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On May 1, 2020, plaintiffs Self Advocacy Solutions N.D., League of Women Voters of North Dakota, and Maria Fallon Romo filed a complaint challenging North Dakota’s policy of rejecting absentee ballots based on error-prone signature verification procedures without first informing voters there is a problem with their ballot or giving them an opportunity to fix it and have their vote count.
Complaint filed in the Southern District of New York challenging New York's signature match system.
On June 3, 2020, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a preliminary injunction to prevent New Jersey from erroneously rejecting eligible voters' mail-in and provisional ballots in the upcoming July elections because of issues with the signatures on voters' ballots without first providing impacted voters with notice that a signature issue has impaired their ballot or any opportunity to fix the issue in time to have their ballots counted.
On May 18, 2020, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a lawsuit seeking to ensure that New Jersey counts all validly cast absentee ballots, which are expected to surge during the COVID-19 crisis. CLC is representing individual voter William Riggs, the League of Women Voters of New Jersey, and the NAACP of New Jersey in the case.
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania issued written guidance on how the state will handle mail-in ballot return envelopes. The processes include multiple secure methods used by the voter’s county board of election to verify that the qualified voter’s absentee or mail-in application is complete and that the requirements are satisfied. The guidance comes in response to a lawsuit brought by Campaign Legal Center (CLC) and partners.
A federal court in Tennessee granted enjoined Tennessee’s requirement that first-time voters who register by mail, including those who register for the first time online, vote in person the first time they cast a ballot.
On August 31, 2020, CLC filed a motion for preliminary injunction on behalf its clients Jeffrey Lichtenstein, A. Phillip Randolph Institute (APRI), The Equity Alliance (TEA), Free Hearts, Memphis Central Labor Council (MCLC), and the Tennessee State Conference of the NAACP, asking the court to immediately allow Plaintiffs to distribute blank absentee ballot applications to voters and declare Tennessee's law making it a felony to do so unconstitutional.
Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is representing individual Jeffrey Lichtenstein and community organizations A. Phillip Randolph Institute (APRI), The Equity Alliance (TEA), Free Hearts, Memphis Central Labor Council (MCLC), and the Tennessee State Conference of the NAACP, in their efforts to stop enforcement of a law that makes it a felony for organizations and their members to disseminate applications for absentee ballots to voters. Under the law, anyone other than an election official who provides a copy of an application for an absentee ballot to a voter is at risk of losing their voting rights, a sentence of at least one and up to six years in prison, and a fine of up to $3,000. This is despite the fact that the applications are available on the Tennessee Secretary of State's and several county election commissions' websites.
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.
On Feb. 3, 2020, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a complaint against with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that the Society of Young Women Scientists and Engineers (SCYWSE), its manager Jennifer Lam, and other unknown persons violated the straw donor ban in the Federal Election Campaign Act by making contributions in the name of another person. The FEC has acted contrary to law by failing act in the 120 days after the complaint was received.