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Wolf v. General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

LWV Pennsylvania filed an amicus brief in a lawsuit challenging several proposed state constitutional amendments

Elections / Fighting Voter Suppression / Reproductive Justice / April 17, 2023 / Case Closed

Ball v. Chapman

LWV of Pennsylvania and partners filed an amicus brief advocating that timely received mail and absentee ballots with dating errors or omissions should be counted

Elections / Fighting Voter Suppression / February 8, 2023 / Case Closed

Hobbs v. Crosby

LWV Arizona filed an amicus brief supporting a lawsuit to order the Cochise County Board of Supervisors to certify the results of the 2022 elections

Elections / Fighting Voter Suppression / December 1, 2022 / Case Closed

White v. Wisconsin Elections Commission

LWV Wisconsin intervened in a state court case on whether election clerks may correct certain errors or omissions on witness certifications for absentee ballots

Elections / Fighting Voter Suppression / October 3, 2022 / Case Closed

LWV Wisconsin v. Knudson (2021)

LWV of Wisconsin filed a federal lawsuit to reactivate the voter registrations of 31,854 voters who had been unlawfully purged from the voter registration rolls.

Elections / Fighting Voter Suppression / July 13, 2022 / Case Closed

Teigen v. Wisconsin Elections Commission

LWV Wisconsin intervened in a state court lawsuit brought by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty that sought to ban ballot drop boxes

Elections / Fighting Voter Suppression / July 8, 2022 / Case Closed

League of Women Voters of the United States v. Newby (also known as League of Women Voters of the United States v. Harrington)

The League filed a federal lawsuit to block the Election Assistance Commission from allowing three states to require documentary proof of citizenship on the federal voter registration form

Elections / Expanding Voter Access / Fighting Voter Suppression / Increasing Voter Registration / September 16, 2021 / Case Closed

Stringer v. Hughs

LWV of Texas filed a federal lawsuit to require Texas to allow online voter registration through the Department of Public Safety’s website

Elections / Fighting Voter Suppression / Increasing Voter Registration / August 4, 2021 / Case Closed

Yazzie v. Hobbs

Members of the Navajo Nation of Arizona filed a federal lawsuit to count mail-in ballots cast by Navajo reservation voters that were rejected for not meeting the statutory ballot return deadline

Elections / Expanding Voter Access / Fighting Voter Suppression / January 6, 2021 / Case Closed