LWV Ohio filed an amicus brief in the Ohio Supreme Court. The brief supported plaintiffs who asserted that the legislature’s placement of an amendment restricting Ohio voters from directly amending the state constitution on an August special election ballot violated state law.

LWV Ohio filed an amicus brief in the Ohio Supreme Court supporting plaintiffs who argued the ballot language describing a proposed constitutional amendment restricting directly initiated constitutional amendments was illegally biased and misleading to voters.

LWV Pikes Peak Region and partners sued the city of Colorado Springs for holding its municipal elections in April during odd-numbered years. Hispanic and Black voter turnout is often much lower in these elections. Plaintiffs argued that the unusual timing of these elections violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

LWV Tennessee, the Tennessee NAACP, the Equity Alliance, Memphis A. Phillip Randolph Institute, African American Clergy Collective of Tennessee, and five individual voters filed a federal lawsuit arguing the state’s fifth, sixth, and seventh Congressional districts as well as the 31st state senate district were racially gerrymandered.