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Corona v. Cegavske

20-OC-00064-1B | Nevada state trial court

Filed Date: April 16, 2020

Closed Date: Aug. 4, 2020

This is a case about voting by mail in Nevada. On April 16, 2020, a group of plaintiffs consisting of four registered Nevada voters and the Nevada State Democratic Party, Democratic National Committee, DCCC (national congressional committee of the Democratic Party), and Priorities USA (a voter-rights advocacy nonprofit) filed this lawsuit in the First Judicial District Court of Nevada (state trial court). The plaintiffs sued the state of Nevada, plus Clark County, Washoe County, and Elko County…
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The New Georgia Project v. Raffensperger

1:20-cv-01986 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Filed Date: May 8, 2020

Closed Date: March 25, 2021

NOTE: This case is being tracked in close to real time by the Stanford/MIT Healthy Elections Project. So for more current information, see their tracker. COVID-19 summary: On May 8, 2020, two voters and a non-profit organization sued the Georgia Secretary of State, the Georgia State Election Board, and the Board of Registration and Elections of various counties to enjoin various absentee voting laws during COVID-19. The plaintiff sought declaratory and injunctive relief. They also submitted a …
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Frederick v. Lawson

1:19-cv-01959 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: May 16, 2019

Closed Date: Dec. 3, 2020

This is a case about the disenfranchisement of Indiana absentee voters due to unconstitutional signature verification procedures. On May 16, 2019, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, five Indiana voters and Common Cause Indiana sued the Indiana Secretary of State, a county election board (representing a putative class of all 92 Indiana county election boards), and three members of that board. Per Indiana statute, the state's absentee voting procedure required a sign…
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Fair Maps Nevada v. Cegavske

3:20-cv-00271 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: May 6, 2020

Closed Date: June 9, 2020

This is a case about the constitutionality of Nevada's signature-gathering requirements for ballot initiatives during the COVID-19 pandemic. Near the end of 2019, a political action committee called Fair Maps Nevada filed a ballot initiative that would amend the Nevada Constitution to provide for the establishment of an independent redistricting commission. After social distancing measures were implemented at the beginning of the pandemic, the organization discovered that it would be unable to …
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Donald J. Trump for President v. Cegavske

2:20-cv-01445 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Filed Date: Aug. 4, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 21, 2020

This is a 2020 case about voting by mail during pandemics and other disasters in Nevada. Nevada passed Assembly Bill 4 (AB4) on August 2, 2020. AB4 allowed areas impacted by a pandemic or other disaster to expand their use of mail-in and absentee voting, effective in time for the November 2020 election. AB4 Sections 11 and 12 also authorized particular numbers of polling places depending on county populations. On August 4, 2020, plaintiffs Donald J. Trump for President, the Republican National …
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Sinner v. Jaeger

3:20-cv-00076 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: May 6, 2020

Closed Date: June 24, 2020

This is a case about whether the U.S. Constitution was violated by the combined pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic and North Dakota's in-person signature gathering requirements for ballot initiative petitions. On May 6, 2020, the North Dakota Secretary of State was sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota by four individual voters and North Dakota Voters First (NDVF), the sponsoring committee for a proposed state constitutional amendment related to election procedures an…
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Hawkins v. Ziriax

5:20-cv-00687 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: July 15, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 1, 2020

This is a case about the special requirements Oklahoma placed on presidential candidates who wanted to be added to the ballot as representatives of a non-mainstream political party. Seven Oklahoma voters and the Green Party's 2020 U.S. presidential candidate filed this lawsuit against the Secretary of the Oklahoma State Election Board in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma on July 15, 2020. Oklahoma officially recognized three political parties: Democrat, Republican, an…
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Connecticut State Conference of NAACP Branches v. Merrill

3:20-cv-00909 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: July 2, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 25, 2020

This is a case about how Connecticut's restrictions on eligibility for mail-in ballot voting during the COVID-19 pandemic threatened voters' constitutional and statutory rights. On July 2, 2020, a complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut by the Connecticut State Conference of NAACP Branches, the League of Women Voters of Connecticut ("the League"), and an individual member of the League whose age made her susceptible to serious complications of COVID-19. Th…
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Common Cause Indiana v. Lawson

1:20-cv-01825 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Filed Date: July 8, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 23, 2020

This is a case challenging two amendments to the Indiana election code as unconstitutionally burdening the right to vote. The "standing amendment" deprived voters of standing to petition state courts for extending voting hours at eligible polling places. The "remedies amendment" placed restrictions on state courts' ability to extend hours at polling places facing conditions which burdened the right to vote. Together, the challenged amendments were alleged to burden the fundamental right to vote…
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Yang v. Kellner

1:20-cv-03325 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: April 28, 2020

Closed Date: May 5, 2020

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, on April 27, 2020, the New York State Board of Elections (BOE) by unanimous vote and in spite of executive orders from the New York governor, adopted a resolution to cancel the New York presidential primary election that was slated for June 23, 2020, while still allowing down-ballot federal congressional and state elections to continue. BOE's rationale was that this was in line with larger goals of avoiding unnecessary social contact, and that there was no…