Nevada's 'none' voting option not dead yet - Yahoo! News - Sandra Chereb, Associated Press::
"Nevada's "none of the above" voting option will be on the November ballot following an emergency stay sought by the secretary of state's office.... A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco blocked the injunction Tuesday and had strong words for U.S. District Judge Robert Jones, who last month declared the voting option unconstitutional and struck it from the ballot.
"One appellate judge accused Jones, chief judge in Nevada, of deliberate foot-dragging by delaying hearings in the case and not issuing a written order in time for state lawyers to appeal before ballots must be printed.
"'His dilatory tactics appear to serve no purpose other than to seek to prevent the state from taking an appeal of his decision before it must print the ballots,. 9th Circuit Judge Stephen Reinhardt wrote.... 'Such arrogance and assumption of power by one individual is not acceptable in our judicial system.'"
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"Nevada's "none of the above" voting option will be on the November ballot following an emergency stay sought by the secretary of state's office.... A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco blocked the injunction Tuesday and had strong words for U.S. District Judge Robert Jones, who last month declared the voting option unconstitutional and struck it from the ballot.
"One appellate judge accused Jones, chief judge in Nevada, of deliberate foot-dragging by delaying hearings in the case and not issuing a written order in time for state lawyers to appeal before ballots must be printed.
"'His dilatory tactics appear to serve no purpose other than to seek to prevent the state from taking an appeal of his decision before it must print the ballots,. 9th Circuit Judge Stephen Reinhardt wrote.... 'Such arrogance and assumption of power by one individual is not acceptable in our judicial system.'"
Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/nevadas-none-voting-option-not-dead-yet-172633526--election.html
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