Category: Voting Rights

Report shows Same-Day Registration enabled voter access across the board

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DURHAM, N.C. On April 21, the U.S. Supreme Court is slated to consider whether or not is will hear an appeal…

SCSJ files appeal in college student voter suppression case

Today SCSJ filed an appeal with the North Carolina State Board of Elections challenging the Pasquotank County elections board’s decision barring Elizabeth City State University…

Judge to take several weeks to rule on NC voter ID challenge

RALEIGH — A Wake County judge plans to take two to three weeks to decide whether a lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s voter ID law should…

NC says it's making plans to comply with voter law

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. North Carolina is moving ahead with plans to comply with an appeals court ruling that restores same-day registration and counting out-of-precinct ballots for…

Alabama Groups Join Regional Effort to Prepare Voters for Redistricting Process

Alabama Forward, The Ordinary People Society (TOPS), Mobile Alabama NAACP, and League of Women Voters Alabama join the Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ) and…

Media Briefing: How Democracy Will Be Protected in Upcoming SCOTUS Case

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Common Cause, Southern Coalition for Social Justice and global law firm Hogan Lovells held a media briefing Thursday, Dec. 1, outlining the…

SCSJ Represents Democracy North Carolina in Amicus Brief Urging State Court to Reject State’s Proposed Remedy Maps

Late Friday, the Southern Coalition for Social Justice submitted an amicus brief on behalf of Democracy North Carolina urging a three-judge state court panel in Common Cause v. Lewis to reject the “remedial” State Senate and House redistricting plans enacted by the General Assembly a little over a week ago. SCSJ and Democracy NC argued that those plans fail to eliminate the partisan bias that led the court to invalidate the prior plans as unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders.

Voter Suppression? The Election Collection app can help!

These days it seems like there’s an app for everything. If I can map my daily jog, surely I should be able to use this…

SCSJ, Voting Rights Groups Ask to Intervene in North Carolina Voter Purge Case

SCSJ: “We look forward to making our case that these purges represent yet another attempt to thwart the freedom to vote in North Carolina.” Durham,…

Plaintiffs in Redistricting, Voter ID Cases Respond to Impractical Arguments for NC Supreme Court to Abandon Prior Decisions

RALEIGH, N.C. — Legal briefs filed Friday by plaintiffs’ attorneys in Harper v. Hall and Holmes v. Moore responded to North Carolina Republican lawmakers’ unprecedented…

Virginia NAACP argues that election administration error harmed black voters

RICHMOND, Va. – The Virginia State Conference NAACP submitted an amicus brief today with the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of an…

Wayne County Board of Elections Upholds Election of Challenged Minority Candidate

Durham, N.C. — By a decision of 3-2 following a formal hearing, the Wayne County Board of Elections upheld Bevan Julius Foster’s win in the Wayne County Board of Commissioners District 3 Democratic Primary, which was held March 3, 2020. Foster, a Black man who previously served on the Goldsboro City Council, won the primary with 40.78% of the votes. His win was challenged by three people who alleged he did not reside in the district he would be representing, and thus was not eligible to run.