In 2012, a federal court rejected a Texas law requiring photo I.D. at the polls, ruling that it imposed "strict, unforgiving burdens on the poor".
A state judge delayed the closing of polls here, ruling that a huge turnout of voters had overwhelmed polling places and that many voters were being denied their rights to cast ballots.
On the eve of the ruling, a poll carried out on behalf of Crac, a European anti-bullfighting lobby group, indicated that 57 percent of the French wanted a ban, and another survey put the figure at 48 percent.
Following Sunday's poll, the ruling Cambodia People's Party (CPP) claimed it had won 68 seats – 22 less than in 2008 elections – against 55 for the opposition.
The opposition has cast the trio as martyrs for their defiant stand against the ruling regime, but opinion polls show that most Russians view their punishment as fitting.
Just a few months back, most analysts thought he would have trouble being re-elected president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party at party polls this Saturday, and therefore might lose his job as prime minister.
Polls suggest ruling party candidate, paraplegic former Vice President Lenin Moreno, 63, will win on Sunday but fall just short of enough votes to avoid an April runoff against Lasso, 61.
Angola, where President José Eduardo Dos Santos has ruled since 1979, making him Africa's longest-serving leader, will soon run parliamentary polls, and its ruling party may push Mr Dos Santos into retirement.Still, Africa has come a long way.
The ruling party went into the polls with control of 1,592 of the communes.
Also on Tuesday, some in the opposition charged that a video on the Internet that appeared to show elections officials stuffing ballot boxes proved their case that the ruling party had rigged the polls.
