Monday, August 20, 2012
Federal court denies Florida attempt to limit early voting days
[JURIST] The US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] declined to approve changes to Florida election law [HB 1355, materials] that would have reduced the number of early voting days in five of the state's 67 counties. The three-judge panel rejected [opinion, PDF] the state's arguments that minority voters would not be inequitably affected by reducing early voting days in Collier, Hendry, Osceola, Polk and Lee counties, which require Section 5 [DOJ backgrounder] "preclearance" approval under the...
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment