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Onerous Absentee-Ballot Procedures in Mississippi

Robert Timothy Reagan
August 4, 2023

O’Neil v. Hosemann (Daniel P. Jordan III, S.D. Miss. 3:18-cv-815)
On the day before a runoff election, plaintiffs sought a federal-court injunction requiring the counting of absentee ballots post-marked by election day instead of received by the day before election day. The federal judge decided that the request for relief was too late and the relief requested was too disruptive.
Subject: Absentee and early voting. Topics: Absentee ballots; laches.

One of many Case Studies in Emergency Election Litigation.