Defending League Services to Voters
LWV Florida filed a federal lawsuit challenging a state law, SB 7050, that imposed severe restrictions on voter registration activities by the League and its partners. Among the new regulations are limitations on who may register voters, increased administrative burdens, including re-registering with the state before every election cycle, and significant increases in fines for violations.
Helping Voters with Disabilities Vote Freely
LWV Mississippi, Disability Rights Mississippi, and three voters filed a federal lawsuit against S.B. 2358, a law severely limiting who could help voters return their absentee ballots. Under the law’s provisions, only elections officials, family members, or a care giver, a term undefined in the statute, may return a voter’s absentee ballot on their behalf. Persons who violate this provision are subject to criminal penalties. The lawsuit asserts S.B. 2358 violates Section 208 of the Voting Rights Act, which allows voters who need assistance to vote by reason of blindness, disability, or inability to read or write to choose who may assist them, except for employers, union officers and their agents.
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Fighting for Fair Districts
LWV Indiana, Common Cause Indiana, the Anderson-Madison County NAACP, and individual voters in Anderson, Indiana, District 3, filed a lawsuit in federal court, asserting the city council districts were malapportioned with several districts being overpopulated, in violation of federal and state law requiring them to be equally populated. The plaintiffs argued this disparity violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Standing with Youth Against Climate Change
The League of Women Voters of the United States and the League of Women Voters of Oregon filed an amicus brief supporting youth plaintiffs seeking an order for the federal government to prepare a plan to phase out fossil fuel emissions. The plaintiffs, a group of young Americans under the age of 21, argued that by promoting the export and production of fossil fuels, and failing to mitigate climate change, the government violated their rights under the Fifth and Ninth Amendments to a stable climate system and the Public Trust Doctrine.