Major Pending Election Cases

Arizona Free Enterprise Club v. Fontes

Filing Date:

March 6, 2023

Status:

resolved

State:

Arizona

Topic:

Mail-In Voting

Most Recent Court:

Superior Court of Arizona in Yavapai County

Issue(s):

Lawsuit brought against the Arizona Secretary of State's interpretation of Arizona's 2019 Election Procedures Manual. The Secretary of State's interpretation allows signatures for mail-in ballots to be compared to prior signatures in a voter's record to confirm their identity. Conversely, the plaintiffs contend that the signatures for mail-in ballots must be compared to a voter's signature on their registration record.

Arizona Republican Party v. Fontes

Filing Date:

November 12, 2020

Status:

resolved

State:

Arizona

Topics:

2020 Presidential Election Case, Improper Election Administration

Most Recent Court:

Maricopa County Superior Court (CV2020-014553)

Issue(s):

Whether Arizona law requires the Maricopa County Recorder to conduct a statutorily required hand count sampling by precinct rather than by "vote center"

Arizona v. Cochise County

Filing Date:

March 7, 2023

Status:

resolved

State:

Arizona

Most Recent Court:

Superior Court of Arizona in Cochise County

Issue(s):

Lawsuit brought by the Arizona Attorney General against three Cochise County Supervisors and the Cochise County Recorder. The agreement gives the Recorder many of the election powers and duties conferred by statute upon the Cochise County Board of Supervisors. The Attorney General alleges that this transferal of power is in violation of the Arizona Constitution and law.

Babb v. Nessel

Filing Date:

August 11, 2023

Status:

resolved

State:

Michigan

Most Recent Court:

Circuit Court for Oakland County (No. 2023-202028-CZ)

Issue(s):

Lawsuit challenging a Michigan law that makes it a misdemeanor to hire a motor to transport voters to the polls. The plaintiffs allege that this violates the fundamental right to vote enshrined in the Michigan constitution.

Ball v. Chapman

Filing Date:

October 16, 2022

Status:

resolved

State:

Pennsylvania

Topic:

Mail-In Voting

Most Recent Court:

Pennsylvania Supreme Court (No. 102 MM 2022)

Issue(s):

A lawsuit brought by the Republican National Committees and Pennsylvania Republican Party against the Pennsylvania Secretary of State challenging guidance that allows election officials to count undated or incorrectly dated mail-in ballots if they were received on time. The petitioners claim that the guidance violates the Pennsylvania Election Code, which they argue requires undated or incorrectly dated mail-in ballots to be disqualified.

Bally v. Whitmer

Filing Date:

November 11, 2020

Status:

resolved

State:

Michigan

Topics:

2020 Presidential Election Case, Absentee Ballots, Improper Election Administration

Most Recent Court:

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan (1:20-cv-1088)

Issue(s):

Whether Michigan election officials refused to permit statutorily-designated challengers from observing the conduct of elections and the processing of ballots, disregarded valid challenges, pre-dated ballots not eligible to be counted, counted ineligible ballots, allowed ballots to be dropped into unattended drop boxes, and engaged in other conduct contrary to federal statutory and constitutional law

Barnette v. Lawrence

Filing Date:

November 3, 2020

Status:

resolved

State:

Pennsylvania

Topics:

2020 Presidential Election Case, Absentee Ballots

Most Recent Court:

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (2:20-cv-05477)

Issue(s):

Whether Montgomery County, Pennsylvania election officials violated Pennsylvania law by pre-canvassing mail-in ballots

Becker v. Gloria

Filing Date:

November 16, 2020

Status:

resolved

State:

Nevada

Topics:

2020 Presidential Election Case, Improper Election Administration

Most Recent Court:

Clark County District Court (A-20-824878-W)

Issue(s):

Whether the Clark County Registrar of Voters failed to follow multiple statutorily required procedures in conducting the election, "flooding" the county with untrackable ballots and using the Agilis mail ballot processing machine with signature recognition software instead of a person to verify signatures as required by Nevada law; Whether these alleged errors require the Clark County Commissioners to hold a new election

Before the Kentucky State Board of Elections

Filing Date:

July 18, 2022

Status:

resolved

State:

Kentucky

Topic:

Ballot Design

Issue(s):

Complaint filed with the Kentucky Boards of Elections asking for relief regarding two practices that may cause voter confusion. First, the complaint that the ballots presented on electronic voting systems look so different from printed sample ballots that voters are likely to be confused. Additionally, voter instruction cards that County Clerks and County Attorneys General are required to prepare often fail to meet the legal standard of providing voters with “instructions as to the proper method of voting by the use of the voting equipment, and instructions as to the proper method of casting a write-in vote.”

Bennett v. Ohio Redistricting Commission

Filing Date:

September 24, 2021

Status:

resolved

State:

Ohio

Topic:

Redistricting

Most Recent Court:

Supreme Court of Ohio (2021-1198); Case consolidated with 2021-1210 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 ignored constitutional deadlines and directives for redistricting. They claim that the Commission-adopted maps "ignored or subordinated traditional redistricting criteria and the interests of communities of color in order to give Ohio Republicans continuing supermajority control of the statehouse."

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