Great efforts have been made to prevent the counting of these votes, lawsuit after lawsuit has been filed to delay the count and to stop the counting for many precious days between election day and the deadline for having the count finished.
A rule in favor of petitioners and their proposed "one person, one vote" lawsuit would portend significant shifts of power from Democratic-leaning urban areas to Republican-dominated rural areas.
For all the repeal votes, lawsuits and partisan mudslinging, the Affordable Care Act takes the next big step toward fulfilling our promise as a nation.
Members of the Lakota and Sioux tribes filed what their lawyers called the largest voting rights lawsuit ever.
This year, a special election was called for Nov. 7 after a 12-year-old voting rights lawsuit successfully challenged Hempstead's at-large voting system and created six local council districts.
The state agreed to settle a voting rights lawsuit brought by members of the Lakota and Sioux tribes in August accusing state and county officials of violating federal election laws more than 600 times in three decades.
Natalie Landreth, a lawyer with the Native American Rights Fund, recalls that when the local elder, Anna Nick, 70, was summoned to Anchorage last year to be deposed in her voting rights lawsuit — which so far has prompted a preliminary injunction requiring that Yup'ik translations be made available at the polls — the tiny woman arrived with a wish list of things needed by people in her village.
But Flores supported a voting rights lawsuit Parris led against the neighboring city of Palmdale, and he commends the mayor's outreach to China.
But DOJ took no position on the merits of the Ohio voting rights lawsuit, which sought to stop the state from cutting back on early voting and ending same-day voter registration.
In Compton, a voting rights lawsuit brought by Latino residents has resulted in a reform measure to utilize district-wide elections for City Council, rather than citywide, with the hope of gaining more representative elected officials.
