CCD joins lawsuit filed on behalf of write-in candidates and voters in Washington, D.C., to require elections officials to report vote totals for each qualified write-in candidate. Currently, D.C. only includes the total number of all write-in votes in its official vote tally, effectively disenfranchising write-in voters. The case is Libertarian Party, et al. v. District of Columbia Board of Elections and Ethics, Civ. No. 09-5836.
Contact: Oliver B. Hall: 202-248-9294 (Attorney for Plaintiffs) Leon Lazaroff: 212-848-8107 Manager, Media & Communications Shearman & Sterling Court Holds That Texas’s 118-Year-Old Petitioning Proced
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