Topic
Absentee Voting
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Balkinization
26th Amendment Circuit Split
By gerardn-maglioccabalkin-blogspot-com
The Fourth Circuit today held that a South Carolina law restricting "no-excuse" absentee mail-in ballots to voters 65 and older violates the 26th Amendment. This decision stands in contrast to…
Agricultural Law & Rural Practice | Solo Small Firm & General Practice Section
Judge Hears Arguments in Disabled Voters’ Challenge to Wisconsin’s Absentee Voting System
By Wisconsin Justice Initiative
A Dane County judge heard arguments in early June in a case that could expand absentee voting options for thousands of Wisconsin voters with print disabilities. At the heart of…
Stafford Rosenbaum Law Blog
Supreme Court Ruling Prompts New Guidance for Municipal Clerks on Drop Boxes for Absentee Voting Ballots
Municipal clerks are once again able to use drop boxes to collect returned absentee voting ballots. As many municipal clerks will tell you, “drop boxes” for the return of government…
Religion Clause
Virginia GOP Rejects Rule Change To Allow Absentee Voting For Religious Reasons In Upcoming Saturday Convention
Washington Post reports that in a vote last Thursday, Virginia's Republican State Central Committee refused to amend its rules to allow observant Jews and others with religious objections to vote…
Sixth Circuit Appellate Blog
Tennessee election officials’ motion to stay injunction “too little, too late,” so first-time voters may continue to vote by mail.
This post arrives thanks to Erica M. Van Heyde, a 2020 graduate of The Ohio State University Mortiz College of Law, who joins Squire Patton Boggs as an associate in 2021. …
On Brief: Iowa's Appellate Blog
Deeply divided Supreme Court upholds new law on absentee ballot request forms
By Rox Laird
Two starkly different perspectives were articulated by members of the Iowa Supreme Court in majority and dissenting opinions on the constitutionality of a new state statute requiring county auditors to…
Appellate Advocacy Blog
Appellate Advocacy Blog Weekly Roundup Friday, August 14, 2020
Each week, the Appellate Advocacy Blog Weekly Roundup presents a few tidbits of news and Twitter posts from the past week concerning appellate advocacy. As always, if you see something…
Government and Public Policy
MISSOULA CURRENT: Montana judge: Absentee ballots postmarked on or before Election Day must be counted
Montana counties must count all valid absentee ballots postmarked on or before Election Day, provided they are received by the following Monday, a District Court judge ruled Friday, in a…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Seventh Circuit Rules Against Territorial Plaintiffs in Absentee-Voting-Rights Case
Steven D. Schwinn, John Marshall Law SchoolThe Seventh Circuit ruled that former Illinoisans who now live in Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands lacked standing to challenge the federal…
PrawfsBlawg
Early Voting and Voting Updates
Main Tuesday, October 11, 2016Early Voting and Voting UpdatesI concur with many of Steve Huefner's sentiments concerning the pros and cons of early voting. Early voting offers a way of…