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.”
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."
Voter-advocacy groups are challenging Pennsylvanian policy disqualifying mail-in votes with incorrect or missing dates on the outside of their envelopes. Plaintiffs seek both declaratory and injunctive relief to deem the aforementioned policy unconstitutional in violation of the Free and Equal Elections Clause of the Pennsylvania State Constitution.
Whether the requirement of paid postage for absentee voting constitutes the establishment of a poll tax and thus violates constitutionally-protected voting rights.
Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court usurped the State Legislature and Congress's power in its recent decision, Pennsylvania Democratic Party v. Boockvar
Whether the defendant permitted non-residents to vote in the November election and failed to verify voter signatures as required by state law, and whether these alleged violations require either (1) an audit of the voter rolls and comparison to the ballots cast or (2) the decertification of Georgia's election results and an order for a new election
The WEC approved the use of the National Voter Registration Form. The plaintiff challenges this approval arguing that the form is missing several components required by state law and contains components prohibited by state law.
Whether Arizona's policy of not counting out-of-precinct provisional ballots violates section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Whether an Arizona law prohibiting individuals from collecting the early ballots of others (aka "ballot harvesting") violates section 2 the Voting Rights Act because it disproportionately and adversely impacts minorities and unjustifiably burdens the right to vote.
A lawsuit challenging Wisconsin's use of alternate absentee voting sites and mobile voting facilities. Specifically, the plaintiffs allege that under Wisconsin law alternate absentee ballot sites "shall be located as near as practicable to the office of the municipal clerk or board of election commissioners,” but that sites used during the August 2022 primary and the November 2022 General Election failed to meet this requirement. They also allege that the use of certain voting cites advantaged one of more political parties. Next they allege that the use of city hall as an in-person absentee voting site violated Wisconsin law. Additionally, the complaint claims that the use of mobile voting sites violated State law. Finally, the complaint contends that Wisconsin law requires polling places to be in buildings and "not in a transitory vehicle such as a van or bus.”
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