Ballot Measures, Legislation & Rulemaking
Colorado: The Senate gave preliminary approval to a bill intended to codify in Colorado certain anti-discrimination provisions of the federal Voting Rights Act. Senate Bill 25-1 would mirror the VRA to “prohibit election practices that create disparities in participation for communities of color and other protected groups,” Sen. Julie Gonzales, a Denver Democrat, said. The Colorado Voting Rights Act also includes protections for LGBTQ+ voters, expands multilingual ballot access, and requires accommodations for people with disabilities at residential facilities. The attorney general’s office will be able to enforce the act so Colorado voters don’t need to depend on the federal government to enforce the VRA. Gonzales sponsored the bill in the Senate, where it will need to pass one more vote before it goes to the Colorado House of Representatives for further debate. House sponsors are Assistant Majority Leader Jennifer Bacon, a Denver Democrat, and Rep. Junie Joseph, a Boulder Democrat. Democrats hold strong majorities in both chambers.
Connecticut: A bill to allow ranked-choice voting (RCV) in some elections was approved by the Connecticut Legislature’s Government Administration and Elections Committee late Wednesday night. The measure has failed in Connecticut in previous sessions. If it passed this year, Connecticut would join a growing list of states and cities that use the method, including New York City, Maine and Alaska. This year’s bill comes after the Governor’s Ranked-Choice Voting Working Group, which met several times last year to develop the proposal, recommended the state adopt RCV. Current state law doesn’t allow for RCV in primary or general elections. The group was chaired by State Senator Tony Hwang (R-Fairfield). He testified in support of the bill. “I believe that Senate Bill 1536 will modernize our electoral system and help move Connecticut toward a more inclusive and fair voting process. Ranked-choice voting has the potential to bring about a more representative democracy, reduce polarization, and allow for a healthier and more engaging political environment for all voters,” Hwang stated in his testimony. The legislation would only allow ranked-choice voting in party caucuses, conventions, and primaries, and it would be optional for municipalities and parties to adopt.
Delaware: Sen. Darius Brown (D-New Castle) reintroduced efforts to add early voting, mail-in voting and permanent absentee voting to the Delaware Constitution after a similar attempt failed last year. Mail-in voting, same-day voter registration, permanent absentee voting and early voting have all been struck down by Delaware courts in recent years. Only early voting and permanent absentee voting returned after the Delaware Supreme Court found the plaintiffs in that case lacked proper standing, but the merits of the case remain untouched. Voting rights advocates and some lawmakers argue this leaves the right to early voting and permanent absentee status unprotected, unless the voting procedures are added to Delaware’s Constitution. Brown introduced a constitutional amendment addressing those two voting procedures — along with no-excuse or absentee voting — last year, but with Republicans claiming support only for early voting and not permanent absentee or mail-in voting, the amendment failed. Brown is trying again this year, this time with two separate amendments: one for early voting and one for absentee voting. Part of what makes the voting rights codification process unusually complicated is the fact that Delaware, unlike many other states, has the six excuses necessary to request an absentee ballot request outlined in the state constitution, rather than in its code. Those excuses include being in the public service of the United States or of Delaware — or being a spouse or dependent of someone in service — the nature of one’s business or occupation, sickness or physical disability, absence from the district while on vacation or religious reasons. Brown’s constitutional amendment would void these excuses and allow anyone to request an absentee ballot as long as they are a qualified voter. The amendment would also enshrine permanent absentee status, allowing voters to register to receive an absentee ballot for every election without having to file individual requests. This provision is largely for members of the military or those with physical disabilities.
