164551P.pdf   09/12/2018  Muhammad Abdurrahman  v.  Mark Dayton
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  16-4551
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - Minneapolis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Smith, Chief Judge, and Murphy, 
   Circuit Judge] 
   Civil case - Minnesota Uniform Faithful Presidential Electors Act. This 
   opinion is issued by Chief Judge Smith and Judge Colloton under 8th Cir. 
   R. 47E. After the State of Minnesota appointed plaintiff as a presidential 
   elector in the 2016 presidential election, he attempted to vote for 
   candidates other than those to whom he was pledged and Minnesota deemed 
   him to have vacated his position and appointed a substitute elector. 
   Plaintiff then brought this action to have the Minnesota Uniform Faithful 
   Presidential Electors Act declared unconstitutional and to enjoin the 
   counting of the vote of the substitute elector. Held, the district court 
   properly dismissed the action as moot as Congress has counted the 
   Minnesota elector votes; the action is not saved by the mootness exception 
   for cases capable of repetition yet evading review; a party seeking to 
   claim the exception on the ground the time was too short to fully litigate 
   the claim must take advantage of legal avenues that would allow for 
   litigation within the necessary time, something plaintiff failed to do.