Case: 12-2145
Document: 00116452609
Page: 17
Date Filed: 11/04/2012
Entry ID: 5687743
(whenever this may be).9 In other words, not only the district court’s order opens the election process to chaos and fraud by not permitting recusals on residency grounds, and without even considering if the SEC and the political parties have the necessary means and resources to implement such a remedy, it has informed the parties that it will now arrest the electoral results until at least December 1, 2012— assuming that every party accepts the district court final decision on the merits of the permanent injunction and no appeals are filed. See Scheduling Order, Dkt. 81. In its November 3, 2012 Order, notified on November 4, the district court commanded the following: When these provisional ballots cast by the I-8 voters on November 6, 2012 reach the State Electoral Commission (SEC), their adjudication shall be postponed to allow for this Court’s resolution of the merits of the I-8 voters’ constitutional challenge now pending before it. Dkt. 79, p. 6 (emphasis omitted). After issuing this order, the district court then issued a scheduling order that makes clear that Puerto Rico may not know who its elected candidates are until at least December 1, 2012. See Dkt. 81 (D. Puerto Rico, Case No. 12-1749). This is so because the order sequesters or arrests more than 330,000 ballots for multiple positions until, at least, December 1, 2012. Because those ballots could be determinative of any position—and even a substantial less amount for positions 9
Notably, the district court has made clear that it will not resolve the issue until, at least, December 1, 2012. See Dkt. 81 (D. Puerto Rico, Case No. 12-1749) 17