NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A lawsuit that resulted in a federal judge expanding early voting and mail balloting during last year s presidential election in Louisiana was formally dismissed Thursday by
Louisiana voting rights suit dismissed, but still on appeal
KEVIN McGILL, Associated Press
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) A lawsuit that resulted in a federal judge expanding early voting and mail balloting during last year s presidential election in Louisiana was formally dismissed Thursday by a federal judge in Baton Rouge.
But it remained alive in a federal appeals court, where Republican state officials want to keep the battle alive.
Voting rights advocates got what they wanted last fall when U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick ordered the expanded voting opportunities during the coronavirus pandemic. Republican Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin, the state s top election official, did not try to block the Sept. 16 order as the November election neared. But, he and Republican state Attorney General Jeff Landry are appealing, hoping the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will rule that Dick s order was wrong.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) Having gotten what they wanted last fall expanded early voting and mail balloting in the last presidential election voting rights advocates in Louisiana are trying to dismiss the lawsuit they filed seeking safe voting opportunities during the coronavirus pandemic.