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Date
August 7, 2020
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Pennsylvania must create a uniform process to let voters fix signature-related issues with their mail-in ballots in order to give people confidence that their vote is being counted.
Date
September 14, 2020
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As a result of this case, Pennsylvania voters can cast their vote without fear that their ballot could be rejected solely because an election official – who isn’t trained in handwriting analysis – thinks their signatures don’t match.
Date
October 2, 2020
Issues
Our most important right as Americans is the right to vote and election officials at the state level should ensure that every eligible citizen has a safe and convenient way to vote in this election.
Date
September 17, 2020
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A CLC complaint alleges that U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy hid that he was the true source of more than $1 million in campaign contributions by reimbursing his employees and family members after they donated. The FEC should crack down on this clear violation of campaign finance law to preserve...
Date
September 30, 2020
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Absentee and mail voting are important ways to ensure that seniors and others at high risk from COVID-19 can safely participate in the election and have their vote counted.
Date
September 19, 2020
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Ginsburg’s passing comes at a critical moment when American democracy is at risk from actors who seek to undermine the legitimacy of elections and use the legal system to disenfranchise voters.
Date
September 14, 2020
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Montana counties should not be prevented from allowing their citizens to vote safely during the pandemic.
Date
September 11, 2020
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Nobody should ever be denied their constitutional rights because they can’t afford to pay fines and fees.
Date
September 1, 2020
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Campaign Legal Center (CLC) and New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, on behalf of clients NAACP-New Jersey and League of Women Voters New Jersey, filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit brought by President Trump, which challenges New Jersey’s plan to send all active registered voters a vote-by...
Date
August 18, 2020
Issues
Join Campaign Legal Center (CLC) experts for a candid discussion on the importance of transparency laws for digital advertising ahead of the 2020 U.S. presidential election and beyond.
Date
August 13, 2020
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Defunding the Postal Service and slowing its ability to deliver mail ballots to Americans will hurt Democratic and Republican voters alike.
Date
August 6, 2020
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Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds has signed an executive order restoring voting rights to most people with felony convictions who have served their time. It was the last state in the US with a lifetime ban.
Date
July 30, 2020
Issues
Congress by law has set the General Election date as November 3, 2020, and the U.S. Constitution sets the end of the presidential term as noon on January 20, 2021.
Date
July 28, 2020
Issues
Money laundering by the Trump campaign flies in the face of transparency laws and could help disguise other campaign finance violations.
Date
July 23, 2020
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The collapse of transparency in the financing of our elections has, in large part been due to weak laws and even weaker enforcement efforts. Rebuilding transparency in the financing of our elections will require enforcement of the rules currently in effect and new laws where needed. To help voters...
Date
July 21, 2020
Issues
Tennessee denies more than 421,000 citizens the right to vote because of felony convictions. This accounts for more than 8.2% of the total voting age population, likely the highest rate of disenfranchisement in the U.S.
Date
July 16, 2020
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The Supreme Court stood by as the Eleventh Circuit prevented hundreds of thousands of otherwise eligible voters from participating in Florida’s primary election simply because they can’t afford to pay fines and fees.
Date
July 8, 2020
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In total, up to a million voters could be affected by the outcome of this case.
Date
July 2, 2020
Issues
The Judicial Ads Act - introduced in the Senate - is a solution that would finally bring transparency to our third branch of government.
Date
July 1, 2020
Case
Issues
CLC is hopeful that the court of appeals will follow suit and confirm once and for all that wealth cannot determine a person’s eligibility to vote.