Florida: An election measure raising citizenship-related roadblocks to voter eligibility won approval in a House committee this week, but not before receiving criticism from members of the public — some who thought it is far too restrictive, and others who thought it isn’t tough enough. Fort Myers Republican Jenna Persons-Mulicka presented her bill (HB 1381) before the House Government Operations Subcommittee. It now has two more stops before going to the floor. The measure contains numerous provisions ostensibly to ensure that only U.S. citizens vote. It says that if an applicant has not provided the necessary evidence of their legal status, or is not verified before the applicant requests a vote-by-mail ballot or presents to vote, the applicant must be provided a provisional ballot that can be counted only if they confirm their legal status by 5 p.m. on the Thursday after a Tuesday election. The bill also says that a supervisor of elections must remove the name of a deceased voter from the voter rolls within seven days if they receive a copy of a death certificate or a published obituary or notice of death, a letter of probate or estate administration, or “personal knowledge” of a registered voter’s death. Other provisions include: The state’s division of elections office can use lists from federal agencies or other state governments to remove voters from the rolls. It requires jury coordinators for federal jury duty to create a list of those disqualified for not being U.S. citizens and to provide it to the Florida Division of Elections according to the jury summons cycle used by the court clerk. Eliminates certain categories of voter identification options such as student identification, debit or credit cards, and retirement cards. Changes from “challenge” to “protest” voter challenges of vote-by-mail ballots. In a manual review of ballots open to the public, the bill says that each political party may designate one person with “expertise in the computer field” who must be allowed in the central counting room where all tests are being conducted and where the official votes are being counted. Requires all voting to be by paper ballot, unless a person with a disability requires a voter-interface device. Would make Florida the first state in the nation to require an automated, independent vote validation process for every ballot cast in every election before certification.
Georgia: Lawmakers advanced two election bills last week, setting up final votes on banning absentee ballot drop-off the weekend before Election Day, prohibiting last-minute State Election Board rules and withdrawing the state from a voter registration accuracy organization. GOP legislators backed away from one of their most contentious proposals, which would have required a hand count of ballots on election night. The provision no longer appears in either bill following opposition from county election directors. The State Election Board tried to mandate the hand count last year, but a judge ruled the board exceeded its authority. The bills advanced in separate House and Senate committee votes, with legislators voting along party lines.Republicans supported the legislation and Democrats opposed it. To become law, the bills would have to pass both chambers before the Georgia General Assembly adjourns April 4. “We’re not giving everybody everything they’ve asked for,” said House Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Victor Anderson, a Republican from Cornelia. “We’ve done so much with elections over the last four years. The provisions we call for in this bill are fairly common sense and justified.” Both measures, House Bill 397 and Senate Bill 175, call for Georgia to quit a 24-state partnership called the Electronic Registration Information Center, which exchanges voter information between states to identify outdated registrations. The bills also prevent new State Election Board rules within 60 days of an election, a response to the Republican-led board’s attempt last fall to require hand ballot counts and change requirements for certifying results. And the legislation would prohibit counties from accepting in-person delivery of absentee ballots the weekend before an election. That practice led to complaints by the Republican Party last year. In addition, cities would be able to decide not to allow early voting on Saturdays for municipal elections. The Senate’s elections bill goes further, giving the State Election Board custody of the secretary of state’s election investigation reports and requiring after-hours video surveillance of drop boxes at early voting locations.
Athens Representative Houston Gaines has confirmed that legislation that would change the formation of the Athens-Clarke County Board of Elections will not pass this session. A pair of bills sponsored by Athens-area Republicans were sent back to committee this week. With the end of the legislative session Friday, the bills will not make it to the floor. Representative Houston Gaines introduced House Bills 851 and 852 last week. The bills sought to abolish the Board of Elections in Athens-Clarke County and change the way its members are appointed. On Monday, the bills were pulled from the House and recommitted to the Intragovernmental Coordination Committee. In a statement, Representative Houston Gaines said that discussions would resume in the fall to address the “legal and policy issues with the current makeup of the Board.”
Indiana: Senate Bill 10 would specifically ban state university-issued IDs from being acceptable forms of photo identification used at the voting booth, seemingly to address fears about non-residents voting in Indiana elections, even though this part of the law has nothing to do with address verification. The Indiana House passed the bill by a 66-25 vote Tuesday along predictable party lines. Democrats see it as disenfranchising young voters in a state with already dismal voter turnout statistics. Republicans see it as enhancing election security. The section of the law this bill proposes editing is the Photo ID law passed in 2005. When voters cast their ballot on Election Day, they need to show a photo ID that has four components: A name matching their voter registration, a photo, a valid expiration date and the ID needs to be issued by the state or federal government. Student IDs from state colleges can be used, so long as they have these four elements.
