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Unsuccessful Challenge to Ohio’s Changed Primary-Election Procedures During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Robert Timothy Reagan
June 19, 2023

League of Women Voters of Ohio v. LaRose (Michael H. Watson, S.D. Ohio 2:20-cv-1638)
A district judge found that Ohio’s primary-election accommodations for the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 did not result in unconstitutionally cumbersome voting.
Subject: Registration procedures. Topics: Covid-19; registration procedures; absentee ballots; National Voter Registration Act; primary election; intervention.

One of many Case Studies in Emergency Election Litigation.