Plaintiffs are petitioning for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to intervene and change the registration and reception deadline for absentee voting in light of the coronavirus pandemic.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (Case 20-3526)
Issue(s):
Plaintiffs are suing to reduce or eliminate the number of signatures required to place an issue on local and statewide ballots due to the coronavirus pandemic and accompanying social distancing orders.
State Voter Registration Databases, Voter Eligibility, Voter Registration
Most Recent Court:
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania (Case 1:20-cv-00708)
Issue(s):
Plaintiffs are suing to compel Defendants to comply with their alleged voter list maintenance obligations and their record production obligations under Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (“NVRA”), 52 U.S.C. § 20507.
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, Plaintiffs challenge 1) the requirement that an affidavit that must be included with an absentee ballot be signed by the voter in the presence of either a notary or two adult witnesses; (2) the requirement that copies of photo identification accompany absentee ballot applications; (3) the requirement that copies of photo identification accompany certain absentee ballots; and (4) the prohibition on curbside voting. Plaintiffs assert that by not amending these policies the state is inappropriately limiting Alabama's citizens right to vote.
Due to the issues presented by the coronavirus pandemic, the plaintiffs are challenging four election policies that they argue risk disenfranchising thousands of Georgia voters: (1) the lack of standards governing the process for notifying voters regarding incomplete absentee ballot applications; (2) the failure to provide prepaid postage on absentee ballots; (3) the rejection of absentee ballots received after 7:00 p.m. on Election Day; and (4) Georgia’s prohibition on third-party assistance for absentee ballots.
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin (Case 3:20-cv-00459)
Issue(s):
Plaintiffs are suing to obtain an order requiring Defendants to administer impending elections in a manner that will not, as Plaintiffs contend the state did in April, violate eligible voters’ federally protected rights to participate in those elections.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit (Case 20-50654)
Issue(s):
The lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of the following provisions in the context of the current COVID-19 crisis: (1) the requirement that voters pay for the postage to return their early voting ballots by mail; (2) the requirement that returned ballots be postmarked no later than 7:00 p.m. on Election Day and received by the county at the address designated on the ballot carrier envelope no later than 5:00 p.m. on the day after the election to be counted; (3) the requirement that voters must submit two handwriting samples that “match”—a standard determined by election officials— in order to have their early voting ballots counted; and (4) the criminalization of a person assisting a voter in returning a marked mail ballot.
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania (Case 1:20-cv-00829)
Issue(s):
Plaintiffs allege that Pennsylvania's absentee and mail-in ballot proccess is inaccessible to those Pennsylvanians who are blind and thus unconstitutionally deprives these voters of their right to vote.
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