Michigan


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Michigan Election Materials Preservation
Lawsuit filed by Barry County Sheriff against Governor Whitmer, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, and the State Board of Elections seeking to maintain and preserve election data and machines for inspection.
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Michigan Thomas More Society Election Challenge
Lawsuit filed by conservative legal group, Thomas More Society, which asked the court to segregate ballots and delay the Michigan’s certification of the Presidential election.
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Michigan Certification Challenge
Lawsuit filed by Republicans seeking to de-certify Michigan’s election results.
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Michigan Final Certification Challenge
Lawsuit filed by two Michigan voters seeking to stop the final certification of election results until there is an independent audit.
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Michigan Democratic Counties Election Challenge
Lawsuit filed by voters in Michigan claiming that illegal ballots were counted to change or place in doubt the results. The challenge seeks to exclude presidential-election results from the named Wayne, Washtenaw, and Ingham counties.
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Michigan Wayne County Results Challenge
Trump lawsuit claiming fraud in Wayne County election. The suit seeks to halt the certification of election results in Wayne County and statewide.
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Michigan Detroit Election Challenge
Lawsuit claiming multiple fraud conspiracies in the Michigan election. The challenge asks the Board of Elections to conduct an audit of the election, prohibit the certification of the election, and order a new election to be held.
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Michigan Election Integrity Oversight Process
Lawsuit brought by ring-wing group Election Integrity Fund seeking to block the lawful counting of ballots in Detroit.
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Michigan Absentee Ballot Counting Intervention
Intervened in a lawsuit brought by the Trump Campaign attempting to stop the counting of absentee ballots in Michigan.
Active Cases
Michigan Purge Intervention
On behalf of A. Philip Randolph Institute and Rise Inc., we filed to intervene as defendants in a lawsuit attempting to initiate a broad voter purge program less than two months before the 2020 election.
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Michigan College Student Voting
Constitutional challenge to two laws in Michigan that make voting more difficult for college students. The first statute required that individuals who registered to vote for the first time by mail or third-party voter registration drive vote in-person. The second statute requires that an individual’s driver’s license address match her voter registration address. After the case was filed, the Secretary of State issued a directive informing elections officials that the statute requiring individuals to vote in-person is invalid. We reached an agreement with the Secretary of State to implement a public education campaign to encourage college student voter registration to help alleviate the confusion and burdens created by the law.
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Michigan Signature Matching
Constitutional challenge to Michigan’s signature match laws, which require election officials to reject absentee applications and ballots if they determine that the signature provided with the applications or ballot does not match the voter’s signature on file with election authorities. We contend that the signature matching process is unconstitutional because the State has not developed any uniform standards or procedures for reviewing signatures, thereby allowing elections officials throughout the state to use arbitrary and diverging criteria; election officials lack sufficient training and skill to accurately compare signatures; and the law does not require election officials to notify voters that their absentee applications or ballots have been rejected, nor does it provide voters with an opportunity to contest a wrongful rejection or cure an alleged mismatch.
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Michigan Criminal Voting Challenges
Challenge to two Michigan voting restrictions. The first is Michigan’s restriction on the transportation of voters. The second law is Michigan’s restriction on absentee ballot applications which requires an individual that assists another voter with an absentee ballot application to affirm that she did not “solicit or request to return the application,” and prohibits an individual from assisting another voter in returning their application unless the individual is a registered voter in Michigan or a member of the voter’s immediate family or household.