ACRU Sues Philadelphia over Voting Records
The complaint against Philadelphia is the first lawsuit the ACRU has brought in Pennsylvania under the NVRA.
ACRU Files Complaint Against City of Philadelphia (PA)
ALEXANDRIA, VA (April 4, 2016) The American Civil Rights Union has sued the city of Philadelphia, alleging that it is violating the National Voter Registration Act.
Read the complaint. (PDF 5.2MB)
ACRU Files Complaint Against Starr County (TX)
ALEXANDRIA, VA (March 7, 2016) — The American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) is suing Starr County over inflated voter rolls.
In a complaint filed on March 4 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern Division of Texas, McAllen Division, in Rio Grande City, the ACRU alleges that more than 107 percent of the county’s age-eligible residents are registered to vote.
Read complaint. (PDF 4.6 MB)
ACRU to Supreme Court: Texas Abortion Clinic Law Protects Women
Texas’ law requiring widely adopted medical clinic safeguards in abortion facilities is constitutionally sound and ensures that women are not victimized by substandard care.
ACRU v. Zavala County (TX) — Settlement
SANDERSON, TEXAS (January 18, 2016) — The United States District Court in Del Rio, Texas, has entered a settlement requiring a Texas county to maintain clean voter rolls. Zavala County had more registered voters than age-eligible residents. The ACRU had sued the county under the National Voter Registration Act’s Section 8.
Read settlement. (PDF 397 KB)
ACRU v. Clarke County (MS) — Consent Decree
ALEXANDRIA, VA (Nov. 30, 2015) – The American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) has settled a federal lawsuit against the Clarke County, Mississippi Election Commission, marking the third time a Mississippi county has agreed by consent decree to clean up its voter rolls.
In July, ACRU, represented by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), sued the county for having more voters on the rolls than living citizens. The lawsuit, filed by PILF and Mississippi attorney Henry Ross, alleged a violation of Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), which requires maintenance of accurate voter rolls.
In 2013, the ACRU secured Section 8 agreements with Walthall and Jefferson Davis […]
Hawaiians Protest Vote on Future Tribal Plan
A group of Hawiians asked the Supreme Court to temporarily stop the completion of an election until their challenge can be decided.
Akina, et al. v. State of Hawaii
Hawaii’s Actions “Brazenly” Violate 15th Amendment, Brief States
ALEXANDRIA, VA (Nov. 24, 2015) — An emergency injunction is needed to stop a race-based election now underway in Hawaii and ending Nov. 30, a brief filed today at the U.S. Supreme Court by the American Civil Rights Union argues.
“The government has been operating a brazenly racially based voter registration process,” the brief states. Submitted on behalf of the ACRU by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), the brief in Akina, et al. v. State of Hawaii notes that this is the second time that Hawaii has conducted a racially exclusionary election. The last time, appeals […]
ACRU Sues Notorious Mississippi County
On Thursday, Nov. 12, the ACRU filed a lawsuit against a fourth Mississippi county for its corrupted voter registration rolls.
ACRU Files Complaint Against Noxubee County (MS)
ALEXANDRIA, VA (Nov. 16, 2015) — The American Civil Rights Union on Thursday, Nov. 12, filed a lawsuit against a fourth Mississippi county for its corrupted voter registration rolls.
This time, it was against Noxubee County, which has a long history of vote fraud and voter intimidation.
As with the other three counties, voter rolls maintained by Noxubee contain more people registered to vote than citizens eligible to vote, according to the lawsuit, filed on ACRU’s behalf by the Public Interest Legal Foundation. The complaint argues that Noxubee County’s election commission is violating Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA). It was filed in the U.S. District […]