On October 23, the NAACP filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court, asking that the Secretary of State direct the counties to supply emergency paper ballots if half or more of the electronic vote-counting machines fail to work. The Secretary of State has said previously that counties should only supply emergency paper ballots if all the machines in a particular precinct fail to work. The case is National Association of Colored People v Cortes, no. 08-5048, in federal court in Philadelphia. The lawsuit also asks that a sufficient supply of emergency paper ballots be printed and on hand. Here is the complaint. And here is the 37-page Memo. Thanks to Danielle Ivory for this news.