Following up on this earlier piece, a unanimous order today in Ford v. Election Commission in a suboptimal set of election administration decisions with this highly compressed timeline for the election:
Absentee ballots have already been sent and received, without listing Ford as a candidate, while early voting has commenced with ballots bearing Ford’s name. If we were to grant a stay of the preliminary injunction and require the Commission to now remove Ford’s name from the ballots, the current election process would be thrust into even further disarray.
While we do not reach the merits of Ford’s challenge to the Party’s rule or the application thereof, in an effort to avoid further confusion surrounding this special primary election, we are constrained to deny the motions to stay the circuit court’s preliminary injunction and permit the election, which is already underway, to continue without further disruption.