Iowa: A Senate subcommittee advanced a bill to solidify existing election laws by removing the possibility of using ranked-choice voting in the future. Even though the state doesn’t use ranked-choice voting, also known as instant runoff voting, dozens of local governments across the country use the system. Opponents of House File 954 argue that ranked-choice voting allows more candidates to run for office and erase partisanship. They also claimed during Tuesday’s subcommittee meeting that the system could save local governments money if they choose to implement it. However, supporters of the bill to ban the voting system in Iowa said this election method is too confusing, would take longer and extend the amount of time election officials take to tally the winner. The Iowa House passed the bill along party lines last week, and it now must advance through the Senate committee level by Friday to stay alive through the second legislative ‘funnel’ week.
Minnesota: In an all-in-one meeting, the House Elections Finance and Government Operations Committee heard a walkthrough and took testimony on the omnibus elections policy bill. Sponsored by Rep. Mike Freiberg (DFL-Golden Valley), a committee co-chair, HF1378, as amended, was then approved on a voice vote and sent to the House floor. Among the provisions in the bill, there would be wholesale changes in the way Minnesotans apply for absentee ballots, vote early and in the way those votes are handled and counted. Starting with the application process, online absentee ballot applicants would be required to provide both a Minnesota driver’s license or state identification card number and the last four digits of their Social Security number to verify identity. Mailed and online absentee ballot applications would need to be received at least seven days before an election. If an application is received within seven days of Election Day, the absentee ballot board would be required to attempt to contact the applicant by telephone or email to notify them of other opportunities to vote in the election. rather than the entire 46-day absentee voting period. Once absentee ballots are received, the bill would require the absentee ballot boards to verify the number of envelopes and ballots at various stages of the counting process, which would start at the end of each day. To ensure more election security, the bill would require counties to develop a chain of custody plan for handling election-related materials, including absentee ballots, that would need to account for both the physical and cybersecurity of materials.
Mississippi: Lawmakers have agreed on a conference report that implements what they are calling the “In-Person Excused Voting Act.” The measure is a compromise between the House and Senate after negotiations broke down this session over an early voting proposal offered by State Senator Jeremy England (R). England, the Senate Elections Committee Chairman, had sought to pass an early voting bill that would allow for no excuse, 15-day voting prior to an Election Day, effectively ending the need for absentee voting in Mississippi. As it stands now under the compromise, an in-person excused voting period will begin 22 days before the date of each primary, general, runoff, special and municipal election for public office and continue until 12:00 p.m. on the Saturday immediately preceding the election day. Under current law, voters had 45 days to cast an absentee ballot. Voters with an excuse to do so early would be allowed to cast their ballot in-person in the clerk’s office or at another secure location designated by the local governing body under the new bill. Valid excuses for voting early in the bill are similar to what has been in practice for absentee voting in the past with the addition of Sanford’s language regarding that of anticipating being at work and being a caretaker of a child, disabled person, or senior citizen was added in the measure. Clerks will be able to extend the hours of from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. during the final week leading up to an election day and remain open from 8:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. for the two Saturdays immediately preceding each election. Both chambers overwhelmingly adopted the conference report on the legislation, with the House passing it 111-0 and the Senate 42-7. There has been no word from the governor on whether he will sign this new legislation into law or veto it.
Missouri: Senate Bill 22 introduces a new process for ballot initiatives. Under the bill, a group can appeal the secretary of state’s summary. The court can make recommendations, but the secretary of state must revise the language within seven days. That received a House Elections Committee hearing this week would make it more difficult for judges to rewrite a secretary of state’s ballot summary. “To me this is a gross overstepping of the judiciary branch,” bill sponsor Sen. Rick Brattin, R-Harrisonville, said at the hearing. If the court finds that summary unfair, the secretary gets five days to write another draft. This process can happen one last time, and upon third revision the secretary gets just three days. Only then, if the court still finds the summary unfair, can a judge rewrite it. The back-and-forth process must take place on a set timeline prior to the general election. Brattin’s original bill eliminated the court’s ability to rewrite a ballot summary, he said at the committee hearing, but he worked with Senate Democrats to amend it.
