“Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Partially Upholds Challenge to Louisiana’s Administration of National Voter Registration Act”

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The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Scott, et al. v. Schedler, et al., issued a ruling partially upholding a district court’s ruling after trial that Louisiana violated the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) by failing to properly provide voter registration services to its public assistance clients.

Plaintiffs in the case, represented by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc., (LDF); Project Vote; Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP; and Louisiana attorney Ron Wilson, previously secured, after a vigorously contested trial, a ruling that Louisiana failed, as required by Section 7 of the NVRA or the “motor voter law,” to offer mandatory voter registration services to the state’s poorest and most vulnerable citizens during benefits transactions providing social services.

“While the Fifth Circuit was correct to recognize Louisiana’s failure to provide voter registration for clients who receive benefits in person, it did not fully recognize the scope of Louisiana’s violation of the National Voter Registration Act,” said Natasha Korgaonkar, Assistant Counsel for NAACP Legal Defense Fund, a separate organization from the NAACP.

 

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