HAVA

Yesterday, the full Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals handed a surprising victory to state Republicans by requiring Ohio election officials to check all new voters’ registration information against existing databases by Friday.
As the Associated Press reports, the court, sitting en banc (all 16 judges), reversed the ruling just last week of its own three-judge panel [...]

The outcomes of the challenges will decide whose votes get counted and whose don’t — which in this close presidential race could make all the difference.