LWVUS and allied civil rights groups filed an amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court supporting a new congressional map that created a second Black-majority district to ensure fair representation for Black voters in Louisiana. A previous lawsuit brought under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act asserted that Louisiana had diluted Black voters’ voting power by failing to draw a second majority-Black district. After a federal court struck down the map, the legislature drew a new map with a second-majority Black district.  Several individual plaintiffs then filed a lawsuit challenging this new map, alleging it was a racial gerrymander. A three-judge panel sided with the plaintiffs and the case was appealed to the United States Supreme Court. The League and its co-amici argued the panel’s decision was incorrect in several ways and that the legislature’s remedial map should be affirmed. 

LWVNH and partners filed a federal lawsuit in New Hampshire challenging HB 1569, a new law that imposed documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote and abolished the option for voters to sign a sworn affidavit that would allow them to vote when their eligibility was challenged at the polls. The law was scheduled to take effect after the 2024 general election.

Plaintiffs filed a suit against the Wisconsin Election Commission over three absentee voting procedures, asserting they violated the Wisconsin state constitution by burdening the right to vote via absentee ballot. LWVWI and partners filed an amicus brief supporting the challenge against the prohibition on all ballot drop boxes.