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Enjoining Signature Matching Not Provided by State Law

Robert Timothy Reagan
July 21, 2023

Shernoff v. Andino (Richard Mark Gergel, D.S.C. 2:20-cv-3654)
An emergency action seeking an injunction against disqualification of absentee ballots if the ballot signatures did not match signatures in other records without an opportunity to resolve mismatches turned out to be unnecessary because the district court provided the requested relief in another pending case.
Subject: Absentee and early voting. Topics: Signature matching; absentee ballots; Covid-19; intervention.

One of many Case Studies in Emergency Election Litigation.