The lawsuit, brought under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA), was filed in federal district court in the Western District of Michigan. The department brought this enforcement action in response to the state’s failure to send absentee ballots to hundreds of Michigan’s eligible military and overseas voters for the Aug. 7, 2012, federal primary election and the Sept. 5, 2012, federal special primary election by the 45th day prior to those elections, as required by UOCAVA.
The United States seeks an order requiring the state of Michigan to ensure that military and overseas voters will have sufficient opportunity to receive, cast and return their ballots in time to be counted by extending the deadline for the receipt of ballots from affected UOCAVA voters. For the Aug. 7, 2012, federal primary election, the suit also requests an order requiring Michigan to provide affected voters who have not received their ballots alternative options for expedited delivery of their ballots.

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Michael H. Drucker
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