Laimont v. DeSantis
Lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Florida on behalf of two voters against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) challenging the governor’s refusal to call special elections to fill two vacancies in the state House and Senate.
The newly-elected 119th Congress will be sworn in Friday and the GOP — which has repeatedly targeted voting rights — is set to control both chambers for the first time since 2019.
Noncitizen voting was a top issue for the GOP in 2024 ahead of the general election. It’s already illegal and exceedingly rare, yet Republicans treated the concept like an existential threat to the American electoral system.
From redistricting battles to the emergence of right-wing groups seeking to suppress the vote, 2024 was an eventful year for Democracy Docket.
The majority of voting lawsuits filed during the 2024 election cycle were related to election administration and voter registration, not mail-in voting, which is a departure from 2020 election litigation.
Republican legislators’ attempt to upend election administration in Arizona prevailed after a court blocked part of the state’s 2023 Election Procedures Manual (EPM), which sets rules for how elections are run.
For at least seven years, Arizona officials knew about the administrative error that led to hundreds of thousands of residents registered to vote without showing proof of citizenship.
The right-wing lawyer and former FEC commissioner lays out a potential Trump admin plan to disenfranchise voters.
Republican Party of Wisconsin v. Evers
Lawsuit filed by the Republican Party of Wisconsin and its chairman, Brian Schimming, against Gov. Tony Evers (D), Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe and Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul (D) seeking clarification over what date the state’s electors must meet to cast their electoral votes for the 2024 election.
An Arizona district court judge dismissed a right-wing lawsuit challenging the state’s maintenance of its voter rolls.