Project Vote/Voting for America v. ELISA LONG (General Registrar of Norfolk, VA) and NANCY RODRIGUES (Secretary, State Board of Elections)
February 17, 2010
Advancement Project and Project Vote, along with pro bono cooperating attorneys from the law firm of Ropes & Gray LLP, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Norfolk against Elisa Long, general registrar of Norfolk and Nancy Rodrigues, secretary of the State Board of Elections, for denying access to certain voter registration records. After receiving reports from their local community partners regarding large numbers of rejected voter registration applications, particularly from students at the historically African-American Norfolk State University, Advancement Project and Project Vote sought to review Norfolk’s rejected registration applications to ascertain if qualified persons were unlawfully kept off the voting rolls.
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Virginia Election Officials Sued For Unlawfully Denying Access To Voter Files
Filed under Legal Memos and Litigation, Voter Protection, Virginia
