You can find the very important 2-1 decision and dissent here. Though this is a ruling nominally on a preliminary injunction, it decides the legal issue in a way that clearly would apply to a final ruling on the merits as well. In reading this opinion, and the dissent by Judge Barkett, I was struck by the echoes of the Democratic/Republican judicial debates over the constitutionality of the new voter identification laws. Indeed, Judge Barkett relies upon dissents in Crawford to make many of her points. The case reaffirms my worries about the politicization of election law issues by the courts.
I do not know enough about the politics of Eleventh Circuit en banc review to know whether this case has a good chance of being taken up, but it is an important case both doctrinally and politically. With Florida again a swing state in the presidential election, these disputes over voter registration can have a real effect on electoral outcomes.
Howard has more here.