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Challenge to Weighted Voting in Party-Endorsement Procedures

Robert Timothy Reagan, Margaret S. Williams, Marie Leary, Catherine R. Borden, Jessica L. Snowden, Patricia D. Breen, Jason A. Cantone
August 25, 2023

Kehoe v. Casadei (Thomas J. McAvoy, N.D.N.Y. 6:11-cv-408)
Members of a city’s party committee filed a federal complaint challenging the elimination of weighted voting, which weighted members’ votes for endorsements by the number of party members each represented. The district judge issued a temporary restraining order against the change, and the case settled two years later with a return to weighted voting.
Subject: Voting procedures. Topics: Party procedures; class action; attorney fees.

One of many Case Studies in Emergency Election Litigation.

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Attorney Fees | Class Actions | Election Litigation | Party Procedures | Voting Procedures | Emergency Proceedings | U.S. District Courts | N.D.N.Y.