Daily Docket — Wednesday, Nov. 2

As of today, we’ve tracked 169 lawsuits filed in 2022 across 35 states. 102 of these lawsuits are currently active and ongoing. Of the lawsuits, seven are likely to have important rulings before Election

Here are some updates from today.

At 7 p.m. EDT this evening, President Joe Biden will deliver a speech on threats to democracy and the midterm elections. [link removed]

After a hearing on Tuesday, a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order that prevents Clean Elections USA and its supporters from engaging in certain drop box monitoring activities in Arizona. Here’s what the judge ordered. [link removed]
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A Wisconsin judge declined to order the Wisconsin Elections Commission to clarify the definition of what constitutes a completed address on an absentee ballot witness certificate, maintaining that the address should include a street name, street number and municipality. The judge did not order clerks to uniformly apply this definition. [link removed]

The Board of Supervisors in Pinal County, Arizona — the state’s third most populous county — voted against expanding a hand count audit of the midterm elections. [link removed]

The U.S. Department of Justice filed an amicus brief in a case challenging Texas’ “wet signature” law, which requires voters to sign their names with pen on paper, rather than electronically, when registering to vote. [link removed]

A Virginia judge ordered Prince William County to appoint more Republican chief or assistant chief election officers following a lawsuit alleging that the county failed to hire a sufficient number of Republican poll workers. A similar lawsuit that argued that Flint, Michigan did not hire enough Republican poll workers was dismissed. [link removed]

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