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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Shemwell v. Mckinney, Texas City Of

4:20-cv-00687 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Filed Date: Sept. 13, 2020

Closed Date: April 19, 2023

This is a case about alleged racially motivated efforts to fix the outcome of a recall election that would deny minority voters an equal opportunity to participate in the political process by voting on a city-wide basis rather than by city council district. On September 13, 2020, a city councilmember in McKinney, Texas who was the subject of a recall election originally scheduled for May 2020 but postponed to November 2020 along with two minority voters in his district filed this lawsuit in the…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Craig v. Simon

0:20-cv-02066 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Sept. 28, 2020

Closed Date: Feb. 4, 2021

Plaintiffs included the incumbent representative for Minnesota’s United States 2nd Congressional District seeking re-election and a voter in the district (“Incumbent/Voter.”) The Defendant was the Minnesota Secretary of State (“Secretary.”) The Intervenor was the Republican candidate for the November 3, 2020 election for Minnesota’s 2nd United States Congressional District (“Second Candidate.”)   A third major political party candidate for Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District Representative d…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Shelby Advocates for Valid Elections v. Hargett

2:18-cv-02706 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee

Filed Date: Oct. 12, 2018

Closed Date: Oct. 5, 2020

This is a case alleging election mismanagement due to voting machine flaws in Memphis.  On October 12, 2018, the Shelby Advocates for Valid Elections (“SAVE”), a Tennessee non-profit corporation, filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee alleging voting machine flaws. The complaint cited multiple software and hardware security issues resulting in inaccurate ballots, insecure memory cartridge management, and impossible vote audits. Plaintiff brought the c…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Gamez v. Hereford Independent School District

2:18-cv-00028 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: March 9, 2018

Closed Date: Aug. 9, 2022

This is a case about possible racial dilution in school board elections. In 1995, an individual in Hereford, Texas, filed suit in the United States District Court, Northern District, seeking to overturn the system by which Hereford Independent School District elected its school board members. The system was a combination of the single-member system and at-large system; five members were elected from single-member districts and two were elected at-large. The plaintiff claimed that the 5-2 electi…