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UNITED STATES v. STATE OF WIS.

No. 85-1157.

771 F.2d 244 (1985)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. STATE OF WISCONSIN, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 19, 1985.

Rehearing Denied September 24, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank D. Allen, Jr., Civil Rights Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellee.

Alan Lee, Dept. of Justice, Madison, Wis., for defendants-appellants.

Before BAUER and FLAUM, Circuit Judges, and GRANT, Senior District Judge.

BAUER, Circuit Judge.

The State of Wisconsin appeals a district court order requiring Wisconsin election officials to count as valid certain absentee ballots which were received after the polls closed in the November 6, 1984, general election. The district court held that the state election officials had failed to mail absentee ballots to certain citizens living overseas in sufficient time to allow those voters to mark and return their ballots before the polls closed...

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