U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia; For new filings see, In Re: Georgia Senate Bill 202 (1:21-MI-55555-JPB)
Issue(s):
U.S. filed lawsuit against Georgia for passing of GA Senate Bill 202 arguing that it is in violation of Sec. 2 & 12(d) of the Voting Rights Act due to being intended to deny or abridge the rights of Black Georgians to vote on account of race or color.
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas (5:21-cv-01085); For new filings see, La Union Del Pueblo Entero v. Abbott (No. 5:21-cv-00844)
Issue(s):
U.S. filed lawsuit against the state of Texas for the enactment of SB1, omnibus voting legislation that the U.S. claims will disenfranchise voters that already confront barriers to the ballot box, in violation of the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act.
Plaintiff is suing Defendants for violations of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), alleging that Defendants failed to maintain an accurate statewide voter registration list and used a non-compliant voter registration form that did not require applicants to provide a driver's license number or the last four digits of their Social Security number. Further, Plaintiff claims Defendants admitted the violations but failed to take sufficient corrective actions, such as updating the voter registration list or contacting affected voters to obtain missing information. Lastly, Plaintiff alleges that Defendants' actions resulted in significant non-compliance with HAVA's requirements for elections for federal office.
United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (No. 23-13727)
Issue(s):
The lawsuit challenges Florida's wet signature requirement. Florida statutes require individuals registering to vote to submit a voter application with an original signature. The plaintiffs allege that the defendants have interpreted this to require a signature on paper, and that applications have been rejected if they have been submitted via email or fax or have been submitted with an electronic signature. The plaintiffs contend that this interpretation violates the Materiality Provision of the Civil Rights Act and ask the court to enjoin the defendants from requiring a wet signature for voter registration applications. Case name has been changed to "Disability Rights Florida, et al v. Secretary, State of Florida" on appeal.
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia (1:21-cv-01390)
Issue(s):
VoteAmerica, Voter Participation Center, and Center for Voter Information are nonprofit organizations that assist voters in navigating the political process. They bring a challenge to SB 202 under the 1st and 14th Amendments.
Whether the federal election-day statutes, 2 U.S.C. § 7, 2 U.S.C. § 1, and 3 U.S.C. § 1, preempt a state law that allows ballots that are cast by federal election day to be received by election officials after that day.
Hillsborough Superior Court, Southern District (226-2022-CV-00233)
Issue(s):
This lawsuit challenges SB 418, which requires voters who register to vote on the day of the election, but who do not provide a valid photo ID, to mail in documentation verifying their identity within seven days or have their vote discarded. The lawsuit argues that the law violated the New Hampshire Constitution.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (20-4063)
Issue(s):
Whether Ohio Secretary of State LaRose's directive limiting each Ohio county to a single secure drop box for absentee applications and ballots in the 2020 election violates the fundamental right to vote under the First and Fourteenth Amendments, and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Whether Maricopa County poll workers violated Arizona law by providing voters "sharpies" as ballot-marking devices, which allegedly caused markings to bleed through ballots and the ballots to be cancelled
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