Florida DNC Sues Florida Governor and SOS

[Justice]

Source: Election Law Blog





Asking Court to Order Defendants "to extend the deadline for counties to submit
or amend early voting plans until at least October 16, 2016, to the extent that
any counties have been unable to submit their early voting plans (and/or verify
that identified early voting sites remain viable post-hurricane) by October 9,
2016."



Read more: http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/fla-matthew.pdf

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Apologies if this has already been posted, but Florida DNC sued Governor Scott and the SOS over not extending voter registration. Filed yesterday.


http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/fla-matthew.pdf

Complaint at link.

[George II]

1. How pointlessly partisan can the Florida governor be? In situations like this I've never seen...

....deadlines not extended a few days.

[Justice]

2. Last Thursday, SCGovernor Haley announced she would extend deadline in light of Hurricane Matthew

See http://scdp.org/voter-registration-deadline-extended/


Articles about Florida

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/election/article107176627.html

http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/09/politics/florida-matthew-democrats/

[Gothmog]

3. I hope that they win this lawsuit

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Not Sure, But. . .

. . .by filing the suit, doesn't this put them in a position to get a stay to countermand the governor's order?

Maybe there is no order because all he has to do is nothing, and you can't stop nothing.