The opinion in Akins v. Secretary of State may cause a delay in the state’s Sept. 12 primary. As the co-author of an article on the ballot order effect (Alvarez, Sinclair and Hasen, How Much is Enough? The ‘Ballot Order Effect’ and the Use of Social Science Evidence in Election Law Disputes, 5 Election Law Journal 40 (2006)), I was interested in seeing how the state supreme court dealt with the conflict in the scientific evidence. But in this case, the state conceded on appeal that the ballot order gave as much as a 6-10% advantage to candidates listed first (something that seems quite dubious to me), and the case proceeded under that concession.