LOUISIANA VOTING - A federal judge says Louisiana must reinstate coronavirus pandemic voting plans used for summer elections rather than using a more restrictive plan approved by the Legislature. U.S. District Chief Judge Shelly Dick says the state must allow mail voting for people with conditions that make COVID-19 more dangerous, and their caretakers. She also ordered expansion of early voting from seven days to 10 in November, but not in December. During his monthly call-in radio show, Gov. John Bel Edwards says the Judge is simply asking Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin to offer voters what the state did in July and August.
"So she (the judge) is not telling the Secretary of State to conduct an election in a manner that he hasn't already done it with success twice," Edwards explained. "But if he will do that, then those people who are vulnerable because of a pre-existing comorbid health condition as certified by the CDC, they will be able to request a ballot."
Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin says his office is reviewing the Judge’s ruling.
