments that lower courts had created a sweeping new right to early voting that will have an impact across the nation. There is no proof, the document asserted, that Ohio’s changes would actually deny anyone the right to vote. The filing of this document completes the process, thus enabling Justice Elena Kagan or the full Court to act at any time on whether to delay early voting.

 

Arguing that early voting is necessary to continue to deal with the “unprecedented disaster” Scissors-32x32.pnghttp://www.scotusblog.com/2014/09/court-urged-to-let-ohioans-vote-early/

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Early voting in Ohio blocked (UPDATED)

By Lyle Denniston on Sep 29, 2014 at 4:01 pm

UPDATE 6:10 p.m. Justice Elena Kagan turned down without comment a separate request by Ohio’s legislature for the same kind of order postponing some of the early voting options. The legislature has been allowed into the controversy only as a “friend of the court,” not as a full party. Kagan chose to act on that request without referring it to her colleagues. Meanwhile, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted has issued this new directive on when early voting will be allowed.

 

With just sixteen hours before polling stations were to open in Ohio, the Supreme Court on Monday afternoon blocked voters from beginning tomorrow to cast their ballots in this year’s general election. By a vote of five to four Scissors-32x32.png

http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/09/early-voting-in-ohio-blocked/#more-218273

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