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.
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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.
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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 […]
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 […]
ALEXANDRIA, VA — The American Civil Rights Union on July 27, 2015 filed a complaint in federal court against another Mississippi county over its corrupted and inflated voter registrations.
Clarke County voter rolls contain more people registered to vote than citizens eligible to vote. The complaint argues that Clarke County’s election commission is violating Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA). The complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, Hattiesburg Division.
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ALEXANDRIA, VA. (March 15, 2015) — The American Civil Rights Union has won a lawsuit against Terrell County, Texas for violating the National Voter Registration Act (Motor Voter Law). The county, according to the suit, has more registered voters than age-eligible citizens.
Read consent decree. (PDF 174 KB)
Washington, D.C. (March 28, 2014) — The American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) filed suit in U.S. District Court in Del Rio on March 27 against another Texas county for having more registered voters than age-eligible residents. The suit against Zavala County marks the second legal action following the ACRU’s notifying 15 Texas counties last September that they are in violation of Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (Motor Voter Law). In January, the ACRU sued Terrell County.
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SANDERSON, TX (Jan. 28, 2014) – The American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) has sued a Texas county for having more registered voters than age-eligible residents. The suit filed on Jan. 27 marks the first legal action following the ACRU’s sending letters to 15 Texas counties in September 2013 informing them that they are in violation of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (Motor Voter Law).
Read complaint. (PDF 207 KB)
Another Mississippi county agrees to take dead people, felons and double-registered individuals off its voter rolls.
HATTIESBURG, MS (Oct. 21, 2013) — Officials in Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi have signed a consent decree agreeing to clean up voter rolls in accordance with a lawsuit filed in April by the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (commonly called “Motor Voter”).
“So far, we’re batting one thousand on these suits aimed at ensuring election integrity,” said ACRU Chairman and CEO Susan A. Carleson. “It’s on to Texas, where we have already alerted 15 counties that they also have severe voting […]
HATTIESBURG, MS (Oct. 18, 2013) — Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi officials have signed a consent decree agreeing to clean up voter rolls in accordance with a lawsuit filed in April 2013 by the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (commonly called “Motor Voter”).
Read consent decree. (PDF 722 KB)
