A Nashville judge has ruled that the state has time to settle issues over the use of voting machines. Chancellor Russell Perkins refused Thursday to issue a temporary injunction in the case, saying such an order would be out of bounds at this point.
He ruled in a suit brought by advocacy group "Common Cause" against Secretary of State Tre Hargett over Hargett's refusal to immediately implement a state law requiring paper trails for voting machines in time for next year's elections.
The lawsuit filed in Nashville in October asked the judge to order Hargett and election officials to begin putting the optical scan voting machines into operation.
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