New Virginia Majority Education Fund v. Virginia Department of Elections (Claude M. Hilton, 1:16-cv-1319) and New Virginia Majority Education Fund v. Virginia Department of Elections (John A. Gibney, Jr., 3:20-cv-801) (E.D. Va.)
On the last day of voter registration in 2016, a commonwealth’s online registration website crashed, and commonwealth officials had no authority to extend the registration deadline as a remedy. Two organizations and two prospective voters filed a federal complaint, and the district judge granted a brief extension to voter registration, to which state officials agreed. Again in 2020, a federal district judge granted a registration extension because the website crashed on the last day of registration.
Subject: Registration procedures.Topics: Registration procedures; voting technology.

One of many Case Studies in Emergency Election Litigation.