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Democrats challenge election laws in battleground states
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
A year before the 2020 presidential election, Democratic groups are filing lawsuits in new and emerging battleground states, challenging election laws and procedures they say disproportionately affect young and minority voters.
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.
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.
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I deeply approve of such actions. 
He won. 
