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Marc Elias was the head of the Clinton Victory Counsel program and is one of the best election law attorneys in the US. Marc is busy suing to protect the vote https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/469948-democrats-challenge-election-laws-in-battleground-states#.XcqxXDKWQCQ.twitter
Those groups have filed seven lawsuits in recent weeks, challenging election laws in five states. And more suits are coming, said Marc Elias, the Democratic election law expert whose firm is overseeing the litigation.
In Georgia, Texas and Arizona, coalitions of Democratic groups are challenging state laws that will list Republican candidates first in any given race. Social science research has found that a candidate listed first on a ballot can benefit by as much as 2.5 percentage points, through what researchers call the primacy effect.
Especially given the history of Republican efforts at voter suppression in Georgia, the result from the last election should not determine who wins the next one, said Nikema Williams, who heads the Georgia Democratic Party.
There are a large number of hard core Democratic lawyers working to protect the vote. I was one of 3000 lawyers who went to Florida in 2004 for the Kerry Edwards voter protect the vote. Marc is amazing.
herding cats
(19,564 posts)I deeply approve of such actions.
Demsrule86
(68,576 posts)aeromanKC
(3,322 posts)He won.
Gothmog
(145,231 posts)Karadeniz
(22,516 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,346 posts)Sometimes you have to get their attention before they notice the finer legal 'points'.
Gothmog
(145,231 posts)JudyM
(29,246 posts)Gothmog
(145,231 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)Gov Wolf is a Dem, so Dems are listed first on our ballot. Do these Dem lawyers wish us to change that before 2020?
Gothmog
(145,231 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)Rs could just as well sue states where Dems are listed first due to the party-affiliation of the governor.
Retrograde
(10,136 posts)and the order is different for each assembly district. It can be an extremely minor pain when it comes to state-wide primaries, but we seem to cope.