The Supreme Court on Friday denied an emergency request from Michigan to reinstate a Republican-backed ban on straight-ticket voting.
Straight-ticket voting allows people to vote for every candidate in a party’s ticket just by marking a single box on a ballot.
A district court judge in Michigan suspended a law that banned straight-ticket voting, declaring it would disproportionally burden black voters right to vote. After the 6th U.S. Court of Appeals upheld that ruling last month, Michigan sought an emergency stay from the Supreme Court.
