TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jun 23, 2021

A panel of federal appellate judges yesterday reinstated a state law requiring first-time voters to cast their ballot in person, reasoning in part that the COVID-19 pandemic is "unlikely to pose a serious threat during the next election cycle." In a 2-1 decision, a three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court's ruling that blocked the restriction on absentee voting ahead of the 2020 general election. In October, the 6th Circuit decided to keep the preliminary injunction in place saying that it did not want to disrupt the rules at that late stage in the election. The Herald Courier has the story from the AP.