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Last Updated: December 6, 2018 at 11:57 AM

Florida Democratic Party v. Bucher

Case Information

Date Filed: November 8, 2018
State: Florida
Issue: Provisional Ballots
Courts that Heard this Case: Circuit Court of the 15th Judicial Circuit (Palm Beach County) (Case 2018CA014084)

Issue:

Whether Florida law requires Palm Beach County to provide names of individuals who voted provisionally and whether two-day statutory period for curing provisional ballots should be tolled

Status:

Complaint filed 11/8/18. Circuit Court order filed 11/9/18. Stipilation filed 11/27/18. Case Disposed before other filed 11/27/28.

District Court Documents

  • Complaint pdf file (11/08/18)
  • Scott-Motion to Intervene pdf file (11/09/18)
  • Order on Intervention pdf file (11/09/18)
  • Circuit Court Order pdf file (11/09/18)
  • Status Report pdf file (11/13/18)
  • Stipulation pdf file (11/27/18)

    • Commentary

    Edward B. Foley

    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

    Daniel P. Tokaji

    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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