Legal Opinion
Harlan v. Scholz
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 4, 2017No. Nos. 16-3547 & 16-3597PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Chief Judge.
This is a case of wait-and-hurry-up, rather than its. more familiar cousin, hurry-up-and-wait. With just two and a half months before the November 2016 general election, Patrick Harlan, the Republican Party’s candidate for an Illinois congressional- seat, and the Crawford County (IL) Republican Central Committee, filed this lawsuit and promptly sought a preliminary ■injunction against the implementation of a state law that allows voters to register and vote on Election Day itself. Generally speaking, the law gives more options for same-day registration and voting for resi*756dent…
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