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Richer v. Fontes

LWVAZ filed an amicus brief supporting the right of almost 100,000 Arizona voters to vote a full ballot after an error was discovered in the state’s voter registration database.

Elections / Fighting Voter Suppression / September 20, 2024 / 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 / September 19, 2024 / Case Closed

Swoboda v. Hobbs

LWVAZ filed an amicus brief opposing a lawsuit to overturn two executive orders by Governor Katie Hobbs expanding voting access.

Elections / Expanding Voter Access / September 12, 2024 / Case Closed

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 / September 9, 2024 / Case Closed

Lawson v. Hargett (formerly Ashe v. Hargett)

LWV of Tennessee filed a federal lawsuit asserting the state’s requirement that voters be "bona fide" party members or declare allegiance when voting in a party’s primary election is unconstitutional

Elections / August 19, 2024 / Case Closed

Priorities USA v. Wisconsin Elections Commission

LWV Wisconsin filed an amicus brief in support of a challenge to three absentee voting rules, including a ban on ballot drop boxes

Elections / Expanding Voter Access / Fighting Voter Suppression / July 5, 2024 / Case Closed

League of Women Voters of Arkansas v. Thurston

LWV Arkansas and partners filed a lawsuit in state court asserting four new laws on voter ID, absentee voting, and line warming violated the Arkansas Constitution

Elections / Fighting Voter Suppression / May 16, 2024 / Case Closed

Commonwealth v. Dush (consolidated as Costa v. Corman)

LWV Pennsylvania and partners moved to intervene on behalf of voters in a lawsuit contesting a subpoena for the personal information of almost nine million registered voters

Elections / February 21, 2024 / Case Closed

Splonskowski v. White

LWVND moved to intervene in a lawsuit alleging that state law counting absentee ballots if they arrived up to 13 days after Election Day was illegal

Elections / February 2, 2024 / Case Closed

Fitz-James v. Ashcroft

LWV of Missouri filed an amicus brief to support plaintiffs’ efforts to rewrite a misleading and inaccurate summary of a ballot initiative protecting abortion rights

Elections / Reproductive Justice / November 21, 2023 / Case Closed