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Posted: November 7, 2012

Miami-Dade County Will Not Announce Results Until at Least Tomorrow

We may not know a winner in the presidential election in Florida until at least tomorrow. The Miami Herald is reporting that four hours after polls closed at 7:00 pm hundreds of people were still waiting in line to cast their ballots. In addition, 18,000 absentee ballots arrived in Miami-Dade County on Tuesday, which will be tallied tomorrow. The networks may have called the race for President Obama, but we may not know the result in Florida for some time. This could be an issue to watch, especially if Governor Romney does not concede the race tonight. We will continue to monitor the vote casting and counting issues in South Florida.

Commentary

Gerrymandering as Viewpoint Discrimination: A "Functional Equivalence" Test

Edward B. Foley

A First Amendment test for identifying when a map is functionally equivalent to a facially discriminatory statute.

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In the News

This is why US election ballots routinely go missing

Professor Dan Tokaji was quoted in USA Today about the prevalence of missing election ballots.

"Most of the time, it just goes unreported because it doesn't affect the result," Tokaji said.

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Info & Analysis

Supreme Court Finds Partisan Gerrymandering Claims to be Non-Justiciable Political Questions

In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion on Thursday determining that claims of partisan gerrymandering are political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts. The opinion resolved disputes originating in North Carolina and Maryland, in the cases of Rucho v. Common Cause and Lamone v. Benisek.

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