Major Pending Election Cases

Mazurek v. Berden

Filing Date:

January 11, 2023

Status:

pending

State:

Michigan

Most Recent Court:

Circuit Court for Kent County (No.: 00306)

Issue(s):

Three Democratic presidential electors have filed a lawsuit against sixteen individual who attempted to submit alternative election results claiming that Donald Trump won Michigan's sixteen electoral votes in the 2020 election. The plaintiffs allege that the defendants conspired and agreed to submit fraudulent results. Additionally, the complaint alleges that the defendants violated multiple State and Federal laws.

Mi Familia Vota et al. v. Fontes

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

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.

Neiman v. LaRose

Filing Date:

March 21, 2022

Status:

pending

State:

Ohio

Topic:

Redistricting

Most Recent Court:

Supreme Court of Ohio (2022-0298); Case consolidated with League of Women Voters of Ohio v. LaRose (2020-0303); Going forward, new filings will only be added to that case.

Issue(s):

Whether Ohio's Congressional Districting Plan adopted March 2, 2022 violates Article XIX of the Ohio Constitution

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.

Ohio Organizing Collaborative et al. v. Ohio Redistricting Commission et al.

Filing Date:

September 27, 2021

Status:

pending

State:

Ohio

Topic:

Redistricting

Most Recent Court:

Supreme Court of Ohio (2021-1210); Case consolidated with 2021-1198 and 2021-1193; For new filings, see League of Women Voters v. Ohio Redistricting Commission (2021-1193)

Issue(s):

Relators argue that the Ohio Redistricting Commission drew district lines that disproportionately favor Republicans in violation of Article XI of the Ohio Constitution.

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.

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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