At issue: When should courts refrain from changing voting rules too close to an election in order to avoid causing voter confusion? Wilkinson said his colleagues were disregarding that the Supreme Court has "repeatedly cautioned us not to interfere with state election laws in the weeks before an election." "For many years, this Court has repeatedly emphasized that federal courts ordinarily should not alter state election rules in the period close to an election," Kavanaugh said. "Federal courts should ordinarily not alter the election rules on the eve of an election," he wrote. Election law expert and CNN contributor Rick Hasen has coined the term "Purcell Principle" and said it needs tweaking.

Source: CNN October 21, 2020 09:00 UTC