Bloomberg Government — The so-called Purcell principle, which is named after a 2006 Supreme Court ruling, says courts shouldn’t change voting laws close to an election. That “often just rewards state intransigence by keeping in place an unlawful election procedure because somebody’s successfully tried to run out the clock,” said LMU Loyola Law School Professor Justin Levitt.
Source: Bloomberg Government
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