Major Pending Election Cases

The Andrew Goodman Foundation v. Bostelmann

Filing Date:

November 19, 2019

Status:

resolved

State:

Wisconsin

Topic:

Improper Election Administration

Most Recent Court:

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin (Case 3:19-cv-00955)

Issue(s):

Plaintiffs challenge Wisconsin's Student Voter ID restriction on grounds that it violates the 26th Amendment.

Priorities USA v. Nessel

Filing Date:

November 12, 2019

Status:

resolved

State:

Michigan

Topics:

Improper Election Administration, Voter Suppression

Most Recent Court:

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (20-01931)

Issue(s):

Plaintiffs challenge Michigan's Voter Transportation Ban and Absentee Ballot Organizing Ban, arguing that the bans violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments.

S.P.S. ex rel. Short v. Raffensperger

Filing Date:

November 1, 2019

Status:

resolved

State:

Georgia

Topic:

Ballot Design

Most Recent Court:

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia (Case 1:19-cv-04960)

Issue(s):

Plaintiffs challenge the constitutionality of a Georgia law mandating that candidates be listed on the ballot in “descending order” based on the number of votes cast for the candidates of the political parties for Governor in the last gubernatorial election.

Mecinas v. Hobbs

Filing Date:

November 1, 2019

Status:

resolved

State:

Arizona

Topic:

Ballot Design

Most Recent Court:

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (20-16301)

Issue(s):

Whether Arizona's ballot design, which features the candidate's name vertically with the order determined based on political party, is valid under law.

Priorities USA v. Benson

Filing Date:

October 30, 2019

Status:

resolved

State:

Michigan

Topic:

Absentee Ballots

Most Recent Court:

U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (Case 19-cv-13188)

Issue(s):

Case concerns a constitutional challenge to Michigan's signature match laws, which require election officials to reject absentee applications and ballots if they determine that the signature provided with the applications or ballots does not match the voter's signature on file with election authorities.

Gilby (TX Democratic Party) v. Hughs

Filing Date:

October 30, 2019

Status:

resolved

State:

Texas

Topics:

Early Voting, Improper Election Administration

Most Recent Court:

U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit (Case 20-50683)

Issue(s):

Plaintiffs challenge HB 1888, which they argue effectively bans temporary or "mobile" early voting sites by requiring that every early voting location operate for eight hours each weekday and stay open for the same number of weekdays as the main early voting location in the county. Plaintiffs argue that this is a violation of the First, Fourteenth, and Twenty-Sixth Amendments.

Jones v. DeSantis

Filing Date:

June 28, 2019

Status:

resolved

State:

Florida

Topics:

Felon Voting Rights, Voter Suppression, Voting Rights Act

Most Recent Court:

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (Case 20-12003)

Issue(s):

Plaintiffs challenge Florida's requirement that payment of all restitution, fees, or fines ordered by the court as part of the sentence is a condition of voting rights restoration, arguing that the requirement violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, the Twenty-Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, the Voting Rights Act, and Article VI, Section 4 of the Florida Constitution.

Fair Fight Action v. Raffensperger

Filing Date:

November 27, 2018

Status:

resolved

State:

Georgia

Topic:

Voter Suppression

Most Recent Court:

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia (Case 1:18-cv-05391)

Issue(s):

Whether the Secretary of State's office and the state election board systematically blocked minority voters from the polls in the Nov. 6th, 2018 election.

Secretary, State of Georgia v. Common Cause Georgia

Filing Date:

November 5, 2018

Status:

resolved

State:

Georgia

Topic:

State Voter Registration Databases

Most Recent Court:

U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit (Case 20-12388)

Issue(s):

Whether Georgia's maintenance of an allegedly unsecure voter registration database violates the 14th Amendment, the Help America Vote Act, the Georgia Constitution, and Georgia statutory law.

Georgia Coalition for the Peoples’ Agenda v. Raffensperger

Filing Date:

October 11, 2018

Status:

resolved

State:

Georgia

Topic:

Voter Registration

Most Recent Court:

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia (Case 1:18-cv-04727)

Issue(s):

Whether Georgia's exact-match voter registration protocol violates the Voting Rights Act and the National Voter Registration Act, as well as the First and Fourteenth Amendments.

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