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Jones v. DeSantis

Updated
January 29, 2020
Status
Active
Issues
Voting Rights

In 2018, Florida voters restored the right to vote to individuals with felony convictions. The legislature then enacted a law conditioning rights restoration on payment of restitution, fines, and fees. CLC represents Floridians Bonnie Raysor, Diane Sherrill and Lee Hoffman in challenging the...

CLC to Present Oral Arguments Before Eleventh Circuit on Florida’s Modern-Day Poll Tax with Press Conference to Follow

Date
January 27, 2020
Case
Jones v. DeSantis
Issues
Voting Rights
Expedited hearing could determine voting rights eligibility for hundreds of thousands of Floridians in 2020 Presidential Primary Election.

Campaign Legal Center and Vote.org Join Forces to Educate People with Past Felony Convictions About Their Voting Rights

Date
January 21, 2020
Case
Restore Your Vote: Felony Rights Restoration
Issues
Voting Rights
CLC will partner with Vote.org to reach millions of Americans with past felony convictions by increasing their access to information about their voting eligibility – in time for 2020 presidential primary voter registration deadlines.

Florida Supreme Court Advisory Opinion Has No Impact on Federal Voting Rights Case Over Fines and Fees

Date
January 16, 2020
Case
Jones v. DeSantis
Issues
Voting Rights
The decision today by the Florida Supreme Court changes nothing in the ongoing federal lawsuit. We will continue to fight to ensure that people with felony convictions are not denied the right to vote based on their inability to pay.

CLC Urges Court to Broaden Relief to All Florida Voters with Financial Hardship Before Presidential Primary Election

Date
October 25, 2019
Case
Jones v. DeSantis
Issues
Voting Rights
CLC filed a brief in federal court requesting that the court extend this relief to all Floridians who are otherwise eligible but are denied the right to vote solely because of their inability to pay.

CLC Urges 11th Circuit to Affirm Ruling in Florida Voting Case: ‘The Right to Vote Cannot Be Denied on Basis of Wealth’

Date
January 10, 2020
Case
Jones v. DeSantis
Issues
Voting Rights
The appeals court must affirm this ruling and send a clear message to Florida that wealth based discrimination in voting is unjust. Hundreds of thousands of peoples’ rights hang in the balance.

Fair Fight Action, Campaign Legal Center File Emergency Motion to Stop Georgia From Massive Voter Purge

Date
December 16, 2019
Case
Fair Fight Action v. Raffensperger
Issues
Voting Rights
Today, Fair Fight Action and CLC filed an emergency motion in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.

Fair Fight Action v. Raffensperger

Updated
December 17, 2019
Status
Active
Issues
Voting Rights

A coalition of civil rights groups and religious organizations are challenging numerous deficiencies in Georgia’s electoral system that impose serious burdens on the right to vote for eligible Georgians. These obstacles particularly impact Georgia’s residents of color, severely limiting Georgia’s...

Tommy Ray Mays II, et al. v. Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose

Updated
November 6, 2018
Status
Active
Issues
Voting Rights

In Ohio, eligible voters who are arrested in the days leading up to the Election are being unconstitutionally denied their fundamental right to vote because the state excludes them from its emergency absentee ballot procedure.  Ohio’s disenfranchisement of these qualified electors violates the First...

Assisting Voters in Jail

Updated
November 1, 2019
Status
Active
Issues
Voting Rights

About 750,000 people are incarcerated in jails across the United States every day, most of whom retain their right to vote. Casting a ballot, though, can be impossible for these eligible voters simply because they are incarcerated. CLC has launched a program to fight jail-based disenfranchisement...

Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda v. Raffensberger

Updated
October 11, 2018
Status
Active
Issues
Voting Rights

Civil rights groups are challenging Georgia’s restrictive voter registration law requiring voter data to “exactly match” data stored in the state drivers services’ database or the Social Security database. Georgia’s use of this “exact match” protocol disproportionately and negatively impacts the...

Thompson v. Alabama

Updated
December 3, 2019
Status
Active
Issues
Voting Rights

CLC represents individuals in Alabama who are U.S. citizens with past felony convictions, seeking the right to vote. Some are unable to vote because their convictions are considered "disqualifying" under Alabama's law, and others because they cannot afford to pay their court fees to restore their...

Felony Voting Rights Restoration in Tennessee

Status
Active
Issues
Voting Rights

In Tennessee, the law regarding which people with past criminal convictions can and cannot vote has been confusing. Based on the most recent estimates, Tennessee’s law disenfranchises over 421,000 people in the state, but the good news is that many of those people can get their right to vote back.

...

Victory! Secretary of State of Arizona Agrees to Shed Burdensome Voting Requirement Following CLC Lawsuit

Date
June 4, 2018
Case
LULAC v. Reagan
Issues
Voting Rights
CLC anticipates this legal action will enfranchise tens of thousands of voters in Arizona that were denied because of unnecessary bureaucracy.

Ohio Judge Rules In Favor of Late-Jailed Voters

Date
November 6, 2019
Case
Tommy Ray Mays II, et al. v. Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose
Issues
Voting Rights
A person’s ability to cast a ballot should not be determined by the date of their arrest or their ability to pay bail. Secretary of State Frank LaRose should ensure that all of Ohio’s 88 county boards of elections are prepared to assist all eligible voters who are arrested and held in pretrial...

Court Rules that Florida Cannot Deny the Right to Vote Based on Inability to Pay Fines and Fees

Date
October 18, 2019
Case
Jones v. DeSantis
Issues
Voting Rights
The court has recognized that Florida can’t deny people the right to vote based on their ability to pay.

CLC Lanza Una Nueva Guía en Español Para Ayudar a Millones de Personas Entender Sus Derechos A Votar

Date
September 24, 2019
Case
Restore Your Vote: Felony Rights Restoration
Issues
Voting Rights
La votación debe ser accesible a todos ciudadanos sin importar donde viven, el color de su piel, o la lengua que hablan.

CLC Launches New Spanish Language Online Tool to Help Millions Understand Their Voting Rights

Date
September 24, 2019
Case
Restore Your Vote: Felony Rights Restoration
Issues
Voting Rights
Voting should be accessible to all citizens no matter where they live, the color of their skin or the language they speak.

New York Immigration Coalition v. Rensselaer County Board of Elections

Status
Active
Issues
Voting Rights

New York Immigration Coalition and partners are suing the Rensselaer County Board of Elections and several Rensselaer County officials over the County’s plan to improperly divulge voter registration information gathered by the Rensselaer County DMV to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in...

Federal Court Blocks Tennessee Law That Undermines Voter Registration

Date
September 12, 2019
Case
League of Women Voters of Tennessee v. Tre Hargett
Issues
Voting Rights
A court granted the plaintiff's request for a temporary delay in enforcing Tennessee's law, which criminalizes voter registration activity.

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