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The ACLU Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Rule on Undated Pennsylvania Mail-in Ballots Case

October 1, 2024October 1, 2024

We’ve reported for months now on challenges to undated or misdated mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania. After the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned a state court ruling allowing the counting of those ballots, the ACLU is now taking a parallel case to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Utah Voters Fought Back After Their Fair Voting Districts Constitutional Amendment was Gutted by an Anti-Voter Legislature. They Won.

July 18, 2024July 18, 2024

Utah voters passed the Better Boundaries Proposition 4 in 2018, setting standards for competitive, nonpartisan redistricting. Utah’s legislature, in an effort to retain partisan power, gutted that amendment. The state supreme court just ruled for the voters.

Federal Appeals Court Denies Rehearing of Radical Arkansas Voting Rights Act Ruling Shutting Out Voters & Democracy Groups from Bringing Cases

January 31, 2024January 31, 2024

In Nov. 2023, an 8th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s radical ruling that Arkansas voters did not have the right to sue under the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Despite being widely panned as a fringe ruling, the 8th Circuit refused to re-hear the case January 30th.

Federal District Court Orders Georgia’s Racially Gerrymandered Congressional Map to Be Redrawn by December 8th

October 30, 2023December 28, 2023

A federal district court found that the State of Georgia’s Congressional voting district map is in violation of the Voting Rights Act. Similar to Alabama, the judge ordered a new map to include an additional majority-minority district.

Kansas Gerrymandering Case Going to SCOTUS; Ohio Loses a Fair Maps Defender

December 12, 2022March 28, 2023

With so much post-midterm drama, we haven’t updated you on redistricting issues recently, and redistricting in two states, Kansas and Ohio, is again in the news.