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UPDATED: Georgia Civic Engagement Groups Fight to Ensure Absentee Ballots are Counted (Press Release)

UPDATE: A federal judge in Georgia denied the plaintiffs request for emergency relief, ensuring that all valid absentee ballots turned in through the Election Day deadline will be counted. 

The League of Women Voters of Georgia, Georgia State Conference of the NAACP, and Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda filed an amicus brief in Republican National Committee v. Mahoney to ensure that absentee ballots received over the weekend are counted. 

Virginia Immigrant & Voting Rights Groups Outraged at SCOTUS Allowing Voter Disenfranchisement (Press Release)

The Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights (VACIR), the League of Women Voters of Virginia (LWVVA), and African Communities Together (ACT) are disappointed and alarmed the Supreme Court of the United States has allowed Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin to wrongfully remove qualified voters from the voting rolls less than one week before a federal election.

King v. Thurston (Legal Case)

LWV Arkansas and state Senator Bryan King filed a state court lawsuit against new restrictions on ballot initiatives

League of Women Voters of Utah v. Utah State Legislature (Amendment D challenge) (Legal Case)

LWV Utah filed a complaint in state court to remove Amendment D from the November 2024 ballot to protect Utahns’ right to reform government by ballot initiative

Republican National Committee v. Benson (Legal Case)

LWV Michigan moved to intervene on behalf of voters in a lawsuit brought by the RNC seeking to purge the state’s voter rolls for alleged violations of the NVRA

Eucke v. Wisconsin Elections Commission (Legal Case)

LWVWI filed an amicus brief in opposition to plaintiffs’ lawsuit requesting a state court compel election officials to purge voters from the rolls.

Victory! Alabama Voter Purges Put to a Stop (Press Release)

Today, Campaign Legal Center, Alabama voters and civil rights groups successfully defended naturalized Americans who were unfairly purged from Alabama’s voter rolls. A federal judge halted Alabama’s illegal and last-minute purge program, which put the freedom to vote for thousands of Alabamians in jeopardy, holding that Alabama could not systematically operate their program meant to remove voters from the rolls in the ninety days before the 2024 general election. 

Public Interest Groups Urge US and Wisconsin Attorney Generals to Investigate Illegal Voter Intimidation (Press Release)
Alabama NAACP v. Marshall (SB1 Challenge) (Legal Case)

LWV Alabama and partner organizations filed a federal lawsuit against restrictions on assisting voters with absentee ballot applications

OCA-Greater Houston v. Esparza (consolidated as La Union Del Pueblo Entero v. Abbott) (Legal Case)

Lawsuit challenging Texas' SB 1, which imposed strict ID requirements for mail-in ballots, a restriction on assisting voters who need help completing or returning their ballots