The House advanced legislation that would reinstate state-run presidential preference primaries and extend the no-excuse absentee voting period from two to six weeks. Supporters of House Bill 126 cited a widespread positive response to the recently enacted no-excuse voting period as a motivating factor. They also noted negative feedback on the 2024 party-run caucuses, which replaced the state-run primaries after they were eliminated as part of a law passed in 2022. The no-excuse absentee voting period has been in effect since August 2022 and allows voters to cast their ballot in elections in person or by mail starting two weeks before Election Day. Supporters of the bill said they hoped that extending the no-excuse voting period would further alleviate stress on election workers and encourage voters to cast their ballot. The state of Missouri ran March presidential primaries from 2000 until 2020. A 2022 law signed by former Gov. Mike Parson eliminated them. In 2024, the Republican Party held in-person caucuses in Missouri to select their delegates, while Democrats opted for a hybrid caucus with in-person voting and a mail-in ballot. Low participation in these caucuses, alongside vocal blowback from residents who preferred the state-run primaries, were cited as motivators for reinstating the primaries.
Ohio: The $11 billion transportation budget is awaiting Gov. Mike DeWine’s signature, after passing both the House and Senate unanimously. But Democrats complained about a voter registration provision in the bill. And that apparently has raised questions for DeWine as well. According to WVXU, the Senate added to the transportation budget a provision the House had dropped; proof of citizenship for people who register to vote at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles. House Republicans had put in that provision initially, but then compromised with Democrats by changing it to a ban on BMV employees and deputy registrars from offering registration forms to people who are ineligible. Without threatening a veto, he repeated something he’s said before—that he would need to be persuaded to sign another election-related law. “I think the burden of proof is on anyone who wants to issue wants to change it,” DeWine said. “We’ve changed it a few times. We’ve done some different things. I’ll take a look at that one that gets to me.”
Oklahoma: Rep. Jim Olsen, R-Roland, has passed legislation further enhancing the integrity of Oklahoma’s electoral process. If House Bill 1005 becomes law, all voter identification cards must include a photo of the voter beginning in 2027. Under the bill, Service Oklahoma would be tasked with working with the Secretary of the State Election Board to develop and provide a free photo identification card that meets HB1005’s requirements. “Oklahoma’s elections are among the safest in the nation, and House Bill 1005 presents another opportunity to safeguard the integrity of our elections,” Olsen said. “By requiring a photo ID for all voters, we are securing the votes of all Oklahomans and enhancing transparency and accountability in our elections. I appreciate the support of my colleagues in the House as we work together to protect Oklahoma’s elections.” These identification requirements would apply to both in-person absentee voting and Election Day voting. HB1005 passed the House floor 75-18 on March 27 and now moves to the Senate, where it is carried by Sen. David Bullard, R-Durant.
Lawmakers are considering a bill that could change the way elections work statewide. Rep. Mike Osburn (R-Edmond) calls House Bill 2106 a “common sense” voting bill. He introduced the bill with a simple goal — make election season easier for both voters and election boards. House Bill 2106 would designate five recurring election days each year. Those days would be scheduled in February, April, June, August, and November. Osburn said holding more elections in less days on a set annual schedule would keep the voters engaged while at the same time making election season more efficient. Major election dates like last November’s presidential election would not be affected, and the governor would have the power to call special elections under specific circumstances. Absentee and early voting processes would also stay the same. Earlier this week, the bill passed in the Oklahoma House 92-0. It will now go before the senate.
Tennessee: Lawmakers are considering a bill that would make images of ballots cast by Tennessee voters available online. If passed, Section 8 of House Bill 0458/Senate Bill 0367 would require scanning machines that tabulate votes to create a “digital image of each ballot scanned”. The bill then requires the secretary of state’s office to make those digital images available on its website no later than the second Friday after an election. It is unclear if the ballot images that would be on the secretary of state’s website would be available for public viewing. The bill would change the deadline for purging the state’s voter rolls to 90 days before an election. During a subcommittee meeting on March 25, State Representative Tim Rudd, one of the main sponsors of the legislation, said the change would make Tennessee’s purge deadline compliant with federal law and said any future changes to maintain compliance would not require any amendments or votes. The bill would also ban all forms of online voting and ban all voting machines from being connected to the internet. If passed, the law would take effect on July 1, 2025.
