Major Pending Election Cases

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

Law v. Whitmer

Filing Date:

November 17, 2020

Status:

resolved

State:

Nevada

Topics:

2020 Presidential Election Case, Improper Election Administration

Most Recent Court:

Nevada Supreme Court (82178)

Issue(s):

Whether due to various alleged irregularities, improprieties, and fraud in the conduct of Nevada's election, including those related to mail-in ballot processing machines, electronic voting machines, ballot-counting observation, the processing and counting of provisional ballots, and voting drives, the court should order that either Republican electors be certified as the duly elected Presidential electors from the state or that no Presidential electors be certified

League of Women Voters of Arizona v. Lions of Liberty

Filing Date:

October 25, 2022

Status:

resolved

State:

Arizona

Topic:

Voting Rights Act

Most Recent Court:

U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona (CV-22-08196-PCT-MTL); For new filings, see Arizona Alliance for Retired Americans v. Clean Elections USA (CV-22-01823-PHX-MTL)

Issue(s):

Lawsuit asking the court to temporarily and permanently prevent the defendants from intimidating Arizona voters. The plaintiffs allege that the defendants have planned and engaged in voter intimidation by filming and/or following voters attempting to deposit their mail-in ballots in drop boxes. The plaintiffs also allege that two armed individuals dressed in tactical were "onsite" at a drop box. The plaintiffs contend the defendants are violating section 11(b) of the VRA and section 2 of the Ku Klux Klan Act.

League of Women Voters of Florida et al. v. Lee et al.

Filing Date:

May 6, 2021

Status:

resolved

State:

Florida

Topics:

Absentee Ballots, Ballot Access, Voter Suppression

Most Recent Court:

United Stated District Court for the Northern District of Florida (No. 4:21-cv-00186)

Issue(s):

The Florida League of Women Voters et al. seek declaratory and injunctive relief against Florida's Secretary of State, Attorney General, and 67 Supervisors of Elections under the 1st and 14th Amendments regarding the newly enacted Senate Bill 90.

League of Women Voters of Florida v. Byrd

Filing Date:

April 26, 2023

Status:

resolved

State:

Florida

Topic:

National Voter Registration Act

Most Recent Court:

United Stated District Court for the Northern District of Florida (No. 4:23-cv-00165-AW-MAF)

Issue(s):

This lawsuit challenges Florida's statewide voter registration application. The plaintiffs argue that it violates the NVRA's minimum requirements for specifying voter eligibility requirements, as Florida's application does not inform voters that eligibility requirements differ based on "a returning citizen's conviction, the state of conviction, and the sentence received,” and does not explain when an individual’s right to vote has been restored. Plaintiffs also point out that while Florida's eligibility requirements have changed in the past five years, the application was approved in 2013 and has not been changed since, making it severely out of date. Plaintiffs ask the court to declare the applications to be in violation of the NVRA, prevent Byrd from using the applications, and order Byrd to adopt an application that complies with the NVRA.

League of Women Voters of Michigan v. Benson

Filing Date:

May 22, 2020

Status:

resolved

State:

Michigan

Topic:

Absentee Ballots

Most Recent Court:

Michigan Supreme Court (Case 161671)

Issue(s):

Whether Michigan's requirement that election officials reject absentee ballots that arrive at the clerk's desk after Election Day is still valid under the amendment to the state constitution giving every voter the right to submit an absentee ballot—by mail or in person at the voter’s choosing—at any point in the 40 days preceding an election.

League of Women Voters of Ohio v. LaRose

Filing Date:

July 31, 2020

Status:

resolved

State:

Ohio

Topic:

Absentee Ballots

Most Recent Court:

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio (Case: 2:20-cv-03843)

Issue(s):

Plaintiffs are bringing this action to stop local Board of Elections from disqualifying absentee ballot applications and ballots due to signature mismatching.

League of Women Voters of Ohio v. LaRose

Filing Date:

March 30, 2020

Status:

resolved

State:

Ohio

Topic:

Improper Election Administration

Most Recent Court:

U.S. District Court For The Southern District Of Ohio (Case 2:20-cv-01638)

Issue(s):

Challenge by Plaintiffs regarding the administration of the delayed primary based on the enactment of House Bill 197 (“H.B. 197”), including the refusal to extend the voter registration deadline, which passed on February 18, to at most thirty days prior to April 28; the imposition of a multi-step, multi-mailing process for absentee voting; and the elimination of in-person voting for all but a narrow set of voters.

League of Women Voters of Ohio v. LaRose

SCOTUS Watchlist:

Yes

Filing Date:

March 22, 2022

Status:

resolved

State:

Ohio

Topic:

Redistricting

Most Recent Court:

Supreme Court of Ohio (2022-0303); Case consolidated with Neiman v. LaRose (2022-0298); New filings for each case will be reflected on this case page (2022-0303).

Issue(s):

Relators challenge the second congressional reapportionment plan passed by the Ohio Redistricting Commission as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander under Article XIX of the Ohio Constitution.

League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania v. Boockvar

Filing Date:

August 7, 2020

Status:

resolved

State:

Pennsylvania

Topic:

Absentee Ballots

Most Recent Court:

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (Case 2:20-cv-03850)

Issue(s):

Complaint filed regarding Pennsylvania's signature verification procedures for mailed in ballots.

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