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On May 11, 2020, CLC filed a motion to intervene on behalf of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and its Texas chapter (Texas LULAC) in a lawsuit brought against the State of Texas challenging its restrictions on who can apply for and cast absentee ballots in light of the coronavirus pandemic.
CLC is challenging Texas’s strict limitations on who can vote absentee even during the pendency of the COVID-19 crisis, which force voters to choose between jeopardizing their health by voting in person or not voting at all.
CLC is challenging Tennessee’s strict limitations on who can vote absentee, its criminal penalties to deter people from assisting voters to obtain absentee ballots, and the inability for absentee voters to fix their ballots if they are rejected due to a perceived mismatch with their signature on...
CLC is challenging North Dakota’s policy of rejecting absentee ballots because of its error-prone signature verification process without first informing voters there is a problem with their ballot or giving them an opportunity to fix it and have their vote count.
North Dakota’s voter ID law requires that voters’ identification include their current residential street address in order to cast a regular ballot. The use of a residential address requirement negatively impacts the ability of Native Americans living on reservations in North Dakota to exercise...
This manual is designed to provide all the tools citizens with convictions, activists, and advocates need to help people in Alabama know if they can vote or to restore their right to vote.
On April 14, 2020, Plaintiffs in Jones v. DeSantis filed their trial brief, which sets forth their legal arguments and summarizes the evidence that they will introduce at trial.
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and 150 organizations including Campaign Legal Center (CLC) signed a letter urging Congress to pass additional measures that would fully fund and direct states and counties to administer the 2020 elections in a safe, fair, and accessible manner. The letter advocates for at least $4 billion to prepare for the 2020 November General Election to aid in the implementation of vote-by-mail and the expansion of early voting and in-person voting options.
CLC joined a coalition of twenty-nine organizations to urge Florida’s Governor, Legislature, and election officials to adopt reforms to ensure that the general election is safe, secure, and accessible in light of the coronavirus pandemic.
On April 28, 2020 the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Chiafalo v. Washington (linked with Colorado Department of State v. Baca), a constitutional challenge to the requirement that presidential electors – the people who physically cast their state’s electoral votes – must vote for the candidate who won the popular vote in their state.
As public health precautions around the coronavirus pandemic continues to cause disruptions and delays to the ongoing primary elections, states must take steps now to ensure that the general election in November runs smoothly.
Campaign Legal Center (CLC) joined a coalition of national and Ohio-based groups urging Ohio’s Governor and Secretary of State to take immediate action to protect Ohioans’ right to vote and ensure a safe and orderly primary election in Ohio.
Campaign Legal Center (CLC) joined with partners in Arizona to urge the state’s Governor, Secretary of State, and Attorney General to take immediate action to protect Arizonans’ right to vote and ensure a safe and orderly primary election in Arizona.
Yakima County uses a voting system that consistently prevents its Latino residents from electing their preferred candidates to the County Commission. CLC notified the County Commission that this system violates the Washington Voting Rights Act, and called on the commission to adopt ranked-choice...
This is the list of felony convictions that strip a person of the right to vote in Alabama. No other felonies take away the right to vote in Alabama. Even if your conviction is on this list, you may still have a path to rights restoration through a Certificate of Eligibility to Register to Vote. Visit RestoreYourVote.org for more information.
Gwinnett County, the second largest county in Georgia located northeast of Atlanta, rejected hundreds of mail-in ballots for immaterial errors and omissions. CLC filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of voters challenging these rejections.
Campaign Legal Center (CLC) wrote to Congress urging them to allocate funding for critical nonpartisan election reforms for the 2020 general election in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.