Daily Docket — Monday, Nov. 7

As of today, we’ve tracked 178 lawsuits filed in 2022 across 35 states. 108 of these lawsuits are currently active and ongoing. Of the lawsuits, 2 are likely to have important rulings by the end of Election Day. That number is down from 11 yesterday, as 9 outstanding cases had updates today. You can read about those decisions — all positive outcomes for voters — below.  

Let’s start with some wins for voters:

• A Georgia county agreed to provide emergency relief to absentee voters after an error led to the county’s failure to send absentee ballots to over 1,000 voters. The county agreed to overnight ballots to voters and extend the receipt deadline until Nov. 14 for the affected voters.

• The Pennsylvania Supreme Court denied Blair County's motion to reconsider the date range for "wrongly" dated mail-in ballots since counties sent out ballots at different times. This order maintains the court's original date range.

• A Pennsylvania court denied a Republican request to block the Monroe County Board of Elections from being able to pre-canvass mail-in ballots during the midterm elections. Another Pennsylvania court denied a request to temporarily block the Philadelphia election commissioners from conducting their plans for managing poll books, which are records containing information about registered voters.

• An Arizona judge ruled that Cochise County, Arizona may not proceed with its plan to perform a hand count audit of all early ballots.

• At the end of a hearing, a Wisconsin judge rejected a Republican request to segregate and halt the counting of absentee ballots cast by voters in the military. Earlier, the Union Veterans Council and Merchant Marine Captain Timothy McDonald filed a motion to intervene to safeguard the counting of military absentee ballots.

• A New York appellate court confirmed that an on-campus polling site must be established at Vassar College for tomorrow’s midterm elections. Dutchess County commissioners are complying with the court order to open a polling location at Vassar College. Photos show voting machines being moved onto campus this afternoon.

• A Michigan judge denied a Republican request to impose strict limits on how absentee ballots are administered, returned and counted in Detroit, Michigan and to halt the counting of thousands of absentee ballots that have already been cast.

Here are other updates:

• The U.S. Department of Justice announced it would send election monitors to observe voting in 67 jurisdictions in 24 states to ensure compliance with federal voting laws.

• Several Pennsylvania voters, Fetterman for PA, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee filed a federal lawsuit challenging Pennsylvania’s plan to not count undated mail-in ballots and wrongly dated mail-in ballots in the upcoming 2022 midterm elections. This is the second federal lawsuit filed over this issue.

• The next hearing in a Republican lawsuit seeking to invalidate Illinois' mail-in ballot receipt deadline was scheduled for December. This means Illinois’ current deadline will remain in effect for tomorrow’s election.

Can’t get enough news? You can always find more details about these updates on our News Alerts page.

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