Under Indiana State Law, the Deadline for Receipt of Mail-in-Ballots, would be Noon on Election Day, November 3rd.

Plaintiffs Common Cause Indiana ("CCI") and Indiana State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ("NAACP") have brought this Action against Defendants Connie Lawson, in her Official Capacity as Indiana Secretary of State, and Paul Okeson, S. Anthony Long, Suzannah Wilson Overholt, and Zachary E. Klutz, All in their Official Capacities as Members of the Indiana Election Commission, Challenging the Constitutionality of Indiana's Requirement of Receipt of Mail-in-Ballots Noon on Election Day, November 3rd.

The Plaintiffs wants Indiana to Accept All Mail-In Ballots Postmarked by Election Day and Received by Nov. 13th. as it does for Military and Overseas Voters.

Plaintiffs seek an order from the Court enjoining Defendants, and all those acting in concert with them or at their direction, from enforcing or giving any effect to Indiana Code §§ 3-11.5-4-3 and 3-11.5-4-10 in the November 3, 2020 election, thereby obviating the noon deadline for receipt and processing of the mail-in absentee ballots. Plaintiffs also request that Defendants Okeson, Long, Wilson Overholt, and Klutz, in their official capacities as members of the Indiana Election Commission and pursuant to the powers and duties of the Indiana Election Commission, as defined in Indiana Code § 3-6-4.1-14, be directed to adopt rules, or emergency rules, requiring all county election boards and all those acting in concert with them or under their direction and control, not to reject mail-in ballots postmarked on or before November 3, 2020, and received on or before November 13, 2020, and to ensure that such ballots are counted, if otherwise valid. For the reasons detailed below, we GRANT Plaintiff's motion.










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