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The Democratic Party of Georgia v. Crittenden

1:18-cv-05181 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Oct. 9, 2018

Closed Date: Jan. 11, 2019

This case involved allegations that local and state officials improperly rejected certain absentee and provisional ballots. The AFG Group, Stacey Abrams for Governor, and the Democratic Party of Georgia filed suit for declaratory and injunctive relief in the U.S. Northern District of Georgia on November 10, 2018. Defendants included the Secretary of State for the State of Georgia, the Gwinnett County Board of Registration and Elections, the Dekalb County Board of Registration and Elections, and…
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United States v. The State of West Virginia

2:14-cv-27456 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: Oct. 31, 2014

Closed Date: Jan. 22, 2015

This case challenged the provision of absentee ballots to certain overseas citizens and uniformed service members for the November 4, 2014 election. On October 31, 2014, the United States filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, before District Judge John Thomas Copenhaver Jr. The United States sued the State of West Virginia and the Secretary of State of the State of West Virginia in her official capacity under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizen…
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Raleigh Wake Citizens Association v. Barefoot

5:15-cv-00156 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: April 9, 2015

Closed Date: Dec. 28, 2017

This case involved allegations that the North Carolina General Assembly’s Session Law 2015-4 violated voters’ rights to an equal vote and their right to not be subjected to racial classifications in redistricting. Voters and an association on voters (Raleigh Wake Citizens Association) who lived in election districts that under Session Law 2015-4 were overpopulated to a significant degree, filed suit on April 09, 2015 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Plainti…
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United States v. State of North Carolina

5:06-cv-00118 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: March 16, 2006

Closed Date: Dec. 18, 2006

This case is about enforcing the rights granted by the Uniform and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 1973ff et seq., which provides that absent uniformed services voters and overseas voters shall be permitted “to use registration procedures and to vote by absentee ballot in general, special, primary, and runoff elections for Federal office.”  42 U.S.C. § 1973ff-1.   On March 16, 2006, the United States filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eas…
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Bruni v. Hughs

5:20-cv-00035 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: March 5, 2020

Closed Date: June 24, 2020

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Georgia Republican Part v. Raffensperger

2:20-cv-00135 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Dec. 17, 2020

Closed Date: Dec. 18, 2020

This case involved allegations that Georgia election officials failed to adequately prevent unlawful double voting in the January 2021 run-off election for Georgia’s U.S. Senators due to the alleged debasement and dilution of the right to vote in contravention of the Voting Rights Act and the U.S. Constitution. On December 17, 2020, the Georgia Republican Party, Inc., the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Perdue for Senate, Georgians for Kelly Loeffler, along with three Georgia resident…
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Carson v. Simon

0:20-cv-02030 | U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

Filed Date: Sept. 22, 2020

Closed Date: Dec. 9, 2020

This is a case challenging a restriction on Minnesota electoral law.  On September 22, 2020, two Republican presidential elector nominees filed suit in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota against the Secretary of State of Minnesota. The basis of the complaint surrounded a consent decree entered into by the government in a previous case, LaRose v. Simon. LaRose v. Simon, 62-CV-20-3149, Minn. 2d Judicial Cir., Order, August 3, 2020. Plaintiffs argued that the consent de…
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United States of America v. Oneida County Board of Election

6:21-cv-00793 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Filed Date: July 12, 2021

Closed Date: March 31, 2025

This case is about the Oneida County Board of Elections not processing timely-filed voter registration applications before the 2020 election. New York’s voter registration deadline for the 2020 election was October 9, 2020. However, the Oneida County Board of Elections stopped processing online voter registrations—including those submitted and received electronically from the DMV—beginning on September 25, 2020. As a result, the Board failed to add approximately 2,418 applicants who registered …
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Common Cause Georgia v. Kemp

1:18-cv-05102 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: Nov. 5, 2018

Closed Date: May 29, 2020

This is a case about Georgia's alleged insecure storage of voter information. Plaintiff, a non-partisan lobbying group, filed a lawsuit against the Secretary of State of Georgia in the U.S. District Court for the North District of Georgia on November 5, 2018, that alleged that information in the voter registration server is vulnerable to multiple security breaches and exploitable by manipulation of voter data. The server is used at polls to determine whether voters are eligible to vote. Plainti…
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De Luca v. North Carolina State Board of Elections et al

5:16-cv-00913 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Nov. 21, 2016

Closed Date: Dec. 21, 2016

On November 21, 2016, the CEO of the Civitas Institute filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina seeking declaratory and injunctive relief restraining the North Carolina State Board of Elections (the “Board”), the chief state election official of the Board and five members of the Board (collectively, the “State Defendants”) from counting and certifying votes cast in the November 2016 general election via same-day registration (“SDR”) until all SDR b…