Protected tens of thousands of voters from disfranchisement, intimidation, suppression, and election manipulation, and secured new precedents around the Ku Klux Klan Act and the Voting Rights Act.
Protecting Free & Fair Elections
Our Work
Without free, fair, and secure elections, voters have no voice, little control over the direction of the country; and few ways to correct course when things go awry.
Elections are the linchpin of our democracy. Holding elections, and ensuring that power changes hands in accordance with their outcomes, is the essence of democratic self-government. By defending them, we also protect our rights and our system of government.
This takes two steps. First, we defend the process of holding elections. We do so by making sure election officials are allowed to do their work without interference; that election systems are secure; and that politicians are unable to dictate the outcome or manipulate election rules.
Second, we protect voters’ ability to participate meaningfully in the process, free from intimidation and harassment.
By ensuring that elections remain free, fair, and secure, we maintain our collective ability to shape the future of the country — or, when needed, to change course. In that, we protect voters’ trust in the results, even when their preferred candidates lose.
- Build secure, accessible, and accurate election systems and processes that are free from interference from foreign adversaries or domestic political actors.
- Create guardrails that ensure voters and candidates abide by the outcomes of every election.
- Foster public confidence in the fact that elections are free, fair, and secure.
Helped defend the 2020, 2022, and 2024 elections from attempts to manipulate and subvert a free and fair result, and assisted in the passage of reforms to the Electoral Count Act.
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How the Trump administration plans to interfere with the 2026 elections
We’re briefing major groups within faith, business, veterans, public health, and other sectors so that millions of constituents know about the Trump administration’s plan to subvert the midterms.
March 26, 2026
Stopping the disenfranchisement of military and overseas voters in North Carolina
New state election rules, if applied post-hoc, would presumptively eliminate votes cast in November 2024 for Supreme Court Seat Six.
April 14, 2025
Standing up against election lies: A former election official’s fight to clear her name in Virginia
Former election official Michele White has filed a malicious prosecution lawsuit against Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares and former Assistant Attorney General Joshua N. Lief.
October 17, 2024
Defending the rights of eligible voters
Protect Democracy filed a lawsuit in 2024 to restore the rights of eligible voters in the state of Virginia.
October 7, 2024
Fighting permanent felony disenfranchisement in Tennessee
Protect Democracy, along with a team of attorneys from Arnold & Porter, are fighting to overturn Tennessee’s permanent felony disenfranchisement law.
March 6, 2024
Virginia Readmission Act litigation
In our lawsuit challenging Virginia’s racially-motivated felony disenfranchisement law, a federal court paved the way for hundreds of thousands of Virginians to have their voting rights restored.
June 26, 2023
Stephen Richer v. Kari Lake et al.
Protect Democracy filed a defamation suit on behalf of Maricopa Count Recorder Stephen Richernagainst former Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake.
June 22, 2023
League of Women Voters of Arizona v. Lions of Liberty LLC, et al.
On October 25th, 2022, Protect Democracy filed a complaint in federal court against organizations and individuals who have conspired to intimidate voters in Arizona.
May 21, 2023
Amicus Curiae Brief in Support of Plaintiffs’ and Plaintiff-Intervenors’ Motion for Summary Judgment on the Federal Claims – Nat’l Coal. on Black Civic Participation v. Wohl
Amicus Curiae Brief in Support of Plaintiffs' and Plaintiff-Intervenors' Motion for Summary Judgment on the Federal Claims - Nat'l Coal. on Black Civic Participation v. Wohl
July 29, 2022
“Trump Train” Texas Attack Lawsuits
Two lawsuits were filed on behalf of four plaintiffs who were engaged in a Biden-Harris Campaign bus tour in October 2020 when they were ambushed by a convoy of Trump supporters.
June 23, 2021
LULAC v. Public Interest Legal Foundation
Voters subjected to false accusations of felony voter fraud reached a settlement in their lawsuit against J. Christian Adams, a former member of the Pence-Kobach “Voter Fraud” Commission.
July 25, 2019
