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On Oct. 14, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted Campaign Legal Center's (CLC) motion for default judgment in CLC v. FEC, 20-cv-01778, a delay suit filed by CLC against the Federal Election Commission (FEC) in June 2020. The district court's order holds that the FEC's ongoing failure to act on CLC's administrative complaint alleging federal campaign finance violations by Iowa Values is contrary to law, and requires the FEC to take action on CLC's complaint within the timeframe required by statute.
A federal district court granted a temporary restraining order that prohibits Georgia election officials from rejecting absentee ballot applications and ballots due to an alleged signature mismatch without providing the voter with an opportunity to explain the alleged mismatch in enough time for the ballot to count in this election.
Texas District Court judge grants motion enjoining Texas from limiting the number of absentee drop-off sites to one per county.
CLC, the ACLU, and the ACLU of Arizona sent a letter on behalf of a coalition of Arizona groups: League of United Latin American Citizens-Arizona, Arizona Advocacy Network Foundation, League of Women Voters-Arizona, and All Voting is Local-Arizona. Today, the groups sent a follow-up letter advising Arizona officials of yesterday’s Georgia ruling and demanding a solution.
Today, CLC sent a letter to Arizona Secretary of State Michele Reagan regarding the signature matching process. In the letter, CLC requests that every Arizona voter who sends in a mail-in ballot be accorded due process before their vote is rejected because of an alleged mismatched signature.
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.