Major Pending Election Cases

Vanness v. Aguilar

Filing Date:

June 29, 2023

Status:

resolved

State:

Nevada

Topic:

First Amendment

Most Recent Court:

District Court of Nevada (2:23-cv-01009-JCM-VCF)

Issue(s):

Lawsuit challenging Nevada SB 406, which is meant to protect election officials from intimidation and election interference. The plaintiffs argue that the protections are overbroad and violate the 1st amendment. They ask the court to preclude the defendants from enforcing SB 406.

VOTE.ORG v. Paxton

Filing Date:

July 8, 2021

Status:

resolved

State:

Texas

Topics:

Ballot Access, State Voter Registration Databases, Voter Suppression

Most Recent Court:

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas (5:21-cv-00649)

Issue(s):

Challenges the state's "wet signature" law, which requires individuals who submit registration applications electronically do so signed with a pen on paper. Plaintiffs challenge the law as violative of the First and Fourteenth Amendments, as well as the Civil Rights Act (CRA).

Voto Latino Inc. v. Hobbs

Filing Date:

November 26, 2019

Status:

resolved

State:

Arizona

Topic:

Absentee Ballots

Most Recent Court:

U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona (Case 2:19-cv-05685)

Issue(s):

Whether Arizona's deadline for voters to submit their early ballots by mail is constitutional

Ward v. Jackson

SCOTUS Watchlist:

Yes

Filing Date:

November 24, 2020

Status:

resolved

State:

Arizona

Topics:

2020 Presidential Election Case, Improper Election Administration

Most Recent Court:

U.S. Supreme Court (20-809)

Issue(s):

Whether Arizona election officials failed to allow observation of signature verification as required by Arizona law; whether plaintiff is entitled to a reasonable inspection (sampling) of signatures as well as "duplicated" ballots so she can compare them to originals; and whether the alleged illegal conduct requires the court to annul the state's election and declare that the state's certification of Biden electors is of no further legal effect

Wisconsin Voters Alliance v. Pence

Filing Date:

December 22, 2020

Status:

resolved

State:

District Of Columbia

Topic:

2020 Presidential Election Case

Most Recent Court:

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1:20-cv-03791)

Issue(s):

Whether portions of the Electoral Count Act violate Article II of the U.S. Constitution by restricting state legislatures' prerogative to post-election certification of Presidential electors; Whether laws in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin are unconstitutional delegations of post-election Presidential elector certification duties to executive branch officials when Article II requires these certifications to be made by state legislatures; Whether the court should enjoin Vice President Pence from counting Presidential elector votes unless state legislatures affirmatively vote to certify their states' Presidential electors

Wisconsin Voters Alliance v. Wisconsin Elections Commission

Filing Date:

November 24, 2020

Status:

resolved

State:

Wisconsin

Topics:

2020 Presidential Election Case, Absentee Ballots, Improper Election Administration

Most Recent Court:

Wisconsin Supreme Court (2020AP001930 - OA)

Issue(s):

Whether the Wisconsin Elections Commission and local election officials, primarily in cities that received funds from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Center for Tech and Civic Life, illegally circumvented Wisconsin absentee voting laws, and therefore whether the November election for Presidential electors should be declared void and the choice for Presidential electors revert back to the state legislature

Wise v. Circosta

Filing Date:

September 26, 2020

Status:

resolved

State:

North Carolina

Topics:

Absentee Ballots, Improper Election Administration, Voter Fraud

Most Recent Court:

U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit (20-02104, 20-02107)

Issue(s):

Whether the "Consent Order" and associated memoranda regulating the Times, Places, and Manner of holding Elections negotiated by the North Carolina Board of Elections exceeds its authority.

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

Wood v. Raffensperger

Filing Date:

November 25, 2020

Status:

resolved

State:

Georgia

Topics:

2020 Presidential Election Case, Improper Election Administration

Most Recent Court:

Fulton County Superior Court (2020CV342959)

Issue(s):

Whether Georgia officials violated state and federal law in how they administered the November election, for example by how they used funds received from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Center for Tech and Civic Life, by negotiating an allegedly unlawful settlement agreement regarding absentee ballots, and by allegedly not enforcing state law residency requirements; and whether, as a result of the alleged illegal conduct, the Presidential election results in Georgia should be considered null and void

Wood v. Raffensperger

SCOTUS Watchlist:

Yes

Filing Date:

December 18, 2020

Status:

resolved

State:

Georgia

Topics:

2020 Presidential Election Case, Absentee Ballots, Improper Election Administration

Most Recent Court:

United States Supreme Court (20-887)

Issue(s):

Whether Georgia's Secretary of State unlawfully abrogated the Georgia legislature's statutory mail-in absentee ballot signature verification procedure or prohibition on opening absentee ballots before Election Day. Plaintiffs also argue Defendants unlawfully installed unauthorized ballot drop boxes not permitted under the legislature's election law framework, and used unreliable and compromised Dominion Voting Systems software. Complaint is raised under Equal Protection and Due Process of the 14th Amendment, and the Guarantee Clause of Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution. Plaintiff seeks injunctive and declaratory relief halting Georgia's senatorial runoff election because Defendants are conducting it in a manner that differs from the state legislature's election scheme.

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