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Oct 30, 2024 | 
campaignlegal.org | Danielle Lang |Jonathan Diaz |Valencia Richardson |Madeleine Greenberg
The U.S. Supreme Court has allowed Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin to wrongfully remove qualified voters from the voting rolls less than one week before the 2024 presidential election. This misguided and eleventh-hour ruling permits Virginia to disenfranchise over 1,600 eligible Virginia voters based on unreliable data and discriminatory lies unfairly targeting naturalized and qualified U.S. citizens.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
campaignlegal.org | Trevor Potter |Jonathan Diaz |Danielle Lang |Valencia Richardson
States across the country — from Kansas to California to Michigan — have updated their election laws to conform with a bipartisan federal law passed by Congress that includes new legal deadlines for casting and counting Electoral College votes. These new state laws add to the many safeguards that help ensure that states conduct their mandatory duty to certify elections on time. Congress passed the Electoral Count Reform Act (ECRA), in 2022 with strong bipartisan support.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
campaignlegal.org | Danielle Lang |Valencia Richardson |Blair Bowie
In a huge victory for Alabama voters, the state’s unfair and illegal voter purge program has been halted. The eleventh-hour voter purge program targeted naturalized citizens, especially Black and brown voters, and put their freedom to vote in the 2024 election into jeopardy. Now that a federal judge has put the voter purge program on pause, more voters will be able to make their voices heard this November.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
campaignlegal.org | Danielle Lang |Valencia Richardson |Blair Bowie
In a huge victory for Alabama voters, the state’s unfair and illegal voter purge program has been halted. The eleventh-hour voter purge program targeted naturalized citizens, especially Black and brown voters, and put their freedom to vote in the 2024 election into jeopardy. Now that a federal judge has put the voter purge program on pause, more voters will be able to make their voices heard this November.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
campaignlegal.org | Valencia Richardson |Blair Bowie
On the eve of the 2024 presidential election, the Georgia State Election Board passed several new rules at the eleventh hour that threaten to disenfranchise voters, specifically military and overseas voters. Campaign Legal Center filed “friend of the court” briefs in four lawsuits challenging the illegal rules. The briefs were filed on behalf of Secure Families Initiative (SFI), a nonprofit that advocates on behalf of military members and their families.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
campaignlegal.org | Valencia Richardson
Prior to law school, Rachel worked at a number of organizations, including at the ACLU of Utah and the League of Women Voters where she monitored elections to ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act and helped advance redistricting legislation, respectively. During law school, Rachel interned at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the ACLU Voting Rights Project, and the DOJ Civil Rights Division Voting Section.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
campaignlegal.org | Valencia Richardson |Lata Nott |Jo Deutsch |Adam Ginsburg
Black and Latino voters in Galveston County, Texas — the birthplace of Juneteenth — have long been denied a voice in county government, an unjust reality that perpetuates centuries of discrimination. Last year, that appeared to change.
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May 16, 2024 | 
campaignlegal.org | Lata Nott |Blair Bowie |Jonathan Diaz |Valencia Richardson
In a major win for Minnesota voters, the Minnesota Voting Rights Act (MNVRA) — landmark pro-voter legislation that will strengthen Minnesotans’ freedom to vote — has passed the state legislature and is headed Governor Tim Walz’s desk for his signature. The MNVRA provides Minnesotans — particularly Black, Indigenous and other Minnesotans of color — with necessary protections against racial discrimination in voting.
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Apr 19, 2024 | 
campaignlegal.org | Blair Bowie |Jonathan Diaz |Valencia Richardson |Eric Kashdan
In a major legal victory, a federal judge just struck a blow against Tennessee’s unequal and inaccessible felony disenfranchisement regime, ruling that Tennessee election officials cannot wrongly deny Tennesseans with past felony convictions their freedom to vote if they are eligible and the state must fully inform potential voters with past felony convictions of their eligibility.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
campaignlegal.org | Jonathan Diaz |Valencia Richardson |Eric Kashdan
Free and fair elections rely on every voter having the ability to make their voice heard. Unfortunately, voters with disabilities are often met with a range of disproportionately burdensome barriers — from polling locations without ramps to restrictions on accessible voting options like vote-by-mail — that limit their ability to access the ballot and ultimately undermine their freedom to vote. Increasing accessible voting options helps all Americans make their voices heard.
