Citizens will be not be able to use the Michigan straight ticket voting tool to select one party across ballot

From Ballot Access News:

On September 1, all the full-time judges of the Sixth Circuit released an order concerning Michigan’s straight-ticket device and whether it should be on the ballot this year. By 9-6, the judges voted not to disturb the device this year. Michigan State A. Philip Randolph Institute v Johnson, 16-2115. Thanks to Bill Hall and Rick Hasen for this news. The case is still alive and will get further along after the election is over.

More from BAN:

On September 2, Michigan state officials asked the U.S. Supreme Court to let the state keep the straight-ticket device off the November 2016 ballot. See this story. UPDATE: here is the state’s application to the U.S. Supreme Court. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link to the brief. The case is Johnson v Michigan State A. Philip Randolph Institute, 16A225.

From the application:

Although the Legislature passed P.A. 268 on December 16, 2015, and the Governor signed it on January 5, 2016, the plaintiffs waited until May 24, 2016, be-fore initiating this action. The district court granted a preliminary injunction, on July 21, which altered the status quo by preventing Michigan from applying its democratically enacted statute. Michigan promptly appealed and sought a stay in the district court, which scheduled that stay request for a hearing that would not oc-cur until August 21. Because that schedule did not expedite the issue fast enough for resolution by August 30 (when ballots for the November 8 election were sched-uled to begin being programmed, coded, and printed), Michigan sought a stay in the Sixth Circuit. The Sixth Circuit denied the stay, in a published opinion, on August 17. (The district court revised its schedule and issued its stay denial August 15.