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On May 1, 2020, plaintiffs Memphis A. Phillip Randolph Institute, The Equity Alliance, Free Hearts, The Memphis and West Tennessee AFL-CIO Central Labor Council, The Tennessee State Conference of the NAACP, Sekou Franklin, and Kendra Lee filed a complaint challenging Tennessee's restrictive excuse requirements for absentee ballots, which fail to take into account COVID-19, and the penalizing of organizations who try to increase ballot access.
Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is fighting to require states that use signature match policies to examine mail-in or absentee ballots also have “notice and cure” procedures so that voters’ ballots aren’t rejected due to perceived penmanship issues. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, this issue has gained...
Campaign Legal Center Action (CLCA) sued Texas Gov. Greg Abbott over his last-minute order prohibiting counties from providing more than one location where voters can drop off their mail-in ballots in the lead up to Election Day 2020.
After Florida’s Online Voter Registration System crashed for several hours on October 5, 2020—the deadline to register in Florida—CLC joined 34 other voting rights groups to urge Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Secretary of State Laurel Lee to extend the voter registration deadline by two days to 11:59 p.m. on October 7 and ensure that Floridians are not denied the opportunity to register because of the state’s faulty online system.
On Sept. 30, 2020, a district court judge denied a motion from the Trump campaign that tried to prevent Montana Gov. Steve Bullock from allowing counties in the state to hold vote-by-mail elections in November. Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is representing the League of Women Voters of Montana as a friend-of-the-court in this case.
Members of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe in Arizona lack access to safe early voting options. Yaqui voters must now travel 2-3 hours roundtrip by public bus just to vote at the nearest early voting site. CLC is assisting the Tribe to secure a safe early voting site before this fall's election.
On Sept. 25, 2020, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) sent a letter to the Pima County Recorder on behalf of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe asking to reinstate an early voting center on the tribal reservation and a ballot drop-off site.
The National Task Force on Election Crises recently released a document outlining why it would violate federal law if a state legislature attempted to override the will of the state’s voters and appoint the legislature’s preferred presidential electors.
This backgrounder can be used by members of the media and the public to guide their understanding of the electoral process of electing a President.
Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a motion to intervene on behalf of its client, the League of Women Voters of Montana.
Campaign Legal Center (CLC) represents the League of Women Voters of Montana (LWVMT) in defending an emergency election plan that provides Montana counties the ability to expand access to voting by mail and early voting opportunities.
On September 11, 2020, the full membership of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reversed the trial court decision in Jones v. DeSantis. The Eleventh Circuit’s decision allows Florida’s pay-to-vote system for people with past felony convictions to remain in place.
Poll commissioned by Campaign Legal Center (CLC) and Protect Democracy and conducted by GS Strategy Group (R) and ALG Research (D). The online poll lasted from July 28-31, 2020 and surveyed 1,000 likely voters nationwide. The results show wide support for increased election funding.
The League of Women Voters and the NAACP New Jersey State Conference filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit brought by the Trump Campaign and the RNC challenging New Jersey’s emergency election plan to mail ballots to all active voters in New Jersey.