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Supreme Court Lifts Ohio Federal Judge Voter Order: At SCOTUSblog, Lyle Denniston reports that today the Supreme Court lifted an order that would have required Ohio's Secretary of State to verify voter registration across the state before the November election. The per curiam order can be found here. The Ohio Republican Party had obtained a court order from an Ohio district court forcing its Secretary of State to comply with Section 303 of the Help America Vote Act of 2002. Yesterday, the Secretary of State petitioned the Court to stay the order. The Supreme Court found that because the GOP was "unlikely to prevail on the question of whether Congress has authorized the District Court to enforce Section 303 in an action brought by a private litigant to justify the issuance of a [Temporary Restraining Order]...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on October 17, 2008 (boomark / email).