Resource: Garcia v. Griswold

By: Healthy Elections Project

September 16, 2020

Healthy Elections Project

Plaintiffs Garcia and her campaign organization filed a complaint to place Garcia on the 2020 Democratic Primary ballot as a candidate for US Senate. Defendant Secretary of State determined that plaintiff had collected 89.5% of the required number of valid signatures. Plaintiff alleged that the State's application of strict compliance to ballot access rules violates the First and Fourteenth Amendment. She sought a declaration that the Colorado Revised Statute § 1-4-801 et seq. unconstitutional as applied to plaintiffs during this election cycle, a TRO precluding the Secretary from certifying the ballot until Garcia's claims were heard (or in the alternative, certify the ballot with Garcia's name included), a declaration that petitions submitted by Garcia were sufficient, and an order requiring the Secretary of State to certify Garcia to the ballot.

https://healthyelections-case-tracker.stanford.edu/detail?id=168