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Standing to Seek an Absentee-Ballot Extension During a Pandemic

Robert Timothy Reagan
August 3, 2023

Mays v. Thurston (James M. Moody, Jr., E.D. Ark. 4:20-cv-341)
A district judge denied a request for an order during a global infectious pandemic extending the deadline for absentee ballots from received by election day to mailed by election day, finding that any difficulty that the plaintiffs would have in submitting their absentee ballots on time would arise from the pandemic and not from state action.
Subject: Absentee and early voting. Topics: Covid-19; absentee ballots

One of many Case Studies in Emergency Election Litigation.