On July 8, 2021, CLC and partners filed a motion for preliminary injunction on behalf of clients VoteAmerica and Voter Participation Center asking the court to prevent enforcement of HB 2332 and to allow plaintiffs to distribute advance mail ballot applications to Kansas voters.

On July 1, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision holding that Arizona's out-of-precinct policy and its ban on ballot collection do not violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, and the ban on ballot collection was not enacted with a racially discriminatory purpose. On Jan. 20, 2021, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in the case.

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) submitted a letter to the Executive Office for United States Attorneys (EOUSA) identifying ways the office can assist in expanding citizens’ opportunities to register to vote and to obtain information about, and participate in, the electoral process, in accordance with President Biden’s Executive Order Promoting Access to Voting.

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) submitted a letter to the General Services Administration (GSA) and Election Assistance Commission (EAC) identifying ways the agencies can assist in expanding citizens’ opportunities to register to vote and to obtain information about, and participate in, the electoral process, in accordance with President Biden’s Executive Order Promoting Access to Voting.

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) submitted a letter to the U.S. Marshals Service identifying ways the agency can assist in expanding citizens’ opportunities to register to vote and to obtain information about, and participate in, the electoral process, in accordance with President Biden’s Executive Order Promoting Access to Voting. 

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) submitted a letter to the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) identifying ways the agency can assist in expanding citizens’ opportunities to register to vote and to obtain information about, and participate in, the electoral process, in accordance with President Biden’s Executive Order Promoting Access to Voting.

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) submitted a letter to the Department of Education identifying ways the agency can assist in expanding citizens’ opportunities to register to vote and to obtain information about, and participate in, the electoral process, in accordance with President Biden’s Executive Order Promoting Access to Voting.

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) submitted a letter to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) identifying ways the agency can assist in expanding citizens’ opportunities to register to vote and to obtain information about, and participate in, the electoral process, in accordance with President Biden’s Executive Order Promoting Access to Voting.

On June 11, 2021, Danielle Lang, Campaign Legal Center's (CLC) director of voting rights, testified on two of the most significant ways in which the right to vote has been restricted in recent years: first through attacks on the quality of in-person voting sites, i.e., polling places, and second through restrictions on opportunities to vote–including early voting, vote-by-mail and drop boxes. Both topics highlight the dire need for federal legislative action to ensure that all levels of government afford Americans meaningful and equitable opportunities to exercise their fundamental right to vote.

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed an amicus brief on behalf of the League of Women Voters of New Jersey and Salvation and Social Justice in a case challenging New Jersey’s primary ballot design rules. The brief focuses on the harms that these flawed ballot design rules impose on voters, and particularly voters of color.

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. It was last updated as of March 2021. 

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is representing the two nonpartisan charitable organizations VoteAmerica and and the Voter Participation Center in a lawsuit against the state of Kansas for implementing a law that places restrictions on their political speech and activity in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments, and violates the Commerce Clause.

On May 3, 2021, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a motion for summary judgment on behalf of plaintiffs Evangelina Aguilar, Candy Gutierrez, Rogelio Montes, Susan Soto Palmer and OneAmerica in the first case challenging a method of elections in Washington under the Washington Voting Rights Act. 

Paul Smith, Campaign Legal Center's (CLC) vice president of litigation & strategy, testified on the Supreme Court's approach to deciding constitutional issues and the importance of fact-finding. He discusses two Supreme Court decisions, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission and Shelby County v. Holder, to show how the Supreme Court made factual misjudgments in deciding those cases.

This manual is a resource for activists and advocates who are helping people with felony convictions vote in Arizona. For more information on felony disenfranchisement, see our online tool RestoreYourVote--updated April 22, 2021.

Campaign Legal Center (CLC), on behalf of itself, All Voting is Local Florida, the ACLU of Florida, the League of Women Voters of Florida, Democracy for All Florida and Opportunity For All Floridians, sent a letter opposing the signature matching provisions in House Bill 7041 to the Florida House Appropriations Committee. These provisions would lead to higher rates of erroneous ballot rejections, and thus unjustly disenfranchise voters across Florida.

VoteAmerica, Voter Participation Center and Center for Voter Information filed this lawsuit against Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger for imposing disclaimer requirements and other burdensome prohibitions on absentee ballot applications distribution, which violates their First Amendment right to distribute absentee ballot applications as core political speech. Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is representing these three nonprofits in this case. 

Campaign Legal Center (CLC), on behalf of itself, the ACLU of Florida, the League of Women Voters of Florida, Democracy for All Florida and Opportunity For All Floridians, sent a letter opposing the most recent signature provisions of Senate Bill 90 to the Florida Senate Committee on Rules. These provisions would prohibit election authorities from consulting any signature on file from the voter other than the most recent signature, and if enacted, they would lead to higher rates of erroneous ballot rejections, and thus unjustly disenfranchise eligible voters across Florida.