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Yi v. Board of Elections

8:16-cv-00662 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: March 7, 2016

Closed Date: April 19, 2016

On March 7, 2016, the plaintiff filed a complaint pro se in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland against the Board of Elections at Montgomery County, the Democratic National Committee, the Republican National Committee, the Maryland Democratic Party and the Maryland Republic Party. The plaintiff claimed that the use of digital voting machines in various state and national elections violated the Fifteenth Amendment because the Fifteenth Amendment does not permit use of digital vo…
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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: Nov. 11, 2018

Closed Date: Jan. 14, 2019

On November 11, 2018, The Democratic Party of Georgia, Inc., and AFG Group Inc., a nonprofit doing business as Stacey Abrams for Governor, filed a class action complaint against (1) the Secretary of State for Georgia, (2) members of the Gwinnett County Board of Registration and Elections, (3) members of the DeKalb County Board of Registration and Elections, and (4) a class of defendants comprised of superintendents and boards of elections for each of the 159 counties in Georgia.  The complaint …

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

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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…
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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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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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Griffin v. North Carolina Board of Elections

320P24-3 | North Carolina state supreme court

Filed Date: Dec. 23, 2024

(This summary is temporary, while we research the case.) In November 2024, the incumbent Democratic candidate narrowly beat the Republican candidate in a closely contested race for the open seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court. The Republican candidate filed a protest with the State Board of Elections, arguing that 60,000 votes cast in the election should be discounted because the forms these voters were given to fill out did not ask for some information that they should have under North Ca…
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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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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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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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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…