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Lower Southampton Twp., 2016 WL 7319679 (E.D. Pa. Dec. 15, 2016)(same); but see Collins v. State, 2013 WL 5874770, at *3 (Pa. Cmwlth. Ct. 2013) (“The General Assembly has not waived immunity for equitable claims seeking affirmative action by way of injunctive relief.”) 15 any civil right, nor discriminate against any person in the exercise ...
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Updated Sept. 12. Status: Litigation pending. Preliminary injunction issued. New voting law will be in place on Election Day. While a federal judge declined to issue a preliminary injunction against Alabama’s photo-ID law in February, a case against the law will go forward, with a trial expected in 2017. Alabama election law also requires proof of ...
Updated Nov. 7. Status: Maricopa County under court supervision, ballot harvesting law overturned, out-of-precinct ballots rejected. The Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights Under Law filed suit against Maricopa County on June 2, after the county cut down the number of polling places for the presidential primary by 70 percent. The reduction in polli...
Updated Nov. 3. Status: Temporary restraining order denied. The ACLU filed for a temporary restraining order to allow voters to take ballot selfies on Oct. 31. The motion was deniedon Nov. 2. Back to the top
Updated: Nov. 7 Status: Voting law temporarily lifted A federal judge ordered Colorado’s ban on ballot selfieslifted temporarily for the election on Nov. 4. Back to the top
Updated Oct. 17. Status: Lawsuit won. The Florida Democratic Party sued Florida’s Republican governor, Rick Scott, and the state’s top elections official on Oct. 9 to extend the state’s voter registration deadline by a week in the wake of Hurricane Matthew. While Scott urged Floridians to flee the storm, he refused to extend the Oct. 11 registratio...
Updated Oct. 19. Status: A voting law passed in 2009, but only now in force, will be in place on Election Day. Preliminary injunction issued. The GOP-dominated legislature passed a law back in 2009 that required voters to show proof of citizenship when registering. But the state couldn’t implement it until received the go-ahead in January from the ...
Status: New voting law will be in place on Election Day. Indiana has long had a photo-ID law. In fact, the Supreme Court case that ultimately found voter-ID laws to be constitutional, Crawford v. Marion County Election Board, originated from a 2005 Indiana law. A 2013 add-on allows partisan election officers to ask for anyone’s proof of identificat...
Updated Oct. 19. Status: Voting law overturned. On the same day as rulings in Wisconsin and North Carolina, a state district judge in Kansas allowed voters to have their primaries ballots counted even without proof of citizenship to have their ballots counted in the state’s primary election. An order not to count the ballots had been issued by Kans...
Updated Nov. 2. Status: Litigation pending. The ACLU filed a challengeon Nov. 2 to Massachusetts’s law that requires voters to register 20 days before an election. Back to the top
Updated Nov. 1. Status: Voting law overturned A federal judge struck down Michigan’s ban on straight-ticket votingin July, ruling that it would unfairly burden black voters. In straight-ticket voting, a voter can select all candidates from the same party with one stroke. African-American voters are more likely to vote Democrat, and lawyers opposing...
OPINION HENS-GRECO, J. September 12, 2016 In this matter, S.J. ("Father"), prose, appeals this Court's Orders of July 13, 2016, which denied his request for a hearing on his contempt petition, but granted the request of M.G. ("Mother") for an award of attorney fees in the amount of $1,000.00 (One Thousand Doi Jars) upon finding Father's ...
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Nov 3, 2020 · In the case of a presidential or senate election, 100 or more voters have to file a petition in state court within 20 days of the election, with at least five of them submitting affidavits that ...
Jun 23, 2021 · The fundamental precept underlying Pennsylvania’s election laws is the Constitutional guarantee of free and equal elections. Pennsylvania’s laws intended to protect that constitutional r ight can be found in the act of June 3, 1937 (P.L. 1333, No.320), known as the Pennsylvania Election Code (Election Code) and Title 25 of the Pennsylvania
