Voting and Elections

Issues

In our elections, every voice must be heard, and every vote must count. Voting should be accessible for all citizens, and our laws should promote participation in our democracy and instill trust in our elections.

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CLC seeks to protect and expand access to voting and instill trust in our elections.

CLC fights in court anti-voter laws that target Black voters, voters of color, and voters with disabilities. CLC advocates to restore voting rights for Americans with past felony convictions, and advocates for state and federal policies that improve and protect in-person voting access and voter registration.

CLC also builds confidence in our election processes at the state and federal levels, including updating the Electoral Count Act to strengthen the guardrails surrounding the Electoral College process. CLC supports policies to bolster protections and streamline the process for the election workers and poll workers who keep our elections safe and secure.

The Latest on Voting and Elections

The Latest

Why Birthright Citizenship Is an Essential Part of Our Democracy

The U.S. Supreme Court will soon hear oral arguments challenging rulings issued by three lower courts rejecting the President Trump's efforts to overturn the Constitution’s guarantee of birthright citizenship.

Emily Burns

May 13, 2025

Close up of a person handing a red sticker which says "My Vote, My Voice" to another person

Photo by Glen Stubbe/ZUMA Press via Alamy Stock Photo

Why We Still Need a Strong Voting Rights Act

Emily Burns

February 25, 2025

A Losing Candidate in North Carolina Wants to Silence 65,000 Voters

Protecting the Freedom to Vote Through State Voting Rights Acts

It's Time to Abolish Felony Disenfranchisement. Here's Why

Key Initiatives

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Restoring Voting Rights to People With Past Convictions

Securing Our Elections

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Citizenship and Democracy

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We Need To Talk About the Supreme Court

Recent Voting and Elections Cases and Actions

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Defending Louisianans Against Burdensome Voter Registration Requirements (League of Women Voters of Louisiana et al v. Landry et al)

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is representing pro-voter Louisiana organizations in a lawsuit challenging a new Louisiana law that would require voters to jump through hoops to prove their citizenship to register to vote.

Updated May 14, 2025

Status Active

Safeguarding D.C. Voters’ Adoption of Ranked Choice Voting and Semi-Open Primaries (Wilson et al. v. District of Columbia Board of Elections and Rice et al.)

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is representing proponents of Initiative 83, a ballot initiative to institute ranked choice voting and semi-open primaries in Washington, D.C. — which D.C. voters overwhelmingly passed in the November 2024 election.

Updated April 29, 2025

Status Active

Defending the Freedom to Vote from the Trump Administration’s Unconstitutional Presidential Overreach (LULAC, et al. v. Executive Office of the President)

Campaign Legal Center, along with State Democracy Defenders Fund (SDDF) and on behalf of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), Secure Families Initiative (SFI) and Arizona Students’ Association (ASA), are challenging President Trump’s illegal executive order that could unlawfully and unconstitutionally prevent American citizens from exercising their freedom to vote.

Updated April 30, 2025

Status Active

Voting is an essential American freedom, but an executive order by President Trump is illegally and unconstitutionally threatening that freedom for millions of Americans.

We sued to block this unlawful presidential overreach.

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