Challenging Intimidation of Voters

COLORADO NAACP, LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF COLORADO, AND MI FAMILIA VOTA V. UNITED STATES ELECTION INTEGRITY PLAN

Free Speech For People represents Colorado Montana Wyoming State Area Conference of the NAACP (NAACP Colorado), League of Women Voters of Colorado (LWVCO), and Mi Familia Vota (MFV) filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Colorado against the United States Election Integrity Plan (USEIP), an extremist organization with ties to QAnon and the January 6th Capitol Insurrection, seeking to stop USEIP’s illegal voter intimidation campaign in Colorado. The United States Election Integrity Plan (USEIP) is using voter lists to identify and target voters. They are going to voters’ homes, and intimidating voters on their own doorsteps for having voted in the 2020 election. USEIP agents question voters about their method of vote, interrogate them about so-called fraudulent ballots, have levied baseless accusations of fraud against voters, and take photographs of voters’ homes, which the organization maintains in a database, and encourage armed members to join their door-to-door campaign. We are asking the federal court for immediate relief, declaring that USEIP’s voter intimidation campaign is unlawful under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Klu Klux Klan Act of 1871, and ordering USEIP and its leaders to cease and desist their intimidation campaign. Free Speech For People is pleased to partner with the law firm of Lathrop GPM in this litigation.

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Free Speech For People represented Mi Familia Vota Education Fund and individual voters in a lawsuit against President Trump and members of the administration in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The lawsuit was based on the defendants’ violent suppression of public protests opposing police brutality, the encouragement of white supremacist “vigilantes,” threats to send “sheriffs” and other law enforcement to the polls, the undermining of mail-in voting, and the rejection of the peaceful transfer of power. These actions constitute illegal voter intimidation under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 and unconstitutional suppression of speech and votes under the First and Fifth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. We sought a preliminary injunction restraining Trump and the other defendants from continuing to engage in this unconstitutional and illegal intimidation. Unfortunately, Senior Judge Richard Leon of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia denied our motion.

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