Pennsylvania


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Pennsylvania Decertification Challenge
Lawsuit filed by a group of Republican state representatives and two Republican voters seeking to decertify the 2020 general election results in Pennsylvania.
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Allegheny Certification Challenge
Lawsuit filed by candidate for state senate seeking to block Allegheny county from including undated ballots in certification.
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Pennsylvania VBM Certification Challenge
Several Republican candidates and voters filed a lawsuit against Pennsylvania, the General Assembly, the governor, and Secretary of State. The lawsuit seeks to block the state from certifying the election results and asks the court to exclude mail-in ballots from the certified results, or alternatively direct the general assembly to choose its own electors.
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Allegheny County BOE Appeal
Petition appealing Allegheny County Board of Elections’ decision to count mail-in ballots.
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Philadelphia County BOE Appeal
Trump Campaign appeal of Philadelphia County Board of Elections’ decision to count five different categories of mail-in/absentee ballots.
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Pennsylvania Presidential Elector Challenge
Lawsuit filed by voters in Pennsylvania claiming election officials included illegal Presidential Elector results. The challenge seeks to to stop the certification of presidential election results from certain counties.
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Pennsylvania Bucks County BOE Appeal
Trump Campaign appeal of the Bucks County Board of Elections decision to count certain ballots that the GOP believes to be deficient.
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Pennsylvania Democratic Counties Challenge
Trump Campaign lawsuit filed against Democratic counties in Pennsylvania. The suit challenges the results of the election and asks the court to prohibit the certification of results.
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Pennsylvania Northampton County Ballots
Lawsuit filed by Northampton County Republican Committee attempting to stop the county board of elections from disclosing the identity of canceled ballots.
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Montgomery County Board of Elections Vote Count
Lawsuit brought by the Trump Campaign, the Republican National Committee and others seeking to stop the Montgomery County Board of Elections from counting mail-in ballots.
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Philadelphia County Board of Elections Vote Counting
Lawsuit brought by the Trump Campaign seeking to stop the Philadelphia County Board of Elections from counting ballots until Republican observers are present.
Post-Election
Pennsylvania Trump Missing ID
Lawsuit brought by the Trump Campaign attempting to prohibit voters from providing proof of missing identification.
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Pennsylvania Provisional Ballot Challenge
Election Day Republican lawsuit seeking to block voters whose mail-in ballots were rejected from casting provisional ballots.
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Pennsylvania Bucks County Pre-Canvass
Lawsuit filed by the Trump Campaign petitioning the release of voter identification information during the pre-canvass.
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Pennsylvania Montgomery County Canvassing
Election day GOP lawsuit challenging cure process in Montgomery County.
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Philadelphia Mail Ballot Intervention
On behalf of the Philadelphia City Democratic Committee, we intervened in a case brought by the right-wing Public Interest Legal Foundation that sought to invalidate some Philadelphia mail ballots.
Active Cases
Pennsylvania Ballot Receipt Deadline Intervention
On behalf of the DNC, we filed a motion to intervene in a Republican challenge to the extended ballot receipt deadline.
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Pennsylvania Poll Watcher Intervention
On behalf of DCCC and Representative Lamb (PA-17) we filed to intervene as defendants against a Republican lawsuit attempting to allow poll watching at satellite early voting sites. The Republicans also asked to challenge an additional 28,000 ballots without any basis to question their eligibility.
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Pennsylvania King’s Bench Petition
Joined the Secretary of State’s petition to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court asking the court to rule on the Republicans’ efforts to add a new signature match law to the state’s Election Code.
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Pennsylvania Vote by Mail Intervention
The Trump campaign filed a lawsuit against the Secretary of State and all county boards of elections in Pennsylvania. The lawsuit seeks to stop counties from allowing voters to submit ballots in drop boxes and counting absentee ballots that are not in a secrecy envelope or that have markings revealing the voter’s identity, political affiliation or candidate preference. Their lawsuit also seeks to permit poll watchers in all polling locations regardless of their county of residence. On behalf of Priorities USA and the Pennsylvania Alliance for Retired Americans, we intervened and filed a motion to dismiss the case.
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Pennsylvania Four Pillars
We sued Pennsylvania on behalf of individual voters and the Pennsylvania Alliance for Retired Americans to ensure free and fair elections during the unprecedented public health crisis caused by COVID-19. While Pennsylvania recently allowed no-excuse absentee voting, voters will still encounter numerous obstacles when requesting a mail ballot. We challenged Pennsylvania on all four of our vote by mail pillars: prepaid postage, postmark date, community ballot collection and signature matching training and voter notification.