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Federal Lawsuit Over Voting Resolved In Emergency Hearing

The emergency federal lawsuit filed 4AM Sunday morning by the Florida Democratic Party over early voting was resolved late Monday afternoon.

It stemmed in part from the long delays on the last official day of early voting in South Florida and that was technically on Saturday.

The lawsuit was aimed at the supervisors of elections for Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties. The legal point is whether people could vote absentee in person - and the long waits was preventing that.

The judge has ruled they can as long as those absentee ballots are returned no later than 7PM tonight when the polls close.

Michael Olin is an attorney who represented state Democrats. 

She says the situation was fairly quickly ironed out with Miami-Dade and Palm Beach supervisors, but Broward was a different story.

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