Smith v. Husted (George C. Smith, S.D. Ohio 2:16-cv-212)
A federal complaint challenged a state secretary of state’s advisory that a law permitting seventeen-year-olds to vote in a primary election if they will be eighteen by the time of the general election did not apply to a presidential primary election because voters in the state’s presidential primary election are not voting for a nomination but are voting for delegates to a convention. The federal judge abstained from a ruling on the merits because of pending state litigation over interpretation of the relevant statute. The state court ruled in favor of the federal plaintiffs’ position.
Subject: Voting procedures. Topics: Primary election; matters for state courts; laches.

One of many Case Studies in Emergency Election Litigation.