Texas: In a quick vote after little debate, the Senate approved a bill that would require voters to provide proof of citizenship before registering, and would restrict them to voting in congressional races only if they do not. The bill still needs approval in the House before it can become law. It would cost state officials nearly $2 million over the next five years to implement, according to the bill’s fiscal note, which doesn’t include any costs expected to be borne by local election officials. Senate Bill 16, written by state Sen. Bryan Hughes, and supported by all Senate Republicans, is modeled after an Arizona law that requires proof of citizenship to vote in state and local elections, but there are some important differences. For one thing, it would apply to already registered voters in Texas, rather than just new applicants. It would bar voters who don’t provide citizenship proof from voting in presidential elections, as well as state and local ones — a provision that federal courts have so far blocked in Arizona. And it prescribes new duties for local election officials to continually check the citizenship status of voters on their rolls — with potential felony charges for lapses. If approved by the Legislature, the new law would go into effect in September. Some election officials are concerned that the bill’s requirements will confuse voters. “It’s not enough time to get everyone familiar with the requirements. We have a primary in March” of 2026, said Jennifer Doinoff, president of the Texas Association of County Election Officials. “It could create a huge influx in provisional ballots.”
Taylor County, Texas: The Taylor County Commissioner’s court voted last week to accept a resolution opposing the elimination of county-wide polling. Taylor County Elections Administrator Freda Regan presented the resolution in response to a number of State House and Senate bills that have been introduced this legislative session, which aim to do away with county-wide polling, cease the use of electronic polling books, and revert back to paper ballots rather than ballot marking devices. Regan said this resolution is just one of many 66 other Texas counties have formally submitted. “There are counties that are not currently in the [County-wide polling] program that have also submitted the same resolution. Because they want the ability to apply to be a part of it,” Regan said. Regan says that Taylor County would have to increase the number of polling places, as well as pay more volunteers to run those locations, to be able to have one polling location in all 34 Taylor County voting Precincts. While this would increase the number of total locations, it would restrict voters to only the area within their precinct. Regan said she believes returning to that system would be much less convenient, resulting in voter confusion, lower voter participation, and potentially void provisional ballots if a vote is cast outside a voter’s assigned precinct.
West Virginia: At the urging of the secretary of state, West Virginia could tighten laws on acceptable forms of photo identification that can be used at polling places. The House of Delegates passed a Republican-sponsored measure, House Bill 3016, that would require a photo ID — typically a driver’s license, passport or a resident identification card — to vote in-person. It would eliminate several current options accepted at polling places that can validate identity, including a Medicaid card and utility bill. “What this bill seeks to prevent is voter fraud of any kind to the extent that it’s able,” said Del. J.B. Akers, R-Kanawha, who said the Secretary of State’s office said people have voted illegally with a photo ID. “We did hear that,” he said. The measure, sponsored by Del. Erica Moore, R-Roane, passed the House with a vote of 84-8. It now goes to the Senate for consideration.
Legal Updates
California: Shasta County voters, Laura Hobbs and Dan Ladd, appeared in court this week regarding their lawsuit filed in January, which alleges numerous election law violations by the county clerk and his office. Representing themselves, Hobbs and Ladd described the case as an “urgent matter.” Hobbs requested Judge Benjamin Hanna to set a hearing date, but her request was denied. Judge Hanna explained that because they had just filed amended paperwork, defense attorney Christopher Pisano needs time to prepare a response. After the proceedings, Hobbs expressed understanding of the delay, saying, “It is okay. I think that it will be heard on its merits and the citizens will have a chance to present what they witnessed during this last election cycle, the laws that were violated. I do believe that we will have our day in court.” Hobbs and Ladd are scheduled to return to Hanna’s courtroom on May 12, hoping to have a trial date set then.
Georgia: U.S. District Court Judge Amy Totenberg has dismissed a long-running lawsuit challenging the security of Georgia’s electronic voting machines even though the judge maintained substantial concerns about the system. According to Totenberg’s ruling, the plaintiffs in Curling v. Raffensperger were not able to demonstrate that the state’s electronic voting system disenfranchises them from exercising their right to vote in elections. She wrote that the election activists Coalition for Good Governance and Georgia voters lacked standing in the lawsuit. Totenberg also wrote that some of the plaintiffs’ legal objections to the touchscreen ballot marking devices are more about policy disagreements rather than constitutional violations. Totenberg, however, wrote that she has substantial concerns about the electronic voting technology that has long faced allegations about the risks of being hacked and potentially compromising elections in Georgia. The state’s electronic Dominion Voting Systems machines were rolled out statewide in 2019, but by that time the state was already involved in the pre-emptive federal court legal battle with the Coalition for Good Governance and other individual plaintiffs who claim that the electronic system is vulnerable to cyber attacks and operational problems that violate voters’ constitutional rights. Totenberg credited the plaintiffs’ role in providing evidence that exposed a major breach of election equipment in Coffee County following the 2020 election. “Today’s ruling is just one more resounding vindication of Georgia’s elections,” Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said. “From day one, we knew these accusations were meritless. All the real-world evidence shows that Georgia’s paper ballot system works well. Our local election officials are professionals. And the voters of this state know that their votes are counted securely, accurately, and quickly.”
