Major Pending Election Cases

In Re: Canvass of Absentee and Mail-In Ballots

SCOTUS Watchlist:

Yes

Filing Date:

November 11, 2020

Status:

resolved

State:

Pennsylvania

Topics:

2020 Presidential Election Case, Absentee Ballots, Improper Election Administration

Most Recent Court:

U.S. Supreme Court (20-845)

Issue(s):

Whether Pennsylvania law prohibited the Philadelphia County Board of Elections from counting 8,329 absentee and mail-in ballots containing technical defects such as a missing date next to a signature, a missing printed name of the voter, and a missing street address for the voter

Bally v. Whitmer

Filing Date:

November 11, 2020

Status:

resolved

State:

Michigan

Topics:

2020 Presidential Election Case, Absentee Ballots, Improper Election Administration

Most Recent Court:

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan (1:20-cv-1088)

Issue(s):

Whether Michigan election officials refused to permit statutorily-designated challengers from observing the conduct of elections and the processing of ballots, disregarded valid challenges, pre-dated ballots not eligible to be counted, counted ineligible ballots, allowed ballots to be dropped into unattended drop boxes, and engaged in other conduct contrary to federal statutory and constitutional law

Aguilera et al. v. Fontes et al.

Filing Date:

November 12, 2020

Status:

resolved

State:

Arizona

Topics:

2020 Presidential Election Case, Improper Election Administration

Most Recent Court:

Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One (CV-20-0688)

Issue(s):

Two Republican voters claim they were unable to have their vote counted and seek to cast a new ballot.

Langenhorst v. Pecore

Filing Date:

November 12, 2020

Status:

resolved

State:

Wisconsin

Topics:

2020 Presidential Election Case, Absentee Ballots, Improper Election Administration

Most Recent Court:

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin (1:20-cv-01701)

Issue(s):

Whether certain Wisconsin counties unlawfully counted ballots that should not be included in the state's certified results

In re: 2,349 Ballots in the 2020 General Election

SCOTUS Watchlist:

Yes

Filing Date:

November 12, 2020

Status:

resolved

State:

Pennsylvania

Topics:

2020 Presidential Election Case, Improper Election Administration

Most Recent Court:

U.S. Supreme Court (20-845)

Issue(s):

Whether the Allegheny County Board of Elections violated Pennsylvania law by canvassing 2349 mail-in ballots alleged to be defective due to undated voter declarations

Arizona Republican Party v. Fontes

Filing Date:

November 12, 2020

Status:

resolved

State:

Arizona

Topics:

2020 Presidential Election Case, Improper Election Administration

Most Recent Court:

Maricopa County Superior Court (CV2020-014553)

Issue(s):

Whether Arizona law requires the Maricopa County Recorder to conduct a statutorily required hand count sampling by precinct rather than by "vote center"

Wood v. Raffensperger

SCOTUS Watchlist:

Yes

Filing Date:

November 13, 2020

Status:

resolved

State:

Georgia

Topics:

2020 Presidential Election Case, Absentee Ballots

Most Recent Court:

U.S. Supreme Court (20-14418)

Issue(s):

Whether Georgia's Secretary of State altered the process established by the Georgia legislature for handling defective absentee ballots, in violation of federal constitutional law and federal and Georgia statutory law, when he entered into a March 2020 settlement agreement to resolve a court case brought by the Democratic Party of Georgia and others

Johnson v. Benson

Filing Date:

November 16, 2020

Status:

resolved

State:

Michigan

Topics:

2020 Presidential Election Case, Improper Election Administration

Most Recent Court:

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan (1:20-cv-01098)

Issue(s):

Whether the federal district court should enjoin certification of Michigan’s popular vote in the presidential election on the ground that the state’s procedures for absentee voting were unconstitutional.

Becker v. Gloria

Filing Date:

November 16, 2020

Status:

resolved

State:

Nevada

Topics:

2020 Presidential Election Case, Improper Election Administration

Most Recent Court:

Clark County District Court (A-20-824878-W)

Issue(s):

Whether the Clark County Registrar of Voters failed to follow multiple statutorily required procedures in conducting the election, "flooding" the county with untrackable ballots and using the Agilis mail ballot processing machine with signature recognition software instead of a person to verify signatures as required by Nevada law; Whether these alleged errors require the Clark County Commissioners to hold a new election

In Re: Allegheny County Provisional Ballots

Filing Date:

November 16, 2020

Status:

resolved

State:

Pennsylvania

Topic:

Improper Election Administration

Most Recent Court:

Pennsylvania Supreme Court (338 WAL 2020)

Issue(s):

Whether 270 provisional ballots were defective when voters signed the outer envelope in only one of two required places, or when voters submitted provisional ballots and had also submitted deficient mail-in ballots

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