Enforcing the National Voter Registration Act in Texas
LWV of Texas and co-plaintiffs filed a federal lawsuit to ensure Texas complied with the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) and allow citizens to register to vote through the Department of Public Safety’s (DPS) online system. Under the NVRA, states must give voters applying for, renewing, or updating a driver’s license the option to simultaneously register to vote. DPS had not been offering this option online, leading to over 1.5 million Texans per year being deprived of the right to register to vote in this manner.
Protecting Voter Independence in Tennessee
LWV of Tennessee and two individual Tennessee voters, one of whom was a Republican and the other a Democrat, filed a federal lawsuit asserting Tennessee’s requirement for voters to be “bona fide members” or “declare allegiance” to the party whose primary they chose to vote in violated the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process clause for vagueness and the First Amendment’s Free Speech clause for overbreadth.
Ensuring Due Process for Same Day Voters
LWV of North Carolina, Democracy North Carolina, and the North Carolina Black Alliance filed a lawsuit challenging several provisions of SB 747, an omnibus election law passed by the North Carolina legislature. The provisions at issue allowed election officials to cancel the voter registration and vote of voters who registered and voted on the same day at the polls during early voting if a single address verification mailer was returned as undeliverable.