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Texas LULAC, et al. v. Secretary of State David Whitley

Updated
February 4, 2019
Status
Active
Issues
Voting Rights

Texas unlawfully demanded tens of thousands of individuals provide additional proof of citizenship within 30 days or have their voter registration cancelled. CLC serves as counsel in a case challenging this discriminatory voter purge program.

Harris v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission

Updated
April 20, 2016
Status
Active
Issues
Redistricting
Voting Rights

Appellants brought this challenge to the 2012 Arizona redistricting plan alleging that the minor population deviations in the plan were motivated by pro-Democratic partisanship. The district court found that they were not. Instead, the district court held that the minor population deviations were...

VICTORY! 5th Circuit Rules Texas Voter ID Law Violates Voting Rights Act

Date
July 20, 2016
Case
Veasey v. Abbott
Issues
Voting Rights

CLC Statement on 5th Circuit’s Ruling in Texas Voter ID Case 

NEW ORLEANS, LA – A full panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today ruled in a 9 - 6 decision that Texas’ discriminatory voter ID law violates the Voting Rights Act and cannot be enforced as is in the upcoming presidential...

U.S. Census Bureau Should Change How it Counts Incarcerated Individuals in the 2020 Census

Date
July 28, 2016
Issues
Redistricting
Voting Rights

The Campaign Legal Center and the Voting Rights Institute Submit Comments to the Bureau to Protect Voting Power of Minority Communities

WASHINGTON – The Campaign Legal Center filed comments urging the U.S. Census Bureau to change its proposed rule on how it plans to count incarcerated prisoners...

CLC and LULAC Take Texas Secretary of State to Court for Latest Purge Efforts

Date
February 1, 2019
Case
Texas LULAC, et al. v. Secretary of State David Whitley
Issues
Voting Rights
Texas officials are violating U.S. Constitution by unlawfully discriminating against and intimidating eligible voters.

CLC Releases Collection of Racial Appeals Used in Political Communications from 2017-18

Date
January 24, 2019
Issues
Voting Rights
CLC's new Race in Politics Catalog is a collection of political communications, campaign materials and comments that make racial appeals to voters. Compiled over the 2017-2018 election cycle, the Catalog gathers – in one place for the first time – many different types of race-based appeals from...

Landmark Democracy Bill HR 1 Would Protect Every Voter’s Voice in the Political Process and Restore Trust in Government

Date
January 4, 2019
Issues
Campaign Finance
Redistricting
Voting Rights
Ethics
Americans are entitled to a democracy that works for them, and having HR1 passed as the first order of business in the new Congress.

Abbott v. Perez

Updated
April 20, 2018
Status
Active
Issues
Voting Rights

Texas engaged in unlawful redistricting, so the state should be liable when it reaffirms that unlawful decision by reenacting the same unlawful districts without change.  

Election Results Send Clear Message that Americans Want Democracy Reform

Date
November 7, 2018
Issues
Campaign Finance
Ethics
Voting Rights
Redistricting
In the 2018 midterms, Americans overwhelmingly voted to support measures to end extreme partisan gerrymandering, improve the way we fund elections to give every day voters a voice in the political process, expand voting access and move toward a more ethical and accountable government.

MCRP v. Reagan

Updated
November 9, 2018
Status
Closed
Issues
Voting Rights

CLC challenged Arizona’s system of rejecting mail-in ballots because election officials were not “satisfied” that the signature on the ballot matches voter registration signatures. The state was ordered to give voters a chance to fix it.

Arizona Court Orders Counties to Give Voters Due Process on Signature Mismatch Issue

Date
November 9, 2018
Case
MCRP v. Reagan
Issues
Voting Rights
The Maricopa County Superior Court, upon agreement of the parties, ordered all county recorders statewide to permit voters to “cure” their signature mismatch issue by the deadline to fix conditional provisional ballots next week: Wednesday, November 15.

Arizona Groups File to Protect Constitutional Rights of Mail-In Voters

Date
November 9, 2018
Issues
Voting Rights
Pollworkers are not handwriting experts, and whether someone’s ballot counts should not be determined on the whim of an official who mistakenly concludes that a voter’s signature is not genuine.

Ohio is Depriving Late-Jailed Citizens from Exercising Constitutional Rights, Lawsuit Says

Date
November 6, 2018
Case
Tommy Ray Mays II, et al. v. Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose
Issues
Voting Rights
Under Ohio's system, eligible voters who are detained pretrial by the state are being unconstitutionally denied their fundamental right to vote. CLC filed an emergency lawsuit to block this practice of disenfranchisement.

Victory! Federal Court Provides Immediate Relief for Thousands of Georgia Voters

Date
November 2, 2018
Case
Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda v. Raffensberger
Issues
Voting Rights
Georgia is now ordered to allow voters who have been flagged and placed in pending status due to citizenship to vote a regular ballot in the November 2016 election.

Court Denies Temporary Restraining Order in North Dakota Voter ID Case

Date
November 1, 2018
Case
Spirit Lake Tribe, et al. v. Jaeger
Issues
Voting Rights
The US District Judge denied the request for relief for Native Americans that we were seeking from the North Dakota voter identification law.

Victory! Arizona Agrees to Adopt and Implement New Early-Ballot Signature Policy, Easing a Key Burden on Voting Rights

Date
October 26, 2018
Issues
Voting Rights
Maricopa County, AZ Recorder Adrian Fontes announced that he has agreed to adopt and implement a new early-ballot signature policy.

Nevada Adds Eligible Voters with Past Convictions to the Rolls After Campaign Legal Center Organizers Work to Reinstate Wrongly Denied Voters

Date
October 22, 2018
Issues
Voting Rights

More than 500 affected Nevada voters have been added to the rolls for November elections as a result of this effort

LAS VEGAS, NV – Campaign Legal Center (CLC) has come to an agreement with Nevada Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske’s office and the Clark County registrar after the county was...

Coalition of Civil Rights Groups Ask for Emergency Relief for Newly Naturalized Voters Suspended by Georgia’s Exact Match Process

Date
October 19, 2018
Case
Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda v. Raffensberger
Issues
Voting Rights
We filed an emergency motion in Georgia federal district court to make sure that persons inaccurately flagged as non-citizens under Secretary of State Brian Kemp’s flawed “exact match’ system can vote. Kemp’s “exact match” voter registration process relies on outdated citizenship data which...

Coalition of Civil Rights Groups File Suit to Stop Georgia’s Unlawful Suspension and Cancellation of Voter Registration Applications

Date
October 11, 2018
Case
Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda v. Raffensberger
Issues
Voting Rights
Georgia’s ‘exact match’ protocol has resulted in the cancellation or rejection of tens of thousands of voter registration applications in the past. The reintroduction of this practice, which is known to be discriminatory and error-ridden, is appalling.

Tennessee Clarifies Voter Eligibility for People with Prior Felony Convictions

Date
September 25, 2018
Case
Advocating for State Voter Registration Forms to Comply with the NVRA
Issues
Voting Rights
Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett has agreed to update his state’s website to correct inaccurate information about voter registration laws for citizens with past felony convictions.

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