Legal Opinion
Swann v. Secretary of Georgia
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided February 2, 2012No. 10-14901PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRYOR, Circuit Judge:
This appeal addresses whether a former inmate of a county jail has standing to complain that state and local officials failed to mail him a ballot at the jail even though he never asked them to mail him a ballot there. Hassan Swann appeals the summary judgment in favor of the Secretary of State of Georgia and several elections officials for DeKalb County, Georgia. Swann’s complaint alleges that the officials’ application of a Georgia statute that governs absentee voting, Ga.Code Ann. § 21-2-381(a)(l)(D), denied him the right to have a ballot mailed to him at the jail and…
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