Posted: November 3, 2016
Ninth Circuit Affirms that Arizona Need Not Count Wrong Precinct Votes
In a 2-1 opinion released yesterday, a panel of the the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals agreed with the district court that the plaintiffs were unlikely to succeed in their claims that an Arizona law prohibiting the counting of ballots cast in the wrong precinct violates the Voting Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment. Therefore, the court refused to block the law. The case is Feldman v. Arizona.
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