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The League of Women Voters

Legal Center

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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Louisiana v. Department of Commerce

LWV, LWVFL, and LWVNY moved to intervene in a federal lawsuit brought by Louisiana, Kansas, Ohio, and West Virginia seeking to add a citizenship question to the 2030 Census

Fighting Voter Suppression / Redistricting / / Case Active

League of Women Voters of Kansas v. Schwab

LWVKS sued in state court to overturn several laws restricting voter education, mailing advance ballot applications, delivering advance ballots, and tightening signature match requirements

Educating Voters / Elections / Fighting Voter Suppression / Increasing Voter Registration / / Case Active

Pennsylvania State Conference of the NAACP v. Chapman (now Schmidt)

LWVPA and co-plaintiffs filed a federal lawsuit to count mail ballots that were returned and properly sealed by the statutory deadline but were rejected for being incorrectly dated

Expanding Voter Access / Fighting Voter Suppression / / Case Active

Mason-Hobbs v. Texas

Crystal Mason is a Black Texas resident who was unaware she was ineligible to vote while on supervised release and was sentenced to five years in prison for voting in the 2016 election.

Elections / 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

Colorado Montana Wyoming State Area Conference of the NAACP v. United States Election Integrity Plan

LWV Colorado, the Colorado Montana and Wyoming Area Conference of the NAACP and Mi Familia Vota, filed a lawsuit alleging voter intimidation by the United States Election Integrity Project (USEIP)

Fighting Voter Suppression / / Case Active

GA State Conference of the NAACP v. Raffensperger (consolidated as In re: Georgia Senate Bill 202)

LWV Georgia and partners filed a federal lawsuit challenging SB202, which restricted early voting and ballot drop boxes and criminalized giving water and food to voters waiting in line to vote

Elections / Fighting Voter Suppression / / Case Active