Voters Urge Fourth Cir. to Nix South Carolina Absentee Age Limit

A group of South Carolina voters on Wednesday urged the Fourth Circuit to revive their constitutional challenge to a state law that gives individuals age 65 and older a blanket right to cast an absentee ballot, without affording that same right to younger voters.

Judge Julius N. Richardson said it’s not enough for the voters to say they want the option to vote absentee and that they must express, in a more concrete way, impending harm. “It seems odd to say that the harm is just the right to choose,” the judge said.

Pamela Karlan, representing the challengers, said they’ve ...