LWV of Connecticut and co-plaintiffs sued in federal court during the Covid-19 pandemic to challenge Connecticut’s "Excuse Requirement,” which placed restrictions on when voters could vote via absentee ballot. These restrictions would have potentially forced tens of thousands of Connecticut voters to choose between voting in person, potentially exposing themselves to Covid-19, or not voting at all.

LWV Pennsylvania and several partners filed a state court lawsuit asserting that rejecting timely received mail ballots for errors in or omission of a date on the return envelope violated the state constitution’s Free and Equal Elections clause.

LWV of South Carolina and co-plaintiffs challenged South Carolina election officials in federal court over the fear that some county boards rejected absentee ballots for alleged signature deficiencies without giving voters adequate notice-and-cure procedures. LWV of South Carolina asked for a preliminary injunction to enjoin the practice before the 2020 elections, which was granted by the district court.

LWV of North Dakota and co-plaintiffs sued in federal court to challenge North Dakota’s standardless signature verification process that rejected hundreds of otherwise eligible ballots—a disproportionate number of which were the ballots of voters with disabilities, the elderly, the young, and voters whose first language was not English—each election cycle.