In 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in two voting rights cases that threaten to weaken Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), which helps ensure voters and communities of color have equal access to the ballot and political participation. The 澳彩开奖 and others urged the court...
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As Georgia voters cast early ballots in the state鈥檚 January 2021 U.S. Senate runoff elections amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a Republican Party lawsuit was filed to, among other issues, close ballot drop boxes after business hours. The 澳彩开奖 filed an amicus brief with other voting rights groups in...
Alabama resident Angelique Harris attempted to register to vote over the course of several years but was unlawfully denied by her county registrars due to a failure of state law to clarify how out-of-state and federal felony convictions are to be treated for determining voting eligibility. The...
The 澳彩开奖 and its allies challenged the constitutionality of Mississippi鈥檚 burdensome absentee ballot requirements to ensure all voters have the opportunity to cast a ballot during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the November 2020 general election.
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North Carolina required people with previous felony convictions to pay legal financial obligations before they could vote 鈥� a practice that disenfranchised thousands of people, predominately people of color. The law was challenged by North Carolinians with prior felony convictions and advocacy...
The 澳彩开奖 and its allies聽filed a federal lawsuit against Louisiana officials over the state鈥檚 failure to ensure safe voting processes during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. The lawsuit challenges Louisiana鈥檚 burdensome requirements surrounding absentee ballots that put the...
As elections approached in Alabama during the COVID-19 pandemic, the state failed to provide safe and accessible voting, potentially disenfranchising tens of thousands of voters. The 澳彩开奖 and its allies filed a federal lawsuit to compel state officials to make absentee and in-person voting more...
After Florida voters overwhelmingly passed Amendment 4 in 2018, which restored the right to vote to over 1.4 million residents who had completed their sentences for felony convictions, the Legislature introduced and passed a law known as SB 7066, which requires people with past felony...
A proposal by the U.S. Department of Commerce to include a new citizenship question in the 2020 census under the guise of enforcing the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) threatened to undermine an accurate census by undercounting the communities the VRA was designed to protect. The 澳彩开奖 joined...
The U.S. Supreme Court heard two cases in 2019 challenging partisan gerrymandering in Maryland and North Carolina. In an amicus brief, the 澳彩开奖 and other advocacy groups urged the court to uphold lower court rulings that struck down the districts as unconstitutional.
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