Protecting Absentee Voting
LWV Mississippi and Disability Rights Mississippi filed an amicus brief in federal court defending a Mississippi law allowing mail ballots arriving up to five business days after Election Day to be counted. The RNC and several individual plaintiffs had filed a federal lawsuit alleging the deadline violated federal laws setting a uniform day for electing members of Congress and presidential electors.
Protecting Voters from Wrongful Purges
LWV Michigan moved to intervene on behalf of voters in a federal lawsuit brought by the RNC seeking to purge the state’s vote rolls for alleged violations of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA).