Eleventh Circuit Sets Oral Argument in Case over Access to List of Registered Voters

The Eleventh Circuit will hear Libertarian Party of Alabama v Merrill, 20-13356, on Tuesday, August 24. This is the case over Alabama’s policy of giving the list of registered voters free to the qualified parties, but charging approximately $36,000 to parties that are trying to get on the ballot. The U.S. District Court had upheld the policy, even though in 1970 the U.S. Supreme Court summarily affirmed a 3-judge U.S. District Court decision from New York that said if the government gives a free list to the qualified parties, it must also give a free list to parties trying to petition.