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Litigation empowers our fight for the issues that matter most to communities: protecting the right to vote, promoting fair and accessible elections, ending big-money corruption, and reinforcing the dignity that people across the country deserve.

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Common Cause Indiana v. City of Anderson Common Council

LWV Indiana and its co-plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against the Anderson, Indiana, city council asserting its failure to redistrict city council districts violated state and federal law

Redistricting / / Case Active

Arizona Free Enterprise Club v. Fontes

LWV Arizona filed an amicus brief supporting several provisions of the Arizona Elections Procedures Manual in a state court lawsuit

Elections / Fighting Voter Suppression / / Case Active

League of Women Voters of Montana v. Knudsen

LWV Montana filed a state court lawsuit against HB 892, which imposed criminal penalties on voters

Elections / / Case Active

League of Women Voters of Ohio v. LaRose (HB 458 challenge)

LWV Ohio filed a federal lawsuit against a new state law restricting assistance to voters with returning absentee ballots

Fighting Voter Suppression / / Case Closed

Black Political Empowerment Project v. Schmidt

LWV Pennsylvania filed a state court case arguing that rejecting timely mail ballots for errors in or omission of a date on the return envelope violated the state constitution

Elections / / Case Active

Black Voters Matter Capacity Building Institute v. Byrd (formerly Black Voters Matter Capacity Building Institute v. Lee)

The League of Women Voters of Florida sued the Florida legislature and Florida officials for violating the state constitution by enacting district maps that were racial and partisan gerrymanders

Redistricting / / Case Active

Republican National Committee v. Wetzel

LWV Mississippi filed an amicus brief defending a Mississippi law counting mail ballots received up to five days after Election Day

Elections / / Case Active

Adams v. Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections

LWV Georgia and LWV Atlanta-Fulton County filed an amicus brief opposing a lawsuit seeking to give election officials discretion on whether to certify elections

Elections / Fighting Voter Suppression / / Case Closed

League of Women Voters of New Hampshire v. Kramer

LWV New Hampshire and LWVUS filed a federal lawsuit against defendants who sent thousands of robocalls impersonating President Biden during the state’s primary election

Fighting Voter Suppression / / Case Active

Common Cause v. Raffensperger

LWV Georgia filed a federal lawsuit asserting three congressional districts in metropolitan Atlanta were racially gerrymandered

Fighting Voter Suppression / Redistricting / / Case Active