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.
CCD Founder Oliver Hall appears on the latest episode of the Ralph Nader Radio Hour to discuss how ordinary citizens can leverage an underused and often forgotten forum in our civic life -- small clai
On October 28, 2022, Federal District Judge James R. Sweeney, II denied Defendant Indiana Secretary of State Holli Sullivan's motion to dismiss CCD's constitutional challenge to Indiana's ballot acces
In a huge win for Texas voters, on September 29, 2022 Federal District Judge Robert Pitman struck down Texas's nomination petition procedures as applied to independents and new or minor parties. Judge
