League of Women Voters of Ohio v. LaRose (HB 458 challenge) (Legal Case) 9/17/2024 LWV Ohio filed a federal lawsuit against a new state law restricting assistance to voters with returning absentee ballots
Voting Rights Groups Defend Alabamians Against Illegal Voter Roll Purge (Press Release) 9/13/2024 LWV Alabama, ACIJ, and NAACP sued over an illegal voter purge targeting four individual Alabamians unfairly removed from rolls.
VICTORY: CLC, Utahns Win Case Over Amendment D (Press Release) 9/12/2024 Campaign Legal Center represents LWV Utah, MWEG, and bipartisan voters in a hearing on the legality of Utah's Constitutional Amendment D on the ballot.
Black Voters Matter Capacity Building Institute v. Byrd (formerly Black Voters Matter Capacity Building Institute v. Lee) (Legal Case) 9/12/2024 The League of Women Voters of Florida sued the Florida legislature and Florida officials for violating the state constitution by enacting district maps that were racial and partisan gerrymanders
Adams v. Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections (Legal Case) 9/9/2024 LWV Georgia and LWV Atlanta-Fulton County filed an amicus brief opposing a lawsuit seeking to give election officials discretion on whether to certify elections
League of Women Voters of Wisconsin v. Wisconsin Elections Commission (Legal Case) 9/3/2024 LWV Wisconsin filed a state court lawsuit to ensure certain missing address information on absentee ballot envelopes did not disenfranchise voters.
Voting Rights Groups File Amicus Brief to Protect Arizona’s Eligible Voters From Documentary Proof of Citizenship Law (Press Release) 8/21/2024 PHOENIX, AZ — The League of Women Voters of the United States, League of Women Voters of Arizona, Secure Families Initiative, and Modern Military Association of America filed an amicus…
Common Cause v. Raffensperger (Legal Case) 8/20/2024 LWV Georgia filed a federal lawsuit asserting three congressional districts in metropolitan Atlanta were racially gerrymandered
How the Supreme Court Made Racial Gerrymandering Easier in Alexander v. South Carolina NAACP (Blog) 8/13/2024 In 2024, a Supreme Court ruling made it easier for state legislatures to commit racial gerrymanders, drawing congressional maps that disempower voters of color.
Finn v. Cobb County Board of Elections & Registration (Legal Case) 8/13/2024 A lawsuit challenging the newly drawn district map for the Cobb County Board of Education as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.