CASE TRACKER

Plaintiffs assert that by failing to take particular actions protecting the safety of voters during the pandemic, the defendants are infringing voters' rights under the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. Plaintiffs seek various changes to in-person and mail-in absentee voting systems and procedures.

Plaintiffs allege that the all-mail election plan implemented by Nevada's secretary of state of stripping vote-fraud prevention safeguards established by the legislature violates voters’ (i) right to vote under the U.S. Constitution (due to vote dilution), (ii) right to vote in a federal election compliant with the U.S. Constitution at Article I, § 4, cl. 1, and (iii) right to a republican form of government under Article IV, § 4 of the U.S. Constitution.

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.

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.