New Mexico: Solomon Peña, who lost a race for the New Mexico Legislature and went on to orchestrate a series of shootings on the homes of his political opponents will be sentenced this summer. Peña is scheduled to receive his prison sentence at 9 a.m. on July 2 in Albuquerque, according to an order entered by U.S. District Judge Kea Riggs on March 21. Peña ran as a Republican for a seat in the state House of Representatives in 2022 and lost in a landslide by more than 47 points. A jury last month found Peña guilty of organizing a series of shootings that targeted the homes of four elected Democratic officials in December 2022 and January 2023 after he refused to accept defeat. No one was physically harmed in the attacks, but police found bullet holes in the buildings. The jurors found Peña guilty of one count of conspiracy for his role in the shootings; four counts of interfering with the 2022 elections; three counts of using or carrying a firearm during and in relation to a violent crime; one count of using or carrying a machine gun during and in relation to a violent crime; and one count of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
North Carolina: A woman who posted a selfie with her ballot on X — and was ordered to take it down — may continue her lawsuit challenging the state’s law against photographing ballots, a federal judge decided Friday. U.S. District Judge Louise Flanagan denied motions to dismiss Susan Hogarth’s lawsuit against members of the state board of elections, her local elections board and her local district attorney, finding that she has standing in her First Amendment case. North Carolina is one of 14 states that bans photographing a “voted official ballot” or voters without the permission of election officials. The restrictions are intended to prevent vote buying, voter intimidation, delays and distractions at polling places and to maintain the privacy of other voters. Hogarth took a selfie with her filled-out ballot when she voted in primaries last March, which she posted on X, formerly known as Twitter. The state board of elections then mailed her a letter directing her to take the post down and informing her that she had violated state law. When she returned to the polls in November armed with a court order allowing her to take ballot pictures, she was instructed by polling place staff to stop taking photos and delete them — before staff called the state elections board to confirm that she had an exemption.
South Dakota: A ballot question committee is suing South Dakota’s top election official over a new law that shortens the window for petition circulation by three months. Dakotans for Health filed the lawsuit in federal court against Secretary of State Monae Johnson. “This new law is just another effort to silence the voices of South Dakotans and deny them the right to make decisions that impact their lives,” said Dakotans for Health Chairman Rick Weiland in a news release. South Dakota’s Republican-dominated Legislature approved the legislation earlier this month, and Republican Gov. Larry Rhoden signed it into law last week. The law moves the filing deadline up from May to February for petitions seeking to place citizen-initiated questions on the ballot during general election years. The law affects initiated measures, which need petition signatures from 17,508 registered South Dakota voters to make the ballot, and initiated constitutional amendments, which need 35,017 signatures. State law says no signatures may be collected more than 24 months preceding the general election.
Texas: Two months before a scheduled trial, a coalition of voting rights groups is withdrawing from a long-running challenge to the political maps Texas drew after the 2020 U.S. census, which the groups said diluted the voting power of Black, Latino, Asian American and Pacific Islander Texans. The outcome of the case, which has been making its way through the courts for nearly four years, will have implications for how much power Texans will have to decide who represents them in the state Legislature and U.S. Congress. The voting-rights coalition said it decided against continuing the litigation after its claims were dismissed by a trial-court panel of federal judges in February, following a ruling by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that experts said upended longstanding precedents. The coalition that withdrew included Fair Maps Texas Action Committee, OCA-Greater Houston, the North Texas chapter of the Asian Pacific Islander Americans Public Affairs Association, Emgage Texas, and 13 individual voters. They are represented by the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, the ACLU of Texas, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, and the Brennan Center for Justice. Their case had been consolidated with that of other plaintiffs who were also challenging the maps. The remaining claims are still set to go to trial beginning May 21.
Michael H. Drucker
