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Direct-Mail Campaigning to Absentee Voters

Robert Timothy Reagan, Margaret S. Williams, Marie Leary, Catherine R. Borden, Jessica L. Snowden, Patricia D. Breen, Jason A. Cantone
July 17, 2023

Sheldon v. Grimes (David L. Bunning, E.D. Ky. 2:14-cv-60)
A primary-election candidate filed a federal complaint to obtain mailing addresses for persons who had been sent absentee ballots so that she could target her campaign to them. The district judge declined to invalidate the state law that protected the voters’ temporary mailing addresses from the candidate.
Subject: Campaign activities. Topics: Campaign materials; absentee ballots; primary election.

One of many Case Studies in Emergency Election Litigation.