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The League of Women Voters

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Litigation empowers our fight for the issues that matter most to communities: protecting the right to vote, promoting fair and accessible elections, ending big-money corruption, and reinforcing the dignity that people across the country deserve.

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Morales v. Rust

LWV of Indiana filed an amicus brief at the Indiana Supreme Court supporting a lower court striking down a law restricting candidate ballot access

Elections / Expanding Voter Access / / Case Closed

Tennessee NAACP v. Lee

LWV Tennessee filed a federal lawsuit asserting several congressional districts and one state senate district were racially gerrymandered.

Fighting Voter Suppression / Redistricting / / Case Closed

Frazier v. Fulton County Dep’t. of Registration and Elections

Two private citizens filed a federal lawsuit in Georgia against the Fulton County Department of Registration and Elections alleging NVRA violations.

Elections / Fighting Voter Suppression / / Case Closed

Richer v. Fontes

LWV Arizona filed an amicus brief supporting the right of almost 100,000 Arizona voters to vote a full ballot after an error was discovered in the state’s voter registration database.

Elections / Fighting Voter Suppression / / Case Closed

Black Political Empowerment Project v. Schmidt

LWV Pennsylvania filed a state court case arguing that rejecting timely mail ballots for errors in or omission of a date on the return envelope violated the state constitution

Elections / / Case Closed

League of Women Voters of Ohio v. LaRose (HB 458 challenge)

LWV Ohio filed a federal lawsuit against a new state law restricting assistance to voters with returning absentee ballots

Fighting Voter Suppression / / Case Closed

Swoboda v. Hobbs

LWV Arizona filed an amicus brief opposing a lawsuit to overturn two executive orders by Governor Katie Hobbs expanding voting access.

Elections / Expanding Voter Access / / Case Closed

Adams v. Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections

LWV Georgia and LWV Atlanta-Fulton County filed an amicus brief opposing a lawsuit seeking to give election officials discretion on whether to certify elections

Elections / Fighting Voter Suppression / / Case Closed

Lawson v. Hargett (formerly Ashe v. Hargett)

LWV of Tennessee filed a federal lawsuit asserting the state’s requirement that voters be "bona fide" party members or declare allegiance when voting in a party’s primary election is unconstitutional

Elections / / Case Closed

Planned Parenthood of the Heartland v. Hilgers

LWV Nebraska filed an amicus brief asserting a law restricting gender affirming care and banning abortion after 12 weeks was unconstitutionally enacted

Equal Rights / Reproductive Justice / / Case Closed