Lake County Circuit Court Judge Lorenzo Arredondo ordered early voting locations opened immediately Tuesday morning in Gary, Hammond and East Chicago.
Sally LaSota, director of the county Election Office, said at 10:30 a.m. that she would act as quickly as possible to comply with Arredondo's order.
But Lake Superior Court Judge Calvin Hawkins, who has previously issued a rule blocking the early voting sites from opening, will hold a hearing on the issue at 1 p.m.
And attorneys representing the Lake County Republican Party, which opposes opening the early voting sites in the three Democratic strongholds, announced Tuesday morning they would file a motion asking the Indiana Supreme Court to consider a request to dismiss the case on which Arredondo ruled.
All of this is as expected, and the question now falls to whether the Indiana Supreme Court is willing to halt early voting -- a prospect that legal issues aside, will make for a Republican PR nightmare.
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