The Supreme Court today refused to hear one of the Ralph Nader ballot access cases or the Wexler case from the Eleventh Circuit on electronic voting without paper trails. I had expected both cert denials (see here and here). [Update: A reader writes in to note the cert. denial in Carmouche v. Center for Individual Freedom, “a case about the continuing validity of the express advocacy standard after McConnell v. FEC in the Fifth Circuit.”]
Meanwhile, Lyle Denniston reports: “The Justices took no action Monday on an important case on congressional redistricting — an appeal by Colorado Republican voters seeking to substitute a legislatively approved map for one drawn by a state court. The case of Lance v. Dennis (06-641) has been to the Court twice before. Because the case reached the Court this time as an appeal from a three-judge U.S. District Court, action on it will require a majority vote of the Justices; it cannot simply be denied if four Justices fail to vote to hear it.”