Major Pending Election Cases

League of Women Voters of Florida v. Moody

Filing Date:

May 24, 2023

Status:

pending

State:

Florida

Topic:

Voter Suppression

Most Recent Court:

United Stated District Court for the Northern District of Florida (No. 4:23-cv-00216-MW-MAF). Case consolidated with No. 4:23-cv-00215-MW-MAF; For new filings see Florida State Conference of Branches and Youth Units of the NAACP v. Byrd.

Issue(s):

Plaintiffs bring this lawsuit against several provisions of Florida Senate Bill 7050. They argue that a portion of the law, which prohibits noncitizen volunteers from conducting third party registration on behalf of third party voter registration organizations, violates the 1st and 14th amendments. The lawsuit specifically challenges portions of the law that requires third party voter registration organizations to provide a "receipt" to each voter registration applicant containing identifying information, reduces the days to return a voter registration application, and requires organizations to reregister every cycle.

League of Women Voters of New Hampshire v. Kramer

Filing Date:

March 14, 2024

Status:

pending

State:

New Hampshire

Topics:

Voter Suppression, Voting Rights Act

Most Recent Court:

United Stated District Court New Hampshire (No. 1:24-cv-00073)

Issue(s):

The plaintiffs in the case accuse the defendants of using robocalls with an AI-generated voice of Joe Biden to suppress turnout in New Hampshire's Democratic primary election. They argue that these actions violated Section 11(b) of the Voting Rights Act which prohibits the use of intimidation to keep individuals from voting. Plaintiffs ask the court to issue a permanent, nationwide injunction to prohibit the defendants from taking these actions.

League of Women Voters of Wisconsin v. Wisconsin Elections Commission

Filing Date:

July 22, 2022

Status:

pending

State:

Wisconsin

Topic:

Absentee Ballots

Most Recent Court:

Wisconsin Court of Appeals (No. 2024AP000166)

Issue(s):

Under Wisconsin law a voter's absentee ballot must accompanied by a witness certificate containing the witness' address, the ballot may not be counted if the address is missing. The plaintiffs ask for clarification on what constitutes "missing" and contend that partial witness addresses are not "missing".

LULAC Texas et al. v. Esparza et al.

Filing Date:

September 7, 2021

Status:

pending

State:

Texas

Topics:

Absentee Ballots, Provisional Ballots, Voter ID, Voter Suppression, Voting Rights Act

Most Recent Court:

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas (1:21-cv-00786); For new filings see, La Union Del Pueblo Entero v. Abbott (No. 5:21-cv-00844)

Issue(s):

Civil rights organizations challenge Senate Bill 1, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief based on the First and Fourteenth Amendments, and the Voting Rights Act (VRA). Plaintiffs argue that SB1 disproportionately impacts Black and Latino voters.

Mi Familia Vota et al. v. Fontes (2021)

Filing Date:

August 17, 2021

Status:

pending

State:

Arizona

Topics:

Absentee Ballots, Provisional Ballots, Voter ID, Voter Suppression, Voting Rights Act

Most Recent Court:

U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona (2:21-cv-01423)

Issue(s):

Civil rights organizations challenge two bills introduced in the Arizona State Senate in the wake of the 2020 election which change the state's early voting system. The first, Senate Bill 1485, purges voters from Arizona's permanent early voting list if voters do not cast a mail-in ballot in two consecutive election cycles. The second, Senate Bill 1003, requires voters who submit early ballots without a signature to "cure" the ballot by 7:00 PM on Election Day.

Mi Familia Vota et al. v. Fontes (2022)

Filing Date:

March 31, 2022

Status:

pending

State:

Arizona

Topics:

Voter ID, Voter Suppression

Most Recent Court:

U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona (2:22-cv-00509)

Issue(s):

Arizona House Bill 2492 requires new voters who use federal forms under the National Voter Registration Act to register to vote to provide proof of citizenship to vote in presidential elections or to vote by mail in any election. The bill also requires voters who registered when there was not a proof of citizenship requirement to provide citizenship documentation to vote in presidential elections. The bill allows the Arizona Attorney General to investigate voters with missing citizenship statuses. Mi Familia Vota challenges the law arguing it violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments by severely burdening the right to vote and disenfranchising Arizona voters.

Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Ellison

Filing Date:

August 28, 2023

Status:

pending

State:

Minnesota

Topic:

First Amendment

Most Recent Court:

Dist. Minnesota

Issue(s):

The plaintiffs are challenging Minnesota's election misinformation laws which makes it a misdemeanor to knowingly spread false information with the intent to impede or prevent people from voting if issued within 60 days of an election. The plaintiffs bring forth various arguments alleging that the law violates the freedom of speech under the First Amendment.

New Georgia Project et al. v. Raffensperger

Filing Date:

March 25, 2021

Status:

pending

State:

Georgia

Topics:

Absentee Ballots, Voter Suppression

Most Recent Court:

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia (1:21-cv-01229); For new filings see, In Re: Georgia Senate Bill 202 (1:21-MI-55555-JPB)

Issue(s):

New Georgia Project, Black Voters Matter Fund, and RISE, Inc. challenge SB 202, a voting bill that passed in the aftermath of the 2020 election. The bill prohibits third parties (including voter engagement organizations) from collecting absentee ballot applications, restricts use of absentee drop boxes, bans mobile polling places, prohibits the state from distributing unsolicited absentee ballot applications, invalidates ballots cast before 5:00 pm by voters in a precinct other than the one to which they were assigned, and more. Plaintiffs challenge SB 202 as an undue burden on the right to vote, in violation of the 1st and 14th Amendments.

OCA-Greater Houston v. Secretary of State Esparza

Filing Date:

September 3, 2021

Status:

pending

State:

Texas

Topics:

Absentee Ballots, Provisional Ballots, Voter ID, Voter Suppression, Voting Rights Act

Most Recent Court:

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas (1:21-cv-00780); For new filings see, La Union Del Pueblo Entero v. Abbott (No. 5:21-cv-00844)

Issue(s):

Civil rights organizations challenge Senate Bill 1, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief based on the First and Fourteenth Amendments, the Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act (VRA), and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Plaintiffs argue that SB1 disproportionately impacts voters with disabilities, voters with limited English proficiency, and voters of color.

Pennsylvania State Conference of the NAACP v. Schmidt

Filing Date:

November 4, 2022

Status:

pending

State:

Pennsylvania

Topics:

Civil Rights Act, Mail-In Voting

Most Recent Court:

U.S District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (No. 1:22-cv-00339)

Issue(s):

On November 1st the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ordered the county boards of elections to not count undated or wrongly dated mail-in ballots. The plaintiffs ask that the defendants be prevented from rejecting these ballots. They argue that the date on which a voter signed their return envelope is immaterial because a ballot's timeliness under Pennsylvania law is determined by when it was received by the county board of elections. Thus, they argue the rejection of the ballots on these grounds violates the Materiality Provision of the Civil Rights Act.

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