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Adding a Weekend Day to Early Voting

Robert Timothy Reagan, Margaret S. Williams, Marie Leary, Catherine R. Borden, Jessica L. Snowden, Patricia D. Breen, Jason A. Cantone
August 14, 2023

LULAC v. Texas (Xavier Rodriguez, W.D. Tex. 5:06-cv-1046)
A federal complaint challenged the exclusion of weekend days from an early-voting period for a special congressional runoff election, and the district judge ordered that counties that included parts of the congressional district would have the discretion to extend the early voting period by one day to include a Saturday.
Subject: Absentee and early voting. Topics: Early voting; case assignment; attorney fees; malapportionment; three-judge court.

One of many Case Studies in Emergency Election Litigation.