Category: Election Protection

Trial begins today in NAACP Colorado, League of Women Voters of Colorado, and Mi Familia Vota v. United States Election Integrity Plan; plaintiffs argue that USEIP’s door-to-door intimidation campaign violates the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 DENVER – Trial begins today in federal court in Colorado to
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Courtney Hostetler, Legal Director at Free Speech For People, joined the League of Women Voters for “Let’s Talk About Digital Threats to Democracy” to discuss how AI was used to intimidate and deceive voters in New Hampshire, what we’re doing about it, and how we can protect voters and elections against future abuses of AI
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The League of Women Voters of the United States (LWV-US), the League of Women Voters of New Hampshire (LWV-NH), and individual voters have filed an amended complaint in their lawsuit against Steven Kramer and several corporations that orchestrated and disseminated deceptive, intimidating robocalls to thousands of New Hampshire voters ahead of the state’s January 2024
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The League of Women Voters has filed a nationwide preliminary injunction in League of Women Voters of New Hampshire v. Kramer to block the defendants from further use of AI technology to intimidate, threaten, coerce, or deceive voters.  MANCHESTER, NH – (April 30, 2024) The League of Women Voters of the United States (LWV-US), the
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Following robocalls featuring deepfaked President Biden’s voice urging people not to vote in the New Hampshire Primary, the League of Women Voters has filed a federal lawsuit to block the use of AI technology to intimidate, threaten, coerce, or deceive voters.  MANCHESTER, NH – (March 14, 2024) The League of Women Voters of the United
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On February 29, 2024, a federal judge struck down discriminatory, anti-voter provisions of two Arizona laws, H.B. 2492 and H.B. 2243, passed in 2022 that undermined Arizonans’ freedom to vote and violated federal law. The judge’s order also leaves a few anti-voter provisions intact. At issue in the case were discriminatory provisions of the two anti-voter laws,
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The US District Court in San Antonio heard closing arguments this week in our lawsuit against Texas to challenge key provisions of SB 1, one of the harshest and most sweeping pieces of voter suppression legislation in decades. During the trial, we heard testimony from voters who struggled to vote due to the barriers imposed
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On December 8, 2023, Free Speech For People and Protect Our Votes Philly sent a letter to the Northampton, Pennsylvania County Council and Election Commission identifying an apparent violation of a requirement in the federal voting system certification standards. Proper compliance with the requirement should have prevented the County’s Expressvote XL voting machines from mis-recording
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In a new letter sent on December 4, 2023, to Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Chris Wray, and Special Counsel Jack Smith, the legal advocacy organization Free Speech For People, Black Voters Matter, and a coalition of computer security and election security experts provide details connecting the voting system breach in Georgia to similar voting
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (November 29, 2023) – The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights today declared that its seats on the U.S. Election Assistance Commission’s Board of Advisors are now vacant, effectively removing Cleta Mitchell, an election denier and former Trump lawyer, from that position. Her two-year term ended on November 3, 2023. The announcement followed a
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