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Campaign Legal Center (CLC) and a coalition of good government groups wrote a letter to the Wisconsin Governor and the Wisconsin state legislature asking them to consider several steps to increase opportunities for voting during the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure that all Wisconsin citizens are able to participate in the upcoming April 7 primary election.
Campaign Legal Center (CLC) joined 150+ civil and voting rights organizations to urge Congress to include funding for election administrators in the Phase Three COVID-19 aid bill. These funds are critical for state and local election administrators to be able to implement policies to ensure that voters have access to the ballot in the November general election amidst the spread of COVID-19.
On March 11, the Campaign Legal Center and More Equitable Democracy submitted written testimony in support of the New York Voting Rights Act (S. 7528) because it would allow communities of color across the state of New York to participate equally in the election of their representatives. In particular it allows for the adoption of remedies like ranked choice voting and cumulative voting that can enfranchise integrated communities of color (while the federal Voting Rights Act still only offers protections to relatively segregated minority communities).
CLC provided testimony in support of SB 372, a bill that would require the state provide information and support to justice involved voters, including voters in jails.
Campaign Legal Center, Demos and the MacArthur Justice Center filed a brief saying that the district court correctly concluded that late-jailed voters are legally entitled to equal access to the ballot. The brief calls on the appeals court to affirm the lower court’s decision and apply that decision to all voters facing similar circumstances.
The 11th Circuit affirmed the district court’s decision in Florida’s case on fines and fees, upholding the preliminary injunction which prevents the state from preventing the plaintiffs from voting based solely on their genuine inability to pay legal financial obligations.
A manual for helping people with felony convictions restore their voting rights in Tennessee. This manual first details how you can determine what a person’s path to rights restoration will look like: if they ever lost their right to vote and whether and how they can apply to have it restored. It also includes template versions of the paperwork a person may need to complete and contact information for some groups who can help further.
On February 3, 2020, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson filed a brief in support of the lower court’s decision denying the plaintiffs-appellants’ motion for preliminary injunction.
On February 3, 2020, VNP filed a brief in support of the lower court’s decision denying the plaintiffs-appellants’ motion for preliminary injunction.
On January 15, 2020, CLC sent a letter to the Yakima County Commission notifying it that the current system for electing candidates to the County Commission violates the Washington Voting Rights Act by denying Latino voters an opportunity to elect candidates of their choice to the Commission.
On January 22, 2020 the Governor and the Secretary of State filed their reply brief in support of their appeal of the district court’s preliminary injunction.
Libertarian think tanks Cato Institute and R Street Institute, together with the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown University Law Center, filed a friend of the court brief in support of voting rights. The groups argue that SB-7066’s requirement conditioning rights restoration on payment of LFOs is bad policy and violates the Fourteenth Amendment. The brief also argues that felony disenfranchisement is anti-democratic.
U.S. District Judge Steve Jones issued a ruling denying CLC and Fair Fight Action’s request for a preliminary injunction to halt Georgia’s voter purge.
A letter from Restore Your Vote commending Secretary Pate for his pledge to address Iowa's error-ridden list of ineligible voters and recommending ways to make sure that process is successful and that impacted Iowans are aware of their verified status.
After the District Court granted Plaintiffs’ Motion for a Preliminary Injunction on October 18, 2019, the Governor and the Secretary of State filed for an appeal on November 18, 2019. On December 13, 2019, they filed their opening brief on appeal, seeking to overturn the District Court’s ruling that the State cannot constitutionally disenfranchise individuals solely because they cannot afford to pay their legal financial obligations.
On December 19, 2019, a judge from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio Eastern Division issued an order denying stay.
This fall, the Restore Your Vote campaign has assisted nearly 250 Iowans with the voting rights restoration process and seen first-hand how the system could be made easier and more inclusive for Iowans with past felony convictions. This letter to Governor Reynolds outlines our administrative recommendations.
In the fall of 2019, Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs included language to protect the right to vote for eligible, incarcerated Arizona voters in the draft of Arizona’s Election Procedures Manual that she submitted to the Governor and Attorney General for approval. This language, though, was rejected by the Attorney General. On December 12, 2019, CLC sent this letter to Arizona’s Attorney General, Governor, and Secretary of State to address the concerns raised by the Attorney General, reaffirm the state’s obligation to enfranchise these eligible voters, and urge them to adopt the new language proposed by Secretary Hobbs.