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Litigation

 

True the Vote, Inc. v. Stewart

Case Information

Date Filed: December 12, 2013
State: Colorado
Issue: Voter Registration
Courts that Heard this Case: U.S. District Court of Colorado (Case 1:13-cv-03369)

Issue:

Issue 1:

Did Defendant Stewart fail to maintain the voter list in violation of Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1973, 42 U.S.C. 1973?

Issue 2: 

Does Defendant Stewart's failure to respond to Plaintiff True the Vote's request for data and records violate Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1973, 42 U.S.C. 1973? If so, did the violation cause Plaintiff True the Vote informational injury? 

Issue 3:

Does Colorado's Voter Access and Moderized Elections Act of 2013 violate the National Voter Registration Act of 1973, 42 U.S.C. 1973?

Status:

Complaint filed 12/12/13. Voluntary Dismissal of Case by Plaintiff filed 1/24/14.

District Court Documents

Commentary

Edward B. Foley

Gerrymandering as Viewpoint Discrimination: A "Functional Equivalence" Test

Edward B. Foley

A First Amendment test for identifying when a map is functionally equivalent to a facially discriminatory statute.

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In the News

Daniel P. Tokaji

This is why US election ballots routinely go missing

Professor Dan Tokaji was quoted in USA Today about the prevalence of missing election ballots.

 

"Most of the time, it just goes unreported because it doesn't affect the result," Tokaji said. 


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Info & Analysis

Supreme Court Finds Partisan Gerrymandering Claims to be Non-Justiciable Political Questions

In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion on Thursday determining that claims of partisan gerrymandering are political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts. The opinion resolved disputes originating in North Carolina and Maryland, in the cases of Rucho v. Common Cause and Lamone v. Benisek.

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