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Case Details
Cook County Republican Party v. Pritzker
Closed
Cook County Republican Party v. Pritzker, No. 1:20-cv-04676 (N.D. Ill.) |
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| Case Summary | Republican Party brought suit challenging Illinois' law SB 1863 which mails a mail-in ballot to every voter who voted in elections in the past 2 years. Plaintiffs allege lead to fraudulent votes being counted, ballots being collected by partisan political operatives who will not turn them in (voter disenfranchisement), and violate voting secrecy. | |
| Filed | 08/10/2020 | |
| State | Illinois | |
| Type of Court | Federal | |
| Circuit | Seventh Circuit | |
| Status | Closed () | |
| Last Updated | 10/18/2020 | |
| Issue Tag(s) | Vote-by-Mail (Signature Verification Standards, Notice/Cure for Mismatches Missing Signature or Mistakes, Claim that Mail Voting Leads to Fraud and/or Vote Dilution) | |
| Complaint(s) | 08/10/2020: Complaint filed. | |
| Dispositive Ruling(s) | 09/17/2020: Order/Ruling, The court found that the alleged fraud posed by absentee ballots does not present a substantial harm to plaintiffs. The court denied the injunction. | |
| 09/23/2020: Other, Plaintiffs request case be dismissed due to lack of response from opposing parties to serve an answer or a motion for summary judgment and because ballots were due to be mailed to voters imminently. | ||
