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Suit to Enjoin Election Officials to Keep Counting Absentee Ballots After the Polls Closed Dismissed Because That Was What They Were Going to Do

Robert Timothy Reagan
October 24, 2023

Wince v. Thurston (Brian S. Miller, E.D. Ark. 4:20-cv-1274 and 4:20-cv-1278)
A complaint removed to federal court sought an injunction requiring election officials to keep counting absentee ballots if the counting would not be finished when the polls closed. An identical removed action was consolidated with the first. During the injunction hearing, state election officials confirmed that all ballots returned on time would be counted, so the district judge dismissed the actions.
Subject: Absentee and early voting. Topics: Absentee ballots; Covid-19; case assignment; removal.

One of many Case Studies in Emergency Election Litigation.